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 ◾️Casper is now AI-accessible. Through @TaironAI's MCP server, developers can build AI-native applications that interact directly with the Casper Network