Project Progress

According to CoinDesk, Solana will implement the Alpenglow upgrade on October 21, targeting a reduction in transaction finality time to approximately 150 milliseconds. The upgrade will replace the network's existing voting system with a faster certificate-based consensus

According to ChainCatcher, Sui lending protocol Scallop has launched Scallop Wallet, a self-custody browser wallet now available on the Chrome Web Store. The wallet enables users to manage assets, exchange or purchase crypto, compare borrowing rates across Sui's lending ecosystem, and track

Tomasz K. Stańczak, former co-head of the Ethereum Foundation, said today that Ethereum will evolve into a self-adaptive system operating beyond human governance capacity. Stańczak cited Anthropic's recent disclosure that internal code merges surged from approximately 2,500 daily in May to over 30,0

According to ChainCatcher, PancakeSwap's core team The Kitchen has released a tokenomics proposal called "The Flip." The proposal suggests increasing the liquidity provider (LP) trading fee share to 88% for PancakeSwap v3 and Infinity across all 11 supported chains, with the remaining 12%

According to MetaversePost, ZKsync unveiled Airbender Prime on October 14, a zero-knowledge proof system capable of generating real-time proofs on a single GPU. In internal testing, a single NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPU processed 7,200 consecutive Ethereum mainnet blocks, completing 99% in

Pendle Finance announced a 153% annual percentage yield (APY) for its TradFi ETF, targeting traditional finance investors seeking higher returns. The offering aims to attract institutional capital by merging cryptocurrency with established finance frameworks. This move signals growing confidence in

According to Anza, the developer behind Solana's Agave validator client, Solana is scheduled to activate its Alpenglow consensus upgrade on October 21, 2026, with mainnet-beta activation approximately 14:50 UTC. The Solana Foundation identifies epoch 1064, beginning around 15:00 UTC, as the

Ethereum layer-2 network Starknet launched Shadow Accounts, a wallet privacy feature enabling users to interact with decentralized finance applications without publicly linking activities to their main wallets. StarkWare, the team behind Starknet, designed the feature to create separate,

According to StarkWare, Ethereum layer-2 network Starknet has launched Shadow Accounts, a wallet privacy feature that lets users interact with decentralized finance (DeFi) applications without publicly linking activities to their main wallets. The feature creates separate, persistent addresses for i

The Solana Foundation will deploy the Alpenglow network upgrade on Oct. 21 to reduce transaction finality time to approximately 0.15 seconds. CoinDesk reported on Oct. 14 that the upgrade replaces Solana's existing TowerBFT consensus system with a new mechanism designed to cut the time required

According to ChainCatcher, Pump.fun's BOOST mode has injected $106 million into its ecosystem over three months since launch. The mode redirects liquidity that would otherwise remain idle during token migration processes back into graduated

According to Odaily, Metric announced the launch of a decentralized exchange on Robinhood Chain designed for tokenized real-world assets (RWAs). The platform will utilize Active Pools and propAMM infrastructure to facilitate trading of RWAs with established market

According to Odaily, stablecoin payment platform Rain launched an embedded stablecoin wallet that partners can integrate into their applications. The wallet supports 12 blockchains including Arbitrum, Avalanche, Base, BNB Chain, Celo, Ethereum, Monad, Plasma, Optimism, Polygon, Solana, and ZKsync, a

According to PR Newswire, Rain, a global stablecoin payment platform, has launched embedded wallets enabling partners to integrate wallet functionality directly into their applications. The non-custodial Rain Wallet is now live, while custodial wallets and stablecoin yield features are expected to l

According to Bloomberg, Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan recently hinted at a possible platform announcement, sparking market speculation about a potential token launch. At the TOKEN2049 conference in Singapore, Coplan previously stated the company was exploring an on-chain asset linked to the platform'

According to Foresight News, Ethereum L2 network Base has launched Earn & Borrow, an end-to-end technology solution enabling platforms to offer variable-rate stablecoin yields and crypto-collateralized loans to eligible users through Base infrastructure and third-party lending protocols. Users

Solana developer Anza announced that the Alpenglow upgrade will go live on the Solana mainnet beta on October 21, marking the completion of 18 months of development aimed at improving the consensus mechanism. The upgrade’s core goal is to reduce transaction finality time from the current approximately 12.8 seconds to approximately 150 milliseconds—an approximately 85-fold increase in speed. Alpenglow Technical Goal: Finality Reduced from 12.8 Seconds to 150 Milliseconds According to Anza’s techn