Polygon has successfully tested a new agent payment system that processed more than 11 million verified payment updates per second across 25 hubs while maintaining final settlement anchored to Polygon Chain. The development comes amid growing industry focus on AI agents as potential drivers of cryptocurrency adoption.
Onchain prediction market protocol Trueo announced it will move its primary deployment from Base Layer 2 to Ethereum mainnet, citing greater integration potential and network effects. Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin welcomed the move, praising Trueo as an 'ethical' market contender.
Oracle provider Pragma rated six price feeds as critical risk on September 18 following a $3.5 million exploit on Starknet's lending protocol. The assessment revealed a gap between oracle valuations and the liquidity lenders need to sell collateral.
Nostra Finance, a lending protocol on Starknet Layer 2, paused its money market after an attacker exploited a manipulated price feed for its NSTR token to steal $3.5 million. The exploit is notable as NSTR's entire market cap is under $600,000.
Ethereum and Coinbase-backed Base have stopped collaborating on unified account abstraction proposals and will pursue separate standards. Ethlabs researcher Derek Chiang confirmed the breakdown in coordination efforts on September 14.
Hunter Biden confirmed plans to launch a memecoin called LAPTOP on Coinbase's Base network on September 9, with 200 million tokens reserved for airdrops to TRUMP coin holders sitting on losses. Founders retain 30% of supply.
DeFi insurance protocol Cozy Finance was exploited for approximately $170,000 on the Optimism network, with the attacker draining funds and bridging them out within 13 minutes. Blockchain security firm Blockaid flagged the attack early Monday, marking the second time Cozy Finance has been compromised.
The total market cap of assets on Robinhood Chain has climbed to approximately $1.87 billion, with tokenized stocks accounting for $73 million in DeFi deposits. The blockchain launched less than a month ago.
Robinhood Chain posted $3.7 billion in 24-hour decentralized exchange volume on September 5, a new all-time high for the Arbitrum-based Layer 2 network launched in July 2026. Weekly DEX volume reached approximately $10.47 billion.
Paxos-issued stablecoin USDG has launched natively on Mantle, with the Ethereum layer-2 network joining the Global Dollar Network as a partner. Mantle will receive a share of revenue generated from USDG usage on its network.
The Silicon Ethereum Layer 2 network is shutting down permanently, giving users a four-month window until December 31, 2026 to withdraw nearly $10 million in assets before they become unrecoverable as liquidity disappears and the chain closes.
Applications on the two-month-old Robinhood Chain generated $2.66 million in 24-hour revenue, ranking second behind Solana and surpassing Ethereum, Base and other established networks. The network processed a record 5.52 million transactions driven primarily by memecoin launchpad activity.
Polygon Labs revealed it quietly fixed denial-of-service and consensus vulnerabilities in its proof-of-stake network through the Austin and Kyoto hard forks before publicly disclosing the flaws. The company says the vulnerabilities were never exploited.
DeFi lending protocol Moonwell suffered an $8.7 million exploit after an attacker manipulated the price of MAMO token to borrow real assets against inflated collateral, prompting the protocol to set borrow caps to 1 wei across Base markets.
Bitwise Asset Management launched Automated Token Portfolios (ATPs) on Base, allowing eligible non-U.S. investors to hold self-custodied portfolios of Coinbase-issued tokenized U.S. stocks. The first active strategy, Mag7X, includes four tokenized stocks from the Magnificent 7 companies.
Kinetiq, which controls approximately 82.5% of Hyperliquid's liquid staking market, announced the launch of Elysium, a new Layer 2 chain built on top of the Hyperliquid ecosystem. The L2 aims to improve HyperEVM performance, revive spot trading, and create a new KNTQ buyback engine using HYPE as the gas token.
The Sandbox contained a vulnerability in its SAND cross-chain bridge on Base and BNB Smart Chain after an attacker minted approximately 500 million unbacked tokens. The project stated the impact was under $1 million, though the full extent of damage remains unclear.
Arbitrum deployed its ArbOS 61 'Elara' upgrade on August 20, introducing optional compliance screening tools that Orbit chain owners can control on their dedicated networks. The upgrade affects both Arbitrum One and Arbitrum Nova, though priority fees remain disabled on Arbitrum One pending further governance votes.
World Chain will activate full block access lists based on EIP-7928 on August 17, becoming the first production Layer-2 network to stream this data within flashblocks every 200 milliseconds. The feature enables parallel block verification to increase throughput without requiring validator hardware upgrades.
Uniswap Labs launched Pools.trade on August 5, 2026, a new memecoin creation platform on Robinhood Chain, as the decentralized exchange developer expands into token launchpad services amid over 340,000 token launches on Uniswap v4.
