Project Progress

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

Galaxy Digital launched a Bitcoin Quantum Readiness Initiative today, committing up to $5 million in developer grants to protect the network against quantum computers. The program addresses a gap between rapid quantum computing advancement and Bitcoin's early-stage engagement with post-quantum

According to Gnosis DAO Governance Proposal GIP-153, Gnosis Chain is seeking community consensus to transition from an independent Layer 1 to an Ethereum Economic Zone (EEZ) ZK Rollup, with voting targeted for August-September 2026 and genesis block launch in January 2027. The proposal, authored

POSCO International and LG CNS announced on July 27 the successful completion of a proof of concept evaluating blockchain and artificial intelligence infrastructure for trade finance, with the verification process concluding on July 23. The project assessed how digital technologies could improve

Liquid staking protocol Lido disclosed an anomaly in its daily stETH rebase that resulted in a lower-than-expected annual percentage rate for token holders on July 27, 2026. The protocol's accounting oracle reported a daily rebase APR of 2.04%, falling short of the anticipated 2.15%. Lido

According to Lido's official statement, on July 26, the protocol's stETH daily rebase resulted in an under-reported annual percentage rate of 2.04%, falling short of the expected 2.15%. The discrepancy stemmed from Lido's accounting oracle inadvertently omitting a single in-flight validator

According to BlockBeats, Hyperliquid's testnet introduced a new 'stars' feature on July 27, enabling optional address whitelisting for HIP-3 DEX markets. Deployers can restrict opening and increasing positions to whitelisted addresses, with a current testnet limit of 10,000 addresses per market.