Project Progress

Venice Token (VVV) has recently surged by over 100%, becoming a strong asset in the market, mainly because Venice has become a provider of the OpenClaw recommendation model and has actively tightened token supply. This partnership has increased Venice's visibility and boosted demand for VVV. In the long term, the fundamentals supporting VVV come from reduced supply and ongoing DeFi integrations, but the sustainability of the market trend still requires monitoring of the partnership results and changes in the market environment.

Ripple acquires Hidden Road (now Ripple Prime) and officially registers with the National Securities Clearing Corporation (NSCC), gaining regulatory status for post-trade operations in traditional finance. This marks Ripple as the first crypto company to have a global multi-asset prime broker. The plan is to migrate post-trade activities to the XRP Ledger (XRPL) in the future, but it is currently unclear whether XRPL will be actively used, and the actual impact remains to be seen.

The "Aave Will Win" proposal in the Aave protocol was narrowly approved in the off-chain vote, but the results were questioned, with concerns that some votes are linked to Aave Labs. Observer Marc Zeller accused the voting involving approximately 233,000 tokens of having a conflict of interest. Aave Labs emphasized its technical contributions and directed 100% of its revenue into the DAO. This governance crisis highlights concerns about centralization of power, especially in the context of BGDLabs about to terminate its partnership, which could impact Aave's technological development.

Ripple's integration with Wall Street's clearing system, as highlighted by CTO David Schwartz, signifies a crucial step in bridging traditional finance (TradFi) and decentralized finance (DeFi). The recent DTCC notice confirms Hidden Road's entry into the National Securities Clearing Corporation, enhancing institutional crypto operations.

Foresight News Report: Solana launches an autonomous AI agent trust layer, Agent Registry. The Agent Registry, built by Quantu, integrates identity, reputation, and verification registries natively into Solana. It can provide verified agent profiles (including the agent's identity, functions, and owner), record each agent's performance, and offer independent proof of agent work provided by third parties.

Core Scientific announced its Q4 2025 financial report, with total revenue decreasing to $79.8 million, primarily due to a roughly 47% decline in Bitcoin mining income. Despite the overall revenue reduction, hosting service revenue grew by over 268%, indicating that its data center transformation strategy is paying off. Adjusted EBITDA was negative $42.7 million. The company's working capital stands at $533.4 million. After shareholders rejected the merger with CoreWeave, Core Scientific will continue to operate as an independent company to advance its long-term strategy.

Foresight News Report: BNB Chain releases BNB Chain MCP Skill, supporting reading chain data and smart contracts; executing transactions and managing wallets; registering on-chain proxy identities (ERC-8004), etc.

Since its launch in August 2025, Boros, Pendle's funding rate trading platform, has experienced rapid growth, with trading volume surpassing $12 billion within 7 months. Its newly launched funding rate arbitrage feature helps users lock in yields and hedge against fee volatility risks, with recent gold market yields reaching as high as 21%. Meanwhile, Pendle's V2 product has also added Ripple and PayPal stablecoins.

Curve Finance is investigating an attack on the sDOLA LlamaLend market, which exploited a price oracle vulnerability affecting borrowers collateralized with sDOLA, while lenders were unaffected. The team will ensure the security of LlamaLend V2.

The Aave community funding proposal has been approved but is met with skepticism. Marc Zeller pointed out that addresses related to Aave Labs influenced the voting results, and support votes decreased after removal. The proposal requests funding support in exchange for product revenue. Tensions within the community are escalating.

Tether's new stablecoin USAT has been attested by Deloitte, marking a new trend in the regulation of the crypto market. The attestation confirms that USAT's reserve assets amount to $17.6 million to support the 17.5 million USAT in circulation. This move demonstrates the acceptance of digital assets within a regulatory framework and also reflects the impact of new regulations in the United States, promoting transparency and compliance in the stablecoin industry.

Odaily Planet Daily reports that cross-chain smart contract platform Neutron announced on X that a white-hat hacker discovered a vulnerability through its bug bounty program. A fix is currently being developed, and the order book and super vault (deposits, withdrawals, etc.) functions have been suspended. They expect to relaunch on March 9. Neutron added that the platform's funds are currently secure and unaffected, and users do not need to take any further action.

Written by: Lulu At the start of 2026, the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) made a series of major moves in the compliant digital asset space, directly reshaping the industry landscape of RWA (Real-World Asset Tokenization). On February 23, the SFC announced that it had granted a license to Esperanza Securities, a subsidiary of Yisheng Financial Technology, on February 13, allowing them to conduct compliant tokenized securities business for entertainment assets—such as the 40th anniversary Red Pavilion concert of Huang Kaichen, and offline entertainment assets like the Korean boy band Malaysia tour—officially bringing these into the regulated digital securities issuance category. Qualified investors can participate in concert investments by purchasing security tokens in small shares, sharing in industry dividends. Just one day later, on February 26, Delin Holdings issued a notice that its Central Hong Kong Delin Building and other real estate RWA projects had been...

Chainlink CCIP has completed the cross-chain bridging of Coinbase's wrapped Bitcoin token cbBTC, allowing over $5 billion in assets to enter the Monad DeFi ecosystem. This marks Bitcoin's transition from "hold-only, no use" to "on-chain yield asset," accelerating its liquidity options within DeFi.

SBI and Startale collaborate to launch a trust-based Japanese Yen stablecoin $JPYSC, expected to go live in Q2 2026. The stablecoin surpasses the 1 million Japanese Yen remittance limit, suitable for large-scale transactions and cross-border payments, with legal protections. Japan's rapidly growing crypto market will promote the formation of a digital Yen ecosystem. This plan has attracted the attention of multiple financial institutions and will challenge the US dollar stablecoin market.

A coalition of 12 major European banks under the Qivalis initiative plans to launch a euro-pegged stablecoin by late 2026. This effort aims to compete with USD-pegged stablecoins, ensuring full collateralization and compliance with EU regulations.

Pump.fun, a meme coin platform in the Solana ecosystem, announced that its mobile app now supports competitor platform tokens and non-native assets. Users can trade tokens issued by other platforms and wrapped Bitcoin and Ethereum, aiming to reduce trading friction and enhance user experience.

Odaily Planet Daily reports that Antonio García Martínez, Head of Growth at Base, announced on the X platform that the developer code allowing applications or protocols to add tags for themselves is now live on Base. This feature will provide on-chain attribution data for activities on the Base network. He stated that this mechanism can support new business models for different applications and will serve as a data source for various future Base reward programs.

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin recently released a detailed technical article discussing the future roadmap of Ethereum, emphasizing the centralization risks in block construction, proposing to expand the FOCIL mechanism and introduce encrypted memory pools to enhance censorship resistance. They plan to launch the Glamsterdam upgrade in 2026, adopting the ePBS mechanism to reduce centralization risks and address potential new centralization trends.