Project Progress

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin introduced a new long-term project called 'Lean Ethereum' following a meeting of Ethereum researchers in Berlin, Germany. He described it as the 'third major iteration' of Ethereum after the Merge. The Merge, completed in 2022, transitioned Ethereum from energy-in

Strike launched a Bitcoin-backed loan product that eliminates forced liquidations during market crashes. The company introduced the volatility-proof loans after customers experienced liquidations following Bitcoin's 54% decline from its peak after the May 2025 product launch. According to a Ledn

According to Foresight News, Cardano lending platform Levvy announced it will officially shut down by the end of July. The platform urged all users to transfer their assets and repay any outstanding loans before this

According to BlockBeats, Arc announced on July 8 that its testnet will conduct a planned stress test to analyze network performance and stability under extreme conditions. During the test, users may experience network congestion, increased transaction failure rates, higher gas fees, extended block g

Yield Guild Games (YGG) co-founder Gabby Dizon announced on July 6 that the company is shutting down its game publishing division YGG Play, launched in 2025, with the platform and some games to be gradually taken offline by July 31. According to a Caladan report in April, of the approximately 3,200 blockchain gaming projects tracked, 93% have been classified as "effectively dead." YGG Play Shutdown Details: 35 Employees, Offline by July 31 According to YGG's official statement, the shutdown arra

According to Foresight News, Category Labs launched Cadence, a new consensus protocol featuring a multi-concurrent proposer (MCP) mechanism that enables multiple block proposers to participate concurrently without sacrificing latency. Simulation tests on a 200-node global network showed average

From late June to early July, three major changes occurred at the Ethereum organizational level: On June 22, five former Ethereum Foundation (EF) core researchers announced the establishment of Ethlabs, an independent non-profit research and development lab aimed at making Ethereum the settlement layer of the global economy; on June 23, the EF announced a new organizational structure, ending collaboration with about 54 employees (approximately 20% of total staff). After the restructuring, ETH go

Zcash's ZEC token rose about 12% after developers behind Project Tachyon announced they are close to formally proving that the network's incoming Ironwood shielded pool carries no undetectable counterfeiting bug. The price gain follows progress on formal verification work aimed at ruling out a

After Project Tachyon developers said they are close to formally proving Zcash's incoming Ironwood shielded pool carries no undetectable counterfeiting bug, ZEC token rose about 12%. The network's new shielded pool, set to activate in late July, includes a turnstile mechanism that lets wallets

The Hashgraph Group and String Metaverse launched BillsOnChain on July 7, a blockchain platform that converts purchase receipts into tokenized digital assets on the Hedera network. The platform aims to bridge conventional billing systems with blockchain technology by enabling receipts to become

The Hashgraph Group and String Metaverse launched BillsOnChain on July 7, a Hedera-based platform designed to convert purchase receipts into tokenized digital assets. The platform has already attracted more than 31,000 users with integrated wallets and processed over 830,000 receipts on-chain,

South Korean telecommunications company KT unveiled plans to introduce two blockchain-focused businesses—a Token Factory platform and a stablecoin service—as part of a transformation strategy aimed at expanding beyond traditional telecom operations. Chief Executive Officer Park Yoon-young outlined t

According to ChainCatcher, Michael Coates, former Chief Information Security Officer at Twitter and ex-security lead at Mozilla, has been appointed as Chief Information Security Officer of Solana Foundation. Coates previously founded Altitude Networks, a SaaS data security startup later acquired

According to ChainCatcher, TermiX, the commercial settlement layer for AI Agents, officially launched its mainnet today and unveiled Agent.family, a Agents Marketplace on BNB Chain. Agents can now register ERC8004-based Agent IDs on Agent.family and publish, accept, and verify more than 120 types of

Lee Yong-jun, an official from South Korea's Financial Services Commission Capital Markets Division, stated on May 8 that designing infrastructure for standardized securities tokenization requires cooperation between the private sector and Korea Securities Depository. Speaking at the 'Fan-Centered K

According to ChainCatcher and Wormhole, Moonbeam network will officially shut down on July 31, 2026. The parachain will continue operating during a transition period, but will cease operations after that date. Wormhole warned that Portal and Wormhole contributors will be unable to assist in

According to Odaily, Robinhood co-founder and CEO Vlad Tenev stated on X that Robinhood Chain, developed for real-world assets (RWA), is also "very suitable for Meme coins." Tenev's remarks expand the perceived use cases for the blockchain network beyond its primary RWA

According to Cryptopolitan, Uniswap Labs proposed extending its UNIfication token burn initiative to Uniswap v4 liquidity pools, seeking UNI holders' approval to collect protocol fees on select v4 pools and allocate portions to UNI buybacks and token burns. The snapshot vote runs through July 12. UN

According to BPMG, the blockchain and AI company established its U.S. subsidiary ARACORE on July 8 to build stablecoin-based financial infrastructure. ARACORE will focus on institutional services for banks, fintech companies, and payment providers, targeting cross-border remittances and B2B