Project Progress

Beldex launched a $1M global grants program during Korea Blockchain Week 2026 in Seoul to fund privacy-preserving applications, tools and infrastructure. The initiative opens Beldex's privacy infrastructure to external developers worldwide, supporting ecosystem growth beyond internal products

According to The Block, Ondo Perps CEO David Wells said the U.S. perpetuals market presents significant opportunities and that Ondo sees merit in exploring it. However, he did not confirm whether the company will launch perpetuals products in the U.S. market, noting that any U.S. offering could

Ethereum developers have scheduled the network's next major upgrade, Glamsterdam, to activate on the Sepolia testnet on Oct. 6. The Ethereum Foundation announced Monday that Sepolia node operators must update both their execution-layer and consensus-layer clients before the activation. The upgrade introduces technical improvements including enshrined proposer-builder separation, which will move the handoff between specialized block builders and validators into Ethereum's protocol to reduce relia

According to PANews, Taiko released maintenance updates for all node operators on September 29, deploying them to both mainnet and Hoodi environments. The update includes three client versions: alethia-reth v1.4.1, taiko-alethia-client-v2.7.0, and simple-taiko-node v2.6.3. Node operators are

According to Ethlabs, Chainlink's cross-chain protocol CCIP 2.0 can reduce Ethereum transaction confirmation time to 12-24 seconds by leveraging Ethereum's fast finality rules. The acceleration is an optional feature that users must explicitly enable; its security guarantees differ from the

Mixin has completed the full redemption arrangement of 23 million USDT corresponding to the September 23 incident in September 2026, with full redemption now open to eligible users.

Chainlink launched CCIP 2.0 on September 29, enabling institutions to run custom cross-chain verifiers, enforce compliance controls, and settle transactions faster than finality. The protocol currently secures $84

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin outlined a long-term vision for the network centered on advanced cryptography, privacy protections, and decentralized computation in a recent discussion of the platform's development. The proposed architecture would retain blockchain security properties while

According to ChainCatcher, an X user @neillee99 claimed that approximately 50 BTC assets held in Solv Protocol have remained unredeemable since July 2026. The user deposited the BTC on July 8 to earn an approximately 3% annual yield, but after a security incident occurred on July 13, the minting

According to Foresight News, Ethlabs has integrated Ethereum's Fast Confirmation Rule (FCR) into Chainlink's CCIP 2.0 cross-chain protocol. The integration enables Ethereum transaction confirmations in cross-chain scenarios to drop from approximately 13 minutes to 12-24 seconds, leveraging

According to official announcement, Blockstream's Bitcoin sidechain Liquid Network has initiated an independent external security audit of Elements v23.3.4 to provide additional verification for restoring Peg-out operations. Concurrently, the Liquid Federation is coordinating updates to its PAK

According to Zano's core team, the network discovered a security flaw in the Gateway Addresses feature introduced during Hard Fork 6 on August 26, which allowed unauthorized ZANO and Freedom Dollar (fUSD) tokens to enter circulation. To contain the damage, the project restarted its

According to Kakao Pay Securities, the company signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with RWA tokenization platform Ondo Finance on September 28 to establish an overseas distribution system for Korean listed stocks. The partnership aims to connect domestic stock trading infrastructure with

Gate News message, SharpLink Gaming(@Sharplink) staked an additional 42,074 $ETH today, valued at $112.8M. Currently, SharpLink Gaming holds a total of 892,127 $ETH, worth $2.4B. The company has accumulated 27,945 $ETH in staking rewards, amounting to $75M.

According to ChainCatcher, GasFree launched at GWDC 2026 in Seoul on September 29. The protocol allows users to complete TRON transfers using USDT or USDD directly from their wallets without holding TRX, addressing the pain point of gas fee shortages in on-chain

According to ChainCatcher, Verona announced the launch of verUSD, positioned as the first stablecoin designed for AI agents. The project has secured over $100 million in institutional commitments, with participating investors including Animoca Ventures, Figment Capital, Sfermion, Pentos Ventures, an

According to Foresight News, Arbitrum Foundation has launched a 12-month Arbitrum Security Program to support ecosystem project security. The program includes pre-audit AI-assisted screening, human audits, bug bounties, and support from the ArbitrumDAO Security Committee. The foundation allocated