Reading emails in the morning: Monad upgrade: -Launching a new consensus mechanism Cadence, becoming a multi proposer blockchain; -By combining Cadence with BTX encrypted memory pool scheme, MEV resistance will be achieved; -Implement block generation time of 100 milliseconds and finality of 200 milliseconds; -These upgrades are expected to go live by the end of the year; BNB Chain is launching a new Layer 1: -Build a brand new Layer 1 specifically designed for agentic trading; -The goal is to achieve pre confirmation of transactions in less than 50 milliseconds; -Designed TxStream functionality to remove public mempools and route transactions directly to block leaders, who rotate every 200 milliseconds, making MEV theoretically impractical; -The test network is scheduled to be launched by the end of 2026, and the main network is planned to be launched in early 2027. -This is the fourth chain in the BNB Chain stack (the other three are BSC, opBNB, and Greenfield) Additionally—— Zapper is gone The once popular DeFi portfolio tracking and execution tool Zapper will be completely shut down on August 3rd, including websites, apps, and API services. Goodbye, friend of 7 years. AscendEX is closed AscendEX (formerly known as BitMax) has officially announced the cessation of operations and automatic withdrawals. All withdrawals have now been manually reviewed. Indeed, rolling forward.