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Ethereum core upgrades progress and new tooling emerges
Ethereum’s upgrade process remains deliberate, but recent advances bypass hard forks, including Solar—a Rust‑built Solidity compiler reducing deployment costs by ~26%, Rollup X’s testnet enabling cross‑chain composability, and the Fast Confirmation Rule beta allowing near‑instant block confirmation. Additionally, crypto markets reacted to the U.S. election with Bitcoin stabilizing around $80K and ETH up ~4%, Zcash community adjusted its grant allocation, and Circle reported Q3 revenue up 17% to $865M while cutting staff by ~5%.