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Google Cloud announced the Agent Payments Protocol in partnership with the Ethereum Foundation, Coinbase, EigenLayer, and others.

Impact: The collaboration spotlights mainstream infrastructure players coordinating on an onchain payments standard that could accelerate agentic finance use cases.

L2Beat released an update introducing Ecosystem Pages to better navigate and compare projects across the Ethereum scaling landscape.

Impact: Clearer categorization and discovery tools can help users and researchers track L2 progress, risks, and adoption trends more effectively.

Dune published its 2025 report covering real-world assets activity, trends, and metrics across Ethereum and adjacent ecosystems.

Impact: Consolidated RWA analytics give builders and institutions a data backbone for evaluating growth, liquidity, and protocol performance.

The Ethereum Foundation, Gnosis, and Lido announced a $2 million audit contest ahead of the upcoming Fusaka upgrade.

Impact: Expanded security review and incentives aim to harden the upgrade and reduce mainnet risk before deployment.

EthStaker unveiled featured speakers and a commemorative POAP for its staking gathering at Devcon.

Impact: Community-driven programming helps educate and align validators and solo stakers on best practices and upcoming roadmap items.

ETHGlobal confirmed a total prize pool of $200k for its next hackathon.

Impact: Larger prizes can draw more developers to experiment with new protocols, tools, and apps on Ethereum.

Routescan reported that 61% of the onchain activity it indexes comes from Ethereum Layer 2 networks.

Impact: The datapoint underscores the shift of user transactions and interactions to L2s for lower fees and higher throughput.

Marc Wolovim added AI-generated summaries of All Core Devs calls on forkcast.org.

Impact: Faster, accessible post-call briefs can improve developer and community awareness of client updates and roadmap discussions.

Everstake reported that ETH exchange-traded funds have crossed $200 billion in total volume since launch.

Impact: Sustained ETF activity signals deepening institutional and retail participation around ETH exposure.

ETH ETFs have recorded five consecutive days of net inflows, per Fabda Rice.

Impact: Consecutive inflows can support market liquidity and reflect improving sentiment toward ETH.

SharpLink Gaming announced a buyback of 1 million of its own shares (SBET).

Impact: Equity repurchases while SBET is valued at less than the total ETH in their treasury is often seen as accretive to shareholders.

The Ether Machine reported submission of an S-4 registration statement to the U.S. SEC, highlighting the move as a "a critical step towards becoming a publicly traded Ethereum company"

Impact: Regulatory filings can precede corporate actions such as mergers or reorganizations tied to ETH-adjacent projects.

Bankrbot announced the launch of Earn, expanding its product capabilities.

Impact: New earning features can attract users seeking automated actions directly within social platforms.

Prime Intellect rolled out Reserved Instances for its compute offering.

Impact: Predictable capacity options can lower costs and improve reliability for app developers on Ethereum-aligned stacks.

Tokenized Vault announced the formation of the Tokenized Vault Foundation.

Impact: A dedicated foundation can coordinate standards and governance around tokenized vault primitives.

Venice teamed up with ChainPatrol to bolster user protection against scams.

Impact: Integrated threat intelligence aims to reduce phishing and abuse across app interactions.

@DevSwayam published a plain-English explainer to demystify AI builder terminology.

Impact: Clearer language can lower onboarding friction for developers exploring AI-enabled, onchain applications.

The Ethereum Daily roundup highlighted three newly launched applications on Ethereum mainnet and top L2s.

Impact: Consolidated launches provide users a one-stop view of fresh tools to try across the ecosystem.

Art Blocks highlighted “Gas Wars” by Jack Butcher with the first auction phase open.

Facet announced an “Unstoppable Sequencing” approach to improve censorship resistance on the Layer 2..

Impact: Novel sequencing designs may influence L2 reliability and censorship-resistance discussions.

Polygon introduced liquid staking functionality within the X platform through Bankrbot.

Impact: Social-native staking flows can expand participation by meeting users where they already are.

Tom Wan shared revenue data for Arbitrum DAO’s Orbit licensing fees.

Impact: Transparent revenue figures inform debates on sustainability and incentive alignment for L2 ecosystems.

Celo published a thread summarizing MiniPay’s achievements as it marks two years since launch.

Impact: Growth milestones illustrate mobile-first adoption patterns for payments on Ethereum-aligned networks.

Michał Moneta detailed how crypto is helping Venezuelans access a fairer financial system during severe bolivar inflation.

Impact: Documented real-world use cases highlight financial inclusion benefits in high-inflation environments.

A new episode of The Rollup featuring Justin Drake was released.

Lido shared highlights from its August validator set.

Giveth and ShapeShift published an article recounting their years-long collaboration.

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