Latest blockchain news: November 2025

As we do every month, this November we bring you the most relevant updates from your favorite ecosystems in our monthly blockchain report. Plus, we share our latest updates as a validator and everything we’re doing to contribute to the ecosystems beyond just validating. Don’t miss out!

We’re thrilled to share that Lido has chosen us as one of the five validators in the Extra Effort Tier within their Curated Module. This recognition marks an important milestone for us and reaffirms the trust Lido has placed in our work. It’s a big motivator to keep building and contributing to the ecosystem.

We’ve joined their validator set because we believe in this L1 focused on programmable IPs. Story offers a settlement layer for registering, licensing, and monetizing intellectual property on-chain, bridging blockchain with AI applications. Support the network by staking IP!

Following the approval of proposal #60 “Active Validator Set Reduction,” Stakely is no longer part of Initia’s active validator set. If you were staking with us, please redelegate as soon as possible.

You can now request MON (Monad), IP (Story Protocol), and AVAIL (Avail) from our Multicoin Faucet quickly, easily, and with no registration required. Forget running out of gas and keep building without interruption!

With our Nodes-as-a-Service tool, you’ve already been able to deploy high-performance RPC nodes, and now you can also deploy validator nodes. Learn how to do it.

Aleo launches Stack v4.3.0 with on-chain Keccak+ECDSA verification and 5x faster node sync.

Aleo publishes the Stablecoin Privacy Gap Report warning that only 0.0013% of $1.22B moved on-chain was private — a critical privacy gap for stablecoins.

Algoland rewards on-chain activity: Week 10 includes a 1000 ALGO bonus raffle. Connect your wallet, complete missions, and invite friends to join!

Over $200,000 has been spent using the Pera Wallet card on Algorand, now available in 12 countries with real-time settlement and low fees. Learn how to stake ALGO with Pera Wallet.

Algorand partners with Noah to bring global on-chain banking, and with Coinify for payments and USDC settlements across 60,000+ merchants.

New launches in the ecosystem: Liquid Auth, a self-custodied passkey manager, and TypeScript 1.0 for secure native dApp development with Algokit.

Aptos introduces Transaction Simulation Sessions, enabling faster and more secure transaction testing using the Move model.

New multichain access on Aptos: lets users log in from Solana and Ethereum without new wallets, seed phrases, or bridges.

Aptos announces the Assembly Program, an accelerator with mentorship, Demo Day, and grants of up to $50,000 to support new product development.

Avalanche Granite upgrade is now live on mainnet, aimed at improving network performance, reducing transaction times and costs, and adding biometric support.

Avalanche C-Chain records its best month of the year in November with 10.1 million monthly active addresses, according to Token Relations.

Hack2Build: Payments x402 announces its partners — Kite AI, Youmio, Thirdweb, and Turf — to empower developers with top-tier AI, infrastructure, and tools.

Avalanche supports developers: the Avalanche x Helika Game Accelerator kicks off with up to $250,000 in funding and mentorship, while InfraBUIDL backs infrastructure and AI projects on the network.

Avalanche welcomes the launch of the ‘Digital Liquidity Gateway’ by FIS and Intain Markets: a tokenized loan marketplace for over 20,000 financial institutions.

Avail activates Nexus on mainnet, a coordination layer that connects apps, users, and liquidity into a single ecosystem — moving toward a unified on-chain economy. It launched with 23 integrated apps on day one, allowing users to spend assets across more than 13 ecosystems without bridges or swaps.

Public sale of the AZTEC token is now open: the community had already registered 13,500 bids, 16,000 signups, and 12,500 ETH committed before launch.

Celo confirms its Jello hard fork for December 10, bringing OP Succinct Lite to mainnet and becoming the first network to use zero-knowledge (ZK) proofs to enhance sequencer security.

Celonames allows users to claim on-chain names for less than one cent with ZK verification; and ZK Awakening with OP Succinct Lite, zkPoH, and Nightfall launches as a Layer 3 for private payments developed by EY.

The Matcha upgrade is now live on mainnet: it reduces inflation, enables asset bridges from any network, and supports block sizes up to 128 MB.

