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The Protocol: New Ethereum scaling plans

Also: OKX and AI agents, Future AI users of blockchain and Bitcoin’s latest governance clash.

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The Protocol: Blockchain sleuth ZachXBT alleges Axiom employee conducted insider trading

Also: Ethereum’s “strawmap”, Robinhood chain update and OpenAI + smart contracts

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The Protocol: Zora moves to Solana

Also: EF’s Stańczak to leave ED role, XRPL member-only DEX and Ethereum revives the DAO.

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The Protocol: Robinhood unveils its layer-2 testnet

Also: Citadel Securities backs LayerZero chain, MegaETH mainnet debut and ENS scraps L2 plans

Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev speaking at TOKEN2049 Singapore on Oct. 2, 2025.

The Protocol: Vitalik Buterin’s stark warning on layer-2 roadmap

Also: Open-source alternative for bitcoin miners, EF’s quantum-computing team and a new lending protocol for XRP

Vitalik Buterin