Project Progress

On-chain proof-of-attendance protocol POAP co-founder Isabel Gonzalez announced in August that the team would gradually wind down POAP’s operations. POAP entered maintenance mode in March, stopped accepting new issuers, and halted active development. Describing the current situation as “winding down” means that POAP is now officially moving toward a complete shutdown. POAP Operations Timeline The key milestones for POAP are as follows: 2019: Launched at the ETHDenver event, allowing participants

According to Foresight News, non-custodial Bitcoin cross-chain bridge Boltz announced on-going suspension of its swap services until further notice due to sustained automated and AI-assisted infrastructure probing attacks. The team said the iteration speed of attackers has exceeded its patching

NEAR co-founder Illia Polosukhin has proposed establishing a protocol sovereign fund in the community. The proposal seeks to consolidate current and future protocol reserves, historical protocol income, and future protocol revenue into the fund, with earnings directed toward financing ecosystem

According to ChainCatcher, Solana lending protocol Kamino launched Kamino Institutional Yield on August 4, a blockchain infrastructure connecting institutional credit markets with on-chain users. The inaugural Commodity Yield vault began operations with an initial deposit of $25 million USDC,

According to The Block, NEAR co-founder Illia Polosukhin today proposed establishing a sovereign fund that would hold the protocol treasury and revenue in NEAR tokens, generate yields, and allocate portions toward security and public goods. The proposal aims to reduce long-term token

According to ChainCatcher, RISEx's XLP vault RWA strategy experienced an unauthorized withdrawal of 673,011.56 USDC on August 3. The issue stemmed from a configuration error since the strategy's deployment on July 13. The team detected and fixed the problem within minutes, compensating XLP

Digital asset brokerage FalconX laid off about 10% of its global staff (based in the United States, the United Kingdom, Singapore, and Hong Kong). On August 4, Bloomberg cited people familiar with the matter. FalconX also adjusted its Singapore business strategy, withdrew its license application submitted to the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), and shifted its Singapore business focus to crypto derivatives trading. FalconX said it would maintain its presence in the Asian market and expand

Ripple announced strategic investments in Zilo and Licuido on Aug. 3, extending the XRP Ledger's institutional capital markets infrastructure with regulated transfer agency, token issuance, trading, settlement, and collateral capabilities. The investments target persistent capital markets

BlackRock (NYSE: BLK) shares are drawing market attention as the company launches two new tokenized money market funds: BSTBL (BlackRock Select U.S. Treasury Liquidity Fund) and BRSRV (BlackRock Daily Reinvestment Stablecoin Reserve Vehicle). BlackRock CFO Martin Small said during the 2026 Q2 earnings conference call that BlackRock currently manages $60 billion in reserves for Circle. BSTBL and BRSRV product framework The core framework for BlackRock’s two tokenized money market products is as f

According to Hayden Adams, Uniswap's founder, pools.trade will open to users very soon. Adams made the statement in response to a user inquiry on X regarding the launch timeline of the platform.

According to TokenWorks, external purchases of Fake World Assets (FWA) will officially open on August 4 at 3 p.m. ET, following completion of token distribution to early participants. The protocol is implementing a new fee allocation mechanism: 50% of protocol fees originally directed to TokenWorks

Zcash (ZEC) surged nearly 5% past $490 on the afternoon of Aug. 3 following Nym's adoption of Zcash's Ironwood shielded pool for its network services. The rally saw ZEC recover from just over $470 recorded at 4:10 a.m. EST to a session high just short of $494 during a six-hour rally. The surge was t

Strategy Inc. Executive Chairman Michael Saylor stated Aug. 3 that he has never sold any personally held bitcoin, including a single satoshi. The statement separated his personal investment philosophy from Strategy's corporate treasury policy, which permits bitcoin sales for defined corporate

American Bitcoin, a bitcoin accumulation platform linked to the Trump family, released its second-quarter 2026 financial and operational results Aug. 3, reporting $67 million in mining revenue and a record 932 bitcoins mined during the quarter ending June 30. The Miami-based company expanded its

American Bitcoin released its second-quarter 2026 financial results on Aug. 3, reporting $67 million in revenue and expanding its Bitcoin treasury reserve to 8,002 BTC, according to the company's official statement. The Miami-based mining platform increased quarterly revenue 8% from Q1 and set a

According to co-founder Isabel Gonzalez, Proof of Attendance Protocol announced its shutdown after more than five years of operations. POAP has minted 7.6 million collectable badges across 46,210 issuers since its formal establishment in 2021, serving crypto events, conferences, hackathons, and

New Market Trading (NMT) appointed Ajdin Kahrović as Chief Technology Officer on the same day the blockchain-based wealth management firm opened publicly to new clients. Kahrović joins to own the platform's technical foundation from day one. NMT is the first wealth management firm to move the