Project Progress

Galaxy Digital launched a Bitcoin Quantum Readiness Initiative on Tuesday, pledging up to $5 million in developer grants, a research program, and a Quantum Advisory Council to harden the network against quantum computing threats. The Nasdaq-listed firm will fund post-quantum cryptographic

Robinhood Chain has accumulated $431 million in total value locked and nearly $400 million in stablecoin market cap in under three weeks, according to FalconX. The Ethereum Layer 2 network, built on the Arbitrum tech stack and launched July 1, processes roughly 6 million transactions per day and

Ripple Prime is positioning itself as institutional infrastructure for 24/7 blockchain-based finance following its acquisition of prime broker Hidden Road. Mike Higgins, Business Development/Client Director at Ripple Prime, told Markets Media that global financial markets are evolving toward

According to Bloomberg, on July 21, Twenty One Capital, Strike, and Elektron Energy terminated their previously planned three-way merger. Jack Mallers, chief executive of both Twenty One Capital and Strike, stepped down from his role at Twenty One Capital, with Elektron Energy CEO Raphael Zagury

According to official statement, Tether International, S.A. de C.V., the controlling shareholder of Twenty One Capital, appointed Raphael Zagury as the company's new chief executive officer on July 21. Jack Mallers, the current CEO, will step down to focus on Strike's

The Ethereum Name Service DAO activated an eight-member Security Council with authority to cancel malicious governance proposals before execution. The council operates through a five-of-eight multisignature wallet and will serve until

According to BlockBeats, Robinhood Chain has attracted $431 million in total value locked (TVL) and over 250,000 daily active users as of July 21, within three weeks of its launch. Meme token trading accounts for more than 80% of the chain's $9 billion in decentralized exchange (DEX) trading

The Ethereum Name Service DAO has activated an eight-member Security Council to cancel malicious governance proposals before execution. The council operates through a five-of-eight multisignature wallet, requiring at least five members to approve any intervention, and serves until July 16, 2028.

According to ChainCatcher, Bit-Play, a decentralized aggregated trading platform, officially launched on July 21. The platform offers four core features: on-chain interactions, lightweight content creation, decentralized social functionality, and ecosystem

According to Foresight News, Zcash full node client Zakura launched, developed jointly by Project Tachyon and Valar Group. Official testing shows mainnet synchronization takes approximately 4 hours 20 minutes, delivering nearly 5x faster performance compared to Zebra, while an 11 GB pruned

According to PANews, Matrixdock—the RWA tokenization platform under BIT (formerly Matrixport)—completed its fourth consecutive half-yearly independent reserve audit on July 21, including tokenized silver XAGm for the first time. Conducted by Bureau Veritas, the audit covered 574 gold and silver

On July 21, 2026 (Beijing time), bitcoin mining firm IREN Limited (Nasdaq ticker: IREN) closed at $40.20, up 19.57% on the day. Intraday, the share price briefly touched $41.10, an increase of more than 22% from the previous day’s close of $33.62. This surge was not driven by a synchronized rise in the bitcoin price—in fact, bitcoin did not show wild, proportional fluctuations during this period. The key driver behind the spike in IREN’s share price was major progress

According to PR Newswire, Hut 8 signed a $9.8 billion, 15-year artificial intelligence infrastructure lease at Beacon Point campus in Nueces County, Texas. The agreement covers 352 megawatts of IT capacity for the same high-investment-grade tenant that leased the first phase, doubling its

Hyperliquid is seeking community feedback on a protocol upgrade that would enable permissionless deployment of HIP-4 prediction markets using validator-approved templates. The proposal aims to reduce the approval burden on validators by allowing market creators to launch prediction markets without i

Hyperliquid recently proposed a protocol upgrade to enable permissionless deployment of prediction markets using validator-approved templates. The decentralized approach would reduce the need for validators to individually approve each market listing, instead allowing standardized templates to

OKX Wallet launched social login on July 21, allowing users to create self-custodial wallets within seconds via email, Apple, or Google accounts without recording seed phrases. Private keys are generated, stored, and signed in a TEE (Trusted Execution Environment), ensuring OKX cannot access or

According to Jesse Pollak, creator of Coinbase's Ethereum layer-2 network Base, the platform will launch 1:1-backed tokenized equities imminently. In a Tuesday X post, Pollak stated that Base is "dotting i's and crossing t's" on the rollout and "should be very soon." Pollak noted that Robinhood

According to Morph's official announcement, PopDEX has become one of the first projects to build on Morph Tachyon, a newly launched independent Layer 1 network designed for on-chain trading. PopDEX will leverage Tachyon's architecture to deliver high-performance perpetual derivatives trading,

NEAR Protocol rolled out a mainnet upgrade on July 20, 2026, that activates quantum-safe signing and dynamic resharding simultaneously. The upgrade introduces a National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)-approved post-quantum digital signature scheme, making NEAR one of the first