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Pendle co-founder TN and Head of Growth Dan reviewed the developments in the first half of 2026 during the latest community meeting and announced the roadmap for the second half of the year. The team stated that in the first half, Pendle's ecosystem focused on building fixed income infrastructure, with Pendle V2 continuing to solidify its position as an on-chain fixed income protocol, while Boros made initial progress in the on-chain interest rate derivatives market.Data shows that Pendle V2 had an average daily TVL of approximately $1.3 billion in the first half of the year, with 9 out of the 11 major markets on the platform adopting real-world assets (RWA) as collateral, reflecting that institutional funds are continuously flowing into the RWA sector. Additionally, Pendle has launched on the Monad network and within less than a month became one of the top five protocols by TVL on that network, with a locked amount of approximately $150 million. In terms of protocol upgrades, Pendle has completed the migration from vePENDLE to sPENDLE, with about 36% of PENDLE currently staked, of which 93% of stakers have not yet unstaked. The protocol has also utilized revenue to repurchase approximately 2 million PENDLE and significantly reduced weekly liquidity incentives from about 90,000 to 21,000, further enhancing capital efficiency.At the same time, Pendle launched an in-app one-click Loop feature to simplify the operational process of leveraged yield strategies. Another core product, Boros, has surpassed $14 billion in cumulative trading volume within less than a year since its launch, with the number of users increasing by 50% since the beginning of the year. It has also introduced four-legged arbitrage strategies, acceptance of block trades, and a funding rate data dashboard to meet professional trading needs. Looking ahead to the second half of 2026, Pendle will focus on advancing curation infrastructure, allowing external teams to create PT/YT markets, and promoting PT assets as collateral for lending protocols; at the same time, it will collaborate with partners like Morpho to launch Pendle-branded yield vaults, expanding distribution channels for fixed income products. In terms of institutional business, the team is working with several RWA issuers in New York, planning to introduce tokenized ETFs, single bonds, and other on-chain yield products to Pendle, creating a platform for institutional RWA yield discovery and distribution. Boros will shift its strategic focus to cross-exchange funding rate arbitrage, prioritizing services for institutional arbitrageurs, and plans to launch a peer-to-peer acceptance market, funding rate visualization tools, and one-click strategy products for ordinary users, further improving the on-chain interest rate derivatives ecosystem.

According to BIT Official analysis, Ethereum's market dominance has climbed back above the psychological key level of 10%, and historical data shows that this signal is usually accompanied by a bullish market.In the long term, the "Lean Ethereum" roadmap plans to complete seven consecutive upgrades by 2029, aiming to create a high-speed settlement layer that includes faster final confirmation speeds, quantum-resistant cryptography, and native privacy features across the network.

According to ETNews, the South Korean government has released the "Korean Won Internationalization Roadmap," aiming to transform the Korean won from a regulated currency to a freely convertible currency and to establish an offshore Korean won settlement network.It is reported that the Bank of Korea will launch the "Offshore Korean Won Settlement Network" (tentative name), which is expected to undergo trial operation in September this year and officially start in January next year. At the same time, it will also build digital asset payment infrastructure to lay the foundation for the issuance, distribution, and trading of Korean won-denominated stablecoins, with plans to launch a pilot project next year to promote the tokenization of government bonds linked to the central bank digital currency (CBDC) of the Bank of Korea.In addition, South Korea will officially join the cross-border digital payment project "Agora," led by the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) and involving the central banks of eight countries.

According to The Block, the United States and the United Kingdom are deepening their cooperation on digital assets, releasing a joint statement from the Transatlantic Future Markets Working Group, stating that regulated stablecoins have the potential to enhance the efficiency and competitiveness of the financial system. This working group was established last year to deepen cooperation between the two countries and reduce market fragmentation.The joint statement calls for the Bank of England, the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), and the US CFTC and SEC to develop a framework for the treatment of tokenized assets, and instructs the FCA and SEC to "explore options to facilitate cross-border financing." The statement also proposes support for competition and innovation in assets such as stablecoins and tokenized deposits, emphasizing standards for custody, reserve isolation, and consumer protection, and providing clear priority legal claims for stablecoin holders in the event of bankruptcy. This statement comes on the one-year anniversary of the passage of the US GENIUS Act, with Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh stating at a House Financial Services Committee hearing that "relevant rules are being introduced just ahead of the July 18 deadline."

