November 2025

Recap of Devconnect ARG

Recap of the Ethereum Foundation’s Devconnect World Fair in Buenos Aires: conference format + logistics, city impressions, quantum/elliptic-curve security chatter, the renewed push for Ethereum privacy (including ‘privacy pools’ debates), agentic AI hype vs reality, and what the team thinks is actually coming next for ZK scaling and UX.

Privacy On-Chain and the Rise of ZCash?

ZCash is 1251% up in the last 3 months. Firo up 377%, Dash up 223%, Monero up 50%. It seems that privacy is the new meta-narrative. What on earth is happening? What changed?

Launch of Mercata V2: Vaulted Assets OnChain and App Walkthrough

The STRATO Mercata team celebrates the launch of V2 with a comprehensive walkthrough of the new platform. The team discusses how V2 makes DeFi accessible through a point-and-click interface while maintaining the benefits of decentralized finance.