# The EVM Trailblazers

*Author: Bankless*
*Published: Oct 17, 2024*
*Source: https://www.bankless.com/de/4-projects-pushing-the-evm*

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The EVM Trailblazers
    
  

  
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**📸 Daily Market Snapshot: **Crypto investors had their eyes glued on Sam Altman Thursday as he took to the stage to talk Worldcoin's latest – including a new name, a new app, and a new orb. The WLD token is down 6% on the day but is still up over 42% on the month. Where will it go from here?

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  **Crypto**
   
          $2.30T
       

  
    
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  **ETH**
   
          $2,605
       

  
    
    ↘ 0.5%
    
  

   
    
    ↗ 9.6%
  

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  **WLD**
   
          $2.14
       

  
    
    ↘ 5.7%
    
  

   
    
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4 Hot Projects Accelerating the Ethereum Virtual Machine
  
  
   
     
     Bankless Author: 
     
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[![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/e4/b7/e4b77544-5a37-4f0b-8824-8440aa348476/content/images/2024/10/image---2024-10-17T172458.662.png)](https://www.bankless.com/four-evm-projects-ethereum)The Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) has quietly become the backbone of blockchain development. **It's not just the technology — it's the ecosystem of developers, tools, and applications that have grown around it. **

Today, there are a bunch of teams rethinking Ethereum’s design choices, enhancing the EVM to create blockchains that can handle billions of users and thousands of transactions per second. They're taking the strengths of the EVM and pushing the boundaries with new architectures and features.

This article highlights the projects that are accelerating the EVM for massive scalability and paving the way for the future of crypto adoption. Today, we're digging into Monad, MegaETH, Berachain, and Sei. 👇

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