Celestia is now supported on Gateway Apps: teams can use modular blockspace, publish NMT blobs, and verify on Ethereum without running their own DA infrastructure.

Milestone in agent-based commerce: X402 partners with Concordium to enable autonomous regulated transactions, automatic stablecoin payments, access to regulated products, and jurisdiction-sensitive services — all through a single wallet flow.

Covalent launches the Prompt Alchemist Program for SpeedRun: 80 developers will gain exclusive access to opportunities, collaborate with the team, and take part in the rise of the Internet Capital Market.

gSpeed celebrates creation and closes November by celebrating Thanksgiving and Black Friday with a themed app contest — 1000 XP for the top 3 developers.

Ethereum keeps December 3 as the launch date for Fusaka on mainnet, despite a bug in Prysm. Developers are finalizing the latest versions and have named the next forks Heka and Bogo.

Lido DAO proposes an automated LDO buyback system, using a Uniswap v2-style pool to withdraw tokens and strengthen on-chain liquidity. It would only activate if ETH exceeds $3,000 and annual revenue surpasses $40M, with a possible start in 2026.

Ethereum introduces EIP-8079 for “native rollups”, simplifying block verification while maintaining L1 alignment.

Privacy Pools now allows deposits from 0.01 ETH, accelerating private transfers on Ethereum using ZK proofs.

ETHDenver 2026 registration is now open: sign up to get your free ticket for the world’s biggest BUIDL festival.

SSV celebrates 280% growth over the past year: from 33,000 to over 125,000 validators — driven by client diversity and decentralization.

Our key ecosystem contributions this month:

• We contributed to Commit-Boost: it’s now possible to select any Lido Finance module, with additional support for CSM and Simple DVT.
• We expanded consensus client testing for Ethereum on Hoodi, providing direct feedback on minority and newer clients.

Monad’s mainnet is now live, and we at Stakely have supported it throughout the process. Support the network by staking MON.

Namada prepares update v201.0.7 after identifying the cause of occasional node halts, linked to RocksDB processes.

New official domains are now active: app.namada.net, namadillo.app, and namada.world are the main access points.

After the approval of proposal 36, Namada disables inflation for all shielded pool assets except USDC, considering its initial purpose fulfilled.

NEAR completes its halving on mainnet, reducing annual inflation from 5% to 2.5% and entering a new phase of sustainable tokenomics and better-aligned incentives.

Last weeks to get NPRO before its December 15 launch on NEAR Protocol, with pools on Rhea Finance and NEAR Intents.

Latest updates from NEAR Intents:

• A new program to boost NEAR Intents invites experts from other ecosystems to join as “targeting specialists” and help drive its growth.
• NEAR Intents is now integrated with Ledger Wallet via SwapKit, enabling simple and secure swaps directly from Ledger.
• New milestones reached: $6B total volume, $3.5B monthly, and 10M swaps completed.

Osmosis ranks among the top 10 DEXes by code commits, thanks to a year of DeFi product development, according to Token Terminal.

Record monthly OSMO burn: 70% of taker fees are automatically burned, surpassing emissions by at least 2x in the past 30 days — around 10 million OSMO burned so far.

Osmosis surpasses $43B in trading volume and $22M in total protocol revenue, reinforcing benefits for stakers and community pool growth.

Persistence token type migration from 750 to 118 closes on December 31 — complete the process to maintain uninterrupted support.

Polkadot completes the largest unification in its history: 1.6B DOT migrated to Asset Hub, integrating balances, staking, and governance. UX improves, fees drop, and the path to JAM becomes clearer.

The Web3 Foundation launches ELVES, a protocol that reduces computational demands and balances security, decentralization, and scalability — explained by Chen-Da in this video.

Secret Network introduces SecretVM Key Management (KMS) on-chain: a secure system for managing private keys within confidential virtual machines, using cryptographic attestation to ensure complete privacy.

Secret Network runs Solidity-LLM inside SecretVM for the first time, enabling developers to generate, optimize, and audit smart contracts without exposing proprietary code or logic.

Shentu Chain and OpenMath launch Theorem, the first global on-chain formal verification competition. It kicks off with challenges on “Transitivity of Equality” and “Sum of Four Squares,” offering 20 and 200 CTK as prizes.

