Project Progress

According to Bitcoin News, Spaces launched Trust Anchor, enabling applications to verify human-readable identities such as alice@bitcoin directly on Bitcoin without relying on centralized servers. Users receive a single Trust ID that can be scanned or pasted into Spaces-compatible applications for i

According to ChainCatcher, World Liberty has launched governance voting on WLFI 180-day rewards. The reward program has no fixed interest rate and will be funded by the project treasury and World Liberty Markets fee

Ondo Finance introduced a conversion system allowing eligible institutions to convert stocks and exchange-traded funds directly into tokenized equivalents or redeem tokens for underlying shares. The new system aims to reduce the amount of additional capital needed to create tokenized inventory and l

Ondo Finance introduced an in-kind conversion system on September 21, allowing eligible institutions to transfer stocks and exchange-traded funds directly into tokenized Ondo Stocks tokens via approved Alpaca accounts. The process also enables institutions to redeem tokens for underlying shares

According to Foresight News, Zcash Foundation clarified that ZRC-20 and CASH tokens are not official token standards or protocol built-in functions. The project is a private initiative, not affiliated with Zcash's official standards. The foundation reminded users to conduct their own research

Circle launched a Bitcoin-backed borrowing service for institutional clients, allowing eligible Circle Mint customers to use BTC as collateral to borrow USDC through onchain lending markets. The service, called Digital Asset-Backed Borrowing, went live with cirBTC launching on Arc on Monday, days

According to PANews, on September 21, Velocity perpetual DEX removed its whitelist restriction and opened its Beta phase to all users. The protocol supports wBTC, wETH, SOL, and USDT as collateral assets within the same account, with select contracts offering up to 20x leverage. All trades are

According to developer account CodeMultiversX, MultiversX's recovery hard fork has completed internal testing and mainnet checkpoints are now ready. The team is currently testing a simplified recovery process for

Robinhood Chain attracted $146 million in tradeable tokenized stocks weeks before its free-gas promotion was set to expire on Sept. 29. The Ethereum layer 2 network, which launched July 1, had subsidized transaction fees to support early wallet activity. The subsidy's end will test whether user

Robinhood's blockchain network has accumulated $146 million in tradeable tokenized stocks as of September 21, just days before its free-transaction promotion expires on September 29. The network has offered subsidized gas fees since its July 1 launch; the key question is whether on-chain activity

According to Odaily, Ondo Stocks now supports physical asset conversion between stocks and tokenized versions. The platform launched a primary issuance channel through Alpaca's Instant Tokenization Network (ITN), allowing approved institutions to mint Ondo Stocks tokens using existing stock assets o

According to ChainCatcher, Circle has launched its digital asset collateralized borrowing (DABB) feature on Arc and Ethereum networks, now available to qualified Circle Mint institutional clients. Customers can deposit Bitcoin, mint Circle-wrapped Bitcoin (cirBTC), and use it as collateral to borrow

The European Central Bank launched Pontes on Monday, a system that allows financial institutions to settle wholesale tokenized asset transactions in central bank money. The system provides an alternative to private settlement assets such as stablecoins for tokenized finance transactions. The ECB

According to Foresight News, Valour, a subsidiary of DeFi Technologies (Nasdaq: DEFT), has introduced its new Valour Funds SPC business line and launched its first hedge fund, Smart Crypto Fund SP, available to professional and qualified investors. The fund leverages AI investment strategies

According to ChainCatcher, Bitcoin BLAKE2b developers plan to require miners to wait 45 days before accessing newly mined BTCB2, with the change set to execute at block height 973440. The chain forked from Bitcoin on August 8. BTCB2 has declined 84% from its September peak of $1,799, currently

According to the Balancer governance forum, the protocol's contributors are proposing an orderly wind-down that would stop new pool creation, reduce activity, and eventually return treasury assets to BAL holders. A Snapshot vote is scheduled to run from September 25 through September 29. The

According to Foresight News, Taiko DAO submitted Proposal 24 on September 21 to upgrade four proxy contracts across Ethereum and Taiko, including cross-chain bridge and ERC20 Vault, with a new resolver registration on L2. The proposal fixes a critical vulnerability where tokens bridged from Taiko to

According to Dragonfly General Partner Haseeb Qureshi, Zcash should allow its developer fund to expire after 2028 rather than extending it further. The fund currently receives 20% of Zcash block rewards to finance privacy research, wallet development, and protocol maintenance. Qureshi's statement

Cardano's delegated representatives rejected a proposal to withdraw 12.29 million ADA from the community treasury to fund Input Output's Pogun Bitcoin DeFi product, with 35.67% of DRep voting power in favor and 64.33% opposed according to the final Koios summary. The vote means Cardano retains the ADA but forfeits revenue-sharing terms Input Output had attached to the deal. Charles Hoskinson subsequently stated IOG will no longer default to launching future products on Cardano, marking a governa

According to Koios summary, Cardano's delegated representatives today voted down a proposal to withdraw 12.29 million ADA from the community treasury to fund Input Output's Pogun Bitcoin DeFi product. Voting results showed 35.67% in favor and 64.33% opposed. The treasury retains the ADA but