Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin endorsed Coinbase's Base as a secure Layer 2 model, while Circle introduced an institutional refund feature on its Arc blockchain. Plasma announced a $1 billion Tether stress test for its mainnet beta, and Berachain planned a Bepto hard fork on October 1st to optimize gas fees. WLFI executed a token buyback and burn worth $800,000. Fluid DEX reached $3.83 billion in daily trading volume, and Uniswap projected a trading volume of over $270 billion by the third quarter of 2025. Avantis launched a 40 million AVNT token incentive program, and Aster entered the third phase of its Genesis program.