Latest from Margaux Nijkerk
Solana’s Drift Launches v3, With 10x Faster Trades
With v3, the team says that about 85% of market orders will fill in under half a second, and liquidity will deepen enough to bring slippage on larger trades down to around 0.02%.
Axelar Unveils AgentFlux to Bring AI Agents OnChain, Without Cloud Risks
Developed by Interop Labs, AgentFlux lets financial firms deploy “agentic” automation without sending sensitive information to external infrastructure.
Ethereum Activates Fusaka Upgrade, Aiming to Cut Node Costs, Speed Layer-2 Settlements
At the center of the upgrade is PeerDAS, a system that lets validators check small slices of data rather than entire “blobs,” reducing both costs and computational load for validators and layer-2 networks.
Solana Mobile to Launch SKR Token in January With 10B Supply
Distribution is designed to go to the ecosystem, With 30% to airdrops, 25% to growth initiatives, and 10% for liquidity and launch support.
The Protocol: Ethereum Preps For Upcoming Fusaka Upgrade
Also: Anthropic On DeFi AI Agents, ETH Devs Push ZK Protocol, and Bitnomial
Ethereum Developers Prep for Fusaka, Second Upgrade of 2025
The goal of the upgrade is to enable Ethereum to handle the large transaction throughput from the layer-2 chains that use the blockchain as their base layer.
The Protocol: Monad Airdrop + Blockchain Go Live
Also: Celestia’s Matcha Upgrade, Fidelity on Fusaka and World’s New Payroll Pilot.
A New Crypto Project Vowed to Transform Stablecoins. Then Its Token Crashed 90%
The stablecoin infrastructure hopeful is trading nearly 90% below its early peak, with thin usage, supply pressure and sparse communication fueling uncertainty about whether the sell-off has truly run its course.
Celestia’s TIA Token Rises as ‘Matcha’ Upgrade Preps Network for Cross-Chain Future
The event is being called its biggest software upgrade yet, which boosts the network’s capacity and improves token economics.
Monad Blockchain Goes Live With 100B Token Supply and Airdrop
The total supply of MON is 100 billion tokens, with 10.8% currently unlocked and in circulation.
