Project Progress

According to Foresight News, Circle will begin deprecating its USDC cross-chain protocol CCTP V1 on October 31, 2026, with full deprecation completed by December 1. Migration to CCTP V2 is mandatory for all applications routing USDC transfers through the V1 contracts. CCTP V2 introduces standard an

According to Chris Johnson of Virtuals Protocol, Ethereum's ERC-8196 standard, titled "AI Agent Authenticated Wallet," reached final status on August 28, concluding its community review process. Co-authored by Leigh Cronian of Cybercentry and Chris Johnson, the standard introduces a policy-based

According to Foresight News, Nillion, a decentralized privacy computing network, has launched Dusk, the first phase of its seven-stage Encrypted Markets roadmap, now live on Sepolia testnet. Dusk introduces the Covenants mechanism, enabling traders to set conditional trading orders based on price th

According to Decrypt, Solana held its first binding on-chain governance vote on August 28, with all three inflation-related proposals passing by quorum. The network approved SGP-0002, which doubles the disinflation rate from 15% to 30% annually, accelerating the target of a fixed 1.5% inflation

According to an official announcement, Ethena announced on August 28 that it is expanding USDe support to basis trading backed by stock perpetual contracts. Stock perpetual contracts now have open interest near $6 billion across approximately 200 contracts on trading platforms where Ethena already o

According to BlockBeats, MANTRA Chain confirmed on Aug 28 that attackers exploited an integer underflow vulnerability in the cosmos/evm module to transfer 720,923,967.99 MANTRA from two addresses on Aug 20. Approximately 600 million MANTRA came from a burn address, while 120.9 million came from a ge

According to ChainCatcher, USDD and Pendle launched the second phase of their sUSDD market incentive program on August 27 with a total reward pool of $600,000. The incentive period runs from August 27 through November 26, 2026 (91 days). The first phase concluded with over $300,000 in rewards and

According to Foresight News, GnosisDAO proposal GIP-154 passed voting, allocating $15 million in stablecoins to Gnosis Ltd over 12 months beginning September 1, disbursed quarterly. Funds will support development of the Ethereum Economic Area (EEZ), Gnosis Chain, and Gnosis Pay. The same proposal in

According to Foresight News, Scroll co-founder and CEO Raza announced the protocol will transform into a private Layer 2 serving AI Agents, abandoning its generalist positioning. Raza stated that generic L2s are outdated and that specialization is necessary for survival. The transition will make

According to ChainCatcher, TRON's Proposal 107 officially took effect on August 28, activating TVM Prague and Osaka compatibility features from GreatVoyage-v4.8.2. The upgrade enables on-chain historical block hash reads, introduces the CLZ instruction, and adds native secp256r1 precompiled

World Liberty Financial, a Trump-linked crypto venture company, is preparing to launch a federally chartered national trust bank after the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency granted preliminary conditional approval earlier this month. The proposed bank is intended to issue, redeem, and

According to The Sandbox's Thursday post-mortem, the gaming platform pledged to reimburse eligible SAND holders on a 1:1 basis following an Aug. 21 bridge exploit that drained approximately 14.744 million SAND tokens, worth around $700,000, from an Ethereum vault. Users who held bridged SAND on

According to Foresight News, Arrow Finance, a DeFi protocol in the Robinhood ecosystem, announced its mainnet is launching soon and aUSD liquidity has migrated to UP, Robinhood Chain's native DEX. The move aims to provide deeper liquidity and better exchange rates for aUSD trading. Existing liquidit

According to Bitwise CEO's X post, the company has launched ATPs, a tokenized stock product that enables on-chain equity trading. The CEO stated: "Tokenized stocks are now live. We're excited to introduce ATPs. Finance, on-chain."

StarkWare announced Wednesday that a transaction using its Quantum Safe Bitcoin (QSB) method was confirmed in block 964,199, mined by MARA Pool at 8:48 p.m. UTC. The transaction represents Bitcoin's first quantum-safe spend on mainnet, designed to shield moved coins from future quantum attacks

Solana processed a record 4.2 billion transactions in July, according to analyst firm The Kobeissi Letter, while validators entered the final epoch of the network's first formal governance vote on proposals that include cutting about US$1.5 billion in new SOL issuance over six years. Voting opened

According to StarkWare, the first quantum-safe Bitcoin transaction was confirmed in block 964,199 on Wednesday, August 26 at 8:48 p.m. UTC, mined by MARA Pool. The transaction combined 39,179 and 10,000 satoshis into a 44,000-satoshi output, paying 5,179 satoshis in fees, and was designed to

According to analyst firm The Kobeissi Letter, Solana processed a record 4.2 billion transactions in July, up 13.5% from June and 91% above December 2025. On Aug. 28, validators entered the final epoch of the network's first formal governance vote, with three measures on the ballot including

According to Inco Network, the blockchain privacy layer was deployed on Celo Sepolia testnet on August 27, enabling private digital asset balances within Celo-supported wallets. The deployment allows developers to test privacy-focused applications and explore confidential asset functionality in a co