Project Progress

Robinhood's blockchain network has accumulated $146 million in tradeable tokenized stocks as of September 21, just days before its free-transaction promotion expires on September 29. The network has offered subsidized gas fees since its July 1 launch; the key question is whether on-chain activity

According to Odaily, Ondo Stocks now supports physical asset conversion between stocks and tokenized versions. The platform launched a primary issuance channel through Alpaca's Instant Tokenization Network (ITN), allowing approved institutions to mint Ondo Stocks tokens using existing stock assets o

According to ChainCatcher, Circle has launched its digital asset collateralized borrowing (DABB) feature on Arc and Ethereum networks, now available to qualified Circle Mint institutional clients. Customers can deposit Bitcoin, mint Circle-wrapped Bitcoin (cirBTC), and use it as collateral to borrow

The European Central Bank launched Pontes on Monday, a system that allows financial institutions to settle wholesale tokenized asset transactions in central bank money. The system provides an alternative to private settlement assets such as stablecoins for tokenized finance transactions. The ECB

According to Foresight News, Valour, a subsidiary of DeFi Technologies (Nasdaq: DEFT), has introduced its new Valour Funds SPC business line and launched its first hedge fund, Smart Crypto Fund SP, available to professional and qualified investors. The fund leverages AI investment strategies

According to ChainCatcher, Bitcoin BLAKE2b developers plan to require miners to wait 45 days before accessing newly mined BTCB2, with the change set to execute at block height 973440. The chain forked from Bitcoin on August 8. BTCB2 has declined 84% from its September peak of $1,799, currently

According to the Balancer governance forum, the protocol's contributors are proposing an orderly wind-down that would stop new pool creation, reduce activity, and eventually return treasury assets to BAL holders. A Snapshot vote is scheduled to run from September 25 through September 29. The

According to Foresight News, Taiko DAO submitted Proposal 24 on September 21 to upgrade four proxy contracts across Ethereum and Taiko, including cross-chain bridge and ERC20 Vault, with a new resolver registration on L2. The proposal fixes a critical vulnerability where tokens bridged from Taiko to

According to Dragonfly General Partner Haseeb Qureshi, Zcash should allow its developer fund to expire after 2028 rather than extending it further. The fund currently receives 20% of Zcash block rewards to finance privacy research, wallet development, and protocol maintenance. Qureshi's statement

Cardano's delegated representatives rejected a proposal to withdraw 12.29 million ADA from the community treasury to fund Input Output's Pogun Bitcoin DeFi product, with 35.67% of DRep voting power in favor and 64.33% opposed according to the final Koios summary. The vote means Cardano retains the ADA but forfeits revenue-sharing terms Input Output had attached to the deal. Charles Hoskinson subsequently stated IOG will no longer default to launching future products on Cardano, marking a governa

According to Koios summary, Cardano's delegated representatives today voted down a proposal to withdraw 12.29 million ADA from the community treasury to fund Input Output's Pogun Bitcoin DeFi product. Voting results showed 35.67% in favor and 64.33% opposed. The treasury retains the ADA but

According to TokenPocket's official X post, the wallet has launched an asset inheritance feature allowing users to designate heirs in advance and set triggers for inactivity periods with cancellable waiting intervals. The inheritance process executes via smart contracts while maintaining user

Hyperliquid launched manual spot borrowing, allowing users to borrow USDC and USDT stablecoins against collateral including HYPE and Bitcoin. The feature runs through HyperCore, the platform's native trading and account infrastructure, enabling traders to unlock liquidity without closing existing po

Hyperliquid has launched manual spot borrowing, allowing users to borrow stablecoins including USDC and USDT against collateral positions in HYPE and Bitcoin. The feature operates through HyperCore, Hyperliquid's native trading and account infrastructure, integrating borrowing directly into the

According to BlockBeats, Venus Protocol announced on September 21 that it will discontinue support for opBNB, Optimism, and Unichain effective October 23. The protocol has advised users with active positions on these networks to close their positions and withdraw funds before the

Zcash developers are targeting November 5 for NU7 mainnet activation, an upgrade that would reduce the network's target block interval from 75 seconds to 25 seconds. The upgrade follows two critical checkpoints: testnet activation targeted for

According to the Zcash Community forum, Zcash developers are targeting November 5 for NU7 mainnet activation, which would reduce the network's target block interval from 75 seconds to 25 seconds. Before mainnet activation, the network will reach two key milestones: testnet activation on October 6 a

According to BlockBeats, X-Agent released its latest whitepaper today (September 21), outlining its vision to transition AI from generating content to executing tasks and completing transactions. The whitepaper details X-Agent's product architecture, MCP ecosystem, business model, and use cases

ZetaChain tokenholders approved a plan Sunday to wind down the project's layer-1 blockchain and migrate its native ZETA token to Solana. Governance proposal 68 passed with 99.4% support and 58% participation, exceeding the network's 40% quorum requirement. The project said running its own Cosmos

According to Cointelegraph, ZetaChain tokenholders approved a plan on Sunday to wind down the project's layer-1 blockchain and migrate its native ZETA token to Solana. Governance proposal 68 passed with 99.4% support and 58% participation, exceeding the network's 40% quorum requirement. ZETA will