Aave V4 Goes Live On Testnet
The release includes the v4 codebase and the Aave Pro developer preview.
Aave V4 goes live on testnet.
Aztec Network launches Ignition Chain.
The USX stablecoin goes live on Scroll.
Safe Labs launches Safe Shield.
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Aave V4, the newest evolution of the Aave protocol featuring a Unified Liquidity Layer, is now live on testnet. The release includes the v4 codebase and a developer preview of Aave’s new interface, Aave Pro. V4’s architecture centralises liquidity into Liquidity Hubs, reducing same-chain fragmentation, improving capital efficiency, enabling lighter governance, and allowing modular upgrades through Spokes. Aave V4 also introduces Risk Premiums, a new mechanism that adjusts borrowing costs based on collateral quality, resulting in more accurate risk pricing and improved market efficiency. Users can currently test deposits and borrows on the Aave Devnet.
Aztec Network, a privacy-focused protocol for private smart contract execution, launched Ignition Chain on mainnet, its fully decentralized Ethereum Layer 2. The network went live with around 100 nodes and 500 active validators, marking the start of the L2’s block production that settles onto Ethereum. Ignition Chain is secured by solo stakers, who participate by running nodes, staking $AZTEC, earning block rewards, and helping coordinate block production. Running a validator on Aztec Network requires an 8-core CPU, 16 GB RAM, a 1 TB NVMe SSD, 25 Mbps bandwidth, and 200,000 staked $AZTEC tokens.
USX, a privacy-preserving “neodollar” built on Scroll and powered by LayerZero’s OFT standard, is now live. USX maintains a 1:1 redemption with USDC and offers gasless, private transactions enabled by Scroll’s ZK infrastructure and Cloak, its privacy layer. Users can hold, spend, and stake USX across DeFi starting on Scroll and Ethereum, with fiat spendability coming through EtherFi Cash.
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Anoma protocol adapter
Prophet Arena goes live
Base hits 18.2m daily txs
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Axal launches mobile app
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Ethereum Interop Layer Introduced
A proposal to make Ethereum’s L2 ecosystem feel like a single unified chain.
EF introduces the Ethereum Interop Layer.
Revolut integrates Polygon PoS.
SP1 Hypercube proves 99.7% of L1 blocks.
MegaETH announces its Frontier launch.
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The EF introduced the Ethereum Interop Layer (EIL), a proposal to make Ethereum’s L2 ecosystem feel like a single unified chain, without adding new trust assumptions. While rollups have increased scalability, they’ve also created fragmentation across multiple chains, asset versions, bridges, and UX complexity. EIL aims to allow users to sign once for cross-chain actions, with wallets automatically handling routing, asset location, gas, and settlement across L2s. EIL is built ERC-4337 account abstraction and the principles of the trustless manifesto. The proposal compares EIL to HTTP’s role in the early Internet: a unifying layer that makes many independent systems feel like one seamless experience.
Revolut, a Europe-based neobank, integrated Polygon PoS to power low-cost stablecoin payments, crypto trading, and POL staking within its fintech app. Over 14 million crypto users across 38 countries can now move money across borders with low fees and near-instant settlement through Polygon’s rails. Revolut users can send and receive USDC and USDT on Polygon PoS, pay with stablecoins using the Revolut crypto card, trade and stake POL, and off-ramp directly to fiat. Polygon boasts over $3.5 billion in stablecoin supply and recently underwent its Rio upgrade, boosting throughput to 5,000 TPS.
Succinct announced that its SP1 Hypercube zkVM can now prove 99.7% of Ethereum L1 blocks in under 12 seconds, and 95.4% in under 10 seconds, using only 16 NVIDIA RTX 5090 GPUs. The milestone comes after six months of deep optimizations across the prover, executor, and cluster orchestration. SP1 Hypercube also brings formal verification of all RISC-V constraints. Ethereum’s endgame is to introduce zkEVM proofs at L1, allowing validators to verify succinct proofs instead of re-executing blocks. ZK-fying the L1 enables horizontal scaling to 1 gigagas/second and near-instant rollup interoperability. SP1 Hypercube will be open source and available on the Succinct Prover Network.
MegaETH announced Frontier, its mainnet beta, launching in early December 2025 and running for one month. Designed for early adopters, Frontier will showcase MegaETH’s real-time, performance-focused blockchain that leverages Ethereum security with support for forced inclusion from day one. No incentives will be live during the initial beta phase.
ACDE #225 canceled this week
Balancer publishes post-mortem
Clarity Act as soon as December
SEAL introduces certifications
0xBow raises $3.5m
Kraken raises $800m
Obex raises $37m
ETHDenver 2026 applications
Privy LATAM report
Synthetix S2 trading comp
Base batches finalists
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Aave Introduces Aave App
A high-yield mobile savings app offering up to 6% APY and balance protection for up to $1 million on eligible accounts.
Aave introduces the Aave App.
DIN launches its AVS on EigenCloud.
Namechain migrates to a based rollup.
UNIfication temp check vote goes live.
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Aave, the largest DeFi protocol, introduced the Aave App, a high-yield mobile savings app offering up to 6% APY, with additional promotional yield boosts that can raise earnings up to 9% APY. The app also provides balance protection on up to $1 million per account. Users can deposit from banks, debit cards, or stablecoins. With Aave, users earn yield in real-time with second-by-second compounding interest, and they can withdraw their funds at any time without penalties or delays. The app also includes features like Auto Saver for automated recurring deposits, savings simulations, and progress tracking. The Aave App is now available on iOS, with a waitlist open for deposit access.
The Decentralized Infrastructure Network (DIN), led by Infura, launched its Autonomous Verifiable Service (AVS) on EigenLayer, making it the first large-scale decentralized RPC and API marketplace secured by Ethereum restaking. The launch enables permissionless onboarding for node operators, watchers, and restakers, creating an alternative to today’s centralized RPCs. DIN leverages staked ETH and eventually EIGEN token restaking to back node operators with real economic guarantees, introducing slashing and performance verification to ensure reliable, decentralized access to RPCs across 30+ networks. DIN was first unveiled two years ago on November 17, 2023.
The Ethereum Name Service (ENS) announced that it is migrating its Namechain L2 network from the Linea ZK stack to Nethermind’s Surge framework, a based rollup architecture built on the Taiko stack. Surge allows ENS to launch Namechain as a Stage 1 rollup from day one, leveraging Ethereum L1 directly for sequencing. ENS and Nethermind also designed a major improvement to CCIP-Read, the mechanism that lets ENS pull offchain or L2 data into L1 contracts, by combining based preconfirmations with trusted execution environments. The design reduces cross-chain data latency from hours to seconds while maintaining fallback security to be settled with ZK proofs. Namechain is part of ENSv2, a major upgrade introducing a new registry and smart contracts.
UNIfication, a proposal from Uniswap to enable a fee switch and UNI token burn, is now live for a temperature check vote on Snapshot. Voting ends in 5 days on November 22, 2025 at 6:01 PM. If approved, the proposal will move forward to an onchain governance vote. Among other updates, the proposal seeks to transition Foundation employees to Labs and to eliminate the Uniswap front-end fee.
Grails ENS market goes live
ethPandaOps introduces The Lab
Ethrex achieves 228 MGas/s
ZKsync wins Uniswap Cup
DappRadar winds down
Everclear xchain asset settlement
SUP transferability goes live
Scaling trust research program
Bioregional reforestation grants
IRS to tax foreign crypto accounts
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