What Happened in Crypto Last Week? ➜ Brevis launched its “Pico Prism” zkVM, proving ~99.6 % of Ethereum blocks in under 12 seconds. ➜ Bhutan began anchoring its national digital ID on Ethereum, becoming the first nation to do so. ➜ Ethereum confirmed as the top ecosystem for new developers in 2025, per Electric Capital data. ➜ CME Group launched futures options for Solana (SOL) and XRP. ➜ Ripple Labs announced plans to raise ~$1 billion for an XRP Digital Asset Treasury. ➜ Jito Labs (Solana ecosystem) raised $50 million from Andreessen Horowitz for MEV and liquid staking. ➜ Hyperliquid unveiled “HIP-3”, enabling permissionless perpetual markets with up to 10× leverage. ➜ Ant Group (parent of Alipay) launched an Ethereum L2 payment protocol for large-scale payments. ➜ China Merchants Bank tokenized a ~US$3.8 billion money-market fund on the BNB Chain. ➜ Monad Labs launched its MON token airdrop, distributing to over 230,000 wallets across the community. ➜ Changpeng Zhao (CZ) and CJ Hetherington (Limitless Labs) clashed publicly over listing demands.