According to the official blog, Brave officially released the Basic Attention Token (BAT) roadmap 4.0 on July 9. This update aims to address the new challenges brought by artificial intelligence and a cashless economy, fully integrating BAT, Brave Rewards, and Brave Creators into a transactional attention economy. The core initiatives of the roadmap include the launch of a new unified version of Brave Wallet that integrates traditional payment methods with self-custodied crypto assets, as well as the construction of a privacy payment protocol layer, BravePay, based on stablecoins, thereby providing foundational support for autonomous agent payment features such as x402 and Machine Payment Protocol (MPP) within the browser.In addition, the roadmap also plans several new products to expand the ecological boundaries. Brave plans to launch virtual and physical payment cards for Brave Rewards that support daily consumption and return BAT rewards, while also developing a new creator contribution protocol to ensure that creators receive micro-royalty compensation when their content is utilized by AI products. In terms of token economics, a portion of the net income generated from Brave Wallet's revenue features, payment cards, and the BravePay protocol will be directly used to repurchase BAT to support user rewards and ecological growth. With the advancement of the above new features, Brave will gradually phase out traditional advertising notification units by the end of 2026 and fully shift the user reward mechanism towards personalized offer walls and a new loyalty program.

According to a post by Vitalik Buterin, Ethereum researchers recently held a meeting in Berlin to update the long-term development roadmap of the protocol (strawmap.org). Vitalik pointed out that "Lean Ethereum" is not a one-time upgrade, but a series of improvements that will be phased in over the next three to four years, with an importance comparable to the "Merge," covering almost every core module of the protocol.The main content includes: Verification Mechanism: Introducing recursive STARKs to replace the existing direct re-execution method, becoming a core component at the protocol level; Quantum Security: Significantly elevated priority, all quantum-vulnerable components will be replaced, and the design for quantum-safe Blobs is in progress; Consensus Layer: Decoupling usable chains from finality, achieving one to two rounds of finality, with better security and lower latency; State Layer: The existing dynamic state remains unchanged, but new types of states with greater scalability (such as UTXO storage, circular buffers, etc.) will be added, with an expectation that by 2030 Ethereum will have 2 TB of dynamic state + 100 TB of new type state, allowing for over 10 times reduction in Gas fees after the migration of applications like ERC20 and NFTs; Privacy: Upgrading from an additional feature to a primary goal, integrated into designs such as Mempool and state trees; VM: Introducing leanISA or RISC-V beyond EVM, with the long-term goal of direct protocol layer only.

According to Cointelegraph, StarkWare has released the Starknet post-quantum roadmap, stating that the roadmap is divided into three phases to address the risks of future quantum computing attacks.The first phase of the roadmap includes replacing some existing security mathematical mechanisms, specifically the Pedersen hash, with post-quantum versions and adding post-quantum signatures; the second phase focuses on migration tools that upgrade existing smart contracts without requiring developers to manually rebuild applications; the third phase involves dependencies that Starknet cannot resolve on its own, primarily relying on Ethereum's quantum upgrade roadmap.

The new research lab Ethlabs was launched this week, co-funded by Ethereum co-founder Joe Lubin, Bitmine Immersion Technologies holding approximately 5.7 million ETH, and Sharplink holding approximately 876,000 ETH, with the specific funding amount undisclosed.Sharplink CEO Joseph Chalom stated that Ethlabs will complement the Ethereum Foundation, but acknowledged that the two will "overlap in certain areas," and that "the most concentrated talent" will be at Ethlabs. The lab focuses on faster settlement, cross-chain interoperability, and readiness for institutional and AI applications, which highly overlaps with the priorities of the Foundation after its reorganization this week.This move comes as the Ethereum Foundation cut about 40% of its 2026 budget and eliminated 54 positions this week, with Vitalik Buterin defining it as a shift towards a donation fund model. Former Foundation core development coordinator Trent Van Epps warned last week that core development faces a funding gap in three to nine months. Ethlabs' first real test will be the Glamsterdam upgrade, where the roadmaps of the two organizations will intersect for the first time in a limited upgrade queue.

Bittensor co-founder const posted on the X platform, detailing the current state of decentralization of the project, future roadmap, and goals. Bittensor has not yet achieved decentralization at the economic incentive layer, which is still led by the core team, including const himself, two engineers, and a core group of contributors. The project has been live for over 5 years, with no pre-mining, and has 128 subnet teams and over 20 core validator teams, achieving decentralization at the ownership distribution level. The team chose to rapidly iterate at the cost of "maintaining centralization" rather than slowly advancing "democratic" decision-making.Regarding future update plans, Bittensor will promote validators to re-enter the competitive mechanism while opening liquidity pools for two-way investment to symmetrize the market and prevent on-chain signals from being manipulated. Additionally, a belief mechanism will be introduced to grant voting rights to Alpha token holders. In the coming weeks, updates will also be made to TaoFlow and its derivatives, further fine-tuning the issuance distribution algorithm to optimize the distribution method of inflation. Const expects to complete the construction of core mechanisms within the next year and a half, at which point the three pillars of incentive alignment, value optimization, and true ownership will operate in synergy, ultimately achieving complete decentralization by abandoning centralized control.

