Hot project updates of the week: Ethereum raises block Gas limit, Bear Chain launches main online, UniswapV4 TVL has exceeded 60 million, etc.(0202 – 0208)

1. Ethernet network raises the block Gas upper limit link under the PoS mechanism for the first time
After obtaining the support of more than 50% verifiers, ethernet successfully raised the block Gas limit under the PoS mechanism for the first time. The data show that the upper limit of Gas has broken through to 31 million from 30 million before, and is expected to be adjusted to 36 million eventually. This adjustment is achieved without hard bifurcations, which improves the trading capacity of the network. It is worth noting that the last time the Gas limit was adjusted in Etay Fong was in 2021, when it was raised from 15 million to 30 million.
two。 Taifang Pectra upgrade test plan is confirmed, and link is expected to be released in April.
Ethernet Fong developers have set a test date for the Pectra upgrade, the first network upgrade in 11 months, and is scheduled for release in April 2024. The Pectra upgrade will include several improvements, with special attention to wallet and validator functionality. Among them, EIP-7702 will improve the user wallet experience and support users to use other tokens to pay fees through account abstraction technology, while EIP-7251 will allow the verifier to increase the pledge amount from 32 ETH to 2048 ETH to improve node operation efficiency and shorten the setup time of new nodes. The test will begin on February 26 on the Holesky test network and on March 5 on the Sepolia test network. after success, it is expected to be launched on the main network in early April.
3. Berachain main network launched link on February 6, 2025.
The Berachain Foundation officially announced that the Berachain main network will be launched on February 6, 2025. Berachain is a new type of EVM-compatible Layer 1 blockchain designed to align the value of the network with the value of the applications built on it through the Proof of Liquidity (PoL) mechanism.
Binance HODLer Airdrop is now online Phase 7 project   & mdash;   Berachain (BERA). Users who subscribe to BNB to Simple Earn products during the period from 2025 BNB to Simple Earn 22 00:00 (UTC) to 2025 UTC will receive airdrop distribution. Yuan an will launch BERA at 13:00 (UTC) and open the trading of BTC, USDT, USDC, BNB, FDUSD and TRY pairs. The seed label is applied to the BERA.
According to DeFiLlama, Berachain TVL has reached US $1.8 billion, surpassing Sui and Avalanche to become the eighth largest network in TVL, with the largest DEX Kodiak reaching US $675 million, CDP Beraborrow US $402 million, and loan agreements Dolomite US $313 million.
4. Optimism launches a new phase of the Retro Funding program with a reward scale of 8 million OP link
Optimism announced the launch of a new phase of the Retro Funding program, with an award size of 8 million OP. The focus of this period is on development tools (Dev Tooling). The awards will be used to support builders of applications and tools on the hyperchain, such as compilers, libraries and debuggers. The current period is from February 5 to July 31. Applications are now open, and all applications must be open source. Awards are expected to be distributed monthly from March.
5. Uniswap V4 TVL over $6000 link
According to Allium data, since its launch nearly a week ago, Uniswap V4 TVL has exceeded US $60 million, of which about 67.4% is concentrated in Ethereum;, which has accumulated more than US $237 million in trading volume, of which 31.2% comes from Hooked Pools trading volume. On February 5, the daily trading volume of Uniswap V4 reached US $22.11 million, of which US $10.87 million was traded on Ethereum, followed by US $4.88 million for Base and US $3.32 million for Arbitrum.
6. Ondo Finance launches Ondo GM to enable global investors to access link on the chain of US public securities.
Ondo Finance announced the launch of Ondo Global Markets (Ondo GM), which aims to provide global investors with online access to US public securities through blockchain technology. The platform will provide securities-based tokenized assets that are paired at 1:1 with underlying assets such as stocks, bonds and ETF, have liquidity similar to stable currencies and are freely transferable outside the US.
7. Virtual Prtocol has captured $39.614 million in revenue link since October 16 last year.
According to the official Virtuals Protocol panel, Virtual Prtocol has captured $39.614 million in revenue since October 16, 2024, and has continued to decline since peaking at $1.584 million a day on January 2. The income composition of Virtuals Protocol is mainly divided into two parts, including 1% of the transaction costs before graduation are owned by the state treasury and 1% of the transaction costs after graduation will go to the corresponding Agents Wallet; but no income has been generated on the Solana network. In addition, AI Agents tokens (excluding VIRTUAL) launched by Virtuals Prtocol have created more than $6.5 billion in DEX transactions; there are about 222000 wallets on the Base network that hold any Virtuals Agent tokens greater than $10.
8. The AI Agents sector has lost about $14 billion in market value link in the past three weeks.
The AI Agents sector has lost about $14 billion in market value in the past three weeks, according to cookie fun. The AI Agents sector has continued to decline to about $6.2 billion since it peaked at $20.37 billion after January 15. In addition, Smart engagement for AI Agents based on the sum of Crypto Twitter quotes, retweets, and replies has fallen by more than 60 per cent since peaking on January 17.
9. Solayer announces LAYER token Economics link
Solayer announced the economics of LAYER tokens, LAYER tokens are the original tokens and governance tokens of the Solayer ecosystem, with a maximum supply of 1 billion and an initial circulation of 220 million. It is divided into several categories, of which 51.23 per cent are for communities and ecosystems, 17.11 per cent for core contributors, 16.66 per cent have been sold to investors, and 15 per cent have been used by the Solayer Foundation to support product expansion and network development. LAYER will be used for governance, protocol upgrades, ecosystem incentives, and future blockchain validation incentives.
10. The retention rate of Telegram game users hovers around 20% of the game link, which is much lower than that of the traditional game.
According to a report by Helika, the retention rate for Telegram game users hovers around 20 per cent, well below the 20-30 per cent benchmark for traditional games. At the same time, the analyst also said that it was disappointing that the airdrop, especially the airdrop launched by ldquo;Hamster Kombat”, led to the excitement of & ldquo; around Telegram Tap-to-Earn & rdquo; dissipated, and the user base of Hamster Kumbat plummeted from 300 million in August 2024 to 41 million after the airdrop in November. However, the TON blockchain has added more than 100m new accounts in the past 12 months, from about 6 million to more than 140 million.
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