Solana, BSC, Base, and Ethereum upgrades for speed and performance

Sept was for shipping 0x. Here's what went out last month: 🆕 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘀 • Plasma support in Swap API ✨ 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗙𝗲𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀 • Swap + Send is now available in both Swap & Gasless APIs 💧 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗟𝗶𝗾𝘂𝗶𝗱𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗦𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲𝘀 • Fluid Lite on Ethereum Mainnet • Curve, Balancer v3, Fluid, and Uniswap v3 on Plasma 🔧 𝗜𝗻𝗳𝗿𝗮 & 𝗥𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗜𝗺𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 • Added Renzo Uniswap v4 hook • Updated Clanker, Flaunch & Zora hooks • Improved routing for Zora & Retake ecosystems • Reduced latency across routing infrastructure 🔒 𝗣𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗘𝗮𝗿𝗹𝘆 𝗔𝗰𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀 • Solana & Cross-Chain APIs (see changelog for details on how to access) 👉 𝗔𝗹𝘄𝗮𝘆𝘀 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘆 𝘂𝗽 𝘁𝗼 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝟬𝘅 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲𝘀: https://lnkd.in/gaXgmzcy

🚀 Now Released: evm_rpc_client v0.1.0 Developers can now use this new Rust client to conveniently interact with the EVM RPC Canister, enabling seamless communication with Ethereum and other EVM-compatible blockchains using an on-chain API. This release is another step forward in bridging ecosystems and empowering developers to build scalable, cross-chain applications with confidence. 🔗 Explore the crate: https://lnkd.in/dRdKeN4b

Direct Staking on Linea. Powered by Chainlink CCIP. Users can now stake ETH directly on Linea. Built using Chainlink Labs Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP) and its Programmable Token Transfers, Direct Staking removes the need for manual bridging between Linea and Ethereum mainnet. With Linea’s growing zkEVM ecosystem, this launch expands wstETH’s native presence across Layer 2, further connecting Ethereum staking to the broader multi-chain landscape. More info: https://lnkd.in/dZYtVCEH

October's $3.9B token unlocks and tariff-induced CEX crashes have actually shown DeFi's edge. Ethereum TVL is up 3% Q2 despite chaos, thanks to resilient composability. For protocols, the play: Amplify sovereignty stories via targeted threads that turn unlocks into adoption hooks. Saga's Velocity rollout tomorrow could set the tone

Frank Mong shows how Helium Mobile is onboarding the next wave of users, 3GB at a time. This isn’t just hype. It’s Helium’s decentralized mobile network creating tangible crypto adoption, with value that can benefit everybody.

🔷 Bit Digital’s Ethereum holdings rise to $675M after adding 31,057 ETH Ethereum DAT Bit Digital added 31,057 ETH, bringing total holdings to 150,244 ETH (~$675M). The company funded the purchase using proceeds from a $150M convertible note offering, with participation from Kraken Financial, Jump Trading Credit, and Jane Street Capital. CEO Sam Tabar said the strategy focuses on growing NAV per share to drive long-term shareholder value. The convertible notes had an initial conversion price of $4.16/share, an 8.2% premium to estimated mNAV. 📊 Bit Digital is now the third-largest Ethereum DAT by ETH holdings, behind Bitmine Immersion and SharpLink Gaming. The Nasdaq-listed company pivoted in July from BTC mining to pure-play Ethereum staking and treasury, selling 280 BTC and deploying $173M from an equity raise to acquire ETH. SOURCE: The Block

Excited to welcome Pipe Network into the Jito (Re)staking ecosystem with the launch of their LovePIPE liquid staking token. For those unfamiliar, Pipe Network is a decentralized CDN on Solana delivering high-quality content at low latency & cheap costs. 𝘏𝘰𝘸 𝘓𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘗𝘐𝘗𝘌 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘴: • Users deposit PIPE into the stakepool and receive LovePIPE. • Deposits are delegated to top-performing node operators in Pipe Network. • The more stake a node has, the more high value content it gets to serve. • Nodes receive rewards for participating in the network and share them with stakers. TL;DR: With LovePIPE, you earn staking rewards while both maintaining liquidity and powering the future of decentralized content delivery on Solana.

The Solana Foundation Delegation Program previously placed no restrictions on which validator clients could be run on the testnet. However, it now requires validators to run the same client type on testnet as on mainnet, and those unable to comply will lose support and face difficulties in attracting stake. This shift represents an important challenge for many validators. In response, SLV now supports all four major validator clients: Agave, Jito, Firedancer Agave, and Firedancer Jito. This enables validators to run the same client type on testnet as they do on mainnet and ensures readiness for future requirement changes. With the ability to launch any of these clients with a single command, SLV greatly reduces the burden for existing operators as well as new entrants. This update helps strengthen the stability and reliability of the entire Solana network. Details: https://lnkd.in/eReq3B29

𝗧𝗼𝗽 𝟱 𝗽𝗼𝗽𝘂𝗹𝗮𝗿 𝗱𝗔𝗽𝗽𝘀 𝗼𝗻 𝗦𝗼𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗮 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗪𝗶𝗴𝘄𝗮𝗺 Wigwam lets you easily buy SOL, swap tokens, and connect to all major Solana dApps. Here are the top 5 most popular dApps on Solana you can access:

Jupiter Exchange ➡️ finds the best swap rates and routing across all of Solana's exchanges. Your one-stop shop for trading. pump.fun ➡️known for quick, interactive gaming and meme coin launches, leveraging Solana's low fees and instant liquidity for easy, no-code deployment. DefiLlama ➡️ a detailed platform for monitoring DeFi projects, tracking total value locked (TVL), and analyzing liquidity across various Solana-based platforms. Raydium Protocol ➡️ an automated market maker (AMM) and liquidity provider, enabling fast token swaps and DeFi trading on Solana with low fees and high throughput. Jito Labs ➡️ offers JitoSOL, a Liquid Staking Token that earns both staking rewards and MEV rewards, maximizing your yield.

As an Ethereum person dealing mostly with EVM dapp, client and tooling/infra the decision to switch to Solana was not an easy one. But as an EVM environment on top of Solana’s paralelized processing Neon always seemed extremely interesting to me. While building Neon the team had to solve for many hard problems that are a part of how Solana achieves it’s performance advantage over Ethereum. Deterministic execution is existential for Solana’s long-term credibility as the Internet Capital Markets infrastructure. Ethereum achieves this easily: single-threaded EVM, strict gas ordering, serial transaction execution… But how do you keep a hyper-parallel, real time network perfectly deterministic? The only way to do it is by trading away certain things for speed. This introduces subtle problems that are technologically hard to solve if you want to build more complex apps and sofisticated DeFi on Solana and by looking at the hard work NeonLabs team had to do to make EVM on Solana technologically possible I believe we are in an unique position to help solve these problems.