Project Progress

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

Tokenized stocks on Robinhood Chain jumped roughly fivefold in under two weeks to about $70 million. A dozen tokenized stocks are each clearing more than $500,000 in daily volume, with GameStop leading at $26.6 million daily, Nvidia at $14 million, and SpaceX at $6.4 million. The growth reflects a s

Tokenized real-world assets on Robinhood Chain jumped roughly fivefold in under two weeks to about $70 million. A dozen tokenized stocks are each clearing more than $500,000 in daily volume, with five above $1 million, led by GameStop

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

Bitcoin treasury Twenty One Capital named Raphael Zagury as its chief executive officer, a leadership change occurring seven months after the firm listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Zagury succeeds founder Jack Mallers, who is stepping down to focus on his Bitcoin payments company, Strike. The

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

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong stated on X Sunday that artificial intelligence will increase demand for crypto-based financial services rather than replace them, as agentic payment activity on the company's Base network surpassed 100 million transactions in June. Armstrong argued AI agents require

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong on Sunday promoted agentic finance (AiFi), positioning Base, USDC, and x402 as infrastructure for autonomous machine-to-machine payments. According to Armstrong, AI agents will demand programmable money rather than traditional banking systems, making crypto

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

Connor Fitzgerald, head of stablecoin partnerships at Stripe, announced his departure on X after building the company's global stablecoin card program from launch to operations across more than 100 markets. Fitzgerald joined Bridge one month after Stripe acquired the stablecoin platform and

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.

Ethereum's Glamsterdam upgrade entered its final devnet stage before public testnet deployment. The 241st ACDE meeting confirmed devnet8 will likely be the last devnet phase, targeting mainnet activation in the second half of this year. Base founder Jesse Pollack admitted in an Unchained interview t

Engendro Velho farm in Paraná, Brazil secured a loan of nearly $20K using 10 tokenized cows as collateral, while El Salvador's Central Bank reported that crypto comprised just $35.4 million (0.7%) of the country's $5 billion remittance market during H1 2026. The Brazilian transaction utilized

The SF-Olive Korea-Spain consortium has been selected by South Korea's Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy and the Korea Institute for Advancement of Technology (KIAT) for the '2026 International Joint Technology Development Project' to develop a Physical AI-based smart farm platform for olive