Ethereum Ecosystem Monthly Summary: Multiple Releases and Upgrades Rolled Out, Covering Scalability, Privacy, Payments, and Institutional Applications

Odaily Planet Daily News Ethereum has released its monthly ecosystem summary, detailing the rollout of multiple releases and upgrades spanning areas such as L2 scaling, privacy payments, institutional finance, development tools, and governance infrastructure:

1. In scalability and infrastructure, Ronin Network has completed its migration to an Ethereum L2; the Arbitrum Foundation announced that LG Electronics' blockchain team is piloting on-chain advertising on its network; Base has launched its first independent upgrade, "Azul," reportedly boosting performance to approximately 5,000 TPS and introducing several execution and consensus improvements.

2. In payments and finance, Mastercard has expanded its stablecoin settlement support to include assets such as USDC and PYUSD, enabling settlements on the Ethereum mainnet and L2 networks; Cash App has launched USDC functionality, allowing nearly 60 million users to directly send and receive on-chain; JPMorgan Chase has launched its second tokenized money market fund on Ethereum.

3. In privacy and security, the Clear Signing standard has officially gone live, aimed at addressing the "blind signing" issue; SEAL 911 and Wonderland have jointly introduced the DARC risk and compliance standard.

4. In development and tools, the stable release of Hardhat v3 supports Solidity testing and multi-chain development; the ENS ecosystem has launched ENS8004, transforming domain names into verifiable on-chain AI agents.

5. Several experimental and ecosystem projects are progressing simultaneously, including the LIFI Intents execution framework and Aragon's on-chain governance datafication.