World Chain Launches Priority Blockspace
The feature ensures that real humans, verified through World ID’s Proof of Personhood credentials, receive priority transaction inclusion on World Chain.
World Chain launches Priority Blockspace.
Succinct announces Stage 2.5 onboarding.
Staked ETH supply reaches an ATH.
World Chain launched Priority Blockspace for Humans (PBH) on mainnet, offering guaranteed transaction inclusion for 13 million verified users. The feature ensures that real humans, verified through World ID’s Proof of Personhood credentials, receive fast and reliable access to onchain services, without needing to pay priority fees. PBH works by reserving a portion of each block exclusively for Orb-verified human transactions, independent of gas bidding. It is implemented via the World Chain Builder, built on the Reth Ethereum client, and leverages Rollup Boost to enable custom transaction ordering. The entire infrastructure is open source and has been independently audited by Nethermind.
Succinct Labs launched Stage 2.5 of the Succinct Prover Network, an update that allows top ZK hardware teams and community members to join a decentralized, high-performance proving cluster on testnet. Succinct has airdropped testnet PROVE tokens and Sepolia ETH to community members to stake on the network’s provers. The Succinct Prover Network is now live on testnet, featuring a cost-based auction mechanism, Sybil-resistant staking, and a high-throughput, verifiable settlement layer. Anyone can spin up a node and join the competition to serve real ZK proof demand. Succinct is now focused on preparing for its mainnet launch.
The amount of ETH staked on Ethereum’s Beacon Chain has reached a new record, now representing over 29% of the total ETH supply. According to data from Beaconcha.in, more than 35 million ETH is currently staked across 1 million validators. An additional 350,000 ETH is queued in the validator entry queue. Staked ETH plays a critical role in securing the Ethereum network by providing economic incentives for validators to propose, verify, and attest to valid blocks. Lido Finance remains the largest staking provider, holding a market share of 25.65% of all staked ETH on the Beacon Chain.
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Bit Digital Shifts To Ethereum
The company is positioning itself as a pure-play Ethereum-native platform focused on staking and treasury management.
Bit Digital shifts focus to Ethereum.
f(x) Protocol introduces sPOSITIONs.
FHFA directs enterprises to consider crypto.
Bit Digital Inc. announced a strategic shift to focus exclusively on Ethereum staking and treasury operations, transitioning away from Bitcoin mining. The Nasdaq-listed company is now positioning itself as a pure-play Ethereum-native platform focused on staking and treasury management. The company has accumulated ETH since 2022 and holds over 24,000 ETH, worth approximately $44.6 million. Bit Digital plans to gradually convert its remaining Bitcoin holdings into ETH. To support the transition, the company has begun exploring strategic alternatives for its Bitcoin mining business, with proceeds redirected into ETH.
f(x) Protocol v2.1 introduced sPOSITIONs, a new way to take fixed-leverage short positions with minimal liquidation risk, a liquidation brake, and zero funding costs under normal conditions. sPOSITIONs are the short counterpart to leveraged longs xPOSITIONs and are executed and settled in a single atomic transaction. The implementation works by flash-borrowing a token, selling it for fxUSD on an AMM, using the total fxUSD as collateral, then borrowing the shorted token from the protocol’s long reserve and repaying the flashloan. The launch completes f(x) Protocol’s leverage system, combining its decentralized stablecoin fxUSD with both leveraged long xPOSITIONs and short sPOSITIONs.
The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) instructed Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to begin considering cryptocurrency as a potential asset when assessing risk for single-family mortgage loans. As key players in the U.S. housing finance system, both enterprises are to develop methods for incorporating cryptocurrency as a reserve asset without requiring conversion to U.S. dollars. Initially, only cryptocurrencies that are verifiable and held on U.S.-regulated exchanges will be considered. The enterprises must also conduct comprehensive risk assessments that address market volatility and liquidity. The order was signed by William J. Pulte, Director of FHFA, and is effective immediately.
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ZKsync Launches Airbender zkVM
A general-purpose ZK prover that enables real-time settlement. cross-chain coordination, and can run local proof generation on consumer hardware.
ZKsync launches the Airbender zkVM.
Chainlink partners with Mastercard.
OP Futarchy experiment results.
Term goes live on Base.
ZKsync launched Airbender, a high-performance, general-purpose zero-knowledge (ZK) prover designed to advance decentralization, interoperability, and scalability. Airbender is the fastest open-source RISC-V zkVM, which delivers ~3-second proofs, outperforming proof systems like RiscZero and Succinct's SP1 Turbo. Airbender enables real-time settlement and cross-chain coordination, supports local proof generation on consumer hardware, and reduces proving costs to just $0.0001 per transfer. It integrates with ZKsync OS, a modular execution environment supporting EVM, WASM, and custom runtimes. Developers can now build verifiable apps on the Airbender beta.
Decentralized oracle provider Chainlink partnered with Mastercard to build a secure fiat-to-crypto conversion system, enabling over three billion current Mastercard cardholders to purchase crypto directly onchain. Chainlink verifies and synchronizes key transaction details to enable secure, seamless fiat-to-crypto asset conversions. The initiative is supported by zerohash, Swapper Finance, Shift4 Payments, and XSwap, and leverages the Uniswap protocol for onchain execution. Chainlink provides the interoperability infrastructure bridging traditional finance with DeFi applications, while Mastercard contributes access to its global payments network.
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Term Labs goes live on Base
Argent rebrands to Ready
$100m net ETH ETF flows
Devconnect ARG scholars deadline
EigenLayer VIBEscore competition
Powell on banks and crypto
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