Project Progress

According to Clearpool's announcement on July 28, the platform launched a new trade finance vault in partnership with Tradevu and managed by Cicada Credit, enabling USDC liquidity providers to target 15% annual yields by financing tokenized trade finance assets. The vault supports funding of

Uniswap founder Hayden Adams on Tuesday rejected criticism of the protocol's newly activated v4 fees, stating that claims about reduced liquidity provider earnings are based on incorrect assumptions. Adams disputed assertions that the protocol takes 25% of LP profits, using a 30-basis-point pool

According to Uniswap founder Hayden Adams on Tuesday, recent criticism of the protocol's v4 fee activation is based on incorrect assumptions. Adams disputed claims that the protocol fee reduces liquidity provider earnings, arguing that a 5-basis-point protocol fee on a 30 bps pool represents

According to Odaily, Ansem responded to community concerns about developers' reluctance to launch projects and heavy reliance on fee-based revenue models by proposing that builders construct on top of the ANSEM token. Ansem stated this approach eliminates token issuance risk while enabling more on-c

According to ChainCatcher citing DefiLlama data, Fake World Assets, an Ethereum-based random NFT acquisition protocol developed by Token Works, surpassed Aave and Uniswap in daily protocol revenue on its fourth day after relaunching on

According to SolanaFloor, Solana perpetual trading platform Bulk has launched BIP-1, which allows anyone to deploy independently operated perpetual markets on mainnet with near-zero upfront costs. Successful markets can subsequently join Bulk's portfolio margin system, enabling traders to reduce

Zcash’s Tachyon project was announced on July 29. It completed formal verification of the Ironwood shielding pool and released a machine-verified proof containing more than 2,700 theorems written in the Lean programming language. The verification establishes a security property called “Balance Integrity,” effectively ruling out the possibility of an undetectable forgery vulnerability existing in Ironwood under its established cryptographic assumptions. Tachyon Project Formal Verification Complet

According to Cointelegraph, blockchain security company AmericanFortress on July 29 proposed a quantum-safe wallet protection scheme compatible with Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana that requires no fund transfers, key rotation, or address changes. The solution uses zero-knowledge proofs based on walle

Zcash researchers completed formal verification of Ironwood on Tuesday, publishing a machine-checked proof that the network's new shielded pool does not contain undetectable counterfeiting bugs under its stated cryptographic assumptions. Project Tachyon said the proof ensures the shielded pool

According to Project Tachyon, on Tuesday, Zcash researchers completed formal verification of Ironwood, publishing a machine-checked proof that the network's new shielded pool does not contain undetectable counterfeiting bugs under its stated cryptographic assumptions. The proof, written in the

According to ChainCatcher, Uniswap founder Hayden Adams recently clarified on X that protocol fees for v4 are additive rather than deducted from LP earnings. Adams stated that LPs continue to earn 30 basis points per trade unchanged, while the protocol fee on 30bp pools stands at 5 basis points,

According to Solflare co-founder Vidor, Solflare Card suspended services on July 29 after card partner Kulipa ceased operations due to solvency issues. User funds remain secure as the service operates on end-to-end self-custody, with card transactions drawn directly from user wallets, requiring no d

On July 28, Zcash activated the Ironwood upgrade at block height 3,428,143, sealing its Orchard shielded pool to new payments and forcing migration of approximately 3.6 million ZEC worth roughly $1.8 billion. The NU6.3 hard fork introduced a separate Ironwood pool with a new transaction format and a

According to TheStreet, 1inch announced the full public launch of Aqua on July 28, a self-custodial shared liquidity layer that allows providers to use the same wallet balance across multiple positions without locking assets in a pool. Aqua goes live on 13 EVM chains including Ethereum, Arbitrum,

Ankr launched a rewards platform called Forge on July 15, introducing a revenue-based incentive model that diverges from traditional token emission structures. The platform funds rewards through revenue generated by Ankr's existing blockchain infrastructure operations rather than minting new $ANKR t

On July 15, Ankr launched Forge, a rewards platform that ties incentives to actual infrastructure revenue rather than token emissions. Users convert $ANKR holdings and complete on-chain missions to earn Forge Points, which determine allocations in periodic Forge Drops and unlock eligibility for toke

Evernorth argues that XRP could serve as a settlement rail for modern finance, enabling institutions to move value across borders faster and more efficiently. The company describes XRP's real purpose as providing infrastructure for real-time finance, allowing liquidity to move seamlessly between

According to Evernorth, XRP is designed to serve as a settlement rail for modern finance, enabling institutions to move value across borders faster and more efficiently. Evernorth Chief Business Officer Sagar explained that XRP functions as infrastructure for real-time transactions, allowing