Ethereum News. Dec 6, 2025
Vitalik recently followed zkSync founder Alex Gluchowski, shortly after zkSync announced its new Interop solution. The protocol allows any ZK stack chain (zksync modular framework) to access Ethereum L1 DeFi liquidity natively, avoiding fragmentation and slow bridges. For example, users can lend assets on Aave from an L2 (zk Stack) while still interacting with L1 markets (Ethereum)
Ethereum DevOps team, ethPandaOps released live custody-monitoring tool, built on their dasmon engine, to track PeerDAS data sampling introduced in Fusaka
Ethereum foundation team, Ethereum Everywhere, dedicated to connecting communities globally, launched Ethereum Community Hub in Lagos, Nigeria and will host an event on December 11, 2025
Etherealize, Nethermind, and L2Beat released a joint report on Ethereum’s L2 ecosystem, highlighting its role in enabling institutional adoption of on-chain financial infrastructure.
Solidity released new version, v0.8.31 brings new deprecation warnings etc
Optimism reported that the Superchain (chains built using OP stack) powered 14.1% of all crypto transactions in November.
Yearn released hack Post-Mortem, the attacker deposited huge liquidity, causing an intermediate variable extremely low, causing the Newton solver to misfire and break the invariant. The fix is adding limits
WisdomTree launched WisdomTree Physical Lido Staked ETH ETP (LIST), Europe’s first ETP exclusively holding Lido’s stETH, providing institutional investors regulated access to staked ETH yields with ~$50M initial AUM
Four days ago, Cow DAO introduced a proposal seeking $34M to cover legal expenses. Meanwhile, Aave Labs announced it will integrate CoW Protocol’s MEV-protected solver network into all Aave[.]com swaps and debut the first intent-based flash-loan product
Chainlink Runtime Environment (CRE) now supports x402 payments
Centrifuge tokenized $1.3 billion in 2025
USPD, a permissionless stablecoin protocol, disclosed that it was hit by an exploit. The attacker used CPIMP (proxy intermediate hidden proxy) attack technique to seize the proxy contract admin rights during the deployment phase, disguised and waited for 80 days before executing the attack, hacking 232 stETH and 300k USDC
Linea set deadline to claim airdrop for Dec 9, 2025 at 23:59:59 UTC
AI agent, Bankr celebrate 1 year
Celo partner with Opera to accelerate growth of Opera’s stablecoin card, MiniPay
Maple’s syrupUSDT went live on Aave
Dragonfly head of data, Hildobby noted 95% of Ethereum dex trade skip the public mempool
Lighter introduced Spot trading debuting with ETH transfer and plans to expand into other markets
Base officially launched bridge to Solana powered by Chainlink
Vitalik advocates prediction markets for gas fees
The zkSync Interop solution is basically what everyone's been waiting for with L2s. Being able to tap into Ethereum L1 liquidity without dealing with those slow ass bridges or having your liquidity scattered across chains is huge. The Aave example is perfect because it shows why this matters for actual users, not just devs. Finally fixing the fragmentation problem that's been making L2s feel isolated.