Project Progress

According to ChainCatcher, Ondo Finance launched Ondo Network on July 27, a new execution layer designed to deliver centralized exchange-level trading speed while maintaining blockchain self-custody and verifiable settlement. The company pivoted from its original Ondo Chain plan to focus

According to Foresight News, formal verification firm Certora has completed verification of Aave's Stable Vaults, covering StableVault, Funds Handler, Asset Registry, Allocator, and IOU token contracts. The verification confirmed that the Solidity implementation complies with Certora's formal

Metaplanet's ¥2.1 billion (~$13 million) acquisition of Siiibo Securities is being significantly undervalued by investors, according to Benchmark analyst Mark Palmer, who argues the deal lays the groundwork for bitcoin-backed 'Bitbonds' and a new tokenized fixed-income market in Japan. Palmer

Lido is consolidating more than 8 million ETH, worth about $16 billion, onto Ethereum's larger post-Pectra 0x02 validators as part of a major protocol upgrade on Monday. The upgrade rolls out Curated Module v2, which requires professional node operators to post ETH collateral that can be seized to c

According to Benchmark analyst Mark Palmer, Metaplanet's recent ¥2.1 billion (approximately $13 million) acquisition of Siiibo Securities gave the company a Type-1 Financial Instrument Business Operator license, which typically takes several quarters to obtain from scratch. The market initially

Lightning Labs released the alpha version of Wavelength on July 21, 2026, a toolkit that enables developers and AI agents to integrate self-custodial Bitcoin payments through a simple API without running nodes, managing channels, or sourcing liquidity. The company described Wavelength as "Bitcoin on

Lightning Labs released the alpha version of Wavelength on July 21, a non-custodial API toolkit enabling developers and AI agents to integrate self-custodial Bitcoin payments into applications without managing nodes or channels. The toolkit embeds a self-custodial wallet supporting on-chain Bitcoin,

According to mpost.io, blockchain security firm CODESPECT officially launched SpecSiege on July 27, 2026, a curated audit contest platform designed to provide a second layer of scrutiny for Web3 protocols after initial security reviews. The platform connects up to 50 hand-picked security

According to BlockBeats, on July 27, Lido announced its largest protocol upgrade since the V2 upgrade in 2023, integrating over 8 million staked ETH (approximately $16.5 billion) and migrating to a new validator architecture following Ethereum's Pectra upgrade. The migration is expected to reduce E

Trensik, a verified real-world assets platform on the XRP Ledger (XRPL), recently introduced tokenized versions of Tesla, Nvidia, and SpaceX, enabling users to gain blockchain-based exposure to these major companies without traditional brokerage infrastructure. The tokenized assets, designed to

According to Foresight News, Zama announced the release of TFHE-rs v1.7, its fully homomorphic encryption open-source library. In ERC-7984 privacy transfer benchmarks, the library achieved a throughput of 1,080 transactions per second on a single node with 8 NVIDIA H100 GPUs, representing a 2.7x

Jack Mallers, founder of Bitcoin treasury Twenty One Capital (XXI), is stepping down as CEO to focus on his Bitcoin payments company Strike, with Raphael Zagury named as his successor. The leadership change arrives seven months after XXI listed on the New York Stock Exchange in late 2025. Twenty One