According to Odaily, Taiko has announced significant progress in optimizing its protocol since the mainnet launch. The team has successfully reduced L1 gas costs by over 30% while maintaining contract upgradability. As they continue to refine gas optimization strategies, the focus is now shifting to new features and improvements. Key development areas identified include enhancing L2 EIP-1559, introducing transaction preconfirmation, implementing new transaction types such as Sponsored Transactions, supporting Cancun EVM, enabling contract use of calldata as DA, and improving minimum tier selection. Additionally, the Ontake upgrade will incorporate these features and improvements, with testing on the Hekla testnet planned before October and a mainnet upgrade scheduled for Q4 this year.

According to BlockBeats, on July 23, modular blockchain project Avail announced the launch of its Avail DA mainnet and the introduction of the AVAIL token. Avail DA is a modular blockchain solution designed to optimize data availability (DA), enabling highly scalable and customizable rollups. The AVAIL token will serve as the native asset of the Avail network, used for paying DA fees and ensuring network security through staking. Additionally, AVAIL holders will have the opportunity to stake their tokens.

According to Matrixport's latest chart released today, the realized volatility spread between Ethereum and Bitcoin is currently at a low level, indicating that both cryptocurrencies are experiencing similar levels of market fluctuation.Historically, Ethereum has been considered to have greater upside potential, which usually results in its volatility being approximately 50% higher than that of Bitcoin. However, the current data shows that the realized volatility of both Ethereum and Bitcoin is on par, with a ratio of 1.0.This unusual alignment in volatility comes at a time of heightened speculation and anticipation in the market, especially ahead of the launch of significant financial products. Analysts and traders often observe volatility metrics to gauge market sentiment and potential price movements, and this parity suggests a unique period of market dynamics.  4o

According to Odaily, Lido has released its protocol-related data for the week of July 15 to July 22. The data reveals a notable increase in several key metrics for the platform. Total Value Locked (TVL) saw a growth of 9.34%, reaching $34.57 billion. Additionally, the platform recorded an increase of 85,792 ETH in new stakes. On Layer 2, the amount of wrapped staked ETH (wstETH) grew by 4.62%, totaling 170,526 tokens. The seven-day trading volume for (w)stETH was reported to be $1.19 billion.