Project Progress

Over the past week, Velvet (VELVET) has surged 249%, ranking among the top performers across the top 70 assets, according to CoinMarketCap and CoinGlass data. The token climbed from a low of $0.09 to $2.09, driven by two major protocol developments: the consolidation of Base liquidity onto

According to Cryptobriefing, ORE has surpassed 3 million SOL deployed for mining since its V3 protocol launch. The deployment milestone reflects participation from Solana users in ORE's mining model, which requires users to actively deploy SOL to

According to its official statement on X, Sui announced that gas-free transfers on the network enable AI agents to continuously execute workflows. The feature allows agents to call APIs, execute tasks, and operate autonomously without experiencing freezing or

According to Odaily, Breez, a Bitcoin infrastructure provider, has added a new feature to its SDK that allows users to send USDC and USDT directly from their Bitcoin balance to over 30 blockchains without pre-conversion or holding stablecoins. The feature integrates Lightning Network with

According to ChainCatcher, Breez has newly launched a feature in its developer toolkit allowing users to send USDC and USDT directly from Bitcoin balances to over 30 blockchain networks without prior conversion or holding stablecoins. The feature combines Lightning Network with automatic conversion:

According to PANews, on June 29, Cosmostation announced it will halt validator services across 22+ networks starting July 1, including Althea, Axelar, IOTA, Dymension, Fetch.ai, Gravity Bridge, Namada, Neutron, Nillion, Noble, Nym (nyx), Persistence, Sentinel, Stride, and others. The validator

According to Foresight News, Canton Network announced that Logical Synchronizer Upgrades (LSU) went live on mainnet with the Canton 3.5 release. The mechanism allows new synchronizer infrastructure to run parallel with the existing network, enabling automatic network transition in seconds to

According to Foresight News, Sky (formerly MakerDAO) announced on June 29 that its execution voting address handoff process will migrate from Discord's new-spells channel to governance forum posts as the legacy Discord server phases out. Proposal authors must submit addresses as comments once spells

According to PANews, on June 29, SecondFi released a recovery progress update, stating that Emurgo has funded a dedicated asset recovery wallet to return funds to affected users. The company is negotiating custody and return mechanisms with IntersectMBO for assets protected through emergency

Nixxy (NIXX) and Tachyon 9 plan to build a $1 billion AI data campus in North Dakota set to launch in Q2 2027. The facility will operate with a capacity of 120-150 megawatts and will use hydrogen turbines and liquid cooling

According to ChainCatcher, Taiko's Layer 2 mainnet will resume operations in four phases following an independent security expert's approval of the exploit fix. The recovery plan includes deploying the patch, replenishing bridge liquidity to maintain 1:1 asset reserves, restoring network

According to Ethlabs, the nonprofit organization released a frequently asked questions document on June 29, outlining three strategic priorities: layer-1 execution scaling, blob scaling and faster finality; cross-chain interoperability, block building and EVM standardization; and ecosystem growth an

The International Monetary Fund identified tokenization as the next stage in the evolution of financial markets, with Senior Economist Itai Agur recently describing how programmable money and digital assets can make transactions faster, cheaper, and more efficient by removing unnecessary

According to Foresight News, Hypercall, the options trading platform on Hyperliquid protocol developed by Synapse, has open-sourced its Rust SDK on GitHub today under the repository hypercall-rust. The SDK includes five modules: hypercall-client, hypercall-hyperliquid, hypercall-liquidator, hypercal

According to L2Beat data, Loopring shut down its Ethereum-based zk rollup decentralized exchange on June 28, 2026, ceasing all trading and relayer operations immediately. The team cited weak user adoption, limited business development, and intensifying competition from newer zkEVM-based scaling

According to Foresight News, Zcash Open Development Lab (ZODL) CEO Josh Swihart announced that Zcash developers will hold a meeting in the coming weeks aimed at breaching all gates. ZODL released Zodl Mobile 3.7.0, featuring enhanced network resilience, Android security hardening, transaction bug

Ripple received preliminary CASP (Crypto Asset Service Provider) approval from Luxembourg's financial regulator CSSF in the form of a "green light letter" on June 23. However, the "green light letter" is a conditional commitment rather than a formal license: CSSF requires Ripple's Luxembourg entity to prove item by item that it has genuine employees, own funds, etc.; ESMA states that Ripple's issuance of the RLUSD stablecoin is a higher-risk combination. Conditional Nature of the CSSF Green Ligh

According to BlockBeats, Insiders.bot, an AI trading agent, officially launched on June 29. The team trained the agent on historical data from approximately 1.6 million Polymarket traders and completed a week-long public test with 1,000 new users before the release. Insiders.bot

According to The Bitcoin Historian (cited by ChainCatcher), $2 billion lending giant Ledn has removed cryptocurrencies from all its products and shifted entirely to a pure Bitcoin strategy. The company stated the move is a strategic shift aimed at aligning with Bitcoin's core

On June 29, 2026, Loopring, a pioneering zk-rollup platform, closed its decentralized exchange (DEX) due to insufficient ecosystem adoption. The team attributed the shutdown to technical limitations including the lack of a virtual machine, composability between applications, and real-world payment u