ZK Industry News: December 11th to 17th, 2025
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Here's what happened from December 11th to 17th, 2025.
Ethrex is now live on Ethproofs
The LambdaClass team has deployed its prover using ZisK on a single GPU. This makes Ethrex the fourth independent guest program in Ethproofs' benchmarks, joining revm, ZKsync OS, and Zilkworm. This is an important step toward achieving greater execution client diversity.
🚀 Excited to share a major milestone for execution client diversity on Ethproofs.
— Ethproofs (@eth_proofs) December 16, 2025
We’ve received the first proofs from a prover operated by @class_lambda running @ethrex_client as a guest program on the @ziskvm zkVM. This marks the fourth independent guest program in our…
Coinbase has chosen Chainlink’s Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP) as the exclusive bridge for its Wrapped Assets
This partnership enhances cross-chain transfers and ecosystem expansion, positioning Coinbase Wrapped Assets for significant growth. Chainlink’s proven infrastructure secures billions in DeFi transactions, providing the reliability Coinbase requires.
We’ve selected @chainlink CCIP as the exclusive bridge provider to bring Coinbase Wrapped Assets to new blockchains.
— Coinbase 🛡️ (@coinbase) December 11, 2025
Together we’ll expand to new ecosystems using battle-hardened infrastructure. pic.twitter.com/JgRjyVVmd3
JPMorgan is expanding into crypto by launching a tokenized money fund on the Ethereum blockchain
This will allow qualified investors to hold digital tokens representing ownership, enabling more efficient asset movement and real-time trading.
Ethereum is going to power the global financial system.
— Vivek Raman (@VivekVentures) December 15, 2025
The ticker is $ETH. pic.twitter.com/8bitj8h4Ui
Lido Announced Governance Vote to Activate Phase 1 of Lido V3 on Mainnet
This introduces stVaults, non-custodial staking vaults allowing stakers to choose operators or strategies around stETH. Phase 1 soft launch is for early adopters and partners, focusing on security before the full public launch in January 2025. A second proposal covers operational and treasury updates.
Governance Update: Lido V3 Mainnet Release
— Lido (@LidoFinance) December 15, 2025
The onchain vote to activate Lido V3 Phase 1 (Soft Launch) on mainnet is now live.
This proposal marks a major milestone in the evolution of the Lido protocol.https://t.co/wjmgTXPvVi pic.twitter.com/67eRlaoHKv
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