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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%.

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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.

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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.

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Firelight Introduces XRP Staking for DeFi Insurance Layer Against Exploits

The new protocol, developed by Sentora and Flare Network, aims to combine XRP yield opportunity with offering protection against DeFi hacks.

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Anthropic Research Shows AI Agents Are Closing In on Real DeFi Attack Capability

Models tested by MATS and the Anthropic Fellows program generated turnkey exploit scripts and identified fresh vulnerabilities, suggesting automated exploitation is becoming technically and economically viable.

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Ethereum Devs Push ZK ‘Secret Santa’ System Toward Deployment

The proposed protocol uses zero-knowledge proofs to verify sender–receiver relationships without revealing identities.

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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.

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The Protocol: Monad Airdrop + Blockchain Go Live

Also: Celestia’s Matcha Upgrade, Fidelity on Fusaka and World’s New Payroll Pilot.

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