Project Progress

According to Sei network's official post on X, Eidos, the storage rebuilding initiative for Sei's Giga upgrade, has launched Phase 1. The project restructures the original single-threaded Merkle tree database into a flat, high-concurrency data engine to improve speed and efficiency. The Giga upgrade

BounceBit launched Borobudur on August 19, an onchain credit layer that allows holders of tokenized real-world assets and yield-generating positions to borrow liquidity without selling their investments or paying conventional borrowing interest. The platform initially supports BENJI, the

Whitechain, part of W Group's global fintech ecosystem, is relaunching as an Ethereum Layer 2 network built on the OP Stack. The relaunch, announced with a public testnet opening on August 17, aims to address Web3 projects' user acquisition and distribution challenges by combining blockchain

According to its August 18 announcement, Whitechain officially relaunched as an Ethereum Layer 2 network powered by OP Stack, backed by W Group (reaching 40 million users globally) and WhiteBIT (serving 10 million users). The Whitechain Sepolia testnet went live on August 18, with founder

According to ChainCatcher, Gnosis Chain's GIP-153 proposal to transition from an independent L1 to an Ethereum L2 has passed. The proposal, backed by official addresses including co-founder Stefan George, aims to inherit Ethereum validator security and become the first Ethereum L2 with synchronous c

Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev stated on August 18 that financial markets are at the beginning of a "tokenization supercycle." Tenev argued that moving traditional assets onto blockchain infrastructure could become one of the most consequential changes to capital markets in decades, calling on U.S.

According to an announcement by John Wu, Ava Labs has appointed Charley Cooper as President, effective immediately. Cooper will oversee daily operations and drive the company's next phase of development. He brings over a decade of blockchain industry experience, alongside prior roles at the U.S.

According to ChainCatcher, Hyperliquid core contributor Xulian has publicly solicited feedback on HIP-4 testnet templates. The testnet currently contains 16 template records, with 12 representing the latest versions across 7 market structures. Candidate types include expiry price (settled via

According to Odaily, Osero stablecoin yield application officially launched today, opening to all users. The platform currently offers 3.52% annual returns and supports multiple stablecoins including USDC.e, USDe, AUSD, GHO, PYUSD, RLUSD, USDD, USDG, USDtb, and frxUSD. Osero raised $13.5 million in

According to Odaily, the GnosisDAO proposal vote on Gnosis Chain's conversion to an Ethereum ZK Rollup will conclude in 12 hours, with 99.78% support and quorum met. The transition will integrate Ethereum's security and liquidity with synchronized composability with mainnet. Approximately 350,000

The co-founder of cryptocurrency derivatives exchange BitMEX, Arthur Hayes, announced on X on Aug. 18, 2026, that he was ending his “retirement” and becoming CEO of the new project Flop Labs. Hayes stated that $FLOP is positioned as the “food” of AI agents and the native currency of the AI agentic economy, emphasizing “no presale, no VC, 100% fair launch.” $FLOP Token Positioning and Issuance Mechanism Flop Labs positions $FLOP as the native base currency and medium for accessing hash-rate resou

According to Foresight News, Ava Labs CEO Emin Gün Sirer announced today that Charley Cooper will assume the role of president, bringing operational discipline, regulatory expertise, and institutional perspective to drive broader global adoption. John Wu, the former president, transitions to

According to Foresight News, Gnosis Chain has passed the GIP-153 proposal to transition from a sovereign Layer 1 blockchain to an Ethereum Layer 2. Multiple official addresses, including Gnosis co-founder Stefan George, voted in favor before the voting deadline, meeting the quorum requirement. The p

Shin Hee-jin, Director of New Business at Kyobo Securities, carries a one-page proposal on every overseas business trip to gauge investor demand for Security Token Offering (STO) products ahead of South Korea's STO system implementation scheduled for February. In an interview on the 19th, Shin

According to Yonhap Infomax, Shin Hee-jin, head of new business at Kyobo Securities, said on August 19 that the firm is accelerating tokenized securities (STO) product development by validating investor demand directly rather than launching products first. The Seoul-based brokerage is conducting

RTB Digital, Inc. (NASDAQ: RTB), operating as Roundtable, rang the Nasdaq closing bell at the MarketSite in Times Square on Monday, unveiling its AI/DeFi-powered enterprise media platform built for the professional media industry. The ceremony marked the company's public debut, with CEO James

RTB Digital, Inc. (Nasdaq: RTB), trading as Roundtable, rang the Nasdaq closing bell on Monday at Times Square to celebrate its public debut and platform launch for professional media. The company's AI/DeFi platform completed beta testing with millions of network users. Roundtable integrated with

Canaan Inc., the Nasdaq-listed Bitcoin mining hardware manufacturer, added a net 2 BTC to its treasury in July 2026, bringing total holdings to 1,917 BTC. The company mined 46 BTC during the month but retained only 2 BTC net, with the gap attributed to operational costs and strategic sell-offs. Cana

Wyoming's Frontier Stable Token (FRNT), the first fiat-backed stablecoin issued by a US public entity, is reportedly migrating its cross-chain infrastructure from LayerZero to Chainlink's Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP) as of August 18, 2026. The migration follows a security review of t

Cypherpunk Technologies announced Tuesday it acquired a Zcash mining fleet from Winklevoss Capital through a $33.33 million equity-based transaction, bringing online an operation that produces approximately 4.2 GSol/s and controls roughly 18% of the Zcash network's current hashrate. The