A CME Group spokesperson clarified to Fox Business that the XRP and SOL futures contract information that appeared on the Beta website was misposted, and no official decision has been made on the launch of these two cryptocurrency futures contracts.
Sahara AI launched the first phase of beta testing on December 18, 2024, attracting over 780,000 users to sign up, and eventually more than 10,000 successfully participated.
Sony L2 network Soneium tweeted that its public testnet Soneium Minato has completed the upgrade of the L1 contract to v1.6.0, while activating FaultProofs. The upgraded L1 contract extends the Challenge Period on Soneium Minato from 30 minutes to 7 days, in line with the Superchain ecosystem, to enhance security and reliability. If users have outstanding pending withdrawals before November 5, they need to re-prove on Superbridge. Withdrawals initiated within 7 days before the upgrade will be co...
Starknet announced the launch of StarkGate v2.0 Beta on the mainnet, which includes a new cross-chain specification that provides more features, more tokens, and a better user experience.
Polygon has announced that the time lock for its zkEVM mainnet Beta upgrade has been triggered, and the time lock period will end on October 28th. This update will enhance network resilience, introducing rollback of Polygon zkEVM and CDK chains, and also support data structure management required for blob via 4844. Users and infrastructure providers do not need to take any action before the smart contract upgrade.
RSS3 posted a reminder on X: Nodes that have not upgraded from Beta to Production Mainnet will not receive rewards from Epoch 256 onwards. Please follow the official guidelines to upgrade as soon as possible.
Bitcoin re-staking protocol Lombard announced that it will launch a public beta on September 5, and the project also launched DeFi Vault, operated by Veda, designed to provide one-click access to DeFi revenue. Lombard completed a $16 million seed round led by Polychain Capital, with participation from Franklin Templeton, Foresight Ventures, Mirana Ventures, BabylonChain, Inc., dao5, Mantle EcoFund and Nomad Capital.
On September 2nd, Fractal Bitcoin, a bitcoin expansion plan, issued a statement on X saying that the public testnet will continue to operate after the main network is launched.
Story Protocol, an intellectual property blockchain, announced the launch of its first public testnet, Iliad, on the X platform, allowing users to explore building IP assets on the Story Network.
Lens plans to release a public testnet of its ZKsync in the next one to two months, with the mainnet expected in three to four months. Lens V3 will go live shortly after the mainnet goes live, with some privacy features, with the ultimate goal of providing further privacy features and giving users the option to monetize their data through AI-trained models.