Project Progress

According to Jito, the FireBAM validator client is now open-sourced and live on mainnet, supporting both Frankendancer and Firedancer clients. Validators running FireBAM gain access to BAM verifiable sequencing capabilities, Jito Tips, and priority fee revenue. Nodes running FireBAM are eligible

According to Foresight News, ENS announced on August 12 that ENS App and ENS Explorer have entered public Beta testing on Ethereum Sepolia testnet. Users can test the new ENSv2 registry and the first public upgrade process. New features include name upgrades, custom themes, renewal functionality, and price change alerts in ENS App; direct renewal, subdomain management, and dedicated top-level domain pages in ENS Explorer. Starting August 18, ENS will run a security audit competition with Immunef

Fidelity Investments filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday to add staking capabilities to its spot Ether exchange-traded product, the Fidelity Ethereum Fund (FETH). The asset manager stated that FETH could stake up to 100% of its Ether holdings under normal conditions,

Fidelity Investments filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday to add staking capabilities to its spot Ether exchange-traded fund, the Fidelity Ethereum Fund (FETH). Under normal conditions, FETH could stake up to 100% of its Ether holdings, excluding reserves for redemptions a

According to ChainCatcher, Venus Protocol has launched the Liquidity Hub, a unified liquidity layer enabling users to deposit a single asset and receive corresponding Hub Tokens. The protocol automatically optimizes yields across Core, Flux, and Fixed-Rate Vaults, eliminating the need for manual pos

According to Foresight News, Hyperliquid's foundation has opened its non-validator nodes to peer access by infrastructure service providers, aiming to lower barriers to high-quality on-chain data. Admission criteria include: minimum 1-year operating history, 100+ active clients, coverage of at

Bluwhale, an AI-native financial operating system, was named to the Inc. 5000 for the first time, ranking No. 2372 on the 2026 list of fastest-growing private companies in America. The ranking reflects the company's revenue growth from 2022 through 2025, a period during which Bluwhale scaled the

According to Vitalik Buterin's recent post on X, Ethereum co-founder compared the network's earlier roadmap with a newer L1 Strawmap, elevating privacy and quantum safety as higher-priority research areas. The updated planning document emphasizes native privacy requirements, keyed nonces, shielded p

According to PANews, Zilliqa announced on August 12 that its address checker has gone live as part of its Ledger incident response. The migration tool is entering audit phase, with the team set to announce its launch date upon completing audit assessments. Multiple exchanges have confirmed

Keel Infrastructure shut all US Bitcoin mining sites, repurposing them for AI and high-performance computing per its August 2026 Form 10-Q. The company reported a $65 million net loss alongside $819 million in total liquidity and $121 million in Bitcoin reserves. The shift represents a regional

According to HyperliquidNews, Hyperliquid extended HIP-1 with a new scaleWei function controlled by deployers, enabling atomic proportional balance transfers for scenarios such as denomination redenomination. When a token equals the referenceToken, unfilled orders will automatically

Kostas Chalkias, co-founder and chief cryptographer of Mysten Labs, has revealed plans to mass-produce an affordable quantum-resistant hardware wallet for the Sui blockchain, with a target retail price below $10. The personal initiative, undertaken outside his corporate role, involves leasing a

Solana Name Service and Solflare announced a collaboration to support an upgrade for .sol domains. The partnership focuses on improving compatibility for Solflare wallet users as Solana's naming infrastructure evolves. According to an August 10 social media post from Solana Name Service, .sol

NHN is recruiting blockchain and digital asset talent for its new business strategy team while positioning stablecoins as a new growth driver for its payment business, according to a job posting on Incruit on 12일. The move follows NHN KCP's July 23 stablecoin payment and settlement technology

According to Recruit Korea, NHN announced on August 12 that it is hiring blockchain and Web3 specialists to expand its new business strategy team. The South Korean IT company is positioning stablecoin-based payments as a key growth driver after reporting Q2 payment transaction revenue of 394

According to PANews, OSL Group, a global stablecoin payments and trading platform, today (August 12) launched OSL AgentPay, a stablecoin payment infrastructure designed for AI agents. The platform enables automated and autonomous payment workflows for frequent, low-value transactions between agents.

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin posted on X on August 12, comparing the Ethereum roadmap he proposed in 2023 with the latest version of the Ethereum Foundation's Strawmap. He said privacy protection and quantum resistance are entirely new top-priority items that were completely absent from the 2023 version, while recursive STARK verification and AI-assisted formal verification are positioned as core protocol components. Key Differences Between the 2023 Ethereum Roadmap and Strawmap (Source:

According to Odaily, Lido announced instant withdrawal functionality, with most EarnETH and EarnUSD withdrawals processed within seconds through the Lido Earn buffer mechanism.