• Dev Tools Guild launches pilot.

• Coinbase launches Coinbase Payments.

• Four more EIPs added to Fusaka.

• L2Beat implements its new framework.

The Dev Tools Guild (DTG) launched its initiative to fund and coordinate essential developer tooling projects across the Ethereum ecosystem, starting with a one-year pilot. Inspired by the Protocol Guild, DTG seeks to accelerate Ethereum application development by supporting the teams and individuals who maintain infrastructure. The initiative focuses on sustainably funding critical tools, bridging the gap between protocol development and application-layer developers, and improving coordination, visibility, and accountability across projects. Initial member projects include Solidity, Vyper, ethers.js, viem, alloy, Nethereum, Web3j, web3.py, Foundry, Scaffold-ETH, Ape, and Sourcify. Community members can support the guild by donating to donate.devtoolsguild.eth.

L2Beat implemented its new classification framework for rollups and DA layers. The revised model enforces stricter standards: projects must now have a fully functioning proof system, a data availability (DA) bridge to Ethereum or a robust DAC for rollups with alt-DA systems, and a verifiable architecture in order to be listed as an L2. Of 130+ projects reviewed, only 26 met the new criteria and retain their Ethereum L2 status. OP Stack rollups lacking proofs and Orbit chains with limited whitelists have been excluded from the dashboard. Some chains, including Scroll, were bumped down from stage 1 to stage 0 rollup status under the new criteria.

Ethereum core developers agreed to add four more Ethereum Improvement Proposals (EIPs) to the schedule for inclusion list for Fusaka, Ethereum’s next upgrade slated for later this year. Among them, EIP-7907 proposes the introduction of gas metering for contract code loading and significantly raises the maximum contract code size from 24KB to 256KB. EIP-7934 sets a protocol-level cap on RLP-encoded execution block sizes, limiting them to 10 megabytes plus a 512-kilobyte buffer. EIP-7951 introduces a new precompile to support ECDSA signature verification using the secp256r1 curve. And EIP-7939 adds a new opcode, CLZ(x), which calculates the number of leading zero bits in a 256-bit word.

Coinbase launched Coinbase Payments, a modular tech stack for stablecoin payments built on Base. Designed for commerce platforms, payment service providers (PSPs), marketplaces, and ecommerce infrastructure providers, it enables providers to integrate USDC payments into existing systems without requiring blockchain expertise. The stack consists of three main components: Stablecoin Checkout, which offers a wallet-native experience; Ecommerce Engine, a set of API tools that help platforms manage payments, refunds, and subscriptions; and the Commerce Payments Protocol, a suite of open-source smart contracts for onchain execution.

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• Genius Act passes

• Lido V2 decentralization review

• Safe launches Safe Research

• 16 billion passwords breached

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• Jordi Baylina introduces ZisK zkVM.

• Etherscan adds an address analytics tab.

Jordi Baylina, along with a team of seven developers, has spun off from Polygon Labs to launch ZisK, an independent open-source zkVM project. ZisK is a high-performance zkVM stack for low-latency proof generation. It’s built on the RISC-V 64 architecture and supports high-level languages like Rust, with planned support for Go and C#. The system features real-time Ethereum block proving, 1.5GHz zkVM execution, parallelized proof generation, GPU-optimized code, and recursive circuits for advanced aggregation. Baylina previously co-founded the Hermez Network, a zkEVM project acquired by Polygon in 2021 and later rebranded as Polygon zkEVM. Baylina will remain an advisor at Polygon Labs..

Etherscan released a new Address Analytics tab on address pages within its block explorer, currently in beta. The update features widgets that provide deeper insights into address activity. Users can now view a transaction heatmap that visualizes transaction frequency over time, a top dapp activity widget showing the contracts the address has interacted with most based on gas spent, and a top neighbor addresses widget listing the addresses that have most frequently sent or received ETH or tokens to or from the address. Users can also adjust an age filter to the last 30 days, the past year, or all time.

• Defillama launches Pro Dashboards

• Compound Foundation proposal

• $1.5m in fees collected by Timeboost.

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• Fileverse launches onchain spreadsheets.

• EigenLayer introduces a cloud platform.

• Ink unveils its INK utility token.

• DELV winds down its protocol.

Fileverse launched dSheets.new, a spreadsheet system for peer-to-peer data creation, collaboration, and onchain interactions. Unlike traditional spreadsheets, dSheets enable privacy-preserving, real-time collaboration leveraging end-to-end encryption, ZK-authentication (vOPRF-ID), and granular access control through an ENS domain, email, or wallet address. dSheets offers a familiar Excel-like interface supporting common functions. Users can query and write onchain data, connect to APIs and smart contracts, and even submit transactions directly from within the spreadsheet. The platform is compatible with Ethereum, Base, and Gnosis Chain, requires no downloads or sign-up, and is accessible simply by visiting dSheets.new.

EigenLayer introduced EigenCloud, a verifiable cloud platform designed to enable trustless applications by combining cloud-scale programmability with crypto-grade verifiability. Secured by the economic security of the EIGEN token, EigenCloud allows developers to move complex application logic offchain into containerized environments while maintaining onchain settlement. EigenCloud enables both Web2 and Web3 developers to build trustless apps using familiar tools like Docker and Kubernetes, and to tap into a growing library of Verifiable Services (AVSs). The platform is built around three core components: EigenDA, a high-throughput data availability layer already live on mainnet; EigenVerify, a dispute resolution system, expected to launch on mainnet in Q3 2025; and EigenCompute, a verifiable compute orchestration layer, set to reach mainnet in Q4 2025. 

Ink, an OP Stack Layer-2 network and member of the Optimism Superchain, unveiled $INK, its native utility token. While $INK will not govern the Layer-2 network, it is designed to power DeFi applications, starting with a new liquidity protocol integrated with Aave. The token will support growth, incentives, and ecosystem development. $INK will have a fixed total hard cap supply of 1 billion tokens. The newly formed Ink Foundation also announced plans to airdrop $INK to early users, with more details on eligibility and token distribution to follow. Ink is focused on building a scalable onchain ecosystem for capital markets, lending, trading, and asset management.

Fixed-rate DeFi project DELV, formerly known as Element DAO, announced it is winding down operations after a vulnerability was discovered in its Hyperdrive protocol. Hyperdrive functioned as an AMM, enabling trading between fixed and variable interest rates. DELV offered users the ability to access fixed-term yield opportunities, provide liquidity to earn trading fees, and earn variable yield on idle capital. The team cited the high cost of rebuilding and lack of product-market fit as key reasons for the shutdown. User funds remain safe and accessible during the wind-down process.

• ACDT #40 summary

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• Ethresearch: Confidential Wrapped Ethereum 

• Ethresearch: Going Multidimensional

• MetaPool suffers an exploit

• Galaxy partners with Liquid Collective

• JP Morgan Deposit Token on Base

• USDC Frontier Vault on Morpho

• NAM transferability proposal

• Code4rena offers free audit contests

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