• Coinbase launches DEX trading.

• MetaMask launches perps trading.

• Ethereum Foundation commits to Privacy.

• Succinct introduces Private Proving.

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Coinbase launched DEX trading directly within its centralized exchange for all U.S. users, excluding NY residents. The integration allows users to trade existing tokens on Base as well as newly launched tokens moments after they appear onchain, without having to wait for a traditional Coinbase listing. Users can now search, trade, and manage DEX assets seamlessly through the Coinbase mobile app, with DEX trade gas fees covered by Coinbase.. The feature leverages a DEX aggregator to optimize trades and minimize slippage. Coinbase plans to expand DEX trading support to additional networks in the future.

MetaMask, the largest self-custodial browser wallet developed by ConsenSys, launched perpetual trading on its mobile wallet. The integration supports trading on over 150 tokens with up to 40x leverage. Users can fund their account using any EVM token, which is swapped to USDC for trading. Positions incur a 0.1% MetaMask fee. Perpetual futures allow traders to take leveraged long or short positions on a token’s price without expiry. The launch comes about a week after Rainbow Wallet, which also integrated perps. MetaMask will also activate its rewards program for traders in the coming weeks. Last month, MetaMask launched its native mUSD stablecoin.

The Ethereum Foundation published an article reaffirming its commitment to privacy, calling it a core focus and essential to human freedom and digital trust. The piece explains why privacy matters across individuals, developers, institutions, and society. It emphasizes that its principles of credible neutrality, security, and openness are most valuable when paired with privacy. The foundation has expanded privacy efforts through the new Privacy Cluster, which brings together 47 leading researchers and engineers. Ethereum’s privacy work spans the entire stack, from research, protocol, applications, institutional, and user experience. Looking ahead, the EF views privacy as a shared responsibility across the Ethereum ecosystem.

Succinct introduced Private Proving, a new feature on the Succinct Prover Network that enables privacy-preserving proof generation using trusted execution environments (TEEs). All inputs are encrypted and processed inside secure enclaves, ensuring that neither provers nor the network can access private data. The upgrade aims to scale ZK applications while preserving privacy, unlocking new use cases in stablecoins, exchanges, identity, and financial computation. Built on SP1, Succinct’s zkVM allows developers to write private applications in Rust without complex ZK circuit engineering.

• Succinct introduces private state

• Charon v1.7 release

• Ready for merge goes live

• L2Beat analysis on Lighter

• BALs breakout call

• ETH staking withdrawal queue

• Introducing A2A x402 (TypeScript)

• Discord data breach

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• ZKsync introduces the Atlas upgrade.

• ICE invests in Polymarket.

• CurrencyCoin goes live.

• Fusaka changes for nodes.

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ZKsync introduced Atlas, an upgrade to the ZK Stack featuring an ultra-high-performance sequencer. The sequencer delivers 15,000 TPS for stablecoin transfers and up to 43,000 TPS for ETH transfers. The release also enables one-second zero-knowledge (ZK) finality through Airbender, ZKsync’s open-source RISC-V proof system. The Airbender integration produces one-second block proofs and achieves minutes-to-Ethereum finality at a cost of about one-hundredth of a cent per transfer. The new Atlas architecture is modular and supports multiple VM types, positioning ZKsync as the infrastructure connecting private institutional chains with public Ethereum liquidity. Atlas is currently live on testnet, with a mainnet deployment planned in the coming weeks.

The Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), owner of the New York Stock Exchange, announced a strategic investment of up to $2 billion in Polymarket, valuing the company at approximately $8 billion. Under the partnership, ICE will become a global distributor of Polymarket’s event-driven data to institutional investors and collaborate on future tokenization initiatives. Polymarket is the world’s largest prediction market platform with over $14 billion in cumulative volume, enabling users to trade on real-world event outcomes. Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan called the partnership a major step toward bringing prediction markets into the financial mainstream, adding that the best is yet to come.

ethPandaOps, a DevOps group focused on Ethereum’s testing and upgrade infrastructure, outlined how the upcoming Fusaka upgrade will impact node bandwidth and storage demands. The upgrade introduces PeerDAS, a scaling design that allows validators to verify data without downloading entire datasets. PeerDAS breaks the data into small pieces and distributes them across the network based on ETH staked. Under this model, large validators (“supernodes”) manage a heavier data load, while home stakers and non-validating full nodes handle much smaller portions. The approach pushes most of the bandwidth and storage burden onto entities with greater resources, helping keep the network decentralized and accessible to smaller stakers.

