Project Progress

Researchers at TU Wien are developing a formal security proof for the Ark protocol, a Bitcoin transaction batching system designed to enable scaling without requiring users to surrender custody of their coins. The project, led by Georgia Avarikioti from TU Wien's Research Unit of Security and

Researchers at TU Wien are developing a formal security proof for the Ark protocol as of mid-October 2026, with the project led by Georgia Avarikioti under funding from AKRLabs OÜ. The research unit announced the collaboration with Ark Labs in May 2025, producing two key documents: a March 2026

According to its B2 Token Transparency Filing with Blockworks completed on October 14, Alchemix published governance documentation, tokenomics, and financial results for Q2 2026. The DeFi protocol generated approximately $329,000 in revenue during the

According to Sui, the blockchain network achieved a transaction throughput of 40.68 million TPS during on-site testing at Sui Basecamp 2026 and earned CertiK certification. Sui stated it can now process one day of Visa's transaction volume in 20

According to Osmosis official announcement, the community has initiated a proposal to terminate OSMO inflation on October 20. The proposal aims to stop daily minting of new OSMO tokens, with staking rewards derived entirely from protocol revenue. At the current burn rate, approximately 2% of OSMO

Pyth Network activated its 100% Rule, resulting in an 86% increase in annual recurring revenue (ARR). The rule mandates that every dollar received by the DAO directly purchases PYTH tokens. The announcement was shared by the official Pyth Network account. The 100% Rule represents a strategic shift t

According to ChainCatcher, StarkWare has publicly launched OffMarket, a privacy trading service that allows users to trade on Polymarket without linking their holdings to their public accounts. Each account has a maximum USDC deposit of $1,000, with StarkWare adjusting the limit as needed. The serv

According to ChainCatcher, Ondo announced on X that its tokenization platform reached $4 billion in total value locked (TVL). The platform has expanded from tokenized U.S. Treasury securities to include tokenized stocks,

According to its official data, on October 14, Papertrade, a synthetic perpetual protocol on HyperEVM, accumulated nominal trading volume exceeded $1 trillion. The platform reported TVL of $61.8 million, open contract positions of approximately $664 million, and margin reserves of $13.28 million.

According to ChainCatcher, Enzyme co-founder Mona El Isa announced that after ten years in the industry, she will exit and close Avantgarde, the on-chain asset management firm she founded. Avantgarde was established during the 2019 bear market and served as part of Enzyme's core development team, he

According to Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino, Tether AI's QVAC platform officially launched TranscribePsy, a speech-to-text model with 250 million parameters supporting 25 European languages. The model completes 10-minute recordings in 1.65 seconds on iPhone 17 Pro Max's neural engine. Built on

According to Foresight News, on October 14, Babylon Labs submitted an ARFC proposal to the Aave community to list native BTC as collateral on Aave V4 through its Trustless Bitcoin Vaults (TBV) protocol. The proposal calls for deploying two new Spokes—Babylon Spoke and BTC Vault Swap Spoke—with nativ

According to The Cryptonomist, EQX Labs plans to launch tokenized US stocks on Hyperliquid today (October 14), enabling 24/7 trading of share-backed tokens through an offshore issuer structure. The tokens provide exposure to US equities without direct ownership and will operate on the

According to crypto commentator @SolanaFloor, Multisig is testing post-quantum signing on Solana mainnet as of October 14, 2026. The tests focus on preventing potential vulnerabilities from quantum computing threats, representing a proactive security enhancement for the blockchain network. Solana's

RealFi partnered with Token Terminal on October 14, 2026, to launch the USDrf stablecoin, which allows users to stake holdings into sUSDrf for variable yields. The partnership aims to enhance liquidity for RealFi users through this yield-generating mechanism. USDrf is backed by U.S. Treasuries,

Starknet launched Shadow Accounts on Oct. 14, 2026, giving users persistent, application-specific addresses for DeFi activity without publicly connecting those actions to their main wallets. The feature obscures the wallet-to-activity link but leaves resulting account balances, transactions and

According to StarkWare, Starknet launched Shadow Accounts on Oct. 14, giving users application-specific addresses for DeFi positions without publicly linking those accounts to their main wallets. The STRK token fell 12% over the past 24 hours, trading at $0.079 with $177 million in daily volume. Sh

Pyth Network reported $11.5 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR) in its latest performance update, marking an 86% increase from the previous quarter. The crypto data platform recorded 129,255 users in September and priced $2.04 trillion in real-world asset derivatives during the period. The

According to Pyth Network, the platform reported $11.5 million annual recurring revenue in September, reflecting an 86% increase from the previous quarter. The platform achieved a record user engagement of 129,255 in September. Pyth has priced $2.04 trillion in real-world asset derivatives,

According to BlockBeats, on October 14, MNX, an AI trading platform in the MegaETH ecosystem, officially launched with periodic futures on Pre-IPO shares of OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepSeek, and Moonshot. Traders face no funding fees or holding costs. MNX supports additional AI-driven markets