Project Progress

According to Circle's announcement on Wednesday, the stablecoin issuer named 11 founding validators for its Arc blockchain, including BlackRock, The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation, Galaxy, Global Payments, ICE, Mastercard, MoneyGram, SBI Group,

According to Foresight News, the Ethereum Foundation's Trillion Dollar Security (1TS) program has announced a grant to the Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF) to support WEBCAT development, an open-source browser tool that verifies website code authenticity. WEBCAT enables users to confirm that co

Ethereum developers submitted EIP-8361 on August 4, 2026, a proposal that would burn a rising share of validator rewards as more ETH is staked, cancelling issuance entirely when half the supply reaches stake. Co-author Jérôme de Tychey stated the validator entry queue is adding 1.75 million ETH

According to Ethereum developers, a new proposal submitted on August 4 would burn validator rewards if staking reaches half of ETH's total supply. EIP-8361, called a tapered issuance burn, introduces a rising deduction on validator duties that scales with the staking ratio, ultimately canceling

According to Galaxy Digital's Q2 2026 earnings report, the company reported a net loss of $85.31 million, narrowing significantly from Q1's $216.3 million loss. The data center division achieved profitability for the first time, with adjusted EBITDA of $11.49 million, as the 133 MW Helios data cente

According to HyperliquidNews, HIP-3 deployers will be able to set fee multipliers between 0.1x and 3x upon the next network upgrade, with the option to configure multipliers individually for each asset.

According to BlockBeats, Circle reported on August 5 that USDC circulation reached $73.3 billion in the second quarter, up 19% year-over-year. The stablecoin recorded $14.8 trillion in on-chain transaction volume, up 151% YoY. Circle's Q2 total revenue and reserve income came to $701 million, up 7%

According to PANews, Circle announced on August 5 that its Arc mainnet, an open blockchain network for global financial markets, will launch on September 16. The network has attracted over 100 institutional participants and is currently running on a private testnet. BlackRock, DTCC, Galaxy, Global P

Cipher Digital (CIFR) shares fell 15.7% on Tuesday after the bitcoin miner reported a net loss of $267.5 million in the second quarter, more than five times the loss registered a year ago. The wider losses came as the company posted $24.8 million in revenue for the quarter, down from $43.6 million i

According to Hyperliquid, the protocol's next network upgrade will enable third-party deployers to configure perpetual futures market fees on a per-asset basis, replacing the previously unified DEX-wide fee structure. The feature is now live on testnet, with deployer APIs updated

According to an official announcement Tuesday, a16z-backed blockchain game developer Proof of Play will cease operations after failing to prove that decentralized games could support a large-scale internet at scale. The studio will open-source much of its code, artwork, and internal software-develop

CZR Exchange launched CZR Wallet, a self-custody Web3 application that allows users to manage digital assets while controlling their private keys. The wallet expands CZR Exchange's digital asset ecosystem by combining decentralized asset ownership with the company's centralized trading services.

AEREDIUM Holdings was granted U.S. Patent No. 12,694,407 B1 on July 29 for an artificial intelligence system that continuously audits digital asset reserves. The patent was invented by Albert Dadon, founder and CEO of AEREDIUM. The system addresses a gap in the stablecoin industry, where issuers

According to Bitcoin.com News, AEREDIUM CEO Albert Dadon won U.S. Patent 12,694,407 B1 on July 29 for a 4-model artificial intelligence system designed to continuously audit stablecoin reserves in real time. The patented architecture requires consensus from at least three of four independent AI mode

According to DefiLlama, Fake World Assets (FWA), an Ethereum-based probabilistic NFT trading protocol, saw its daily revenue surge to $447,604 on July 25 (Korean time), up 12.2 times from its launch on July 21. The surge exceeded Collector Crypt's daily protocol revenue of $315,900 on the same

According to Boltz, the company has halted its Bitcoin swap service indefinitely after AI-assisted attacks overwhelmed its ability to maintain secure operations. The non-custodial provider said it cannot estimate when services will resume, as security reviews determined it could not safely restart o

Ethereum researchers, including Ethereum Foundation researcher Justin Drake, proposed a tapered issuance burn mechanism in mid-July that would gradually destroy validator rewards as the network's staking ratio increases. According to the draft proposal, once approximately 60.25 million ETH, or