2025 marked a major leap forward for eCash. With instant finality live on mainnet and foundational upgrades rolling out across the stack, the network became faster, more reliable, and more practical for everyday use. Combined with expanding ecosystem adoption, 2025 set the stage for the next era of electronic cash.

Here are the key milestones that shaped eCash throughout the year.

Major Upgrades & Developments

⚡ Avalanche Pre-Consensus

On November 15, 2025, at block height 923,347, the eCash network officially activated Avalanche Pre-Consensus, delivering instant transaction finality and real-time consensus on a Proof-of-Work blockchain for the first time ever. This upgrade marks a major milestone for eCash and brings its vision of fast, secure, and user-friendly digital cash closer to reality.

https://x.com/eCash/status/1989683421401289040

The activation was celebrated widely, with team members joining a Pre-Consensus go-live livestream hosted by the community.

https://x.com/eCash/status/1989393870988411258

🎁 Staking Rewards Pre-Consensus

Also launched on November 15, 2025, Staking Rewards Pre-Consensus enables eCash staking nodes to use Avalanche polling to come to consensus on the staking reward winner for the next block before it is mined. This improves predictability, coordination, and efficiency for the staking process.

Learn more: https://x.com/eCash/status/1980907524179317148

💱 64-bit Integers — Precision for Agora, Power for DeFi

On November 15, 2025, 64-bit integer support went live, unlocking billions of times more precision for both sat and token values. Agora swaps can now price assets exactly, enabling truly accurate markets and more advanced financial use cases on eCash.

New range:

–9,223,372,036,854,775,807
9,223,372,036,854,775,807

Learn more: https://x.com/eCash/status/1978488197610168536 

⚙️ AssumeUTXO: Faster Node Sync on eCash

On May 28, 2025, the AssumeUTXO feature was released. It allows eCash nodes to sync faster by trusting a verified snapshot of the UTXO set at a given block height, skipping full historical validation while maintaining security guarantees.

Learn more: https://e.cash/blog/assumeutxo

⚒️ Chronik Support for the ElectrumX Protocol

On July 10, 2025, with the release of Bitcoin ABC v0.31.8, Chronik became fully compatible with the ElectrumX protocol. This makes it easy for existing BTC and BCH applications using Electrum servers (such as Fulcrum) to add eCash support or migrate to Chronik seamlessly. 🦾

Ecosystem

🪙 RWA Tokenization

  • On May 19, 2025, the Marianas US Dollar $MUSD became the first U.S. government–issued stablecoin minted on the eCash blockchain, with the first 100 Dollars issued during a ceremony in Tinian at the House of Taga

Learn more: https://tinianmayor.cnmi.gov/tinian-positions-itself-at-the-forefront-of-americas-digital-financial-future/ 

  • $FIRMA, a new privately issued stablecoin built on the eCash network, was launched

  • Blockchain Ventures Corp. tokenized its equity ownership on eCash with the launch of $BVE on the Cashtab wallet Agora marketplace

🔳 PayButton Updates

PayButton continued to play a key role in enabling simple eCash acceptance online:

  • Altcoin payments via SideShift

  • New fundraiser parameters

  • Cashtab PWA support

  • New landing page

  • Adjustable auto-close timing

  • Button size customization

  • Improvements to the PayButton-Server

🧰 New Tools & Apps

  • PayButton launched its PayButton WordPress plugin, enabling custom no-signup paywalls and content monetization with eCash

Learn more: https://e.cash/blog/paybutton-for-wordpress

  • Marlin Wallet for Android launched with secure key storage, NFC payments, and Wear OS support

  • Metachronik analytics indexer launched

  • charts.e.cash launched as a frontend for Metachronik data

  • TixTown app launched as the official ticket platform at the International Emmy Awards

Learn more: https://blog.tixtown.com/p/tixtown-launches-as-official-ticket-platform-at-international-emmy-awards-event

