Weekly Blockchain Industry Update Highlights Major Upgrades and Trends

The weekly blockchain update is now available, providing a comprehensive overview of recent industry developments. Highlights include Solana's SIMD‑0256 upgrade offering 20% more computational power and approximately 1,700 transactions per second, with plans for SIMD‑0286 targeting 100 million CUs. Ethereum has increased its gas limit to 45 million, while the Fusaka fork aims for 150 million, and EIP‑7983 caps individual transactions at 16.77 million gas. Jito Solana introduces BAM, an off-chain MEV-resistant block builder supporting custom logic. Sui has launched gRPC beta on Full Nodes, with JSON-RPC to be phased out. EigenLabs enables multi-chain verification on Base Sepolia through EigenLayer. Sei has integrated native USDC and CCTP V2 for seamless cross-chain transfers. Sonic has launched Spark, an AI-powered, no-code Web3 builder for smart contracts and front-end development. The industry has seen a loss of $3.1 billion in crypto in 2025 so far, dominated by access-control exploits and a 1,025% increase in AI hacks. NFTs are experiencing a resurgence with over $190 million in volume and Ethereum's volume increasing by 600% over three weeks.