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Cointime·2025/11/01 16:12
DEX volume hits all-time high in October as traders reposition funds
DEX volume hits all-time high in October as traders reposition funds

Quick Take Decentralized exchange trading volume soared to a record $613.3 billion in October, up from around $500 billion in September, according to DefiLlama data. The crypto market experienced a downturn last month, with bitcoin sliding to a low of around $104,600 on Oct. 17.

The Block·2025/11/01 16:00
The Funding: Crypto VCs discuss the next phase of DATs amid rising buybacks
The Funding: Crypto VCs discuss the next phase of DATs amid rising buybacks

Quick Take This is an excerpt from the 38th edition of The Funding sent to our subscribers on Nov. 2. The Funding is a fortnightly newsletter written by Yogita Khatri, The Block’s longest-serving editorial member. To subscribe to the free newsletter, click here.

The Block·2025/11/01 16:00
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Social media company Snap announced the launch of AR augmented reality glasses, priced at $2,195. This is nearly 16 times higher than the company's previous camera-enabled glasses released in 2016, which were priced at only $130.
According to the introduction, wearing these glasses allows users to view navigation information while walking, measure spaces without taking out a tape measure, or receive real-time AI assistance during project tasks. The product will be available later this year in the United States, the United Kingdom, and France.
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Base launches enterprise-level privacy transaction infrastructure, Base Ledgers, and will soon introduce the B20 token standard.
Base has launched an enterprise-grade privacy transaction infrastructure, Base Ledgers, enabling financial institutions to conduct transactions, payments, and settlements using cryptocurrency while ensuring confidentiality. Base's upcoming upgraded version, Beryl, will introduce new tokenization features, with the core being the native token standard B20. It aims to enhance user experience with a fast, low-cost, and standardized settlement mechanism, allowing global financial assets to exist in programmable capital form on the Base chain and benefit from on-chain composability.
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Ethereum Glamsterdam upgrade enters final development stage, expected to launch on mainnet in the second half of the year
According to ChainCatcher, citing CoinDesk, Ethereum developers have entered the final development stage of the Glamsterdam upgrade and are currently running developer networks (devnets) containing all the planned EIPs, before deploying to public testnets. Parithosh Jayanthi, a core developer at the Ethereum Foundation, stated that this is the final step before codebase hardening and testnet deployment. Although there is no fixed timeline, significant progress has been made. Glamsterdam is expected to go live on the mainnet in the second half of this year and is described as “the largest upgrade since the Merge”, set to change many of Ethereum’s existing assumptions and lay the groundwork for larger-scale scaling in the future. Main features include EIP-7732 (native proposer-builder separation), which introduces a separation mechanism for block building and proposing into the core protocol to reduce MEV manipulation opportunities; and EIP-7928 (block-level access list), which allows blocks to predeclare the account and contract data they will access, improving execution efficiency. Glamsterdam also includes a series of gas repricings that will significantly alter operating costs on Ethereum: operations with high computational demands will become cheaper, while state management costs will increase.
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