Project Progress

According to YAP's official announcement on X, the platform launched Podium mode, a new fundraising mechanism that allocates token allocations exclusively to the top three ranked participants. The first-place participant receives 50% of the allocation, second place

According to BlockBeats, on September 29, Michael Saylor outlined Strategy's core strategic framework, positioning Bitcoin as digital capital, MSTR as digital equity, and STRC as digital credit. The company aims to create two complementary products from Bitcoin capital: MSTR provides amplified Bitco

According to Solana's official announcement, Cloak Ag launched a private payroll solution on Solana that allows users to upload spreadsheets and process payroll with a single click. The feature streamlines payroll management for businesses on the Solana

According to ChainCatcher, Chainlink announced a connectivity framework enabling banks to access SWIFT blockchain ledgers through the platform while retaining transaction signing keys. The framework leverages Chainlink's runtime environment to coordinate institutional systems and ledger

According to CoinDesk, Zcash developers on September 29 merged the Udon component from Project Tachyon into Zakura Common, a shared cryptographic library for generating and verifying private transactions on the network. The integration brings performance improvements: previous optimizations

According to Chainwire, on September 29, the Vana Foundation completed expanded staking as part of the Vega upgrade and published the paper "VANA: The Asset Behind an Open Data Economy", detailing VANA token economics. Network fees from personal data reads are split by protocol rule: 60 percent to s

According to Zcash developers and Sean Bowe, the Udon component was released on Monday, incorporating part of the Tachyon scaling upgrade code into Zakura Common, a cryptographic library shared by Zcash projects. Zakura Common handles the cryptographic computations required to create and verify

According to BlockBeats and HTX data, AAVE surged to $172.37 on September 29, up 16.17% in the past 24 hours, breaking through the $170 level. Meanwhile, Aave founder announced consideration of introducing a token burn mechanism in

Compound Foundation faces accusations of misappropriating 8.42 million DAI from the Compound DAO treasury. Community member 'ugurmersin' alleges the foundation converted the funds into 344,780 COMP tokens and used them to vote on two governance proposals, including one that approved $52 million in f

According to Protos, on September 28, a Compound community member accused the Compound Foundation of misappropriating 8.42 million DAI to purchase 344,780 COMP tokens, which were delegated to the foundation's voting address and used to vote on two proposals. The foundation responded in a

Ondo Perps CEO David Wells sees a 'huge opportunity' for perpetual futures in the United States, though any onshore version would require a different structure than the platform currently offered to non-U.S. users. In an interview with The Block at Ondo's event in Seoul, South Korea on Tuesday, Well

Beldex launched a $1M global grants program during Korea Blockchain Week 2026 in Seoul to fund privacy-preserving applications, tools and infrastructure. The initiative opens Beldex's privacy infrastructure to external developers worldwide, supporting ecosystem growth beyond internal products

According to The Block, Ondo Perps CEO David Wells said the U.S. perpetuals market presents significant opportunities and that Ondo sees merit in exploring it. However, he did not confirm whether the company will launch perpetuals products in the U.S. market, noting that any U.S. offering could

Ethereum developers have scheduled the network's next major upgrade, Glamsterdam, to activate on the Sepolia testnet on Oct. 6. The Ethereum Foundation announced Monday that Sepolia node operators must update both their execution-layer and consensus-layer clients before the activation. The upgrade introduces technical improvements including enshrined proposer-builder separation, which will move the handoff between specialized block builders and validators into Ethereum's protocol to reduce relia

According to PANews, Taiko released maintenance updates for all node operators on September 29, deploying them to both mainnet and Hoodi environments. The update includes three client versions: alethia-reth v1.4.1, taiko-alethia-client-v2.7.0, and simple-taiko-node v2.6.3. Node operators are

According to Ethlabs, Chainlink's cross-chain protocol CCIP 2.0 can reduce Ethereum transaction confirmation time to 12-24 seconds by leveraging Ethereum's fast finality rules. The acceleration is an optional feature that users must explicitly enable; its security guarantees differ from the

Mixin has completed the full redemption arrangement of 23 million USDT corresponding to the September 23 incident in September 2026, with full redemption now open to eligible users.

Chainlink launched CCIP 2.0 on September 28, 2026, making the latest version of its cross-chain interoperability protocol available to institutions and digital asset issuers. The upgrade addresses three barriers that have historically limited institutional adoption: cost, control, and security.

Chainlink launched CCIP 2.0 on September 29, enabling institutions to run custom cross-chain verifiers, enforce compliance controls, and settle transactions faster than finality. The protocol currently secures $84

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin outlined a long-term vision for the network centered on advanced cryptography, privacy protections, and decentralized computation in a recent discussion of the platform's development. The proposed architecture would retain blockchain security properties while