

Ben
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Introducing Shasta, a simpler and more efficient redesign of Taiko’s core protocol ⚙️ Early benchmarks show 20x cheaper proposing and 8x cheaper proving

Taiko Takes 🥡 This week, everyone's watching the Fed. Bitcoin swung between $92k and $94k ahead of today's expected interest rate cut. Bitcoin ETFs saw $60 million flow out on Monday, then $152 million flow back in on Tuesday. The market is nervous. Six of the last seven Fed meetings this year caused Bitcoin to drop. Traders have been reducing leverage. Smaller holders are selling. Larger holders are buying. The entire market is waiting: will the Fed chairman signal more rate cuts next year or fewer? Standard Chartered just cut its year-end Bitcoin target from $200,000 to $100,000. Analysts debate whether Bitcoin's recent bounce is real or temporary. Everyone agrees the rate cut itself is priced in. What matters is what Powell says about the future. While all this unfolds, Ethereum keeps processing blocks. No pause for market panic. No adjustment for Fed announcements. No reaction to money flowing in and out of ETFs. That separation matters. Markets react to news because participants make decisions based on expectations, fear and positioning. Infrastructure runs on math and protocol rules. Based rollups inherit this independence. Transaction ordering continues regardless of what Powell says because there's no central operator adjusting behavior based on market conditions. The rate cut might move price. It won't change how blocks get produced. When you build on infrastructure that doesn't react to sentiment, your application inherits that stability. Markets can panic. The foundation keeps running.

Starting this week, every block on Taiko mainnet is proven with zero-knowledge proofs 🔐 Powered by @SuccinctLabs and @RiscZero. 100% ZK coverage is now running in production. Here's why it matters and what's next 🧵👇 1/

🥁 It's happening: @ensdomains and @nethermind are building on Taiko Stack! Namechain launches as a based rollup on @Nethermind's Surge (built on our technology). No centralized sequencer. No compromises. Just Ethereum validators from day one. Based rollups are becoming inevitable. Don't sleep on it!👇 taiko.mirror.xyz/ud9MH9atVgJok-…

You'll want to be in the room for this one!


Big step forward ! 🏗️ Our first protocol upgrade proposal is up for community vote, covering ZK optimizations, verifier improvements, and security enhancements.🗳️ Real decentralized governance = the community decides how the protocol evolves💪 Vote here:dao.taiko.xyz/plugins/commun…





Looking forward to speaking at the Main conference at @HongKongFinTech Week x StartmeupHK Festival 2025. I'll dive into Enterprise-Ready DeFi, exploring real-world blockchain scaling, regulatory innovation, and cross-border finance. Among other speakers: ▪️ Paul M.P. Chan, Financial Secretary of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region ▪️ Christopher Hui, Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury of Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region 香港特別行政區政府 ▪️ Julia Leung, CEO Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) ▪️ Joseph HL Chan, Under Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury, Hong Kong ▪️ @_RichardTeng, CEO @binance ▪️ Algernon Yau, Secretary for Commerce and Economic Development @hkmagovhk ▪️Eddie Yue, CEO @hkmagovhk ▪️ Eric Yip, Executive Director Securities and Futures Comission ▪️ King Leung 梁瀚璟, Global Head of Financial Services, Fintech & Sustainability Invest Hong Kong ▪️ Georges Elhedery, Group CEO @HSBC ▪️ Bill Winters, Group CEO @StanChart ▪️ Jenny Johnson, President and CEO @FTI_Global ▪️ Eric Jing, Chairman @AntGroup ▪️ Wensheng Cai, Ex-Chairman @meituofficial , angel investor ▪️ Fred Hu, Founder, Chairman&CEO Primavera Capital Group ▪️ @tkstanczak, Co-Executive Director @ethereumfndn ▪️ @calilyliu, President @SolanaFndn ▪️ @cmoyall, Partner, Head of Digital Assets, Data, and AI Apollo ▪️ Alain Lam, Vice President&CFO @Xiaomi ▪️ @lum_kwok, Senior Executive Director - Authorisation & Fintech @ADGlobalMarket ▪️ Chao Deng, CEO @HashKey_Capital ▪️@Alolayana, Founder & Managing Partner @betelabsa ▪️ Antoine Blondeau, Co-Founder&Managing Partner Alpha Intelligence Capital ▪️@saraykin, Co-Founder @finoverse_ ▪️ @odesium, CCO @taikoxyz ▪️ Ethan W., CEO @LTP_primebroker ▪️ Samson Leo, Co-Founder, CLO @StraitsX ▪️ Ken Deng, CEO @Hashstacs ▪️@ASvanevik, CEO @nansen_ai ▪️@amandacassatt, Founder & CEO @serotonin_hq ▪️@AveryChing, CEO & Co-Founder @AptosLabs ▪️@BC_KuCoin, CEO @kucoincom ▪️@bill_qian, Co-Founder @cypher_capital Join me and 37,000+ professionals from around the world to explore the future of finance and tech in Hong Kong. Financial Services and the Treasury Bureau (FSTB) | Invest Hong Kong | FintechHK | StartmeupHK | Finoverse #HKFTWxSMUF #InvestHK #FintechHK #StartmeupHK #Finoverse #HKFTW #HKFTW25 #SMUFest2025 #Fintech #HongKong #HK






Taiko DAO just appointed 3 Board Directors: Joy Lam, Professor Felix Oberholzer-Gee, Professor Wen Yonggang and an Advisor, CPA Ren Jang. These seasoned, highly accomplished leaders will supercharge our Security Council & community as binding on-chain governance goes LIVE at dao.taiko.xyz. Another step toward an ownerless, neutral L2 truly owned by its users.








1/ Preconfirmations are now live on Taiko - a major step forward for Ethereum rollups! -Soft guarantees that your tx will be included, cutting latency from 12s to near-instant -Major UX win, making Taiko more reliable and predictable We now have an L2 that's both algined with Ethereum value capture and fast. Will this lead to greater adoption?

Preconfirmations Are Live on Taiko! 🥁 20–30x faster. Same Ethereum values. Taiko Alethia mainnet just leveled up. This massive upgrade boosts our network’s performance without compromising Ethereum’s core principles. The new era of Taiko begins today!
