0/ From scaling to identity to real-world assets, the Ethereum ecosystem keeps advancing forward.
Here are 28 things the ecosystem accomplished over the last month.
1/ Bhutan becomes the first nation to anchor its national digital ID system on Ethereum, showing how governments can use open infrastructure to keep public identity systems secure, sovereign, and verifiable.
2/ @JovayNetwork by Ant Group (creator of AliPay) are building the next era of Layer 2, connecting one of the world’s largest payment networks with open, global infrastructure.
3/ Stablecoin transfers on @ethereum hit $5T last quarter. Onchain payments continue to become the internet’s settlement layer for global value.
4/ ERC-8004 went live, enabling AI agents to discover and trust each other without intermediaries, a step toward open, autonomous agent economies built on Ethereum.
5/ @ADIChain_ joined the @zksync Elastic Network, launching the first dirham-backed stablecoin with major UAE banks, a strong link between regulated finance and open settlement infrastructure.
6/ @centrifuge launched SPXA, the first tokenized S&P 500 Index Fund licensed by @SPDJIndices and deployed on @base, bringing traditional market exposure directly into the onchain economy.
7/ The Ethereum for Institutions site is now live. The new site acts as a resource for builders, leaders, and institutions.
8/ @WalletConnect Pay went live with @dtc_pay, enabling seamless stablecoin payments across retail and hospitality in Asia, bridging onchain money with everyday transactions.
9/ @Lighter_xyz launched its mainnet after eight months in private beta, bringing low-cost, low-latency perpetual trading to Ethereum L2 with verifiable matching and liquidations for high-performance DeFi.
10/ @fluidkey launched its new app on iOS, Android, and web, combining privacy-preserving accounts, stealth addresses, yield, swaps, and biometric security in one onchain wallet.
11/ @brevis_zk unveiled Pico Prism, a zkVM proving 99.6% of blocks in under 12 seconds with 64 RTX 5090 GPUs, showing how zero-knowledge (ZK) performance is accelerating.
12/ @ziskvm now proves every Ethereum block in real time, averaging 7.5-second proofs, supporting the network in delivering secure scalability.
13/ @Securitize and @FGNexusio brought the first NASDAQ-listed equity fully onchain, turning dividend-paying shares into programmable assets. Public markets are starting to use Ethereum as their base layer.
14/ Ethereum is now the main capital hub of @zksync. ZKsync introduced the Atlas upgrade which makes it faster to move funds between L1 and L2. This means institutional and RWA asset flows can use directly Ethereum L1 as a liquidity hub.
15/ Applications on @ethereum now host over $360B in deposits, up $100B this year.
16/ Layer 2 networks on @ethereum processed 1.4B transactions in Q3, a new record. Showing how scaling solutions are working to bring Ethereum to millions of users.
17/ @RobinhoodApp_EU Stock Tokens went live in the EU. There are 400+ Stock Tokens linked to U.S. stocks and ETFs, giving retail investors onchain access to traditional markets.
18/ @arbitrum One passed 2B transactions.
19/ @coinbase rolled out decentralized exchange (DEX) trading for US users (except NY), opening access to millions of tokens directly from the app.
20/ @base launched creator coins to a group of early access users. Coins will let fans hold a stake in their favorite builders.
21/ Japanese startup, JYPC launched the world's first yen-pegged stablecoin on Ethereum.
22/ @ShutterNetwork and @SnapshotLabs brought private voting to all decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs), protecting millions of participants onchain.
23/ @MiniPay wallets increased by 175% year-over-year during the quarter. Users initiated approx 290M peer-to-peer transactions worth over $300M across 60 countries.
24/ @ZAMM_DEFI launched a new feature: AI-powered swaps. Traders can now execute intelligent, automated swaps directly on zAMM
25/ @AegisMarkets reached $1B in total volume. The app is built on @Uniswap v4.
26/ @AbstractChain dropped block times from 1s → 200ms, a 5x speed boost that enables real-time apps and seamless user experiences across the network.
27/ @gizatechxyz surpassed 500K autonomous transactions—agents are acting independently on Ethereum.
28/ @Celo reached 1B total transactions, showing Ethereum’s scaling ecosystem in full motion.