Project Progress

According to ChainCatcher, Yield Guild Games (YGG) announced the official launch of YGG 3.0 today, transitioning from a Web3 gaming pioneer to a cross-domain infrastructure platform. The new version provides communities with tools for organizing labor, skills, and capital across digital economy

Cardano (ADA) published its Dijkstra Era hard fork roadmap, outlining the Layer-1 blockchain network's next major technical transformation with code development targeted for completion by the end of Q4 2026. The roadmap details a two-phase upgrade process designed to enhance network performance,

According to Cardano's official announcement, the Layer-1 blockchain network has released its hard fork roadmap for the 'Dijkstra Era.' The first phase targets completion of core software development by the end of Q4 2026, including Cardano protocol upgrade to version 12 with improvements to network

According to ChainCatcher, decentralized lending protocol Compound Finance has approved a record $52 million budget following recent leadership changes. The protocol's total value locked has declined from a 2021 peak of $12 billion to $1.2 billion. Compound is now refocusing on institutional

According to Pump.fun's weekly report, the platform generated $10.74 million in protocol revenue for the week ending August 16, representing a 7% week-over-week increase and marking the highest weekly revenue since late January. On August 12 alone, Pump.fun recorded $1.73 million in daily revenue, t

According to Foresight News, permissionless leveraged trading market HertzFlow launched its mainnet on BNB Chain today, opening Season 1: Genesis Vault with two stablecoin vaults. The USD stablecoin vault has a deposit cap of $4.44

According to ChainCatcher, NeoSoul, the largest AI economic infrastructure project on BSC and 0G ecosystems, officially launched NeoTrade today (August 17). NeoTrade is a universal AI agent trading workbench enabling users to directly define how their AI trading agents operate. Unlike most

According to the official announcement, HertzFlow, a self-custody leveraged trading protocol backed by Yzi Labs, has launched its mainnet on BNB Chain. The one-week Genesis Vault deposit campaign has launched simultaneously with limited allocation available on a first-come, first-served

Coinbase announced on August 17, 2026 a strategic initiative called AiFi (AI Finance) covering infrastructure for AI agents to conduct financial transactions. The cryptocurrency exchange introduced products for three groups: individuals using AI agents for financial tasks, enterprises selling to age

Blockstream launched Blockstream Swaps on August 10, 2026, a service designed to move funds across the Bitcoin mainchain, Lightning Network, and Liquid Network. The launch came one week after Boltz, the leading swap provider linking Lightning and Liquid, suspended operations on August 3, 2026,

According to The Block, Bitcoin miner HIVE Digital Technologies signed a five-year GPU cloud services agreement worth approximately $350 million through its BUZZ high-performance computing subsidiary. The undisclosed enterprise customer is investment-grade. The contract is expected to add

JPMorgan Chase terminated its banking relationship with Polymarket in October 2025 over regulatory concerns, according to a source familiar with the matter. The termination adds to challenges facing the prediction market platform as industry scrutiny intensifies. However, a Polymarket spokesperson s

According to the Ethereum Foundation Protocol DevOps team, the early-stage testnet Platåberget for the Glamsterdam upgrade launched on August 17, enabling community participation. The testnet is expected to run for several months, with the Glamsterdam fork scheduled for August 20 on Platåberget.

According to Foresight News, Synthetix completed the SIP-423 upgrade, deprecating native stablecoin sUSD and reforming its SNX staking mechanism. New SNX converts from sUSD at a 4:1 ratio with a one-year lock-in period and one-year unlock period. The original SNX supply of 344.94 million tokens

Anchorpoint, established by Standard Chartered Bank (Hong Kong), clarified in a recent LinkedIn announcement that HKDAP's on-chain functions operate alongside a comprehensive off-chain governance framework. The company stated that on-chain analysis alone does not reflect the complete control

HIVE Digital Technologies reported revenue of $79.1 million for the three months ended June 30, 2026, marking a 73.5% year-over-year increase and a 10.2% sequential gain. The surge was driven by a 147% rise in Bitcoin production to 1,004 BTC and rapid scaling of the company's AI cloud business,

According to Foresight News, Zcash founder Zooko Wilcox expressed support on the Zcash community forum for activating the NSM smooth issuance mechanism (ZIP-234), citing its simpler explanation, visual representation, and mathematical formulation compared to alternative proposals. Wilcox favors

According to Foresight News, Zodl wallet completed its Orchard to Ironwood migration and launched the Slipstream sync engine this week on Android 3.9.0 and iOS 3.9.1, with multiple emergency bug fixes released alongside. Zcash Open Development Lab founder and CEO Josh Swihart announced the updates i

According to comments posted Sunday, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin said Ethereum's next phase of scaling can draw lessons from Bitcoin's Utreexo technology. Utreexo is a cryptographic system designed to allow Bitcoin nodes to verify the network without permanently storing the entire set of

Cardano developers finalized the scope of the network's upcoming Dijkstra era, setting out a two-phase upgrade that will first deploy Ouroboros Linear Leios and Nested Transactions before introducing the Peras consensus enhancement through a separate hard fork in Q2 2027. Intersect, the Cardano