  • New eCash Mempool explorer launched

🔗 Integrations

  • Unstoppable Domains added support for .xec domains

  • Crypto Autos added eCash payments for luxury vehicles and supercars

  • NOWNodes added eCash support to its blockchain explorer

🎮 Gaming

  • BlitzChips.com instant betting game launched

  • HodlWars.com multiplayer staking competition game launched

  • EverydayJackpot.com launched with instant FIRMA payouts

  • SeedRush.cash multiplayer seed phrase game launched

  • blockchain.games launched, offering a curated hub of eCash games

🛠️ Dev Tooling

  • ChronikCache npm package released, adding a caching layer for Chronik

  • Improved naming and typing across Chronik, ecash-lib, ecash-agora, and chronik-client

  • New strongly typed ecash-wallet library

  • cashtab-connect released, making web app integration with Cashtab seamless

💱 Exchange & Wallet Listings

New integrations this year included:

  • CoinoSwap

  • Edge Wallet

  • Houdini Swap

  • CoinDisco

  • Marlin Wallet

Wallet Upgrades

👨🏻‍💻 Electrum ABC Wallet

Electrum ABC received major functional and usability improvements throughout the year, reinforcing its role as a powerful wallet for advanced users and stakers:

  • Native support for Trezor hardware wallets

  • Avalanche stake signing with custom firmware in the Trezor hardware wallet

Learn more: https://e.cash/blog/trezor-guide

  • Improved wallet recovery with SLIP-39 (Shamir) mnemonics

  • ALP token awareness with automatic locking of token UTXOs

  • UI improvements to the Avalanche Proof Editor

  • Backend transition to Chronik-based infrastructure for testing and additional servers

📱 Cashtab Wallet Upgrades

The Cashtab Wallet team delivered a strong year of usability, performance, and ecosystem enhancements, including:

  • Support for instant transaction finality

  • Cashtab Android app published on Google Play

  • WebSocket-powered real-time Agora orderbooks

  • BIP21 support for shareable payment links and QR codes with preset $XEC or $FIRMA amounts

  • Revamped header design for improved $XECx and $FIRMA management

  • Automatic selection of the fastest Chronik node

  • Optimized PayButton tx detection

  • Persistent browser extension storage

  • Faster, more capable QR code scanner

  • Absolute minimum fees enabled for all users

  • Pagination for transaction history

  • Full support for 64-bit integer Agora offers

Community & Milestones

  • 🥳 We officially secured the premium @eCash handle on 𝕏

  • 🎉 eCash Day 2025 was celebrated on July 1st, marking 4 years since the rebrand

  • 🌐 Launched a redesigned eCash website to reflect the network’s next chapter

  • 📈 Staked $XEC reached a new all-time high of 315B+ XEC

  • 🔥 PayButton recorded a yearly transaction ATH with 1,311 daily transactions

  • 📊 Agora daily volume reached a new all-time high on August 8, 2025

  • 🎬 Final episode of Why Crypto — “Money” released:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mMMloxbwRg

🎤 Electronic Cash Conference 2025

On October 4–5, 2025, the Electronic Cash Conference (ECC 2025) was held in Spain, bringing together developers, researchers, and builders from across the electronic cash ecosystem.

During the conference, eCash founder Amaury Séchet officially announced Avalanche Pre-Consensus, publicly unveiling a milestone years in the making. The announcement outlined how eCash would achieve instant finality and real-time consensus on a Proof-of-Work blockchain, setting the stage for the mainnet activation that followed on November 15.

All sessions and talks from the ECC 2025 are available here: https://ecashconference.com

Looking Ahead

The progress achieved in 2025 positions eCash to better support real-world use cases. With a more capable and reliable foundation in place, the ecosystem can turn its attention toward applications and services designed to address practical needs.

The year ahead is about putting this momentum to work, transforming solid foundations into everyday usefulness. Happy New Year! 🥂

Originally Published: https://e.cash/blog/review-2025