Aztec V5 Alpha proving system vulnerability identified and fixed for V6

Aztec's testing phase uncovered a critical flaw in its proving mechanism, demonstrating that alpha testing is catching and remediating serious issues before mainnet.

Optimism Collective Year 4 budget review, Year 5 outlook, and Strategic Ecosystem Fund posted

Optimism Foundation is reshaping its token allocation strategy by converting unused user airdrop tokens into a new fund for ecosystem grants and growth.

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Uniswap Pools launchpad launches on Robinhood Chain for token bidding and swaps

Uniswap's new launchpad feature goes live on Robinhood Chain, enabling decentralized token offerings and automated market making.

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Lighter and Eigen advance ZK prover optimization via autoresearch challenge

A collaborative development effort has made Lighter's zero-knowledge prover significantly faster in days, advancing the speed and cost of scaling solutions that rely on proof compression.

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Risk Stewards: Supply Cap Changes on Aave V3 / 2026.08.07

Treasury Management Function (TMF) Configurations

Atlas Edit Weekly Cycle proposal adds Diamond PAU subtree to Sky governance

Sky governance documentation consolidates liquidity layer parameters, roles, contracts, and processes under a new Diamond PAU subtree structure.

MetaMask launches self-custodial agent wallet for autonomous trading

MetaMask lets AI agents execute on-chain trades within user-defined spending limits, extending wallet software toward autonomous smart-contract agents.

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Polygon Open Money Stack adds Solana interoperability for cross-chain stablecoin routing

Polygon's payment infrastructure now enables seamless stablecoin transfers between Solana and 20+ EVM chains, broadening the Open Money Stack's reach across blockchains.

Sky Smart Burn Engine Bounded External Access Module launches onchain

Sky's Smart Burn Engine now supports direct parameter adjustments by a trusted operator through a new module, reducing governance overhead for protocol tuning.

Arbitrum BUIDL Program 2.0 final report published

Arbitrum Foundation releases completed retrospective on its developer grant and startup acceleration initiative.

Settlement Reconciliation II: MSC #5-#10 reconciled against open-source methodology

Sky's Soter Labs publishes the second reconciliation of recent monthly settlement cycles using the open-source Settlement methodology for transparency and validation.

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Sky executive vote: Osero Prime Chainlog key renames scheduled for August 13

Sky governance prepares a housekeeping update to standardize Chainlog naming conventions across its Prime modules.

Osero seeks increased ALLOCATOR-PRYSM-A vault debt ceiling on Sky

Osero requests Sky Core to raise the maximum debt ceiling for its allocator vault from 5 million to 10 million USDS to support increased collateral allocation.

Arbitrum Academic Bridge at NTUA completed with eight university courses

The Ethereum Greece initiative wrapped a five-month education program teaching Arbitrum L2 development and blockchain fundamentals to 400+ students at a major Greek university.