Project Progress

Aave V4, launched in March 2026, introduces a new structure of liquidity hubs and spokes to enhance scalability and manage risk. Hubs store assets while spokes handle user interactions and can be updated independently. Credit lines connect them, setting borrowing limits for better liquidity control.

Solana Foundation has introduced Solana Agent Skills, a toolkit for integrating prebuilt on-chain capabilities into AI tools, enabling faster development of AI agents that can execute blockchain actions efficiently. This simplifies the process for developers and positions Solana favorably in the evolving intersection of crypto and AI.

The Solana Foundation has launched STRIDE and SIRN, a security framework led by Asymmetric Research. The former provides independent security assessments and proactive monitoring, while the latter is responsible for real-time response and threat sharing. The initiative aims to improve ecosystem security, and all projects are available for free use.

Gate News message, April 7, Web3 security platform Immunefi announced that the DeFi protocol Alchemix has relaunched its bug bounty program on the platform based on its latest v3 contracts, with a maximum reward of up to $300k. This initiative is intended to encourage security researchers to review the new version of the contract code, identify potential vulnerabilities in advance, and improve the protocol’s overall security. Immunefi stated that this is currently a critical window period for auditing the relevant code and participating in the bounty program.

Gate News update: On April 7, AINFT announced integration with Google sign-in. Users can choose to connect via a Google account or via a decentralized wallet. After logging in, new users can receive a million-point rewards bonus and access multiple leading AI model platforms worldwide.

XRP has gained 5% from a support level of $1.28 due to increased whale accumulation, with large holders now buying over 11 million XRP daily. Ripple executives are attending a significant XRPL event in Japan, though broader market sentiment remains cautious amid geopolitical tensions.

AFX has launched its Testnet, enhancing on-chain trading for decentralized derivatives with high speed and capacity. Treating the community as a priority, it offers a rewards program tied to user engagement and feedback.

The risk management team, Chaos Labs, announced it is terminating its partnership with Aave due to long-term losses and irreconcilable differences in risk management. At this time, Aave V4 has just gone live; after upgrading, Chaos needs to rebuild its risk tools, and the budget requirements are higher than what Aave is willing to accept. In addition, Aave is facing the departure of multiple core team members, raising doubts about operational stability.

Gate News message: On April 7, the credit protocol Grove announced that its TVL has risen to $3.0 billion. Previously, in June 2025, Grove received a $1.0 billion grant from Sky to advance its RWA (real-world assets) business.

Pi Network has completed the distribution of rewards for the first round of KYC verification. With more than 1 million validators contributing to the confirmation of 18 million global identities, the reward pool exceeds 26 million Pi Coin. This progress marks a key step toward the mainnet launch, demonstrating the efficiency of human–machine collaboration, optimizing performance mechanisms, and attracting more users to participate.

Polygon announces that the Giugliano hard fork will be activated on April 8, aiming to improve transaction confirmation speed and fee transparency, and support high-throughput payments and tokenized assets. The upgrade will embed fee parameters into the block header and roll out new RPC endpoints to optimize the developer experience. In addition, this upgrade is a major improvement for Polygon after experiencing multiple issues; despite market expectations, the POL token is still down by nearly 5%.

San Francisco, CA, February 26th, 2026, Chainwire SolanaCDN delivers 3.8x faster shred propagation through a global mesh of 35,000+ nodes, provided as a public good for the Solana network Pipe Network today announced the launch of SolanaCDN, a free, open-source Solana validator client with an

Gate News message, April 7, the Sui ecosystem liquid staking protocol Volo announced that the maximum capacity of its Sui Prime treasury has been increased to 7 million SUI.

Circle announced its post-quantum security roadmap for its Layer-1 Arc blockchain, aiming to ensure the security of wallets, signatures, validators, and off-chain infrastructure by before 2030. The roadmap is divided into four phases: the first phase will go live on the mainnet in 2026, using NIST-approved post-quantum signature schemes, highlighting the industry’s response to quantum threats. Arc offers a more concrete implementation plan than its competitors, marking a new advancement in security for the crypto industry.

Solana Foundation is launching a security upgrade program for the DeFi ecosystem, including the STRIDE structured assessment and the SIRN incident response network. The assessment framework is open and transparent; protocols with TVL over $10 million can receive round-the-clock monitoring, and protocols with over $100 million can also receive formal verification funding. The foundation emphasizes that these resources are meant to improve security, not to replace protocols’ responsibility for security.

OpenMind’s Fabric Foundation has announced that it is building the infrastructure for a robot economy, focusing on four main pillars: robotic financing, agent payments, data flywheels, and a behavioral framework for robots. The goal is to improve the sustainability and safety of the robotics industry.

Grayscale research director said that technical breakthroughs in quantum computing could introduce uncertainty, so public blockchains need to accelerate the deployment of post-quantum cryptography. A Google paper highlights the time sensitivity of quantum risk, specifically noting that if quantum computers reach a certain number of logical qubits, they will threaten existing encryption systems. Solana and the XRP Ledger have already begun experimental deployments of post-quantum cryptography technology. While Bitcoin has lower technical risk, challenges still exist at the governance level.

High-performance Layer 2 protocol MegaETH recently released an investor memo, outlining on-chain progress and updates to the Mafia ecosystem, and clearly set out a KPI-based token generation event plan. GMX, through its deployment on MegaETH, delivers real-time trading experiences with performance close to that of a centralized exchange, further narrowing the performance gap between DeFi and CEX. The team commits to driving stablecoin adoption and the growth of functional applications through accountability mechanisms, and expects to achieve major progress in April.

Polygon Foundation announced that the Giugliano hard fork will be launched on April 8, bringing improvements such as faster transaction confirmations, greater fee transparency, and new RPC interfaces. Node operators must upgrade to the corresponding version before the specified block height to avoid losing synchronized connections with the mainnet. At the same time, Polygon has also introduced a private mempool feature to enhance transaction privacy.