Ethereum is for shipping.
Here are 22 things the Ethereum ecosystem launched, upgraded, and announced over the past month.
0/ Ethereum hit a new all-time high of 72.8 Million monthly transactions, the highest in network history.
1/ @ethereumfndn, @chainlink, and @Nethermind launched a $1M audit subsidy program to help Ethereum builders access high-quality security reviews.
2/ South Korea’s largest crypto exchange, Upbit, announced plans for GIWA Chain, an Ethereum L2 built on @Optimism.
3/ @AragonProject introduced Permissions Audits to help protocols secure roles, multisigs, and admin systems.
4/ @fileverse shipped Comments v2, improving the collaboration experience, with privacy by default.
5/ The Ethereum Applications Guild (@EthAppsGuild) launched to support Ethereum-native apps and real-world adoption.
6/ Privacy went live on @Optimism with confidential computing support on OP Mainnet.
7/ @StarkWareLtd brought native proof verification to Starknet mainnet with Shinobi, enabling private trading flows and OTC settlement.
8/ @worldcoin launched World ID 4.0, expanding proof of human credentials across apps, enterprises, and AI agents.
9/ Applications on Ethereum hit ~$310B in user deposits.
10/ @l2beat released a new interactive interoperability map showing how value moves across Ethereum’s expanding ecosystem.
11/ @AlchemixFi launched V3, the latest version of its self-repaying, non-liquidating loan product, with higher capital efficiency and improved peg mechanics.
12/ @OfficialMoonDAO raised $172k + from 157 contributors to send the man who coined the “overview effect” to space.
13/ @ethereumfndn announced the Road to @EFDevcon 8 Academic Program, supporting regional research and academic events ahead of Devcon.
14/ Ethereum core contributors gathered in Svalbard for Soldøgn Interop, a week-long event focused on hardening Glamsterdam implementations to help scale Ethereum securely.
15/ @basepaint_xyz hit 1,000 straight days of onchain art creation, with 121M+ pixels painted and $1.5M + distributed to 4,000+ artists.
16/ New Ethereum community hubs launched in Hong Kong and Floripa, growing local coordination and ecosystem activity across Asia and Latin America.
17/ The EF’s ETH Rangers public goods security program wrapped after helping recover or freeze $5.8M, reporting 785+ vulnerabilities, and identifying ~100 North Korean IT workers targeting Web3 teams.
18/ @centrifuge launched a tokenized S&P 500 fund on @base, bringing 24/7 onchain index exposure to non-U.S. users.
19/ @0xcatalysis launched Covered Vaults on Ethereum, DeFi vaults with built-in onchain risk coverage backed by delegated capital.
20/ @Uniswap processed $3T in all-time volume on Ethereum mainnet.
21/ @RAILGUN_Project hit $5 billion of total all time private volume.
Most AI agents don’t fail at generation—they fail at consistent clearing: under real load, execution breaks, settlement wobbles, and unit economics drift.
DSeq + Hyperion across Andromeda is designed for exactly this.
Everyone’s talking about AI compute.
But here’s the real question 👇
Where does the value actually end up?
→ At the model layer?
→ At the app layer?
→ At settlement?
→ Nowhere?
Always glad to see when people appreciate the protocol changes that add hard invariants, improving protocol security and future adaptability
2021: EIP-2929 + 3529 (SLOAD gas cost increase, refunds nerfed)
2024: SELFDESTRUCT nerf (Dencun)
2025: 16,777,216 gas per tx limit
All of these put various kinds of hard caps on how much can happen within a single block or a single transaction, eliminating entire classes of DoS risk, enabling client code simplification, and creating more options for how to increase efficiency.
Invariants I expect we will want soon:
* Cap number of code bytes accessed (short term: increase cost of calling big contracts, medium term: binary tree + per-chunk pricing)
* Bounds on ZK-EVM prover cycles (repricings)
* Changes to memory pricing to create a clearer hard bound on max EVM memory consumption
0/ The Ethereum Torch is now lit.
The Torch is an NFT honoring the people and values that have shaped Ethereum’s first decade and will help build its future.
It will be symbolically passed from wallet to wallet in the 10 days leading up to Ethereum’s 10 year anniversary.