Project Progress

According to ChainCatcher, Abstract announced the launch of Builder XP, an extension of its XP system designed to reward developers and projects contributing to the Abstract ecosystem. The mechanism distributes Builder XP weekly based on each project's impact on the chain, aiming to incentivize cont

According to GoPlus official announcement on August 18, the company upgraded DeepScan with an AI-powered smart contract security solution. The upgrade introduces three core modules: AI contract audit that identifies syntax and business logic vulnerabilities; continuous security monitoring for live c

According to PANews, on August 18, crypto influencer Ansem launched Ansem.io, a Solana-based token issuance platform for the ANSEM community. Users can create tokens on the platform and trade them starting from launch day. All tokens issued through the platform are built on Pump.fun and run on the S

According to ChainCatcher, Offchain Labs research team achieved a 4,000x speedup in zero-knowledge proof generation using a vector commitment scheme, reducing proof time for 64,000 data points from approximately 2 minutes to 32 milliseconds. The team also unveiled Zaratan, a new proving system

According to Foresight News, NAVI Protocol launched the NAVI Prime lending framework on Sui on August 18. The framework introduces independently curated lending markets, each with customized risk frameworks, collateral methodologies, and market parameters. This modular approach enables

According to ChainCatcher, Centrifuge launched governance proposal CP172 on August 18, exploring the conversion of CFG tokens to company equity. The proposal offers a 1:1 exchange ratio: 1 CFG converts to 1 share of Centrifuge Inc., recorded in tokenized form. CFG holders with 100,000 or more token

According to Toni Wahrstätter, a member of the Ethereum Foundation's Protocol Architecture team, on August 18, the Hegotá upgrade is taking shape with two primary proposals: FOCIL as the main upgrade to enhance censorship resistance, and Frame Transactions as the execution layer upgrade to improve t

According to Cryptopolitan, Compound's DAO voted to approve a record $52 million two-year development budget on August 17 and completed leadership restructuring, signaling a strategic pivot toward institutional DeFi. COMP token surged more than 10% in 24 hours to approximately $18 in response. Of t

According to The Defiant, Neynar announced on August 17 that it is seeking a new buyer for Farcaster, Clanker, and its developer platform, seven months after acquiring the protocol from original creator Merkle Manufactory. Protocol fees have plummeted dramatically. According to DefiLlama,

According to BlockBeats, on August 18, Farcaster, Clanker, and Neynar initiated a process to find new operational teams. The current team members will transition to new projects. The teams noted that while these products previously aligned with their development strategy, changing circumstances

According to the platform, Printr will halt all operations on August 31, 2026, due to insufficient funding and distribution support in the current market environment. The team stated it exhausted all viable options over the past three months. Effective August 18, all staking positions and rewards a

According to Odaily, Ansem has launched the z500 on-chain index. Participating projects must airdrop a portion of their token supply to ANSEM holders and can purchase and burn ANSEM to improve their ranking on the leaderboard. The z500 leaderboard displays teams that have burned the most ANSEM and p

IREN delivered the first of four planned Horizon AI cloud deployments to Microsoft under a five-year, $9.7 billion contract, the company announced Monday. The delivery follows a cloud service agreement signed in November 2025. IREN is transitioning from bitcoin mining to AI infrastructure

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin stated that Ethereum is exploring a hybrid model that combines the advantages of different blockchain governance approaches to increase scalability. Buterin explained that Ethereum aims to combine the strengths of UTXO-type state, dynamic state, and models in

Zcash (ZEC) surged past $500 on Monday, reaching $518 after ZODL founder Josh Swihart announced key protocol upgrades. The privacy coin rebounded from an Aug. 11 slump below $470, falling from under $495 on Sunday afternoon to a 24-hour low of $484 before recovering to $490 just before midnight.

Ethereum Foundation researchers proposed prioritizing Frame Transactions and Fork-Choice Enforced Inclusion Lists (FOCIL) for the Hegotá upgrade scheduled for 2027, according to a post on X by Protocol Architecture team researcher Toni Wahrstätter on Monday. The proposals aim to enable privacy

According to Ethereum Foundation researcher Toni Wahrstätter on Monday, the Protocol Architecture team wants to prioritize Frame Transactions (EIP-8141) and Fork-Choice Enforced Inclusion Lists or FOCIL (EIP-7805) for Hegotá, the major Ethereum upgrade scheduled for 2027. Frame Transactions would

According to ChainCatcher, Yield Guild Games (YGG) announced the official launch of YGG 3.0 today, transitioning from a Web3 gaming pioneer to a cross-domain infrastructure platform. The new version provides communities with tools for organizing labor, skills, and capital across digital economy

Cardano (ADA) published its Dijkstra Era hard fork roadmap, outlining the Layer-1 blockchain network's next major technical transformation with code development targeted for completion by the end of Q4 2026. The roadmap details a two-phase upgrade process designed to enhance network performance,

According to Cardano's official announcement, the Layer-1 blockchain network has released its hard fork roadmap for the 'Dijkstra Era.' The first phase targets completion of core software development by the end of Q4 2026, including Cardano protocol upgrade to version 12 with improvements to network