The AI Identity and Agent Infrastructure Project Billions has released its latest strategic roadmap, announcing a focus on advancing the infrastructure construction related to Agent commerce and Agent payments, promoting the evolution of AI Agents from information processing tools to participants in economic activities.Billions stated that as Agents begin to autonomously complete service calls, payment settlements, product purchases, and task executions, AI is gradually entering the Agent economy era. In the future, Agents will not only need identity and permission management capabilities but also the ability to participate in real commercial activities and value exchanges.Currently, Billions has launched payment-related components based on the x402 protocol, including Agent Skill, server-side extensions, and SDK. The team indicated that they will continue to expand product capabilities around Agent authentication, authorization management, payment execution, and commercial collaboration scenarios, building an infrastructure network aimed at the Agent Economy.Billions believes that the automated value exchange between Agents and between Agents and services will become the next stage of AI development, and the Agent commercial network is expected to become an important part of the future digital economy.

The Algorand Foundation officially released a roadmap for quantum resistance upgrades, planning to launch a series of protocol transformations in 2026, and achieve overall "quantum security" capabilities for the network by the end of 2027 to 2028, in response to the potential threats posed by future quantum computing to existing cryptographic systems.The roadmap indicates that the first phase will introduce post-quantum account systems, multi-signature wallets, and staking support, followed by a gradual upgrade of core protocol components to achieve a comprehensive encryption migration from the wallet layer to the infrastructure. It is reported that several public chain ecosystems, including the Ethereum Foundation and Solana, have also initiated similar research and migration plans for quantum-resistant cryptography.

According to the official announcement, Coinbase will list GEODNET (GEOD) on its coin listing roadmap.

Circle released a quantum security white paper, proposing a phased upgrade plan covering Arc, USDC, smart contracts, and the validator system to address potential security risks posed by future quantum computing.

Sei releases the next-generation protocol upgrade "Giga" roadmap, planning to significantly enhance transaction performance by restructuring the execution client, state management, and consensus mechanism. Core upgrades include: Ares execution client (optimizing performance through pipelined execution and asynchronous processing); Eidos state management (replacing the Merkle tree with a flat key-value store, separating hot data from cold archives); Autobahn consensus mechanism (targeting 200,000 TPS and 400 milliseconds finality, with the internal test network already achieving 5 Gigagas processing capability); Sedna private memory pool (introducing a cryptographic transaction propagation mechanism); and gradually phasing out Cosmos SDK and CosmWasm through SIP-3, transitioning to a pure EVM architecture.

Coinbase announced that it will add MetaDAO (META) and Derive (DRV) to the asset listing roadmap.

The Ethereum Foundation disclosed the results of a recent interoperability meeting held by core developers in the Svalbard archipelago of Norway and updated the key technical progress for the next phase upgrade, Glamsterdam. During the meeting, multiple client teams collaborated on network scalability and execution layer optimization, making progress in several directions. Developers confirmed that based on the comprehensive results of ePBS, BAL optimization, and the EIP-8037 repricing mechanism, a consensus on the "trusted path" after Glamsterdam has been reached.In terms of the execution layer, ePBS (External Proposer Separation Architecture) has been stably running in the multi-client Glamsterdam-devnet, and the external block builder process has completed end-to-end testing, covering almost all client implementations. Meanwhile, EIP-8037 has been finalized, establishing the fixed cost_per_state_byte model, and complete repricing parameter output has been achieved in bal-devnet-6. The scalability direction Hegotá has also made progress. The FOCIL-related prototype has a runnable implementation, and the scope of account abstraction (AA) requirements has been defined, with the next phase entering the multi-client development network verification stage.Current development focus remains on the final implementation of Glamsterdam while advancing the Hegotá scalability design and subsequent Strawmap route evolution. The development network is online, and functionalities such as FOCIL are expected to continue deepening in the next phase of testing. At the organizational level, this interop meeting also marks the formal initiation of leadership structure adjustments within the Protocol Cluster. The new leaders include Will Corcoran, Kev Wedderburn, and Fredrik. Will Corcoran is responsible for zkVM proof and post-quantum consensus coordination, Kev Wedderburn leads zkEVM development, and Fredrik is in charge of protocol security and the Trillion Dollar Security project.Original Protocol Cluster leadership team members Barnabé Monnot and Tim Beiko will gradually step back from management roles, and Alex Stokes is entering a leave period. The foundation stated that during its term, the Protocol has completed modular advancement and facilitated the launch of the Fusaka upgrade (December 2025), introduced PeerDAS, and enhanced mainnet gas capacity.

According to official news, Coinbase has added Nexus (NEX) to the listing roadmap.