Ethereum News. Nov 19, 2025
Ethereum Foundation proposed Ethereum Interop Layer to unify L2s into a single-chain experience using ERC-4337, enabling users to sign once for cross-chain actions with automatic routing and settlement.
Revolut integrated Polygon PoS for 14 million users across 38 countries, enabling low-cost USDC/USDT transfers, crypto card payments, and POL staking with gas-free transactions.
Aave launched a mobile savings app offering up to 9% APY with real-time compounding, $1M balance protection, and instant withdrawals, now available on iOS.
Infura’s Decentralized Infrastructure Network launched the first large-scale decentralized RPC marketplace on EigenLayer, secured by Ethereum restaking with slashing mechanisms across 30+ networks.
ENS is migrating Namechain from Linea to Nethermind’s Surge based rollup framework, launching as Stage 1 from day one with cross-chain latency reduced from hours to seconds.
Uniswap’s UNIfication proposal for fee switch and UNI token burn is live for temperature check voting until November 22, with plans to eliminate front-end fees.
Succinct’s SP1 Hypercube zkVM can prove 99.7% of Ethereum blocks in under 12 seconds using 16 NVIDIA RTX 5090 GPUs, advancing Ethereum’s zkEVM endgame.
MegaETH announced Frontier mainnet beta launching early December 2025 for one month, showcasing real-time performance with Ethereum security and forced inclusion support.
Ethereum privacy startup 0xbow raised $3.5M led by Starbloom Capital for Privacy Pools, Vitalik Buterin’s co-authored protocol enabling compliant fund anonymization.
Grail ENS marketplace went live, on mainnet with zero fees, aggregating Grails and OpenSea markets in one interface, offering bulk renewal tools, early adopter POAPs through year-end, and full ENS profile integration.
Ethrex client achieved 228 MGas/s on Ethereum mainnet at Devconnect, reaching 91% of Reth’s performance (249 MGas/s) and positioning itself as a leading Rust SDK for Ethereum development, trailing only Nethermind’s 330 MGas/s.
EthPandaOps launched The Lab, an Ethereum network performance visualization platform built on Xatu with redesigned interface, featuring node analysis, validator performance tracking, and automated data pipelines that will open-source 40+ lookup tables for transparent network monitoring.
Everclear launched Crosschain Asset Settlement, enabling instant rebalancing between similar assets (USDC⇄USDT, WETH⇄mETH, wBTC⇄cbBTC) across Base, Optimism, Arbitrum, Unichain, and Ethereum, functioning as a cross-chain Curve for institutional flows.
Obex raised $37 million led by Framework Ventures, LayerZero, and Sky ecosystem to incubate yield-generating stablecoins backed by real-world assets including tokenized GPU compute credits, municipal-scale energy infrastructure, and fintech loans with institutional-grade risk controls.
