Project Progress

Circle is dedicated to building blockchain payment infrastructure to enhance capital flow efficiency. It collaborates with partners such as Mastercard to promote the adoption of stablecoin USDC, emphasizing the transformative potential of blockchain technology for the financial system. Stablecoins are primarily used for trading, payments, and value storage, with expectations for broader mainstream acceptance in the future.

AI Agent platform Starchild launched its Projects feature on March 13, allowing users to create projects and generate public links through natural language instructions. The newly launched Explore community feature enables users to share their work. New users can also receive a $5 free credit to experience the platform.

Anchorage Digital and Puffer Finance have integrated, allowing institutional clients to participate in Ethereum liquid restaking on their platform without the need to operate validators themselves, thereby reducing technical and compliance complexities. This integration aims to expand institutional access to on-chain services, including staking and governance. The restaking market has become an emerging sector, with a locked-in value of $7.2 billion, and institutional demand for this strategy continues to grow.

Gate News reports that on March 13, xAI Omni team technical lead Haotian Liu posted on social media stating he has left xAI earlier this week. Haotian Liu previously independently led the development of the Grok Imagine v0.9 & v1 (image + video generation) projects.

Bitcoin investor Olivier Janssens has proposed a plan to pay all residents on the Caribbean island of Nevis $100 monthly to promote his libertarian community project Destiny. The project has faced criticism from opponents, who have characterized the initiative as coercion and bribery. The project involves billions of dollars in development and plans to purchase 2,400 acres of land.

On March 13, Project 0 founder MacBrennan announced that a team member's GitHub key was compromised, and the attacker redirected users to other websites. The team detected and prevented the vulnerability in time, avoiding any loss of funds, but one user lost $1,000, and the platform will issue a full refund.

The OpenClaw project has over 300,000 stars on GitHub, ranking 9th, second only to some learning resource projects. The project was open-sourced by Peter Steinberger in 2025 and has experienced rapid growth, surpassing numerous notable projects in just two months, becoming the only active software project in the top ten.

Hong Kong is about to issue its first batch of stablecoin licenses, with approved institutions including HSBC, joint venture Anchorpoint, and OSL Group. Regulators aim to ensure market stability through strict regulations, while Chinese companies such as Ant Group and JD.com are absent from this round of license competition due to policy constraints. This move will impact the global stablecoin regulatory landscape.

Base Build announced on March 13 that it will launch new Base.dev foundational components aimed at simplifying the building, management, and showcase of applications, covering three major features: metadata, notifications, and distribution. The metadata feature will go live in mid-March, while notifications and distribution features are scheduled to launch on April 9, at which time Base App will discontinue using the Farcaster specification.

Brevis recently launched an end-to-end media authenticity system that allows images and videos to cryptographically prove their origins while protecting user data. The Shift From Detection to Proof On March 9, 2026, the zero-knowledge-proof computing company Brevis launched an end-to-end media au

Lido has launched EarnUSD, its first stablecoin vault, allowing users to invest stablecoins in USD-valued strategies on Ethereum. This move aims to enhance Lido's DeFi offerings and simplify its product portfolio to cater to the growing demand for stablecoin services.

Gate News: On March 13th, Tempo, a stablecoin public chain, added built-in account abstraction functionality at the protocol layer. This feature brings three major conveniences to users: no need for seed phrases, no need for Gas tokens, and no need for repeated transaction confirmations. For developers, account abstraction can be implemented without relying on workarounds such as middleware or smart contracts.

Hong Kong is set to issue its first stablecoin licenses under a new regulatory framework, with HSBC, Standard Chartered's Anchorpoint, and OSL Group in consideration. The regulations take effect in August 2025, allowing the Monetary Authority to license stablecoin issuers.

CoW DAO responded to the incident where a whale lost $50.39 million while swapping aEthAAVE, stating that the decentralized trading platform was unable to complete the transaction. The team emphasized the importance of user autonomy and choice. They are researching how to balance security with user self-sovereignty and have committed to reimbursing related fees.

POAP digital badge platform announced that starting March 16, it will enter maintenance mode and will not issue new badges, but existing users can still use the tools. The platform will no longer actively develop and will focus on establishing open collectible standards in the future to support sustainable collectible creation.

On March 13, DEXTools completed a $3 million funding round and will launch its perpetual DEX product PerpTools. The public beta is expected in 2026, and it has already reached $150 million in trading volume during the closed testing phase, integrating AI analysis and real-time execution capabilities.

TRUMP meme coin organizers announced they will hold a business meeting at Trump's Mar-a-Lago on April 25, inviting the top 297 token holders to attend. The token has plummeted from its peak of $74 to $2.75, representing a 96% decline. The event has sparked ethical controversy over money in exchange for political access, with critics questioning whether this practice violates relevant laws.

Gate News reports that on March 13, Circle announced that its tokenized money market fund USYC has surpassed $2 billion in assets under management, becoming the world's largest tokenized money market fund. USYC is a product that tokenizes traditional money market funds using blockchain technology, allowing institutional investors to hold, trade, and manage yield-bearing assets on-chain. The fund mainly invests in short-term U.S. Treasury securities and repurchase agreements backed by U.S. government securities.

Gate News reported that on March 13, stablecoin protocol Ethena announced an update to the sUSDe unstaking mechanism. The new mechanism will adjust the unstaking cooldown period from the previously fixed 7 days to a dynamic model, with the cooldown period floating between 1 to 7 days, depending on the proportion of liquid stablecoins in USDe reserve assets.

Ethereum officials stated that the Ethereum ecosystem is experiencing a transformation in privacy, calling it a renaissance. New cypherpunk ideals emphasize privacy, decentralization, and censorship resistance, upholding the cultural values of permissionlessness and open source, infusing Ethereum with a modern spirit. Now is the best time to become a privacy advocate.