Project Progress

According to Solana governance materials, Solana validators began voting on SGP-0003, a governance proposal restructuring the network's fee model, on August 23. The vote runs through Epoch 1023, expected to conclude on August 27. The proposal introduces a variable, resource-based transaction fee

According to ChainCatcher, Shipyard will discontinue IPFS-related engineering, maintenance, and infrastructure operations on September 30, 2026, after Protocol Labs declined to renew funding. The engineering collective will cease active maintenance of core projects including Kubo, Helia, Boxo,

According to CoinDesk, Monad today proposed a wallet upgrade that separates addresses from control credentials, allowing users to change lost or expired keys without replacing their address or moving assets. The design supports traditional private keys, passkeys on mobile and computer devices,

According to ChainCatcher, the Ethereum community today released an Ethereum Improvement Proposal (EIP) for a new deposit contract supporting post-quantum cryptography. The proposal introduces support for variable-length public keys and credential metadata with explicit

BNB Smart Chain activated its Pasteur hard fork on Tuesday, closing bridge verification and validator authorization gaps while introducing a new block-building route. The upgrade combines three BNB Evolution Proposals to strengthen bridge, staking and governance security while increasing block

According to ChainCatcher, on August 24, decentralized over-collateralized stablecoin USDD officially launched its Vault feature on Ethereum, allowing users to mint USDD using ETH and WBTC as core collateral assets. This expansion extends USDD Vault functionality from the TRON network to Ethereum, b

Attackers exploited an authorization vulnerability at the BounceBit protocol layer to transfer approximately 286.5 million $BB from 9 core accounts on the mainnet. BounceBit announced the permanent closure of the existing Layer 1 mainnet, abandoning plans to relaunch the blockchain after patching the vulnerability. $BB will be migrated to BNB Chain and reissued in BEP-20 format based on an on-chain snapshot taken before the attack. Attack Details: Protocol-Layer Authorization Vulnerability Led t

Standard Chartered Bank (Hong Kong) (Standard Chartered HK) announced on August 25 that it had become the first bank authorized to distribute HKDAP. HKDAP is Hong Kong’s first regulated Hong Kong dollar stablecoin and can be redeemed for Hong Kong dollars at a 1:1 ratio. Standard Chartered Bank plans to begin using HKDAP in Q4 2026 to settle tokenized money market funds, facilitate intra-group bank transfers, and process cross-border payments. HKDAP Issuance Structure: 1:1 Redemption for Hong Ko

According to Ethereum's official blog, the next Ethereum upgrade Glamsterdam has finalized its scope in mid-August, with two major Ethereum Improvement Proposals (EIPs) officially excluded from this cycle. EIP-7610, which proposed reverting CREATE operations for non-empty storage accounts, and EIP-7

According to BlockBeats, on August 25, Solana's community advanced two governance proposals—SGP-0002 and SGP-0003—designed to tighten SOL token supply through reduced issuance and increased token burns. SGP-0003 proposes a resource-consumption-based transaction fee mechanism, expected to boost

According to ChainCatcher, Monad announced a new MIP (Monad Improvement Proposal) today enabling accounts to rotate authentication keys while maintaining their addresses. The proposal allows smooth upgrades to quantum-resistant cryptographic schemes to address potential future threats from quantum c

According to ChainCatcher, Towns co-founders Ben and Pat announced today that protocol operations have been transferred to the Switzerland-based Towns Foundation after five years of development. The new leadership team will oversee the protocol and drive its next growth phase. Towns has

According to Foresight News, cross-chain protocol warp.green has confirmed a vulnerability in its ERC-20 bridge located in the Chia-side module, which has been exploited. The breach resulted in the loss of 93,000 USDC (comprising 85,000 wUSDC.b and 8,000 wUSDC). The attacker has converted the

According to Morpho, the Lend Callbacks feature is now live, allowing unfilled fixed-rate limit orders in the lending market to earn floating-rate yields while awaiting execution. Users can now submit higher fixed-rate offers while maintaining floating-rate income as a yield

According to Bitwise CEO on X, the company will launch a novel product type tomorrow (August 25) designed specifically for on-chain native users. The CEO did not disclose further details about the product.

According to Sui, the network has launched Squid Mode, allowing AI agents to access wallets without requiring private keys. The feature executes strategies outside of agents and splits each signature across independent validators to eliminate single points of failure. Squid Mode is built on

According to Foresight News, Ethereum engineer Mislav Javor has joined the nonprofit Ethlabs research lab. Javor has worked in Ethereum development since 2016 and is a two-time startup founder who co-authored "Developers Guide to Ethereum," one of the earliest EVM development resources. He will