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Markos Georghiades, Justin Thaler, Andrew Tretyakov, and Michael Zhu 09.09.26 Today we are releasing Lattice Jolt, a new version of our open source zkVM (zero knowledge virtual machine). The architecture is the same one that already made Jolt the fastest and simplest zkVM available. What changes with this new version is the cryptography underneath it, which now rests on lattices instead of elliptic curves. This one change does three things at once: It makes Jolt post-quantum.

The business day used to matter. Businesses were open Monday through Friday, and occasionally on weekends. You went to work, often literally from 9 to 5, and then left for the rest of your day. Business was static. It started; it stopped. The internet changed that. Amazon transformed your local bookstore from a physical shop with business hours to an always-open global storefront for every imaginable product.

Finance is one of the most obvious use cases for blockchains. It’s also one of the most demanding. A benefit of blockchains, often referenced in the context of financial use cases, is that they bring assets, ownership records, and execution rules into a shared system that no single counterparty controls. This does not, however, make blockchains automatically ready for the scale and constraints they’d have to contend with in global financial markets.

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Editor’s note: With crypto (and other) conferences starting to pick up, we wanted to offer a guide to keeping yourself safe. You can download a PDF version of this checklist here. Step 1: Start with the right mindset Always establish what “normal” looks like and mentally tag any behaviors that aren’t. Distance is safety. Choose distance over confrontation: if someone’s acting off, move away or change your setting. Trust your instincts when something doesn’t feel right.

Perpetual futures (“perps”) are futures contracts that never expire. Once a crypto-native hack, they took off onchain in 2025. They’ve become one of crypto’s biggest markets, covering traditional assets and trillions of dollars in trading volume. Last year, the top centralized exchanges cleared $86.2T in perp volume (+47% YoY), while onchain perpetuals grew even faster: Leading decentralized exchanges reached $6.7T (+346% YoY).

Agentic commerce is here. ACP and UCP promise checkout in ChatGPT and Gemini. Soon, hundreds of millions of consumers around the globe will find better products, merchants will have improved conversion rates, and platforms will be able to take 5-10%. But ChatGPT checkout is an incremental improvement. It will not reshape society as the internet did in the early 2000s. Open Agentic Commerce will. We must go back to the ‘90s to understand why.

The internet made information global. Crypto is having  a similar impact on money. While recent headlines might fixate on prices of Bitcoin, a deeper and longer-lasting shift is underway in digital payments. This is the year that stablecoins, or cryptocurrencies pegged to assets like the dollar, are becoming part of the mainstream for online and international payments. Call it money’s “WhatsApp moment”.

This episode covers a destructive mental trap founders can fall into — and how to avoid it. We also explore why crypto went multichain, how it is competing with legacy financial systems, and an important lesson from Elon Musk. with @PrimordialAA @rhackett In this episode, host Robert Hackett sits down with Bryan Pellegrino, cofounder and CEO of LayerZero, one of the core infrastructure projects that enables blockchains to talk to one another.

This entire week, we’re running our observations on what’s ahead this year… stay tuned here, and be sure to also subscribe to our weekly newsletter for more trend updates, industry reports, builder guides, news analysis, and other resources. 1.