Project Progress

The IOTA Foundation published its report for the second quarter of 2026, reporting significant progress in the expansion of TWIN. The main focus was on the activation of the Starfish consensus protocol on April 23, trade projects in Africa and the United Kingdom, and a stronger organizational

According to IOTA Foundation's Q2 2026 report, the Foundation activated the Starfish consensus protocol on April 23 to enhance mainnet stability under real-world network conditions. The upgrade also completed Protocol Version 29 with enhanced smart contract security measures. In application-level p

According to BlockBeats, Aave deployed its V3 lending protocol on Monad on July 3, initially supporting 12 assets including USDT, USDC, GHO, USDe, mUSD, AUSD, WETH, cbBTC, wstETH, weETH, syrupUSDC, and sUSDe. The deployment marks Aave's first mainnet launch to enable Chainlink's Smart Value

Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev told CNBC on Thursday morning that the future of crypto lies in real-world assets rather than memecoins. The statement came a day after the company unveiled an expansion of its tokenized equities offering. Tenev stated that if an asset is not tied to underlying utility, it i

Humanity Protocol founder Terence Kwok said the project is repositioning toward enterprise AI products, moving away from its identity-and-blockchain roots weeks after a $36 million exploit in June drained its treasury and collapsed the H token. Speaking on The Block's daily show in his first

According to Foresight News, on-chain lending protocol Maple Finance launched syrupUSDG on Robinhood Chain. Risk management firm Steakhouse Financial approved syrupUSDG as collateral for Robinhood Earn, the first decentralized lending product in Robinhood's app. Morpho provides vault

Able Finance, founded by CEO Islam Shazhaev, is building a Sharia-compliant fintech platform combining stablecoin infrastructure, AI-native architecture, and halal yield products to serve the global Islamic finance market. The platform addresses a gap in accessible financial services for a 2

According to an interview published on July 2, Able Finance CEO Islam Shazhaev explained the company's strategy to capture the $4.93 trillion Islamic finance market by building proprietary stablecoin infrastructure rather than competing on payments alone. The platform combines an AI-native

According to Foresight News, Venus Protocol proposed shutting down 87 deprecated markets across BNB Chain, Ethereum, Arbitrum, and five other blockchains by June 29. The proposal executes in two steps: first, the protocol will set reserve factors to 100% and significantly raise borrowing rates to en

According to BlockBeats and HTX market data, TAIKO surged over 75% in 24 hours on July 2, trading at $0.2 with a market capitalization reaching $44 million. Taiko announced its bridging service has resumed normal operations, with the network fully restored. The team confirmed "Step 4 completion" an

Solana has launched Solana Governance Proposals (SGPs), an onchain governance system enabling validators and delegators to vote on major network decisions through stake-weighted ballots. A validator vote account with at least 100,000 SOL staked can submit a proposal, which enters a support phase.

According to Cointelegraph, Sei released the Giga white paper V2 on July 2, bringing upgrades including sub-250 millisecond finality, pre-execution privacy, protocol-level MEV resistance, and transaction throughput exceeding 200,000 per second.

According to Cointelegraph, Sei has released Giga Whitepaper V2, detailing upgrades designed to achieve finality in under 250 milliseconds, process over 200,000 transactions per second, and introduce pre-execution privacy protection alongside protocol-level MEV

According to Odaily, Arcus, a decentralized exchange developed by the dYdX team, has launched on Robinhood Chain, offering 24/7 zero-fee trading for 95 tokenized stocks and perpetual contracts. Robinhood Crypto has invested in Arcus. All tokenized stocks are issued and redeemable on Robinhood Chain,

Validators with at least 100,000 delegated Solana can now submit on-chain governance proposals. Proposals move to a stake-weighted vote after securing at least 15% cluster support. With the formal launch of its eagerly anticipated on-chain governance system, Solana now offers token holders and

According to Yooldo's official statement on July 2, the ESPORTS token price collapse on May 25 was caused by abnormal market operations by a market-making partner, not a project-initiated selloff. The team stated that after introducing external OTC and market-making partners for liquidity

Stoked.bet has officially launched its blockchain-powered sports betting platform, entering the market with an established operational foundation. The company built the new platform on the experience gained from Steam22, a private sportsbook that reported processing more than $30 million in betting

According to an official announcement on July 1, 2026, Stoked.bet officially launched its blockchain-powered sports betting platform, built on the operational foundation of Steam22, a private sportsbook that processed over $30 million in betting volume and cultivated a community of 2,500+ members.

BNB Chain launched BNB Agent Studio, a developer platform that creates onchain AI agents from a simple prompt in about 15 minutes. The platform is live on BNB Smart Chain mainnet and was co-engineered with the AWS Generative AI Innovation Center. It provides developers with integrated wallet,

According to BNB Chain, the platform launched BNB Agent Studio today, enabling developers to create onchain AI agents with built-in wallets and crypto payments in about 15 minutes. Developed in partnership with AWS Generative AI Innovation Center, the studio integrates Amazon Bedrock Agentcore as th