zkEVM On Ethereum L1
A technical document for getting zkEVM proofs supported on Ethereum L1.
zkEVM on Ethereum L1 milestones.
ethPandaOps insights on blobs.
Boundless introduces Boundless Rollups.
Ethereum hits 2.5m daily transactions.
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Ethereum Foundation Co-Executive Director Tomasz K. Stańczak shared a technical document for getting zkEVM proofs supported on Ethereum L1. Integrating zkEVM proofs into Ethereum L1 allows Ethereum to significantly raise the gas limit and support native zk-rollups, without sacrificing censorship resistance. The roadmap outlines how ZK proofs would be integrated into governance, client infrastructure, consensus validation, and security. It defines eight core projects: ExecutionWitness, zkEVM Guest Program, zkVM–Guest API Standardization, Consensus Layer Integration, Prover Infrastructure, Benchmarking & Metrics, Security, and ePBS.
ethPandaOps shared an analysis of Ethereum mainnet blob data following the activation of BPO forks, which increased the blob target. ethPandaOps observed a trend where attestation head vote percentages dropped as blob count rose. A head vote is part of a validator's attestation that votes for the latest valid block at a given slot. ethPandaOps found that the cause of the degradation is not blob count itself, but rather proposer timing games. Some block proposers intentionally publish blocks late to extract more MEV, which reduces the time attesters have to download and verify the block. The trend leads to fewer validators voting for the proposer's block, lowering head vote rates.
Boundless, a zero-knowledge verifiable compute layer, launched Boundless for Rollups, enabling OP-stack rollups to upgrade to ZK-powered security with faster finality, simpler dispute resolution, and lower proving costs. Rollups can now reduce finality from 7 days to 24 hours using ZK fault proofs, or to minutes with full validity proofs. The release replaces multi-step optimistic dispute games with a single non-interactive ZK proof. Through the Boundless Network, rollups gain access to 400 trillion cycles per day of proving capacity at a median cost of $0.04 per billion cycles, significantly lowering the cost of ZK proving. The feature is already live in production and used by rollups such as BOB and MegaETH.
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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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