Visa expands stablecoin pilot.
EF ESP allocates $9.8m in Q1 2026.
Solidity v0.8.35 ships ERC-7201.
Ethereum hits 3.6m daily txs.
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Visa expanded its stablecoin settlement pilot to five new chains, including Base and Polygon, bringing its total supported blockchains to nine. The pilot has reached a $7 billion annualized run rate and builds on regional rollouts across Latin America, Europe, Asia Pacific, and CEMEA, alongside the recent expansion of USDC settlement to U.S. banks and over 130 stablecoin-linked card programs. Read more.
The Ethereum Foundation's Ecosystem Support Program (ESP) published its Q1 2026 funding allocation, distributing $9.8 million across 57 projects spanning protocol research, cryptography, ZK proofs, security, privacy, and developer tooling. The quarter emphasized formal verification of zkVM systems, ZK trace construction optimizations, and cryptanalysis of the Poseidon hash function. Read more.
The Solidity team released version 0.8.35 of the compiler, delivering new language features, an experimental codegen pipeline, and early warnings ahead of the upcoming 0.9.0 release. The headline feature is ERC-7201, Solidity's first compile-time builtin, which automatically computes the base storage slot for namespaced storage layouts. The release also issues deprecation warnings for identifiers that will become reserved keywords in 0.9.0. Read more.
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