Project Progress

According to Odaily, World Liberty Financial announced that the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) has preliminarily approved its establishment of World Liberty Trust Company (WLTC), a national trust bank. The bank will specialize in stablecoin operations, including issuing and

According to Lido, the NEST automated LDO buyback mechanism went live on mainnet on August 15. NEST is a rule-based mechanism that automatically purchases LDO through CoW Swap when DAO staking revenue surplus exceeds $40 million, allocating 50% of the surplus to buybacks. Daily purchase limit is

According to ChainCatcher, citing Chainwire, Ondo Finance's tokenized stocks platform Ondo Stocks has reached a total value locked (TVL) of $1.01 billion in less than a year since launching in September 2025. The platform became the highest-TVL tokenized equities service globally within 48 hours of

Bitcoin developers Adam Back and Peter Todd have taken opposing positions on Bitcoin's 21 million supply cap after Todd's proposal for a permanent block reward resurfaced this week. Todd advocates for continuous small issuance to maintain miner payments after the final Bitcoin is mined

According to Odaily and Bitcoin.com News, the BIP-110 fork separated from Bitcoin on August 8 at block height 961632 and has produced only 4 blocks in 7 days, with the Roughnecks mining pool accounting for all mined blocks. The fork chain remains at block height 961635. Supporters plan to switch the

According to ChainCatcher, Solana-based yield protocol Paystream announced its shutdown and liquidation on August 15. In its final operational phase as a Funding Rate Farmer, the protocol had facilitated 185 active positions with a total of $232,000 in collateral deployed. The team, which was

Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino on Saturday denied the company is building a Tether blockchain, rejecting a CoinMarketCap analysis that grouped the stablecoin issuer in a $1 billion stablechain development race. The denial came one day after CoinMarketCap published research claiming Tether, Stripe, and

According to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, on Thursday the OCC granted preliminary conditional approval for World Liberty Trust Company, a Florida-based national trust bank backed by President Donald Trump and his family, to issue and redeem USD1 stablecoin. The proposed

According to Ethereum Foundation researcher Justin Drake, Ethereum is abandoning Poseidon—a hash function optimized for zero-knowledge proofs—in favor of SHA-2 or BLAKE2s for Layer 1 security. The shift follows advances in binary-field SNARK design that enable traditional hash functions to match Pos

SNS is collaborating with Jupiter Manage to prepare the ecosystem for an upcoming upgrade involving .sol domains, the partnership announced August 14, 2026. The initiative focuses on making the transition easier for Jupiter Mobile users and holders of .sol domain names. The collaboration aims to

Coinfello launched a major upgrade to its AI agentic platform, named Fello 2, designed to let cryptocurrency users build, execute, and automate complex on-chain strategies using plain-language prompts. The update introduces an

According to Bitcoin.com News, Coinfello has launched Fello 2, an AI agent platform that allows users to automate complex DeFi strategies using plain-language prompts. The upgrade replaces multi-step manual processes—such as yield monitoring, portfolio rebalancing, and transaction approvals—with a s

According to Bitcoin News, Block's BitcoinatBlock has updated its Bitcoin roadmap with numerous features rolled out over the past year. Recently launched features include Cash App ACH purchases for Bitcoin, human-readable Bitcoin addresses, dollar payments via Lightning Network, Square merchant Bitc

According to Michael Saylor, Strategy upgraded its STRC, STRD, STRK, and STRF control panels on Aug 15, adding Bitcoin Rating, after-tax yield, and 1-year Sharpe ratio metrics. The new tools enable users to assess returns, credit quality, downside protection, and risk-adjusted

According to Lido, the protocol has activated NEST, an automated LDO repurchase mechanism that ties protocol revenue to LDO value. When Lido's annualized staking income exceeds a $40 million baseline, 50% of the surplus will be allocated to NEST for automatic LDO purchases via CoW Swap. NEST is

According to BNB Chain's official announcement, the Pasteur hard fork will activate on August 25 at 10:30 UTC+8 on BNB Smart Chain. Node operators must install BSC software version v1.7.7 before activation. The upgrade includes three proposals: BEP-682 addressing security improvements, BEP-695

According to ChainCatcher, Robinhood crypto head Johann Kerbrat recently said in a podcast interview that the company's blockchain differs from others by launching a chain but not a token. "As a pure technology infrastructure supporting our new businesses, we avoid constant strategy adjustments to m