A busy week at Casper, and many more to follow. 🤝 Ecosystem & Community 🔺#CasperHackathon is officially open and now accepting submissions for the Qualification Round 🔺 Season 4 is live, enabling the community to vote on Hackathon projects and help shape which teams advance 🔺 Casper Association President & CTO Michael Steuer (@mssteuer) joined an AMA hosted by NOWNodes on November 13 to discuss building beyond the hype 🛠️ Protocol & Engineering 🔺 Casper 2.1 is nearing release. The upgrade will activate 100% transaction fee burning and reduce block time from 16 seconds to 8 seconds!! 🔺 is preparing a major redesign focused on mainstream usability and clearer visibility into network activity 🧰 Products & Developer Tooling 🔺 1.12.0 is live, enabling developers to build on Casper with no setup or backend. dApps can now access APIs and WebSockets directly from the client side