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The blockchain and smart contract ecosystem is witnessing significant advancements with the introduction of new technologies and integrations. HashEx has secured $3.4 billion in assets over six years, providing detailed fixes and free rechecks post-audit. Risc Zero's Steel, an EVM smart contract prover, offers offchain execution cost reductions and has been audited by Veridise Inc. Alchemy Platform has integrated Succinct Labs' SP1, a zero-knowledge proof system with 100% EVM equivalence, 1-hour finality, and 1-click generation on a decentralized prover network. Additionally, Risc Zero's zkVM and Celestia are powering Hashflow's xOS, enabling provable exchanges with high performance and security. Nexus Labs has launched the first open zkVM-based prover network, Nexus Network, supporting web, mobile, and CLI provers with a global network throughput of 10Hz and full E2E zkVM distributed proving.