HashStack #020

A new draft BIP of adding elliptic curve op code submitted by Roasbeef.

Metaplanet lays out a plan to acquire 210,000 BTC by 2027.

BRC20 enables EVM-style smart contracts with BRC2.0. 

Strategy acquired 525 BTC for ~$60.2M at an approximate cost basis of $114,562 per BTC.

SharpLink Gaming plans to explore a portion of its stake in the Linea network.

BitMine Immersion provided its latest holdings update with nearly $10B in Ethereum holdings. 

Vitalik introduces zkVM for scaling Ethereum - leanVM.

Upbit launched GIWA, an ETH L2 built on the OP Stack which could help to boost its market share onchain as its offchain exchange platform accounts for 73% of all South Korean trading.

Ronin Network transitions to Ethereum Layer 2 using Optimism's OP Stack.

Ethereum Foundation launched a dedicated AI team with a core focus on ERC-8004 and fueling the adoption of Ethereum as a bedrock of the AI economy.

Daily volume on Story drops, Upbit pauses deposits and withdrawals.

Monero erased 36 minutes of transaction history as reorg risks tied to Qubic mining pool surfaces once again. 

Polkadot DAO approved a proposal to cap token supply to 2.1B. 

Solana Treasury Sharps partnered with Bonk to stake a portion of its SOL via BonkSOL. 

Chainlink CCIP officially live on Aptos. 

Sui launched the Party Object feature on mainnet.

Google unveiled the Agent Payments Protocol, an extension of its Agent2Agent protocol, that enables agents to complete transactions between agents and merchants in a currency-agnostic manner. 

Openledger has introduced Datanet contributions for whitelisted users, enabling them to add data that strengthens AI models. Broader user access will be rolled out in the near future.

MyShell launched MyShell Pass, a tiered subscription plan providing developers with access to reliable AI performance and stable compute. 

Vana has launched Playground, a developer-focused portal designed to facilitate dataset exploration.

Rally has gone live on GenLayer with its AI-powered marketing protocol, which rewards genuine engagement by leveraging AI-based scoring, on-chain settlement, and open access for both projects and creators.

USD.AI financed the industry’s first RTX 5090 loan—a $946,000 facility at an 18% APR. 

The Institute for Decentralized AI (IDAI), supported by the Cosmos Institute, has been established to define standards for decentralized AI, beginning with research into oversight and security for more transparent and auditable agent networks.

Veronica has gone live on Virtuals Protocol as the first AI agent capable of managing end-to-end direct-to-consumer commerce—including catalog management, marketing, payments, and logistics.

Lido announced Lido Earn, a stETH powered vault for advanced DeFi strategies.

Uniswap and Wormhole collaborate to bring HYPE and SOL natively to Unichain, boosting cross-chain interoperability. 

Lombard, Chainlink and Symbiotic partnered to enable secure cross-chain transfers of LBTC with BARD stakers providing this additional layer of cryptoeconomic security while earning yields. 

Aave Labs announced their V4 launch roadmap. 

Jupiter becomes the 4th largest Solana validator, staking 2.5M SOL from the JLP pool.

Hedera selected for Wyoming’s Frontier Stable Token launch. 

Native markets won the vote to issue Hyperliquid USDH. 

Tether to introduce $USAT, its regulated USA stablecoin, which will be overseen by Bo Hines

South Korean fintech firm Toss, plans market expansion in Australia and aims to issue won stablecoin.

Lit Financial introduces stablecoin on Ethereum to streamline mortgage lending. 

StableWatch just unveiled StableSim, a multi-agent Monte Carlo framework for stress-testing stablecoins with real data on stability and resilience. Delpho is the first adopter.

MegaETH announced USDm, its native stablecoin powered by Ethena’s stablecoin stack. 

KAST card to launch stablecoin via M0 protocol. 

USD.AI saw strong demand and raised the cap to $250M. 

Koscom announced that it has filed for 5 stablecoin trademarks.

Spark’s USDB stablecoin now live on Bitcoin via Brale. 

Maple Finance’s syrupUSDC $200M vault on Plasma filled within a minute.

Nasdaq makes the push to allow for trading of tokenized securities by submitting a formal filing with the SEC.

SBI Group to pilot real-time tokenized deposits settlement using Partior blockchain and DCJPY token. 

Fidelity launched Fidelity Digital Interest Token (FDIT), an onchain money market fund with Ondo Finance being an anchor investor.

London Stock Exchange Group launched its blockchain platform, DMI Platform, for tokenized private funds with a phased approach to expand to other asset classes. 

Senators in the US are working on its own market structure bill that would classify tokenized securities as securities. 

Centrifuge launched ACRDX, Anemoy Tokenized Apollo Diversified Credit Fund, on Plume Network

Inversion Capital announced a seed round of $26.5M led by Dragonfly Capital with participation from HashKey Capital among others. 

StablecoinX raises an additional $530M for Ethena treasury with participation from YZi Labs, BH Digital among others. 

Figure completed its IPO. 

Singapore startup Synthesys raised $11M to drive adoption of tokenized securities. 

Helius Medical Technology raised $500M to kick off Solana treasury strategy led by Pantera Capital and Summer Capital.  

MoonPay acquired Meso to boost global payments expansion. 

Crypto trading firm Keyrock acquired Turing Capital, an alternative investment manager, for $27.8M.

A collaboration between DigiFT, Chainlink, and UBS has been approved by Hong Kong's Cyberport and the Digital Asset Pilot Scheme, DigiFT will provide regulated exchange for UBS’ products. 

21Shares launched dYdX ETP (ticker: DYDX) on Euronext Paris and Euronext Amsterdam. 

Clearpool crossed $10M+ in interests paid in stablecoins to lenders.