Monad is gearing up for one of the most anticipated token launches of the year. The Layer-1 blockchain project has opened its MON airdrop portal, inviting eligible users to verify eligibility and connect wallets until Nov. 3, 2025. 5,500 core community members and 225,000 broader crypto users will be rewarded.

Ethereum developers launched the second test of the upcoming Fusaka upgrade on the Sepolia network, moving closer to the mainnet debut. Fusaka aims to lower costs for institutions using the network with features like PeerDAS, allowing validators to verify only portions of data to reduce bandwidth demands and cut costs.

Monero has released an upgrade, Fluorine Fermi, to strengthen user protection against spy nodes. Monero relies on a decentralized P2P network where privacy is ensured through unique stealth addresses, ring signatures, and Ring Confidential Transactions. The update implements an improved peer selection algorithm to reduce connections to spy nodes.

The Ethereum Foundation has expanded research into privacy, establishing a dedicated cluster covering private payments, proofs, identity, and enterprise use cases. The cluster includes experiments like Semaphore, MACI, zkEmail, and zkTLS, aiming to make strong cryptography usable by default for developers and users.

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