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Mantle's latest release, the "Report Card" for 2025, marks a pivotal year in its comprehensive transformation from a high-performance Layer-2 network to an on-chain financial ecosystem.Ecosystem Milestones:Ranked in the top 30 on CoinMarketCap and CoinGeckoTreasury assets exceeded $7.9 billionTVL surpassed $2.2 billionStablecoin supply exceeded $750 millionGlobal community members surpassed 1 millionOver 200 ecosystem partners and dAppsCore Infrastructure Upgrades:EigenLayer Integration: the first and largest L2 collaborating with EigenLayerOP-Succinct: the first OP Stack L2 adopting ZK Validity Rollup, becoming the largest ZK rollup by TVLMantle's strategic development trends for 2025 are gaining momentum:In August, Mantle's deep integration with Bybit covers spot trading, institutional business, and Bybit VIP, reshaping the application scenarios of MNT and providing comprehensive services for retail and professional investors.In October, a full pivot to the RWA track was made, achieving significant collaborations with institutions such as Anchorage, Aave, Ethena, Agora, and Securitize. Mantle's position as an institutional-grade distribution layer is increasingly solidified, bridging traditional finance and on-chain liquidity at various levels.

According to Decrypt, Robinhood has announced the launch of a series of cryptocurrency features and services aimed at becoming a global digital financial platform.The company will introduce staking services for ETH and SOL, initially launching in New York and planning to expand nationwide after obtaining regulatory approval. The new services also include a tiered fee structure for high-net-worth U.S. traders, enhanced cryptocurrency trading APIs, and cost basis tracking features to simplify tax reporting. In the European market, Robinhood has added perpetual futures contracts for tokens such as XRP, Dogecoin, and SUI, offering up to 7x leverage, following the earlier launch of perpetual futures for BTC and ETH.Additionally, European users will be able to trade over 1,000 tokenized U.S. stocks and money market funds. The company also announced its Layer-2 scaling network project, officially named Robinhood Chain.

ChainCatcher news, according to Decrypt, the Ethereum Layer-2 network Linea announced the issuance of the LINEA token and the establishment of the Linea Alliance, composed of companies such as SharpLink Gaming and ENS Labs, responsible for 75% of the token distribution. The network plans to use 20% of the transaction fees to burn ETH and 80% to burn LINEA, creating a deflationary mechanism.

ChainCatcher news, according to official sources, Ajna Capital has included SuperSol in its growing next-generation blockchain portfolio.It is reported that SuperSol is a native Layer-2 solution built specifically for the Solana blockchain and is one of several strategic projects supported by Ajna Capital, aimed at driving scalable on-chain growth for Solana.

ChainCatcher news, according to The Block, Kraken's Ethereum Layer-2 scaling solution Ink will enable a permissionless fraud proof mechanism this Thursday, marking an important technological advancement in its rapid development.Ink becomes the first superchain network to launch a multi-"challenger" mechanism after testing on the Optimism mainnet, initially operated by the automated protocol Gelato and Kraken running the challenger system. Fraud proofs are a crucial feature of Optimistic Rollups, allowing users to challenge the validity of transactions and correct erroneous states.The initial challenger fund for Ink is provided by Kraken with 49 ETH (approximately $156,000), and users can also participate in challenges by staking ETH, thereby promoting on-chain decentralization.

ChainCatcher news, Starknet announced a new record for transaction speed in the Ethereum Layer-2 network, with a maximum transaction rate (TPS) of 127.5 within 24 hours, and a peak reaching 857 TPS, far exceeding the previous record of 79.92 TPS set by Coinbase's Layer 2 Base.This test was jointly conducted by StarkWare, game development company Cartridge, and the Starknet Foundation, simulating large-scale user scenarios. The test game was "flippyflop," where players compete against robots, flipping tiles on a grid to generate a large number of high-frequency simple transactions, validating Starknet's scalability and TPS limits.

ChainCatcher news, according to Cointelegraph, Bitcoin mining company Marathon Digital stated at the Bitcoin 2024 conference that cross-border Bitcoin payments are its primary development goal. Julian Duran, head of Marathon's sidechain products, revealed that the company is seeking to collaborate with blockchain developers to build Bitcoin Layer-2 solutions to accelerate cross-border BTC payments. He pointed out that in emerging markets, the average cost of cross-border remittances is 8% to 10% of the transaction amount, and settlement times typically take three to four days, while Bitcoin transactions usually settle within 10 minutes, and Layer-2 solutions can be even faster.In addition, Duran emphasized that the success of any payment solution requires strict compliance with regulatory requirements, although this may increase costs. In emerging markets, regulatory approvals are often faster and cheaper, as local governments and regulatory bodies seek better cross-border payment solutions. Besides payments, Marathon is also focusing on tokenization plans for real assets, including tokenizing whiskey barrels in the U.S. and collaborating with a platform to protect French châteaux.Currently, Marathon is one of the largest Bitcoin company holders, holding approximately 20,000 Bitcoins, valued at over $1 billion, and purchased about $100 million worth of Bitcoin just in July.

ChainCatcher news, according to Cointelegraph, Van Eck's senior digital asset investment analyst Patrick Bush and digital asset research director Matthew Sigel stated in a report that the Ethereum Layer-2 scaling network will reach a market value of $1 trillion within six years and will consist of thousands of use-case-specific chains.Bush and Sigel arrived at the $1 trillion market value prediction by estimating that Ethereum will capture 60% of the market share of all public blockchains, and then estimating the amount of assets within the Ethereum ecosystem.The analysts stated that future L2s on the underlying Ethereum network could generate "significant" revenue. "We expect L2 revenue to exceed that of Ethereum, as Ethereum cannot match the transaction throughput or user experience of L2."

ChainCatcher news, Layer-1 blockchain platform Fuse Network will collaborate with Polygon Labs to utilize the capabilities of the Polygon Chain Development Kit (CDK) to create an Ethereum ZK-based Layer-2 network. This ZK-driven Layer-2 network will become Fuse's new native platform, providing users and developers with access to a renowned blockchain ecosystem.It is reported that Fuse Network is a leading Layer-1 blockchain platform that offers user-centric blockchain solutions, dedicated to expanding Web3 payments. The Polygon CDK employs cutting-edge blockchain technology, capable of providing privacy options such as zero-knowledge (ZK) technology and zero-knowledge proofs (ZKP), as well as support for the Web3 ecosystem, enabling developers to create custom Ethereum Layer-2 solutions.