Here is a look back at the latest developments and highlights from the past week across the MultiversX ecosystem. It has been an eventful few days, prominently featuring the integration of the Machine Payments Protocol from Stripe directly into MultiversX. Network activity also hit a massive milestone as Battle Net officially exceeded 750,000,000 transactions.

The ecosystem saw numerous technical and competitive updates recently. The Battle of Nodes series moved forward with Guild Wars #3 and #4, alongside Validator Challenge #8. Furthermore, Agent Arena was introduced and has officially gone live on Battle Net. The network also demonstrated tremendous development strength in the Who's Actually Building? tracker, logging 171K commits to secure the #6 spot in the blockchain space. Developers have a brand new tool at their disposal with the release of SpaceCraft SDK v0.65.1. For anyone following the regular engineering progress, the weekly #multiversxtech roundup is available to review.

In other major news, Supernova continues to make waves, serving as the sonic boom of blockchain interaction. Community members can also listen to the latest discussions by tuning into Momentum Podcast Ep. 13. We always love showcasing the incredible builders in our network, and this week the ecosystem highlights belong to @ThePalmTreeNW, @chessucation, @veropay_ro, @SuperRare_Bears, @DisrDigital, @robertmalancus, @Sheltersfinance, @RosettaStake, and @joewu_official.

Finally, let us review the latest performance metrics. MultiversX currently hosts 9.18 M accounts, has successfully processed 595M transactions, and maintains 14.2M staked. Community adoption of the @xPortalApp remains strong with over 2.5M+ users, while more than 100k+ users currently choose to stake $EGLD through the platform. Wrapping up the core statistics, the @xExchangeApp reports a TVL of $4.04M along with a 1.09M USD 7d Volume.