Project Progress

The XRP Ledger (XRPL) surpassed 5 billion all-time transactions and recorded approximately $1.9 billion in real-world asset (RWA) inflows over a 90-day period, according to data from XRPScan and market analyst Diana. The milestone caps over a decade of on-chain activity, with transactions

According to PANews, Bitfire (01611.HK), a Hong Kong-listed licensed company, launched Hong Kong's first compliant crypto asset quantitative strategy Alpha RWA on August 27. The strategy uses RWA as its core mechanism to capture market-neutral arbitrage opportunities in AI and crypto assets,

The Bank of England will receive a new legal duty to promote innovation in payments and digital money, the UK Treasury announced Wednesday. The duty arrives as a secondary statutory objective via an amendment to the Financial Services and Markets Bill, which reaches the House of Lords in

According to CoinDesk, Unstoppable Domains and five brand partners have abandoned efforts to secure ICANN approval for 14 domain name extensions, including .crypto, .wallet, .bitcoin, and .brave, to become recognized on the traditional internet. The decision was driven by prohibitive costs, with ICA

Sui Network announced the winners of its Sui Overflow 2026 hackathon on Aug 27. The six-week competition received 747 projects from 58 countries, with 26 teams winning across four tracks: Agentic Web, DeFi & Payments, Walrus, and DeepBook. Winners include 16 track-specific projects and 10

According to The Sandbox, attackers exploited vulnerabilities in cross-chain configuration contracts on Base and BNB Chain on August 22, draining 14,742,341.84 SAND (approximately $1.50 million) from the ethereum vault. The Ethereum mainnet and Polygon were unaffected. Contracts deployed on Base and

Researcher Avihu Levy executed an experimental quantum-resistant Bitcoin transaction on mainnet in block 964,199, spending a 10,000-satoshi output without altering Bitcoin's consensus rules, according to StarkWare. The transaction demonstrated a method to protect individual outputs against

1inch and HackenProof released a bug bounty report for the first half of 2026 on August 27. From January to June 2026, 1inch's six core bug bounty programs on HackenProof received 1,055 submissions from security researchers, with 32 earning

According to Justin Sun at Bitcoin Asia 2026 in Hong Kong on August 27, TRON plans to upgrade its entire network to quantum-resistant capabilities by year-end. The blockchain has been developing quantum-resistant mechanisms for over a year, with a quantum-resistant address scheme already released an

According to Coingecko data on August 27, Friend.tech's FRIEND token surged to 0.05587 USD, gaining 1,795.3% in the past 24 hours. Founder Terry Liao (黄立成) announced plans to acquire Friend.tech with a 1 million USD investment and restart the project through community

South Korea's Mirae Asset Financial Group plans to build a 150 trillion won ($109 billion) digital asset business centered on Digital X, according to The Korea Times. Founder and chairman Park Hyeon-joo outlined the ambition at an employee event in Seoul on Wednesday titled 'A New Voyage Begins,

According to Pump.fun co-founder alon, the platform has adjusted its callout reward distribution mechanism in the app's social feed today. The update reduces the weight of posting volume in reward calculations and emphasizes content quality over quantity, addressing community feedback that rewards w

Unstoppable Domains announced August 25 that it has abandoned plans to bring nine blockchain-based domain extensions into the conventional internet Domain Name System, including .crypto and .wallet, after concluding that ICANN's proposed integration requirements would conflict with its existing

Unstoppable Domains announced August 25 that it will abandon ICANN recognition applications for nine blockchain-based domain extensions, including .crypto, .wallet, .polygon, .nft, .bitcoin, .dao, .unstoppable, .zil, and .blockchain. The company cited conflicts between ICANN's proposed integration r

According to Jeremy Allaire's announcement on X, StableFX is launching on the Arc mainnet. The institutional-grade stablecoin foreign exchange engine will support local currency stablecoins for major and emerging markets with near-instant, 24/7 on-demand settlement

Solana validators are voting on two tokenomics proposals that could reduce SOL supply growth, with stake-weighted voting running from August 23 to August 27 at approximately 15:30 UTC. The proposals, SIMD-0550 and SIMD-0553, have advanced into Solana's formal governance process as

Solana validators are concluding voting on August 27 on two major tokenomics proposals designed to sharply reduce SOL supply growth. SIMD-0550 would double the annual disinflation rate from 15% to 30%, eliminating approximately 18.89 million SOL of issuance over six years—equivalent to $1.51

According to reports, Aptos activated Circle's Cross-Chain Transfer Protocol V2 (CCTP V2) yesterday (August 26), enabling faster inbound USDC transfers to the blockchain. The upgrade allows users to receive native USDC within seconds, compared to the minutes previously required, while eliminating th

TxFlow announced on August 27, 2026, the completion of a security audit by OpenZeppelin covering its bridge contract infrastructure. The independent review identified zero critical and zero high-severity findings, with one medium-severity issue resolved during the audit process. OpenZeppelin, a

According to TxFlow, the Layer 1 blockchain completed an independent security audit by OpenZeppelin today (August 27) covering Bridge2, its USDC bridge connecting Arbitrum One to TxFlow L1. The review identified zero critical and zero high-severity findings, with one medium-severity issue identified