Moonbeam froze all GLMR token transactions at 23:59 UTC on July 31, 2026, as part of its migration to relaunch on the Base network. Users who missed the migration window are being instructed to contact support via email.
Ondo Finance has launched the Ondo Network, a new execution layer designed to combine centralized exchange-like speed with non-custodial trading and onchain functionality. The company describes it as an evolution of Ondo Chain.
PointsKash Inc. has introduced a kiosk infrastructure architecture engineered to function regardless of whether Bitcoin Improvement Proposal 110 (BIP-110) is adopted, as debate over the proposal intensifies and other Bitcoin layer-2 solutions like Ark gain mainnet traction.
Stacks published its Q2 2026 report stating that cumulative users surpassed 1.6 million and that PoX-5, the mechanism powering Bitcoin Staking, had reached public testnet and was undergoing an audit ahead of a planned Q3 mainnet launch. Separately, the Sui Foundation launched the Hashi testnet on July 22, 2026, allowing BTC locked on the Bitcoin network to be represented by hBTC for use as collateral on Sui, with more than 25 institutional partners testing integrations.
Decentralized derivatives protocol AFX Trade on Arbitrum suffered a $24.15 million USDC loss on July 22 after an attacker compromised its cross-chain bridge validator signing keys. The stolen funds were converted to approximately 12,467 ETH on Ethereum.
Coinbase has introduced three offerings that enable businesses to accept payments from AI agents, expand agent-assisted crypto trading and help developers integrate x402 payments. The company also said agent traffic exceeded human traffic on Base documentation pages for the first time.
Ring Protocol has integrated Orbs-powered infrastructure to support decentralized limit and TWAP orders across Ethereum, Base, Arbitrum, and BNB Chain, bringing advanced trading features typically found on centralized exchanges to decentralized platforms.
Jordan Fish (Cobie), a Coinbase product executive, publicly acknowledged that the company and its Base blockchain platform have become too distant from crypto-native users and eroded community trust through preventable errors. The admission comes amid growing criticism and leadership changes at the company.
Polygon Labs announced another round of staff cuts as it transitions from a blockchain foundation to a payments-focused company, coinciding with its $250 million acquisition of crypto exchange Coinme and wallet platform Sequence. CEO Marc Boiron said the restructuring reflects the shift toward commercial priorities and profitability targets for 2027.
Coinbase executive Jesse Pollak handed Base app leadership to trader 'Cobie' after publicly acknowledging the network's push into on-chain social and creator coins 'was wrong,' refocusing Base on becoming 'the blockchain for global finance.'
Robinhood Markets launched Robinhood Chain, an Ethereum layer-2 blockchain built on Arbitrum technology for tokenized stocks and real-world assets. The network processed $3.1-4 billion in DEX volume in its first week, driven by memecoin trading and gas subsidies, with Uniswap collecting $4.38 million in daily fees from the platform.
Robinhood's Layer-2 blockchain recorded over $690 million in decentralized exchange trading volume within a 24-hour period, representing a 10x increase from previous levels. The surge was reportedly driven by retail trading activity around a memecoin named Cash Cat, despite the chain being originally positioned for real-world asset tokenization.
Arbitrum announced that all Layer 2 chains built with its technology that settle outside of Arbitrum One or Nova will pay 10% of net protocol revenue to the Arbitrum ecosystem. Robinhood Chain, which has seen $568M in trading volume, is among the chains affected by this new revenue-sharing arrangement.
Robinhood launched the public mainnet of Robinhood Chain, its Layer 2 blockchain, alongside new products including 24/7 tokenized stock trading, perpetual futures, onchain lending, and planned agentic crypto trading capabilities.
Curve Finance has deployed the second version of its isolated lending protocol, Llamalend v2, on the Optimism network, supported by a 250,000 OP token grant. The launch marks the initial phase before a planned Ethereum mainnet deployment.
Virtuals Protocol has migrated from LayerZero to Chainlink's Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP) as its exclusive cross-chain infrastructure, moving more than $700 million in VIRTUAL tokens through the new protocol.
Attackers exploited a vulnerable third-party SquidRouterModule contract to drain approximately $3.2 million from 86 Gnosis Safe wallets on Base and Ethereum networks in under two hours. The exploit targeted a third-party module rather than the core Safe protocol.
Ethereum's share of total value locked in DeFi has declined from 63.5% at the start of 2025 to approximately 54% as of May 2026, marking the lowest level since May 2025 as competing Layer 1 and Layer 2 networks capture market share.
Solv Protocol announced migration of SolvBTC and xSolvBTC from LayerZero to Chainlink's Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol across Corn, Berachain, Rootstock and TAC networks, covering approximately $700 million in assets.
