Project Progress

According to the XRPL amendment dashboard on October 15, the proposed LendingProtocol amendment received support from 19 of 35 XRP Ledger validators, while ConfidentialTransfer attracted 22 votes. Both proposals remain below the 29 votes required to achieve network activation. LendingProtocol

According to ChainCatcher, Jupiter launched YOLO, a beta trading product with up to 1000x leverage on October 15. The product remains unaudited. Users trade against the platform's liquidity pool (house). When pool funds are insufficient, user profits are queued for processing with no guaranteed

According to @PythNetwork, Pyth Network announced Q3 2026 results with cumulative trading volume of $2.16 trillion in real-world asset (RWA) perpetuals, marking its largest quarter to date. Open interest climbed 79% to a record $12.6 billion. Pyth priced $2.04 trillion of the total volume during th

According to Bloomberg, Ripple Prime, the institutional brokerage arm of Ripple, launched real-world asset (RWA) perpetual contracts for institutional clients on October 15, covering equities, indices,

Solana will activate Alpenglow on mainnet on October 21 around 15:00 UTC, replacing the consensus mechanism it has used since launch. The upgrade reduces transaction finality from approximately 12.8 seconds to a target of about 150 milliseconds, an 85-times improvement, according to Anza, the core d

According to Anza, the core development team, Solana will activate Alpenglow on mainnet on October 21 around 15:00 UTC, reducing transaction finality from approximately 12.8 seconds to a target of 150 milliseconds—85 times faster. The upgrade retires Solana's original consensus mechanism used

Lido announced on October 15, 2026 that Ethereum users can now stake ETH directly on Layer 2 solutions through Lido's user interface. The feature supports networks including Arbitrum, Base, Linea, and Optimism, eliminating the need for users to manually bridge assets back to Ethereum. The

According to BlockBeats, Pendle's high-yield USDC vault on Morpho exceeded $16 million in total value locked (TVL) in less than a day after launch on October 15. The vault has accumulated approximately $16.02 million in deposits with a net APY of 8.19%, according to Morpho's platform data. The vaul

bStocks surpassed $1 billion in assets under management, according to a recent Binance tweet. Users have actively converted and traded tokenized stocks on the platform, with over $6 billion converted between bStocks and underlying stocks. The milestone reflects growing investor engagement with token

According to Defimon Alerts, decentralized service provider UNCX today posted an on-chain message to the attacker of its Vesting V2 contract, offering to treat the incident as a white-hat event with a 10% bounty if the stolen assets are

According to ChainCatcher, Lido announced on October 15 that it has enabled direct ETH staking functionality on its official staking interface for Arbitrum, Base, Linea, and Optimism. Supported by Chainlink's cross-chain interoperability protocol CCIP, users can now obtain wstETH directly on their o

According to Cointelegraph, Starknet opened a seven-day non-binding vote on Thursday (Oct. 15) asking STRK token holders whether the Ethereum layer-2 network should explore becoming an independent, post-quantum layer-1 blockchain. Voting closes on Oct. 22, with three options: support further

According to Odaily and a post by Papertrade co-founder Jez, the project's official website link has been restricted from being shared on X (formerly Twitter), delaying a planned product launch. Jez noted that the team has applied for X's verification service but remains pending approval as of the t

According to BlockBeats and DefiLlama data, Papertrade accumulated $42.24 million in revenue on October 15 after six days of launch, ranking second among protocols globally by daily earnings, surpassing Circle and second only to Tether. Per Papertrade's official website, the protocol has

Surf, an AI-powered crypto research platform, launched the SurfBoard NFT series on Robinhood Chain on October 15, achieving a 30% mint rate on day one. The platform integrates tokenized U.S. stocks into NFT yield distribution, converting trading fees from SurfBoard transactions into shares of five t

Babylon Labs submitted a proposal on Wednesday (Oct 15) to enable native Bitcoin lending on Aave V4, allowing users to lock BTC in vaults on the Bitcoin network and borrow stablecoins against it on the Aave protocol. A non-transferable Ethereum token would represent the collateral, while the BTC

According to CoinPost, Singapore-based Slash Vision has launched its mobile application Slash App and opened applications for Slash Card, a Visa card that uses USDC as payment currency. Slash Card is operated collaboratively by Slash Vision, Orient Corporation (Orico), and iKitas, with issuance