Project Progress

According to BeInCrypto and Luke Dashjr, Bitcoin's BIP-110 soft fork proposal failed on August 9-10, 2026, garnering only 2.53% support and mining just two blocks before supporters abandoned the effort. The proposal sought to restrict data sizes in transactions to remove Ordinals inscriptions from b

According to PANews, Vitalik Buterin updated Ethereum's roadmap on August 10, prioritizing three major shifts from the 2023 plan. Quantum safety now takes precedence, including post-quantum expansion and signature aggregation design. Privacy becomes a first-class citizen goal, covering keyed

According to Vitalik, Ethereum's updated roadmap now maps 2023 priorities to the current Strawman proposal, with significant new directions added. Key priorities include enhanced privacy mechanisms such as keyed Nonce, lean privacy pools, and FOCIL; post-quantum scaling through leanSPHINCS

According to PANews, GnosisDAO launched governance vote GIP-152 on August 10 to decide whether to spin off Gnosis App as an independent company. Voting closes on August 12 at 14:19 UTC, with a quorum requirement of 75,000 votes. Current snapshot results show 66% support. Under the proposal, GnosisD

According to ChainCatcher, on Monday, Jupiter launched Lend v2, a new version of its Solana-based lending protocol that allows deposits and borrowing positions to simultaneously serve as trading liquidity. Users can now earn both lending interest and trading fee revenue from a single deposit. The p

According to Babylon's official announcement, the protocol's Trustless Bitcoin Vaults (TBV) completed a security audit by Runtime Verification in May 2026, preparing native Bitcoin for collateralized lending on Aave v4 mainnet. The audit, conducted over 7 weeks and combining design reviews, manual c

According to Foresight News, Gnosis DAO has launched proposal GIP-152 on Snapshot to spin off Gnosis App into an independent company led by its current team. The DAO plans to invest $1.5 million in cash and contribute $1 million in product and intellectual property, totaling a $2.5 million SAFE inve

According to Safe Foundation's Q2 2026 report, the platform processed near 130 million transactions during the quarter, marking a second consecutive record quarter. Monthly active accounts reached 2.73 million in June, with total accounts

Bitdeer mined 2,694 Bitcoin during the second quarter of 2026, up nearly fivefold from 565 BTC a year earlier, according to the company's Q2 report published Monday. The increase resulted from a 389% jump in average self-mining hashrate to 69.5 exahashes per second. The Bitcoin mining company also r

Kirill Solovev, Founder and Chairman of the Board of GoMining, has built payment infrastructure designed to transform Bitcoin from a speculative asset into a functional currency. With GoBTC Pay, GoMining created a protocol that enables free, near-instant Bitcoin transactions on the original

According to Foresight News, Balanced v1 will shut down on December 1, 2026, when all outstanding loans will be liquidated and contracts become inaccessible. This closure aligns with ICON blockchain's permanent shutdown at year-end and marks Balanced's transition to SODAX, a unified liquidity

According to Foresight News, Web3 infrastructure provider Ankr launched vRPC (Verifiable RPC), a service that signs every response within Intel TDX trusted execution environments to prevent compromised RPC nodes from returning undetectable falsified data. The service supports local verification,

According to BlockBeats, Sharplink (NASDAQ: SBET) on August 10 disclosed Q2 2026 results with revenue reaching $11.5 million, up 1,580% year-over-year from $700,000 in Q2 2025, driven by active ETH vault management strategies launched in 2025. The

According to Foresight News, Starknet achieved profitability for the first time in 2026 with annualized revenue up approximately 1200% year-over-year. StarkWare attributed the growth to increased network activity driving fee

According to Sky Frontier Foundation, Sky Protocol generated total protocol revenue of $107.35 million in the second quarter of 2026, with net protocol surplus reaching $33.29 million. The protocol has now maintained surplus for five consecutive quarters, while staking volume grew

On August 6, Cardano's Catalyst Pilot launched a new funding round allocating 2.5 million ADA to support blockchain projects on the network. Applications close on August 20 at 06:00 UTC, providing teams with a two-week window to submit proposals. The program expects to fund 10 to 15 project teams,

According to Odaily, Four.Meme has added support for SPCXb (SpaceX tokenized stock) trading pair to its Stock Meme feature. Creators can now select SPCXb as a trading pair when launching Stock Memes on the platform, with additional bStocks trading pairs expected to launch.

According to NADA NEWS, Digital Garage officially launched its stablecoin payment infrastructure service (DG SPS) on August 10, with JCB and its subsidiary DG Financial Technology (DGFT) as the first partners. DG SPS integrates with merchants' existing payment systems via API, enabling stablecoin pa

Ethereum developers proposed a mechanism called 'Tapered Issuance Burn' that would gradually reduce validator issuance to zero as the share of staked ETH approaches 50% of total supply. The draft proposal would deduct and burn part of validators' idealized duty rewards, with the burn rate rising