Project Progress

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

According to Intersect, Cardano has finalized the scope of its Dijkstra era upgrade, a two-phase deployment targeting a 5- to 20-fold increase in base-layer throughput. Phase 1, scheduled for the fourth quarter of 2026, will activate Ouroboros Linear Leios and introduce Nested Transactions. Phase 2,

Japanese soccer club Kamakura International FC (Kamakura Inter FC) announced on July 24 that it had been granted a technology patent for the “Kamakura Stadium NFT Project.” The patent’s core concept is to divide the club’s 6,528-square-meter soccer field, which measures 102 meters × 64 meters, into one NFT block per square meter, for a total of 6,528 NFTs. Patent Technology Architecture: AI and Sensors Identify Event Locations, and Smart Contracts Automatically Distribute Rewards (Source: Kamaku

According to BlockBeats, on August 17, Hyperliquid's AQAv2 stablecoin mechanism received support from 19 of 26 validators, with revenue-sharing set to launch on August 26. Under the mechanism, 90% of generated revenues will be allocated for 100% HYPE token buybacks and burns, with an estimated

Blockstream announced on August 17 the launch of Blockstream Swaps service, currently in beta testing. The launch comes after Boltz suspended its swap services due to persistent automated probes aided by AI and repeated vulnerability exploits. Blockstream Swaps aims to provide a complementary tool s

According to Ethlabs, the non-profit Ethereum research lab has outlined priority recommendations for the Hegotá upgrade. The proposed priorities include strengthening censorship resistance with EIP-7805 FOCIL, accelerating block times via EIP-8198 Quick Slots, and implementing native account

Li Chen, former head of strategic partnerships for Greater China, ASEAN, Japan, and Korea at Microsoft, joined Hong Kong-based stablecoin payment platform RedotPay as general counsel on Aug. 10, 2026. He leads a global legal team of more than 20 people in support of the company’s global expansion plans. Bloomberg reported in February, citing people familiar with the matter, that RedotPay was considering a U.S. IPO in 2026, with a target of raising more than $1 billion. RedotPay’s Stablecoin Paym

Flare announced Aug. 12 that XRP holders can now use FXRP as collateral for options, perpetual futures and spot trades on Derive. The FXRP integration lets users open positions from self-custodial wallets while the XRP supporting FXRP remains on the XRP Ledger. The integration provides XRP holders a

Bernstein analysts raised Robinhood’s (HOOD) stock price target to $160 per share on August 17, citing tokenization and prediction markets as key growth drivers. On the same day, CryptoQuant analyst Darkfost posted on X that the average daily outflow from Binance’s 10 largest UNI transactions reached a five-year high when UNI’s price approached $3. CryptoQuant’s Binance UNI Outflow Data Darkfost uses the daily outflows generated by Binance’s largest transactions as a proxy for tracking accumulat

Bitcoin (BTC) extended its mild decline, trading at around $63,090 on Aug. 17. The BSC-based meme coin “Niu Lai” retreated after its market cap surpassed $40 million. “Niu Lai” sparked a bizarre movie-watching frenzy: on its opening day, the film had 251 screenings but was watched by only 122 people. Ethereum developers are currently reviewing 66 proposals to narrow the scope of Hegotá, the next major Ethereum upgrade. Macro Events & Crypto Hotspots According to GMGN data, the market cap of the

According to Foresight News, stablecoin payment layer Stable released its 2.0 whitepaper, designating USDT as the primary gas fee and settlement asset for its mainnet, with additional support for PYUSD. The platform targets institutional stablecoin settlement infrastructure, with key use cases

South Korea's token securities market faces supply constraints ahead of its scheduled February implementation, as fractional investment operators exit the sector and new product launches slow. Casa Korea shut down its service on the 10th after selling all underlying assets, while Funble announced an

World Liberty Financial announced today that the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) has given preliminary conditional approval for it to establish World Liberty Trust Company (WLTC), a national trust bank. The bank will focus on stablecoin services, including issuing and

According to DefiLlama founder 0xngmi, the platform delayed its mobile app launch after spending months requesting Apple to remove phishing apps impersonating DefiLlama from the App Store. The founder noted that after the team downloaded one malicious application and documented a small

According to ChainCatcher, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin recently posted on X that the Bitcoin community deserves credit for advancing technical concepts like Utreexo, a UTXO (unspent transaction output) state optimization solution. Ethereum's current scaling roadmap aims to combine