Project Progress

According to Foresight News, LienFi appointed Jack Dishman as Chief Technology Officer (CTO) to lead technical development across its ecosystem. Dishman is a co-founder of Clanker, a Base ecosystem token issuance platform, and announced his departure from Clanker in

Zcash developers activated the Ironwood upgrade at block height 3,428,143 as part of the NU6.3 network upgrade, replacing the Orchard shielded pool with a formally verified alternative. The replacement followed researcher Taylor Hornby's discovery in late May of an infinity bug in Orchard that

The Zcash Ironwood upgrade activated at block height 3,428,143 as part of the NU6.3 hard fork, replacing the Orchard shielded pool after researchers discovered an "infinity" bug in late May that posed a theoretical risk of undetectable counterfeit ZEC creation. Zooko Wilcox, Shielded Labs

Nansen co-founder and CEO Alex Svanevik said AI trading agents could outnumber human traders within two years, in an interview published this week. Svanevik also claimed Nansen has processed more than $500 million in trading volume through its trading feature launched this year, though the company h

1inch launched Aqua Protocol, a decentralized finance protocol that enables liquidity providers to use wallet-held assets across multiple DeFi markets without locking funds into separate liquidity pools. The protocol aims to improve capital efficiency through atomic settlement rather than

According to Binance's official announcement, the exchange will halt BNB Smart Chain (BEP20) deposits and withdrawals on July 30 at 13:55 CST for wallet maintenance, with service resuming after approximately one hour. Binance will also halt BNB Smart Chain deposits and withdrawals on August 25 at 1

Clearpool launched a trade finance vault on July 28, 2026, in partnership with Tradevu and managed by Cicada Credit, enabling USDC liquidity providers to finance tokenized invoices, purchase orders, and letters of credit with a target yield of approximately 15% annually. The initiative connects

According to Clearpool's announcement on July 28, the platform launched a new trade finance vault in partnership with Tradevu and managed by Cicada Credit, enabling USDC liquidity providers to target 15% annual yields by financing tokenized trade finance assets. The vault supports funding of

Uniswap founder Hayden Adams on Tuesday rejected criticism of the protocol's newly activated v4 fees, stating that claims about reduced liquidity provider earnings are based on incorrect assumptions. Adams disputed assertions that the protocol takes 25% of LP profits, using a 30-basis-point pool

According to Uniswap founder Hayden Adams on Tuesday, recent criticism of the protocol's v4 fee activation is based on incorrect assumptions. Adams disputed claims that the protocol fee reduces liquidity provider earnings, arguing that a 5-basis-point protocol fee on a 30 bps pool represents

According to Odaily, Ansem responded to community concerns about developers' reluctance to launch projects and heavy reliance on fee-based revenue models by proposing that builders construct on top of the ANSEM token. Ansem stated this approach eliminates token issuance risk while enabling more on-c

According to ChainCatcher citing DefiLlama data, Fake World Assets, an Ethereum-based random NFT acquisition protocol developed by Token Works, surpassed Aave and Uniswap in daily protocol revenue on its fourth day after relaunching on

According to SolanaFloor, Solana perpetual trading platform Bulk has launched BIP-1, which allows anyone to deploy independently operated perpetual markets on mainnet with near-zero upfront costs. Successful markets can subsequently join Bulk's portfolio margin system, enabling traders to reduce

According to Foresight News, Base Build launched Base Verify Onchain on Base Sepolia testnet to address sybil attacks in blockchain ecosystems. The feature enables developers to enforce "one real user, one claim" rules in smart contracts by generating stable identity hashes for verified users

Zcash’s Tachyon project was announced on July 29. It completed formal verification of the Ironwood shielding pool and released a machine-verified proof containing more than 2,700 theorems written in the Lean programming language. The verification establishes a security property called “Balance Integrity,” effectively ruling out the possibility of an undetectable forgery vulnerability existing in Ironwood under its established cryptographic assumptions. Tachyon Project Formal Verification Complet

According to Cointelegraph, blockchain security company AmericanFortress on July 29 proposed a quantum-safe wallet protection scheme compatible with Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana that requires no fund transfers, key rotation, or address changes. The solution uses zero-knowledge proofs based on walle

Zcash researchers completed formal verification of Ironwood on Tuesday, publishing a machine-checked proof that the network's new shielded pool does not contain undetectable counterfeiting bugs under its stated cryptographic assumptions. Project Tachyon said the proof ensures the shielded pool

According to Project Tachyon, on Tuesday, Zcash researchers completed formal verification of Ironwood, publishing a machine-checked proof that the network's new shielded pool does not contain undetectable counterfeiting bugs under its stated cryptographic assumptions. The proof, written in the

According to ChainCatcher, Uniswap founder Hayden Adams recently clarified on X that protocol fees for v4 are additive rather than deducted from LP earnings. Adams stated that LPs continue to earn 30 basis points per trade unchanged, while the protocol fee on 30bp pools stands at 5 basis points,

According to Solflare co-founder Vidor, Solflare Card suspended services on July 29 after card partner Kulipa ceased operations due to solvency issues. User funds remain secure as the service operates on end-to-end self-custody, with card transactions drawn directly from user wallets, requiring no d