Project Progress

Balancer DAO has proposed winding down its decentralized finance protocol and distributing remaining treasury assets to BAL token holders, according to Marcus Hardt, the protocol's treasury council member and former CEO. The proposal comes approximately six months after a November 2025 exploit

Kraken introduced vaults that allow eligible clients to allocate SPYx, QQQx and NVDAx tokenized assets to onchain lending strategies. The exchange said yield accrues continuously and is paid in the same xStock deposited. The product aims to enable capital productivity for positions that would

According to Odaily, Ave has completed Arc chain integration and will support cross-chain flash swaps and on-chain trading when Arc mainnet launches tomorrow (September 16). Arc is an open Layer 1 blockchain by Circle, supporting USDC native Gas, sub-second finality, and EVM compatibility,

According to Foresight News, Zama opened 16 privacy vaults on Morpho, supporting USDC, USDT, AUSD, and TGBP. Twelve vaults are privacy versions of existing Morpho products, with Steakhouse Financial, Armitage, Flowdesk, RockawayX, and Bitwise serving as vault curators. Zama's first vault, launched i

Astar Fi, the onchain personal finance manager incubated by Astar Foundation, launched its public beta on September 15, 2026. The self-custodial platform combines portfolio tracking with curated access to DeFi vaults from Morpho, Aave, and Midas, plus tokenized assets from issuers including

According to MetaversePost, Astar Fi, the onchain personal finance manager incubated by Astar Foundation, entered public beta today (September 15). The platform combines self-custodial portfolio tracking with curated earning and investing opportunities, offering access to 225 crypto assets, 436

According to CoinDesk, Solana's Transaction V1 activated today (September 15, 9:00 AM Beijing time), increasing the maximum transaction size from 1,232 bytes to 4,096 bytes. The upgrade enables developers to perform more complex atomic operations in a single transaction, including enterprise

Clearpool announced an expansion to the XRP Ledger (XRPL) through a governance proposal on September 11, 2026, to create the first institutional credit product using Ripple's RLUSD stablecoin. The initiative, developed in partnership with Cicada Partners and Hex Trust, aims to lend RLUSD to

According to Clearpool's governance proposal on September 11, 2026, the protocol expanded to the XRP Ledger (XRPL) to launch its first institutional credit product built natively on RLUSD, Ripple's stablecoin. Ripple will invest as a limited partner in the credit fund alongside other institutional i

On September 16, 2026, Arc, the Layer 1 network developed by Circle, will officially launch its public mainnet. This public blockchain, which began development in August 2025 and launched its testnet in October of that year, completed a $222 million institutional presale at a $3 billion valuation in May 2026, with a16z crypto leading a $75 million round. Arc’s core positioning is not “another general-purpose public blockchain,” but an institutional settlement network for Stablecoins, RWAs, and F

According to Derek Chiang, a researcher and founding member at Ethlabs, Ethereum and Base account abstraction standard talks broke down last week. Ethereum is advancing Frame Transactions under EIP-8141 as part of its Hegotá upgrade, while Base is developing native account abstraction via Keystore u

Tonkeeper, the largest self-custodial wallet in the TON ecosystem with over 77 million registered users, has rebranded to Keeper and expanded to support seven blockchain networks, according to a statement shared exclusively with The Block on Tuesday. The wallet now supports TON, Bitcoin, Ethereum, T

According to The Block, Tonkeeper rebranded to Keeper and expanded to support seven blockchain networks on Tuesday, September 9. The wallet now supports TON, Bitcoin, Ethereum, TRON, BNB Smart Chain, Arbitrum, and Base. Tonkeeper, which has over 77 million registered users, was originally built as a

Solana raised its maximum transaction size from 1,232 bytes to 4,096 bytes on Tuesday at the start of epoch 1,035 around 1:00 am UTC, according to blockchain data shared by the Solana Foundation. The upgrade allows developers to fit more complex operations into a single transaction, including zero-k

According to the Solana Foundation, Solana activated a mainnet upgrade on Tuesday at the start of epoch 1,035 (around 1:00 am UTC) that increased the maximum transaction size limit from 1,232 bytes to 4,096 bytes. The upgrade enables developers to fit more complex operations into a single transactio

According to Robinscan's announcement, the Robinhood Chain browser received a cease-and-desist letter from Etherscan recently. The letter cited six alleged infringement items on the old interface, including the search bar, homepage layout, and a "Got it!" button on the cookie banner. The team

According to DeFi analyst Jordi in Cryptoland, Uniswap's market share has increased from 21% to 31% since enabling the Fee Switch, gaining nearly 10 percentage points as the protocol integrated with the Robinhood channel. Uniswap's value capture has strengthened significantly, with monthly protocol

Zama is opening deposits into 16 confidential vaults on Morpho on Sept. 15 across assets including USDC, USDT, AUSD, and TGBP. The confidentiality protocol's first vault, launched in June with Morpho and Steakhouse Financial using Steakhouse's USDC Prime strategy, reached $40 million in total

According to The Block, Zama has opened 16 confidential vaults on Morpho, covering USDC, USDT, AUSD, and TGBP. The first vault, launched in June in collaboration with Morpho and Steakhouse Financial, grew to $40 million in total value locked within seven weeks using Steakhouse's USDC Prime