Projects

Shardeum completed its v1.1.0 mainnet upgrade to Cosmos EVM v0.6.3 after Governance Proposal #1, with block production resuming after a planned 25-minute halt.

Sui's Hashi plans a phased October mainnet rollout with more than $500 million committed for Bitcoin-backed markets and over 20 launch partners.

Solana plans to activate Alpenglow in epoch 1064 on Oct. 21, targeting roughly 150-millisecond finality while leaving transaction execution unchanged.

Beldex has opened a rolling $1 million grants program for teams building privacy apps, payment tools and infrastructure on its network.

Solana's final staged slot-time reduction went live on mainnet on October 9, cutting the target from 400ms to 200ms without a protocol-breaking change.

DATA Network and its Trace registry will join Sui, with Walrus becoming the default storage layer and the DATA token moving one-to-one to the upgraded protocol.

Meanwhile raised $37.5 million from existing investors to expand Bitcoin-denominated life insurance through international brokers.

Orca and Loopscale have merged as Formation, combining Solana trading liquidity with credit and vault infrastructure while keeping both protocols operating.

Cardano’s CIP-0113 standard brings script-enforced transfer rules to native assets, with wallet and explorer support available at launch.