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<p>Ethereum has just wrapped up one of its most active months to date, delivering 29 launches, upgrades, and ecosystem milestones in a single stretch.</p>
<p>The cycle began with the Fusaka upgrade on December 3rd, introducing 13 new EIPs that improved blob capacity, enhanced user experience, and activated data-availability sampling. With these changes now live, Ethereum’s path toward future L1 scaling looks increasingly secure and ambitious.</p>
<h2 id="a-wave-of-upgrades-strengthens-ethereum-s-technical-foundation">A Wave of Upgrades Strengthens Ethereum’s Technical Foundation</h2>
<p>The <strong><a href="https://www.ethnews.com/ethereums-fusaka-upgrade-is-live-everything-you-need-to-know/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Fusaka upgrade</a></strong> set the tone for a month defined by rapid technical progress. Aave unveiled its redesigned Aave App, offering a cleaner interface and simpler entry points into DeFi. Devconnect in Buenos Aires then became the largest gathering in Ethereum’s history, attracting over 20,000 registrants and showcasing more than 75 project demos in what many described as the network’s first “World’s Fair.”</p>
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 <p>Here are 29 things the Ethereum ecosystem launched, upgraded, and announced over the past month.</p>
 <p>0/ Fusaka, Ethereum’s latest upgrade, went live on December 3rd. Fusaka included 13 Ethereum Improvement Proposals (EIPs) that boost blob capacity, improve…</p>
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<p>Real-world finance continued integrating with Ethereum when Amundi, Europe’s largest asset manager, launched the first tokenized share class of an existing euro-denominated money market fund directly onchain. Meanwhile, Disney entered the ecosystem through Cryptoys via Abstract, bringing globally recognized cultural IP into Ethereum’s digital economy.</p>
<p>Institutional momentum grew further as JPMorgan’s USD deposit token, JPMD, went live on Base, demonstrating how traditional finance is beginning to settle transactions on public infrastructure. The AI-native Eliza EcoFund migrated its ELIZAOS token to Ethereum, selecting it as the preferred base layer for AI-agent development. And looking ahead, the Ethereum Foundation confirmed that Devcon 2026 will be held in Mumbai, signaling deeper engagement with India’s massive developer community.</p>
<h2 id="policy-privacy-and-rollup-advancements-drive-network-maturity">Policy, Privacy, and Rollup Advancements Drive Network Maturity</h2>
<p>The policy landscape evolved as major protocols, including Aave, Aragon, Curve, Lido, Spark, The Graph, and Uniswap, formed the Ethereum Protocol Advocacy Alliance. Their coordinated mission is to defend Ethereum’s neutrality and ensure global regulation supports permissionless innovation rather than restricting it.</p>
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<p>Privacy and rollup infrastructure also advanced significantly. Starknet activated S-two, a high-speed prover now securing every block, strengthening Ethereum’s ZK-rollup future. Aztec introduced Ignition, a decentralized Layer-2 consensus system that unlocks private, programmable onchain activity. The Ethereum Foundation further expanded the network’s vision by announcing the Ethereum Interop Layer, an effort to make Ethereum’s multi-rollup ecosystem feel like one unified chain without adding new trust assumptions.</p>
<p>New stablecoin tooling arrived as USX Capital launched a privacy-preserving stablecoin on Scroll and LayerZero, offering gasless private transfers. Aplus followed with a turnkey solution that allows banks to issue GENIUS-compliant stablecoins, enabling smaller financial institutions to compete with larger issuers. Nillion expanded its Blind Computer infrastructure to Ethereum, providing decentralized computation without exposing underlying data, a crucial capability as Ethereum becomes a settlement hub for many chains.</p>
<h2 id="user-adoption-accelerates-across-emerging-markets-and-consumer-apps">User Adoption Accelerates Across Emerging Markets and Consumer Apps</h2>
<p>Emerging-market adoption continued to rise with the release of the Startale App for the Soneium network, which already handles more than 10 million weekly transactions. Argentina saw the launch of wARS, a peso-pegged stablecoin deployed on Ethereum, Base, and World Chain, enabling faster value transfer for local users.</p>
<p>Liquidity infrastructure improved as 1inch launched Aqua to defragment liquidity for market makers. Privacy-focused trading expanded when Renegade went live on Arbitrum, offering dark-pool-style execution without MEV or slippage.</p>
<p>Tokenization gained momentum once again as Robinhood’s EU platform tokenized nearly 1,000 stocks on Arbitrum, blending equities with onchain settlement. Japan’s largest idol and fashion festival also moved onchain through the IRC App, powered by Record Protocol on Soneium.</p>
<p>Ethereum’s scalability reached a new peak during the month as the network hit more than 34,000 transactions per second, demonstrating that rollups are now delivering real-world, production-level throughput.</p>
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<h2 id="new-tools-data-layers-and-user-protections-strengthen-the-ecosystem">New Tools, Data Layers, and User Protections Strengthen the Ecosystem</h2>
<p>User-oriented infrastructure rounded out the record-setting month. Shared launched a social transaction app that rewards users for activity on Base and Ethereum. Eigencloud introduced EigenZero with LayerZero, powered by a decentralized verifier network. Celo and ENS rolled out Celonames, simplifying onchain identity with human-readable naming.</p>
<p>Uniswap introduced Continuous Clearing Auctions, a system designed for fair and permissionless token launches with automated liquidity bootstrapping. Spire Labs released Full Send, a free RPC with MEV protection that shields users from hidden costs. The Graph expanded developer tooling with Amp, a blockchain-native database improving smart-contract data access. And DeFi Llama shipped LlamaAI, enabling intuitive, prompt-based onchain analytics.</p>
<p>Together, these developments paint a clear picture: Ethereum is not only expanding but accelerating across every dimension, from scalability and institutional adoption to privacy, culture, AI, and global finance. The pace of progress signals a network preparing for its next major era of growth.</p>
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