Project Progress

Zcash developers announced on Tuesday they are nearing a mathematical proof that the protocol's upcoming Ironwood shielded pool does not contain an undetectable counterfeiting bug. Project Tachyon outlined new details of its verification effort for Zcash's Ironwood shielded pool, with founder

Ondo tokenized U.S. securities on Ethereum while maintaining regulated custody and shareholder rights. The structure grants token holders voting and disclosures through Broadridge’s ProxyVote system. The model follows recent SEC guidance and could shape future on-chain securities

Lido manages over 9.2 million Ether in staked deposits, roughly 28% of all staked ETH on the network, and its liquid staking token stETH now serves as collateral across nearly every major DeFi lending protocol. A crypto.news analysis published on July 7 highlighted how leverage strategies built on s

Ondo Finance announced Tuesday that its perpetual futures trading platform now allows traders to use tokenized stocks as collateral, marking the first platform to offer this capability. The firm stated that this feature is available to pre-alpha users of Ondo Perps and enables 24/7 permissionless tr

According to TheStreet, Ondo Finance launched Ondo Perps on July 7, the first permissionless platform enabling investors outside the United States to trade perpetual futures on U.S. equities using tokenized stock and ETF holdings directly as collateral. The platform offers up to 20x leverage on

According to Evernorth, a public XRP treasury company, the XRP Ledger now hosts more than $4 billion in tokenized real-world assets (RWAs), exceeding the XRP ETF market at approximately $900 million by more than 4 times. Over 500 tokenized financial products, including bonds and treasury

According to Odaily, Base will activate the B20 token standard on its mainnet on July 9 at 2:00 AM Beijing time. The upgrade was originally scheduled for June 27 but was postponed due to stability concerns. B20 is Base's native token standard designed to improve user experience through faster,

Rhino.fi introduced a USDT credit facility through the Wildcat protocol on the Plasma network to address liquidity constraints in corporate stablecoin settlements and enable high-value cross-chain transactions. The market launched with $2 million initial capacity and offers lenders a projected 10

Rhino.fi launched its inaugural USDT credit facility via the Wildcat protocol on the Plasma network on July 07, offering lenders a projected 10 percent yield. The market debuts with $2 million initial capacity aimed at resolving liquidity constraints in corporate stablecoin settlements and

According to YGG's official announcement on Monday (July 7), Yield Guild Games shut down its Web3 publishing arm YGG Play and laid off 35 employees. Despite lifetime revenue exceeding $9 million, YGG Play was unable to sustain commercially in the current gaming market amid the October 2025 crypto do

According to BONK Foundation, on July 6 an estimated $20 million worth of BONK tokens were drained from the BonkDAO treasury through a malicious governance proposal attack. The foundation identified exchange wallets used to purchase BONK before the proposal was submitted and is coordinating with

According to Foresight News, decentralized yield platform Multipli.fi will shut down all v1 features today (July 7), with v2 migration expected to complete within hours. Users will retain access to view v1 interface and funds, but cannot perform any operations. Once v2 migration is complete, it will

According to Kontan, Tokocrypto launched Tokenized Stocks after a soft launch on June 23, offering six blockchain-based tokens tied to global companies including Nvidia, SpaceX, Micron, SanDisk, Circle, and Tesla. The tokens use a 1:1 proof-of-collateral model verifiable on-chain and track

According to Odaily, TermiX, an AI Agent settlement layer on BNB Chain, officially launched its mainnet and the Agent.family marketplace on July 6. Agents can register ERC8004-based Agent IDs on Agent.family and publish, accept, or validate over 120 different types of Agent Jobs. Major Agents such a

According to Bitcoin.com News, Bitcoin's BIP-110 soft fork proposal saw cumulative miner signaling of just 0.42% through July 2, well below its 55% activation threshold. A mandatory signaling window is expected to begin around August 8 at block 961,632. The proposal targets data embedding used by

NiceHash confirmed on July 07, 2026 that its EasyMining solo mining service has mined 200 Bitcoin blocks since October 2022, verified through on-chain coinbase signature data. The milestone reflects the growth of NiceHash's hashrate marketplace, which has operated since 2014. The 200 blocks

BonkDAO suffered a governance attack that drained approximately $20 million worth of BONK tokens from its treasury after an attacker spent about $4 million to acquire voting power. The attack was disclosed on July 6 by BonkDAO, the decentralized governance organization associated with the

According to BonkDAO's official statement disclosed on July 6, the Solana-based DAO suffered a governance attack that drained approximately $20 million worth of BONK tokens from its treasury. An attacker spent roughly $4 million to acquire sufficient voting power through token-weighted voting on Bon

Yield Guild Games shut down its crypto game publishing arm YGG Play and laid off 35 employees in 2026, citing commercial unsustainability caused by a prolonged crypto market downturn and a difficult video game publishing environment. The decision followed a major market crash on October 10 that

According to BlockBeats, Tether is launching native USDT on the Bitcoin network today (July 7) via the RGB v0.11.1 protocol, with UTEXO handling commercial issuance and distribution. This marks USDT's first return to Bitcoin's mainchain since 2014, when it originally launched via the Omni protocol.