Ethereum News for Oct 17, 2025

Ft Tempo, Brevis zk, Starknet, Alpenlabs, Babylon, Syndicate

Ethereum Researcher Dankrad Feist will be joining Tempo, payments L1

Brevis zk had a remarkable zk breakthrough proving 99.6% of ETH blocks under 12 seconds

Starknet announced collaboration with Alpenlabs to build BTC-Defi trust minimized bridge

Babylon to launch proof-of-concept enabling trustless native BTC lending on Ethereum mainnet

Syndicate becomes first DAO to publish financial quarterly reports under US law