Solana makes strides in traditional markets: the Bitwise Solana Staking ETF (BSOL) debuts with over $500M in 18 days; Canary and Marinade launch SOLC, offering exposure to the token and its yield.

Solana keeps pushing innovation forward: the x402 hackathon closes with over 402 proposals, and applications for Incubator Cohort 4 in New York are open until December 19.

Solana’s DePIN ecosystem surpasses $2M in on-chain revenue, with Helium up 787% in 2025 and Hivemapper reaching new highs due to compute demand.

Solana integrates with MetaMask Card, enabling users to spend USDC and USDT via Mastercard — paving the way for cross-chain crypto payments.

Somnia Foundation successfully completes SOMI distribution: over 95,000 contributors rewarded for supporting network development.

Public audit passed with no critical issues, reinforcing the network’s commitment to secure infrastructure for users and businesses.

New Data Streams system, delivering real-time data to eliminate DeFi lag and helping users act faster than liquidators to avoid losses.

Somnia fuels innovation: kicks off its 90-day SLP Program with 1M SOMI in rewards and launches Dreamathon projects competing for $200,000 in funding with community backing.

Mainnet update 2.1.2 completed successfully, introducing Pectra compatibility and several network improvements.

Sonic activates a security mechanism as a precaution after detecting suspicious activity tied to a potential exploit in Beets Fi — freezing two wallets while investigating with the protocol team.

Starknet reaches 1 billion STRK in staking just one year after launch, and we at Stakely are proud to have been part of it from the beginning. Stake STRK with Stakely.

Zypherpunk Hackathon track prize pool increased to $35,000, with up to $1,000 extra offered for each referred team that finishes in the Top 3.

Starknet expands institutional staking through a partnership with Anchorage Digital, enabling Bitcoin and STRK staking with secure custody for institutional clients.

Story publishes its data on Dune: real-time network analytics and customizable dashboards are now available for the ecosystem.

Story launches Confidential Data Rails, a system enabling secure encrypted data flows in the IP economy — unlocking use cases in AI, dataset marketplaces, DeFi, and more.

Story teams up with Worldcoin, DSRV Labs, and 0xShardLab to co-host the K-Builders meetup in Seoul, highlighting top developers, founders, and investors in the city.

Sui Foundation introduces Seal, Mysticeti v2, and USDsui: programmable access, an optimized consensus engine, and a new native stablecoin for payments and DeFi.

Sui enters new ETFs by 21Shares, including the FTSE Crypto 10 and FTSE Crypto 10 ex-BTC, giving U.S. investors diversified exposure to major crypto assets.

Governance on Sui rewards its voters: over 7.6M NS tokens are distributed as boosted stake among 95,000 participants from the last five SuiNS proposals.

Would you like to see SUI added to our Load Balancer? Share your thoughts in the Sui forum.

Union releases its Private Bridging whitepaper: outlining key advances to enable confidential and auditable cross-chain transfers.

BTCfi rewards are officially distributed: participants received eBABY and eU according to their activity in the program.

Visual identity revamped: new branding, iconography, and a Y2K/F1-inspired aesthetic to support Union’s growth in ZK.

Union unveils the Z-Asset standard: ERC-compatible tokens that enable transparent or private cross-chain transfers using zero-knowledge proofs — no wrappers or synthetic bridges, while preserving full fungibility and contract uniqueness across supported chains.

Blobmaxxing record set: OpenGradient stores over 1.1 TB on Walrus.

Walrus opens applications to build a decentralized events platform to replace Eventbrite or Luma. Apply here!

Haulout closes applications and enters the evaluation phase, with results expected by December 18 as teams refine improvements in DeepSurge.

Other updates 👇

We’re heading to the United Arab Emirates to join founders, developers, and creators from around the world at Solana Breakpoint — the event that brings the Solana ecosystem together to explore the latest innovations, tools, and Web3 trends. If you’re attending, drop us a message and let’s meet up!

We’re closing this monthly report by letting you know that we’ve added Avalanche, Starknet, Aztec, Union, Story, Algorand, Secret, Covalent, Concordium, Shentu, Avail, and Celo to our weekly summaries.

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