• JP Morgan buys $102m worth of BMNR.

• Alchemy releases its V2 faucet.

• Hoodi testnet activates BPO1.

• EthereumJS v10.1.0 release.

J.P. Morgan acquired 1,974,144 shares of BitMine Immersion Technologies Inc. (BMNR), the world’s largest Ethereum treasury company. BitMine currently holds 3.4 million ETH, valued at approximately $11.6 billion. The acquisition positions J.P. Morgan among BitMine’s largest institutional shareholders. Meanwhile, ARK Invest, led by Cathie Wood, increased its position by 240,000 shares, bringing its total holdings to over 6.58 million BMNR shares. Chaired by Tom Lee, BitMine is halfway toward its goal of acquiring 5% of the total Ethereum supply as part of its long-term accumulation strategy to increase ETH per share.

Blockchain infrastructure provider Alchemy launched version 2 of its testnet faucet, a tool that allows developers to obtain free testnet tokens for application and smart contract testing. Testnets simulate mainnet environments without incurring actual costs. The new release removes the requirement to authenticate with an X account. The faucet supports 17 testnets, including Ethereum Sepolia, Arbitrum Sepolia, Optimism Sepolia, Base Sepolia, ZKsync Sepolia, and Polygon Amoy. To receive tokens, developers need to create an Alchemy account, enter their wallet address, and select a desired network. Tokens are automatically distributed within 24 hours.

Hoodi, an Ethereum testnet built for testing staking infrastructure, successfully executed its first Blob-Parameter-Only (BPO) fork in preparation for the upcoming Fusaka mainnet upgrade. BPO forks are lightweight, automated forks that adjust blob targets and limits. In the first fork, the blob target was increased to 10 and the maximum set to 15, expanding blob capacity and lowering Layer 2 transaction costs.Other News

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• Lido launches the strETH DeFi vault.

• EF publishes Fusaka Mainnet Announcement.

• Google Finance integrates Polymarket data.

• Guantlet pauses withdrawals amid deUSD depeg.

Lido Finance launched stRATEGY, a new curated DeFi vault built on Mellow Protocol’s Core Vaults infrastructure. The vault offers diversified exposure to an stETH DeFi strategy involving Aave, Ethena, and Uniswap. Users can deposit ETH, WETH, or wstETH to receive strETH, representing their share in the vault. The vault automatically manages allocation, monitoring, and rebalancing, giving users simple access to curated DeFi yield opportunities. strETH holders also earn Mellow points rewards. The vault takes a 1% annual management fee and 10% performance fee on rewards, which are reflected in the token’s price.

The Ethereum Foundation published the official Fusaka Mainnet Announcement, calling on all Ethereum node operators to update both execution and consensus clients before the upgrade activates on December 3, 2025 at slot 13,164,544. Fusaka-ready client releases are available from Lighthouse, Teku, Nimbus, Geth, Besu, Erigon, Nethermind, and Reth. Prysm is the only client that has not yet released a production-ready version. Fusaka introduces 12 EIPs that enhance scalability, performance, and user experience. Its headline feature, PeerDAS (EIP-7594), enables higher blob throughput to reduce Layer 2 transaction costs. Following activation, Blob Parameter Only (BPO) forks will gradually raise per-block blob limits to further expand network capacity. Fusaka marks the second upgrade shipped this year, following Pectra in May 2025.

Google Finance is adding support for prediction markets data from Kalshi and Polymarket, the world’s largest prediction market built on Polygon PoS. The integration allows users see real-time probabilities for future market events directly in search results. The feature is powered by Google’s Gemini AI models and will roll out first to Google Labs users in the U.S. over the coming weeks, with broader access to follow. Google Finance is Google’s platform for financial data, research, and market insights.

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• Guantlet pauses withdrawals

• Yield-bearing stablecoin outflows

• Abstract onboards Disney via Cryptoys

• Base App supports memecoin pairing

• Call for decentralized RPC access

• Sprinter raises $5.2m seed

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• Aragon introduces the EPAA.

• Aztec publishes a Privacy Manifesto.

• Ethereum Ecosystem hits 24,000 TPS.

• Zora enables DMs with token holders.

Aragon introduced the Ethereum Protocol Advocacy Alliance (EPAA), a new organization for coordinating policy efforts among teams building onchain infrastructure. Members include Aave, Aragon, Curve Finance, Lido Finance, Spark Protocol, The Graph, and Uniswap, which collectively secure over $100 billion in assets. Formed to counter the dominance of crypto lobbying from centralized actors, the Alliance aims to protect the neutrality of the protocol layer, advance onchain transparency, preserve flexibility for innovation, and uphold global, permissionless access. The alliance will collaborate with advocacy partners such as the DeFi Education Fund, the Decentralization Research Center, and the European Crypto Initiative.

Aztec founder Zachary Williamson published a privacy manifesto confronting the dark incentives of the Information Age, namely, the monetization of human attention and data. While he shares Vitalik Buterin’s techno-optimism, he argues that technology is neutral and its outcomes depend on the incentives that drive it. He proposes a technical and moral revolution built on zero-knowledge cryptography and privacy-preserving blockchains, allowing users to prove facts without revealing personal data and reclaim their digital agency as customers rather than commodities. Williamson calls on developers to build privacy-first systems using the Noir programming language on Aztec Network, a privacy-focused Layer 2 on Ethereum.

The Ethereum ecosystem, including L2 networks, hit a record peak throughput of 24,000 transactions per second on Tuesday. The milestone came as analytics platform growthepie incorporated data from Lighter, a perpetuals-focused L2, to its ecoystem TPS tracker. Lighter topped the charts with about 3,600 TPS, followed by Base.

• Nethermind v1.35.1 release

• Zora enables DMs

• Defillama Katana report

• Lido upgrades to CCIP

• EF hosts Founders Labs

• Agentic Zero at Devconnect

• HackMD SIWE case study

• GG24 results released

• Geth ranks Glamsterdam EIPs

• The Graph introduces Ramp

• Robinhood Q3 results

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