• Aragon introduces the EPAA.

• Aztec publishes a Privacy Manifesto.

• Ethereum Ecosystem hits 24,000 TPS.

• Zora enables DMs with token holders.

Aragon introduced the Ethereum Protocol Advocacy Alliance (EPAA), a new organization for coordinating policy efforts among teams building onchain infrastructure. Members include Aave, Aragon, Curve Finance, Lido Finance, Spark Protocol, The Graph, and Uniswap, which collectively secure over $100 billion in assets. Formed to counter the dominance of crypto lobbying from centralized actors, the Alliance aims to protect the neutrality of the protocol layer, advance onchain transparency, preserve flexibility for innovation, and uphold global, permissionless access. The alliance will collaborate with advocacy partners such as the DeFi Education Fund, the Decentralization Research Center, and the European Crypto Initiative.

Aztec founder Zachary Williamson published a privacy manifesto confronting the dark incentives of the Information Age, namely, the monetization of human attention and data. While he shares Vitalik Buterin’s techno-optimism, he argues that technology is neutral and its outcomes depend on the incentives that drive it. He proposes a technical and moral revolution built on zero-knowledge cryptography and privacy-preserving blockchains, allowing users to prove facts without revealing personal data and reclaim their digital agency as customers rather than commodities. Williamson calls on developers to build privacy-first systems using the Noir programming language on Aztec Network, a privacy-focused Layer 2 on Ethereum.

The Ethereum ecosystem, including L2 networks, hit a record peak throughput of 24,000 transactions per second on Tuesday. The milestone came as analytics platform growthepie incorporated data from Lighter, a perpetuals-focused L2, to its ecoystem TPS tracker. Lighter topped the charts with about 3,600 TPS, followed by Base.

• Nethermind v1.35.1 release

• Zora enables DMs

• Defillama Katana report

• Lido upgrades to CCIP

• EF hosts Founders Labs

• Agentic Zero at Devconnect

• HackMD SIWE case study

• GG24 results released

• Geth

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