Not every week closes like this. Mantle DEX volume nearly doubled WoW, up 87% from $15M to $28M. “Idle” doesn’t exist for capital on Mantle, where it moves, finds utility, and compounds across the open financial network.

“Don’t underestimate the power of people.” Charlie Knight @agentboff of @Team1USA_ in Mantle IRL: collaborate, delegate, make people the foundation of real community. Reflective of how we built ours, with a shared vision to drive every step towards open finance for everyone.

Mantle Network remained fully operational throughout the state-root bug recently disclosed in the upstream Reth client. Yesterday, our team moved quickly and proactively shipped a fix in op-reth mantle-v1.6.3, which backports the upstream patch. User assets are safe and no action is required. No database migration is needed, and our team will continue to monitor the network closely. Node operators, please upgrade via the release here:

Every song, license, royalty, onchain from day one, on Mantle. Meet @KORProtocol, the creative asset clearinghouse, with $KOR live simultaneously on @Fluxion_network and @Bybit_Official Spot. The same connected liquidity behind tokenized equities, now for a new asset class.

The same kind of proofs that secure Mantle can now show where an AI’s answer really came from, thanks to @AnthropicAI’s new research. FlashProve does it without revealing the model’s weights. ICYMI: The research names Mantle as an L2 running zkSNARKs in production, with contributions from @SuccinctLabs, Mantle’s proving partner. A real-world proof point for what Mantle runs on every day: don't trust, verify. And the cryptography behind it is now going mainstream.

Huge congrats to Succinct’s Rahul Dalal, one of the cryptographers behind FlashProve, @AnthropicAI’s provable inference system built on zkSNARKs. Why: Today, AI runs on a “just trust me” model. Users can’t verify that a response came from the model they chose, or that an attacker didn’t tamper with it along the way. As AI takes on higher-stakes work, that create tension for users, labs, and regulators alike. What: Researchers from Anthropic, EPFL, MIT, and @SuccinctLabs built FlashProve, a system that lets a model provider commit to a specific model and then prove each response was produced by it, without revealing the weights. Under the hood, it uses zkSNARKs, the same cryptographic technology Succinct uses to secure $13.5B in deposits on Ethereum L2s. So What: FlashProve proved Llama 4 Maverick, a 400B-parameter LLM, at 110 tokens/sec on a single H100 GPU, with ~19 MB proofs. That puts proving at roughly 70 to 95x the cost of running the model. The previous standard for the same model was ~0.02 tokens/sec. What’s Next: FlashProve is still a research prototype, but it’s a step change toward the question we asked with Flock earlier this year: how close can proving get to computing? The closer it gets, the less reason there is to release any output without a proof attached. Congrats again to Rahul and the FlashProve team, and great to see @Starknet, @Mantle_Official (proven by Succinct), and several zkML projects cited.

Duo screens coming in handy, just in time for Apple’s earnings. Results land after US markets close. On the flip side, AAPLx on Mantle trades round the clock on @Fluxion_network via AMM + Atomic RFQ, tokenized by @xStocksFi. Think different. It just works, even after hours.

The tech running your world doesn’t log off for the weekend. On Mantle, so do their tokenized stocks. The full tech stack trades 24/7/365 on @Fluxion_network via AMM + Atomic RFQ, issued by @xStocksFi. Tech that never sleeps, now trading like it: always on, earning, borderless.

The engine behind borderless access, upgraded. Mantle Mainnet now runs on Reth, the same foundation as our ZK proving with @SuccinctLabs, so every upgrade from here lands with less friction. Nothing changes on your end. It just runs better, faster, and lighter underneath.

A new, faster engine is coming to Mantle Mainnet as global capital markets accelerate onchain. On Oct. 28, 7AM UTC, our Sequencer moves from Geth to Reth, after a clean run on Sepolia. Same chain, lighter footprint, and tighter ZK alignment. What to expect ↓

Crypto used to live for new token launches, until asset classes came around. And it’s not just among traders, but institutions too. @emilyRioFreeman with @jacqmelinek on the shift playing out: → Fewer new token launches, more tokenized asset categories → Traders arbitraging across platforms and asset classes → Institutions pumping real liquidity into tokenized securities "All of which is why Mantle went all in on RWAs last year." Still day one, till global capital markets go borderless.

togETHer on @ethereum. RWAs found their home, and it's on Mantle, extending that momentum further with tokenized equities, treasuries, MMFs, private credit, and yield-bearing stablecoins. Productive + borderless, closer every day on one open financial network.

The giants of the internet era report earnings this week. On Mantle, their tokenized equities, issued by @xStocksFi, are always-on. Trade them 24/7 on @Fluxion_network, right through the call, then keep them working onchain until your next move. Position accordingly.

“DeFi is dead.” Mantle, over the last 30 days: → DEX volume up 34% to $99M → DeFi TVL up 18% to $112M Capital efficiency at its finest, across one open, borderless ecosystem.

The Mantle x Aave Effect, by the numbers. @aave TVL on Mantle is up 32% to $64M in 30 days, led by yield-bearing stables like @ethena's sUSDe and @maplefinance's syrupUSDT, doubling as collateral. Stable by name, productive by nature, on the open financial network.

For RWAs to go mainstream, onchain finance has to match TradFi at every level, then do better. @KarwanLiam05 from @chainlink with @jacqmelinek on @_TalkingTokens on how that gap starts closing: → Stablecoins bring the liquidity and demand RWAs need → More liquidity fuels more appetite for yield → Vaults unlock a new distribution channel → Fintechs and brokers are the next short-term step for RWA adoption LINK it all together, and it sounds pretty MANTLE to us.

Tokenized equities on @Mantle_Official have grown 33% since April to $4.4M in market cap, while the number of tokenized assets on the network has climbed from 70 at the start of the year to more than 1,500. @JoshuaCheong, Head of BD/Product at Mantle, explained on @_TalkingTokens how tokenized equities are having its gold rush moment: "The main thing that has become almost a gold rush is tokenized equities. Our industry has figured out the playbook for this, and through fundamentally the brokerage model, you can suddenly open up the access to hundreds, if not thousands of assets."

A new, faster engine is coming to Mantle Mainnet as global capital markets accelerate onchain. On Oct. 28, 7AM UTC, our Sequencer moves from Geth to Reth, after a clean run on Sepolia. Same chain, lighter footprint, and tighter ZK alignment. What to expect ↓