WAO ART #60

Uniswap DAO has approved a proposal to deploy Uniswap v3 on Polygon zkEVM, a ZK-Rollup solution compatible with the Ethereum ecosystem. This move expands popular Ethereum apps to the new wave of ZK-Rollups and suggests that Ethereum is growing in its ability to offer its main features at scale.

The European Space Agency's (ESA) Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) has successfully launched from French Guiana on an Ariane-5 rocket. The €1.6bn mission will study Jupiter's major moons which are thought to contain vast reservoirs of liquid water and potentially host life.

China emphasized the importance of Brazil-China ties for global peace and stability during a meeting with Brazilian President. The two leaders presided over the signing of 14 agreements to strengthen ties in commerce, technology and other areas of collaboration.

The launch of Kenya's first earth observation satellite, Taifa-1, has been postponed twice due to bad weather and was aborted just 29 seconds before takeoff from the Vandenberg Force base in California. The satellite will be used for agriculture, land, and environment monitoring.

Western Australia is bracing for the strongest storm to hit the region in 14 years as Cyclone Ilsa intensifies to a category five system. The storm is expected to hit Port Hedland, the world's biggest iron ore exporting port, late on Thursday night. A red alert has been issued across the region.

North Korea has claimed it has successfully tested its "most powerful" missile to date, a solid-fuel intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) called the Hwasong-18. Solid-fuel missiles can be fired more quickly than liquid-fuel ones, making them harder to intercept.

US airman Jack Teixeira, 21, has been charged with the unauthorised removal and transmission of classified information in connection with a leak of highly classified military documents about the Ukraine war and other national security issues.