ZK Industry News: October 23rd to 29th, 2025
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We're bringing you industry highlights each week so you can stay aligned with the latest developments in ZK.
Here's what happened from October 23rd to 29th, 2025.
Introducing a New Cryptography & Distributed Systems Research Center, a collaboration between LambdaClass, FIUBA, and Exactas UBA
Research on ZK and Ethereum is already underway, bringing together expertise from academia and the tech industry to strengthen LATAM’s crypto ecosystem.
Yesterday was an important day for me and for @class_lambda.
— Fede’s intern 🥊 (@fede_intern) October 24, 2025
Twenty years ago I entered @UBAonline, the largest Spanish-speaking university in the world, with a community of more than 350,000 people, and consistently ranked among the top 100 universities globally.
Because of… pic.twitter.com/bA9Wf2hvKw
ZisK achieved real-time proving of Ethereum L1 blocks with version v0.13
Using 24 NVIDIA RTX 5090 GPUs, it proves L1 blocks in ~7.5s. Its distributed system parallelizes proof generation, offering scalable, quantum-resistant, 128-bit security for trustless Ethereum verification.
ZisK has reached a major proving milestone for Ethereum.
— ziskvm (@ziskvm) October 28, 2025
All Ethereum blocks are now being proven in real time, with an average proof time of about 7.5s pic.twitter.com/WGwgZwLTEI
The Ethereum Foundation launched an Institutional Resource Hub to support business adoption of Ethereum
It highlights use cases in tokenized assets, DeFi, stablecoins, and compliance; highlighting \$5B+ in tokenized assets and \$177B+ in stablecoin TVL.
1/ Now live: the Ethereum for Institutions site
— Ethereum Foundation (@ethereumfndn) October 29, 2025
Ethereum is the neutral, secure base layer where the world's financial value is coming onchain
Today, we’re launching a new site for the builders, leaders, and institutions advancing this global movement pic.twitter.com/KGNKVaPda0
Fusaka has been successfully activated on the Hoodi testnet
The third and final testnet upgrade before mainnet. The Ethereum mainnet launch is set for Dec 3, 2025. Fusaka adds 12 EIPs improving scalability and UX, led by PeerDAS (EIP-7594) for cheaper, faster L2 transactions.
You can check the Fusaka and BPO timelines here.
JPYC Inc. launched JPYC, Japan’s first regulated yen-backed stablecoin
This new stablecoin is being launched on Ethereum, Polygon, and Avalanche. Fully backed by yen deposits and JGBs, JPYC uses Japan’s My Number system via JPYC EX for compliance, targeting ¥10 trillion issuance in 3 years.
The world's first yen-pegged stablecoin has launched on Polygon 🇯🇵
— Polygon (@0xPolygon) October 27, 2025
Money moves faster on the purple chain. https://t.co/5pvpXQ8tkw
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