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Atlas upgrade delivers a massive 15x-plus theoretical TPS increase, re-establishing ZKsync's competitive position in the Layer 2 race.

A sleek, metallic hardware wallet or secure element displays glowing blue digital data, representing cryptographic operations. The device features a prominent U-shaped frame with an integrated button, suggesting biometric authentication or transaction confirmation. Its robust design implies tamper-proof cold storage for private keys and seed phrases, essential for decentralized ledger security. This advanced module facilitates secure digital asset management and immutable record keeping, crucial for blockchain integrity and distributed consensus.

→Zero Message Overhead

→Mempool Encryption

→Verifiable Delay Function Alternative

Decentralized Key Reveal Protocol Mitigates Front-Running with Minimal Latency

A new architecture for transaction encryption, F3B, uses a decentralized secret-management committee to reveal keys post-finality, eliminating front-running without high latency.

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→Sub-Second Finality

→Block Commitment

→Fast Commit Path

Uncertified DAG Consensus Protocol Achieves Optimal Three-Round Latency

Mysticeti-C is the first DAG-based Byzantine consensus protocol to reach the theoretical lower bound of three message rounds, enabling sub-second finality.

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→Finality Gadget

→Scalable Consensus

→Protocol Liveness

Constant Latency BFT Achieved on Dynamically Available Directed Acyclic Graphs

New DAG-based BFT protocol guarantees constant finality time despite validators frequently sleeping, solving a core dynamic availability problem.

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→Ledger Notarization

→Cross-Border Payments

→Autonomous Finance

Paystand Acquires Bitwage for Global Autonomous Stablecoin Finance Network

The acquisition integrates stablecoin settlement into B2B Accounts Receivable and Payable, delivering instant global payments and on-chain treasury management to optimize capital efficiency.

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→Digital Economy Integration

→Operational Resilience

→T+0 Settlement

European Central Bank Unveils DLT Plan to Modernize Euro Securities Settlement

The ECB's two-track DLT strategy for T2S and Pontes establishes a foundational, resilient settlement layer for the digital Eurozone economy.

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→Threshold Signature

→Non-Interactive Signature

→Two-Round Finality

Ultra-Fast Asynchronous Consensus Achieves Optimal Resilience and Two-Round Finality

A new leaderless BFT protocol achieves optimal $n geq 3t+1$ resilience and two-round finality by concurrently processing transactions with a novel threshold signature scheme.

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→Operational Efficiency

→Institutional Adoption

→Card Network

Mastercard, Gemini, WebBank Pilot Stablecoin Settlement on XRP Ledger

Integrating a regulated stablecoin on the XRP Ledger accelerates card transaction settlement from days to seconds, radically improving working capital efficiency for issuers and merchants.

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→Transaction Finality

→Cryptographic Proof

→Proof Generation

Two-Step Algorithm Decentralizes ZK-Rollup Proving, Securing Finality and Incentives

A new two-step submission algorithm for zero-knowledge proofs fundamentally decentralizes the ZK-Rollup prover role, eliminating single-node failure risk and distributing economic rewards.

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→Interbank Settlement

→Correspondent Banking

→Trade Finance Automation

Brazil and Hong Kong Central Banks Complete Cross-Chain Trade Settlement Pilot

The DvP/PvP solution leverages CCIP for atomic, cross-chain settlement, dramatically lowering counterparty risk and unlocking SME global market access.