CurrencyCoin (CC), a wrapped version of one of the first coins ever deployed on Ethereum, is now live with a liquidity pool on Uniswap. Recognized as a historical artifact, the original CurrencyCoin contract was deployed just 40 days after Ethereum’s Frontier launch and is referenced in the source repository cited by EIP-20. CurrencyCoin has a total supply of 1 trillion tokens. The project has pledged 1% of its supply to the Protocol Guild, 1% to Giveth for causes, and 0.5% to dGen1 Ethereum Phone holders. CurrencyCoin served as a code reference for what became the ERC-20 standard.

• ACDT #56 takeaways

• Feedback on changes to Ethereum

• Foundry v1.4.0-rc3

• BNY considers tokenized deposits

• SharpLink generates 4,723 ETH

• Gitcoin grants site

• OpenStableIndex S3 drop

• ETH is money song

• Aave Base hits $2.2b TVL

• Euler hits $2b in borrows

• ENS September updates

• Maple Finance goes live on Linea

• Wormhole to power SPXA interop

• MetaMask rewards program

• Privacy on Ethereum #13

• Introducing ERC-S

• Argentina's Crypto Story on 8th October

• Fluid introduces a Reserve

• Rainbow integrates perps

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• FG Nexus to tokenize on Ethereum.

• Lido CSM V2 goes live on mainnet.

• Gitcoin announces GG24 domains.

• Base unveils local stablecoins.

FG Nexus, a public Ethereum digital asset treasury (DAT) company with 50,000 ETH in its treasury, has partnered with tokenization issuer Securitize to allow shareholders to natively tokenize both common and preferred stock on Ethereum. FG Nexus will be among the first Nasdaq-listed companies, alongside SharpLink Gaming, to offer tokenized equity on Ethereum. FG Nexus will also tokenize its dividend-paying, exchange-listed perpetual preferred share FGNXP. The tokenized shares will carry the same rights as traditional shares, but with the benefits of real-time settlement, automated compliance, and self-custody.

Lido Finance launched the second iteration of its Community Staking Module on mainnet, bringing a permissionless staking solution that enables any node operator to run validators through the Lido protocol. The release increases the CSM's share of Lido staking from 3% to 5%, with a DAO-approved pathway to 10%. CSM v2 introduces the Identified Community Staker (ICS) framework, which provides boosted rewards, lower bond requirements, and priority deposits for verified solo stakers. It also adds EIP-7002 withdrawal support and the new Entry Gates system, offering tailored incentives like priority deposit queues and customized rewards.

Gitcoin announced the domains for Gitcoin Grants Round 24 (GG24), the first round under the Gitcoin 3.0 framework, which features multiple funding mechanisms. Moving beyond quadratic funding, the round will also include retro funding, conviction voting, deep funding, and InfoFi-native funding mechanisms. The six domains in GG24 are Ethereum Developer Tooling & Infrastructure, Privacy, Interop Standards/Infrastructure & Analytics, Public Goods R&D, Targeted Development & Adoption, and InfoFi. The six domains will distribute $1.8 million in total funds, including $1.175 million from Gitcoin and $632.5k in co-funding. GG24 kicks off on October 14th, with the donation window closing on October 28th.

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• Octant 2025 DeFi Summit

• Base local stablecoins

• Solidity Summit applications

• CurrencyCoin donates 1% to Giveth

• Read: Decoupling ExecutionPayload

• Swift demo on Sepolia

• CME Group crypto futures

• Ink supports GHO

• XAUt0 goes live on Ink

• Chainlink reserve update

• GnosisPay hits $100m vol

• Uniswap September update

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