# 🎉 ElizaOS Weekly Update (Aug 7-13, 2025)

Exciting progress this week as CJ (cjft) leads v3 development with blazing-fast 75ms build times! 🚀

## 📋 Key Technical Updates
* **ElizaOS v3 Architecture** - Shaw outlined core principles for v3: better developer experience, improved tool calling, streaming-oriented design, and more opinionated architecture 
* **Sessions API Integration** - Merged support for simplified agent-user messaging with a new client SDK (#5717)
* **Testing Infrastructure Overhaul** - End-to-End testing now enabled across all starter templates (#5720)
* **Build System Improvements** - Migrated from npx to bunx and optimized the XML parser for better performance (#5742)
* **Plugin Development** - New EVM plugin for blockchain integration (#5752) and MySQL plugin support (#5718)

## 💬 Community Highlights
* **Knowledge Sharing Sessions** - Kenk organized a getting started session focused on operating multiple agents and characters
* **Plugin Support** - 0xbbjoker has been helping users connect Eliza with Gaianet using plugin-mcp and Firecrawl

## 🪙 AI16z & Auto.fun Updates
* **ClankTank v2** is in development as a platform for AI agent projects to showcase their work, similar to Shark Tank concept
* **Multi-Channel Strategy** is being implemented with content push across Farcaster, LinkedIn, TikTok, and YouTube while X account restoration continues

## 🔮 Coming Next
We're continuing work on ElizaOS v3, implementing scenario testing and benchmarking systems (TAU-bench, AgentBench), and preparing new onboarding courses. The first three courses launch this month!