MegaETH Stateless Validator
MegaETH open-sourced its Stateless Validator, a lightweight client that verifies blocks using witness data without storing the full history.
MegaETH stateless validator.
Base App to focus on trading.
Digital Asset Market Structure Bill.
Erigon v3.3.3 release.
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MegaETH, an EVM-compatible L2 targeting 100,000 TPS, has open-sourced its Stateless Validator, a lightweight client that verifies blocks using witness data without storing full blockchain history. The Stateless Validator runs on minimal consumer hardware, requires negligible local storage, and is used to verify the MegaETH sequencer. MegaETH also leverages SALT, a new data structure that replaces the Merkle Patricia Trie to eliminate a major EVM performance bottleneck while preserving execution compatibility. MegaEVM is MegaETH's high-performance, EVM-compatible virtual machine, featuring higher gas limits through a multi-dimensional resource model. Together, these open-source releases aim to deliver faster, more scalable Ethereum-compatible infrastructure.
The Base App, Coinbase's onchain social app and wallet, is shifting focus to provide a trading-first, finance-focused experience. Base contributor Jesse Pollak noted that users are seeking higher-quality and more diverse assets beyond social tokens, including stocks, predictions, protocols, apps, memes, and real-world assets. He added that social features such as copy-trading, feed-trading, and leaderboards will be built on top of financial tools, rather than leading the experience. The Base App currently combines a non-custodial wallet with secure XMTP messaging and an onchain discovery feed powered by the Farcaster social graph.
Crypto advocacy nonprofit Coin Center has expressed support for the current draft of the Digital Asset Market Structure Bill, which seeks to establish a regulatory framework for digital assets. CoinCenter backs the legislation primarily because it includes the Blockchain Regulatory Certainty Act (BRCA), which protects non-custodial software developers from being classified as unlicensed money transmitters. Coin Center also says the bill appropriately limits the regulatory reach of the SEC, CFTC, and Treasury over developers of genuinely decentralized protocols. However, Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong has withdrawn his support, citing concerns over DeFi regulations, restrictions on stablecoin rewards, and a ban on tokenized equities.
Erigon released Erigon v3.3.3, the latest version of its execution layer client, bringing stability, security, and syncing improvements. Called Rocky Romp, the release improves encrypted transactions handling and enables Discovery v5, Ethereum's peer discovery protocol, by default, improving node discovery speed and ensuring connectivity to a wider range of peers.
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Polygon Stablecoin Payments Platform
Polygon will launch an integrated payments platform that combines regulated fiat access, wallet infrastructure, cross-chain orchestration, and settlement.
Polygon to launch payments platform.
Jumper launches a portfolio manager.
Staked ETH supply hits a new ATH.
Lighter releases a mobile app.
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Polygon Labs announced plans to launch a regulated stablecoin payments platform in the U.S. following its upcoming acquisitions of Coinme, a fiat-to-crypto on- and off-ramp provider licensed in 48 states, and Sequence, an enterprise wallet and cross-chain infrastructure provider. The acquisitions form the Open Money Stack, a vertically integrated payments platform that combines regulated fiat access, wallet infrastructure, enterprise APIs, cross-chain payment orchestration, and stablecoin settlement on Polygon. The move turns Polygon Labs into a revenue-generating payments company.
Jumper, a bridge aggregation protocol, launched Jumper Earn and Jumper Portfolio, two new products designed to help users move, deploy, and manage capital across DeFi through a single user interface. Jumper Portfolio provides a unified view of assets and DeFi positions across multiple chains. Users can sort their assets by token or protocol. Jumper Earn identifies personalized yield opportunities based on a wallet's holdings, activity, and positions, drawing from 15 major DeFi protocols and more than 79 markets. Users can also use the Quick Deposit feature, powered by LI.FI's Composer, to deploy assets into liquidity pools or vaults directly from the Jumper interface.
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 35.9 million ETH is currently staked across 900,000 validators. An additional 2.3 million 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 24% of all staked ETH on the Beacon Chain.
Lighter, an application-specific ZK rollup on Ethereum focused on trading, launched its mobile app on both iOS and Android. Users can now trade perpetuals, spot assets, RWAs, and pre-markets directly from their phones. Lighter is hosting a mobile-only trading competition starting January 15, featuring a 100,000 $LIT prize pool. Users must download the app in advance and complete most of their trading on mobile to be eligible. Lighter is the leading chain in the Ethereum ecosystem by throughput, processing around 3,000 TPS over the past day. The trading platform has surpassed $1 billion in TVL and more than $1.3 trillion in all-time perpetuals trading volume.
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EF New Media team introduced
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Coingecko exploring acquisition
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ZKsync Releases 2026 Roadmap
ZKsync is shifting focus from building core infrastructure to supporting real-world adoption.
ZKsync releases 2026 roadmap.
Taiko introduces TaikoProofs.
Ethereum must pass the walkaway test.
Bitmine stakes 1.25 million ETH.
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ZKsync released its 2026 roadmap, shifting focus from building core infrastructure and tools to supporting large-scale, real-world adoption. In 2025, ZKsync delivered the Atlas high-performance upgrade, privacy execution with Prividium, the Airbender zkVM, and the institution-focused ADI Chain. In 2026, ZKsync aims to seamlessly integrate Prividiums with existing enterprise workflows. The network will also focus on orchestrating public and private ZK Stack chains with native cross-chain composability and shared liquidity, without relying on external bridges. Lastly, Airbender will undergo deeper audits and formal verification to support broader adoption beyond the ZKsync ecosystem.
Taiko, an EVM-equivalent ZK-Rollup, introduced TaikoProofs, a new transparency dashboard to show real-time ZK proof performance for its based rollup. The dashboard tracks ZK Coverage, which shows which batches have ZK proofs, proof times, and any operational gaps, and Proof Latency, measured by how quickly proofs are generated, verified, and batches are finalized. It tracks which prover and execution stack is used for each batch, including configurations based on Succinct's SP1 zkVM, Intel SGX, and RISC Zero's zkVM.
Vitalik Buterin argues that Ethereum must pass the "walkaway test," meaning the network should remain usable and secure without relying on any single vendor or ongoing development for maintenance. The goal is to build Ethereum into a system that can safely run for decades with minimal dependence on future protocol changes. To reach the point of ossification, Vitalik says Ethereum must achieve full quantum resistance, a scalable architecture, a sustainable state model, a general-purpose account system, a gas schedule resistant to DoS attacks, a decentralized PoS economic model, and a censorship-resistant block-building process.
Bitmine Immersion Technologies (BMNR) has staked 1.25 million ETH, valued at $3.9 billion, accounting for 30% of its total ETH treasury holdings. The company staked 596,864 ETH just in the past week. Overall, Bitmine owns 4.16 million ETH, equivalent to 3.45% of the total ETH supply. In addition, Bitmine holds $23 million in Eightco Holdings (ORBS), which maintains a WLD token treasury. Chairman Tom Lee is encouraging BMNR shareholders to vote YES on a proposal to increase authorized shares, which would allow the company to continue its aggressive ETH accumulation strategy.
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