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Layer 2 Scaling Solutions

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Layer 2 scaling solutions help blockchains like Ethereum process more activity without forcing every transaction to happen directly on the base chain.
Ethereum’s main network is secure and decentralized, but blockspace is limited. When demand rises, fees increase and users can get priced out. Layer 2s address this by moving transaction activity to scaling systems that sit around Ethereum while still using it for settlement, security, data posting, or verification.
The most important Layer 2 designs today are rollups. Rollups process transactions off-chain, bundle them together, and post data or proofs back to Ethereum. This makes transactions cheaper and faster while keeping a connection to Ethereum’s trust foundation.

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One Intelligent Conversational Layer to Redefine Financial Experience
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One Intelligent Conversational Layer to Redefine Financial Experience

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Bybit democratizes access to enterprise-grade AI across trading, account management, and customer service

DUBAI, UAE, Sept. 9, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Bybit, the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, announced the official launch of Bybit AI, a conversational assistant that unifies the exchange’s core services, starting with trading and customer support, within a single chat interface inside the Bybit app.

Bybit AI lets users describe what they need in plain language. The assistant interprets user intent and executes the requested action on the user’s behalf, functioning as an intelligent co-pilot for everyday trading and account management.

Chat to Trade: A New Financial Experience

“Bybit AI is an important part of our roadmap for the New Financial Platform,” said Ben Zhou, Co-founder and CEO of Bybit. “We want to make it easier for users to access the financial services they need in one place. As we continue to develop Bybit AI, users will be able to use it to find and access a wider range of products and services on Bybit. The idea is simple: you tell Bybit AI what you want to do, and it helps you find the right products and services to get it done, like having a team of financial experts right in your pocket.”

Bybit AI replaces the fragmented experience of navigating web pages, menus and dashboards with a single, continuous conversation. Instead of hunting for the right tool for each task, from checking a portfolio balance to placing a trade to submitting a support ticket, users simply state their request in natural language and Bybit AI carries out the underlying action within the chat. Bybit built the product architecture on a clear principle: infrastructure should provide the underlying connections, while individual business lines plug into a single interface, so the exchange’s many services present themselves to users as one continuous assistant rather than a collection of disconnected products.

Bybit also revealed a roadmap to bring its services together through Open API, connecting trading, earn, loans, card and customer support in a more unified experience. “We are not looking to add another dashboard or bolt on another chatbot,” said Rockman Zhang, CTO at Bybit. “The goal is to make it easier for users to find what they need and take action in one place, with a simple interface that brings the right products and services together.”

In the initial rollout, Bybit AI is deployed for all users across two main modules:

  • One AI assistant for all needs: Bybit AI will cover key features and essential features across Spot, Futures, and Options trading, Bybit Earn, Copy Trading, Trading Bot, Loan, P2P, Bybit Card, Spot X, access to the Rewards Hub, and notification and subscription management.
  • Intelligent support: Bybit’s customer service gets an upgrade while retaining the human touch, with Bybit AI working alongside professional human agents to optimize user experience. Smarter customer support will be integrated directly into Bybit AI, ensuring customer queries are resolved faster, better, and more effectively.

To deploy Bybit AI, eligible users should first activate the feature, which will create a dedicated Bybit AI sub-account. Bybit approached its flagship AI system on a security-first architecture. The sub-account is isolated from the user’s main balance to avoid any potential AI risk, and unlocks instant onboarding with no API key or manual setup required.

Livestream: Bybit AI Demo

Ben Zhou, Co-founder and CEO of Bybit, will officially unveil Bybit AI and demonstrate the game-changing co-pilot on September 9, 2026 at 08:00AM UTC live on Bybit. To sign up for the livestream and see Bybit AI in action, viewers may visit: How it works: Bybit AI Livestream.

Bybit AI reflects Bybit’s ambition to position itself as a New Financial Platform built for the AI era, applying artificial intelligence not as an added feature but as the connective layer across trading, wealth management and everyday account activity. The launch marks an early step in a longer roadmap toward AI-native financial services, with Bybit positioning conversational intelligence as core infrastructure.

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About Bybit

Bybit is The New Financial Platform.

We believe every person should have access to every financial opportunity on earth. That’s why we’re building the first intelligent platform that connects anyone, anywhere to the world’s finance.

Trusted by more than 80 million users worldwide, Bybit brings together investing, trading, payments, and wealth-building in a single secure and intelligent ecosystem. Through the combination of AI-powered technology, deep global liquidity, robust security, and transparent operations, Bybit makes global finance more accessible, efficient, and empowering for everyone.

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QuFi Rolls Out Post-Quantum Security Layer with uBTC Bitcoin Test

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Post-quantum infrastructure company QuFi Network has launched a verification platform designed to protect digital assets against future quantum computing threats without requiring changes to existing blockchain settlement networks.

The platform separates verification from settlement, using a decentralized network of nodes to validate transactions with post-quantum cryptography before they are settled on existing blockchain networks.

QuFi also launched uBTC, a proof-of-concept that applies the verification system to Bitcoin (BTC) and is currently operating on Bitcoin Testnet4. The uBTC system verifies BTC collateral and generates cryptographic proofs governing how value moves between settlement environments, while redemptions ultimately settle as standard Bitcoin transactions.

The platform uses three post-quantum cryptographic standards — ML-DSA-65, SLH-DSA and ML-KEM-1024 — for digital signatures and secure key exchange.

QuFi said the external verification layer is intended to avoid the added storage, bandwidth and computing demands that can come with adopting larger post-quantum signatures directly on individual blockchains.

Related: Crypto’s first quantum attack will look like unexplained breach: Quantus founder

Crypto ramps up quantum defenses

The platform arrives amid a series of recent efforts to prepare blockchain networks for potential quantum computing threats.

In August, StarkWare tested a quantum-resistant Bitcoin transaction on mainnet without requiring a fork. However, the transaction took hours of computation and cost roughly $150 to $200, and its nonstandard format required direct submission to a miner.

Jonas Nick announces the BIP SHRINCS proposal on Aug. 26. Source: Jonas Nick

The same month, banks and regulators across Europe, the Middle East and Asia joined a pilot testing post-quantum wallets and onchain transfers using ML-DSA-65, one of the same cryptographic standards incorporated into QuFi’s platform. Meanwhile, the Ethereum Foundation dropped the Poseidon hash function from its planned post-quantum architecture in favor of established alternatives such as SHA or BLAKE.

Bitcoin developers are also exploring protocol-level defenses. In August, Blockstream researchers published a Bitcoin Improvement Proposal for SHRINCS, an experimental post-quantum signature scheme designed to reduce the size and performance costs associated with quantum-resistant signatures.

The approach comes with trade-offs. SHRINCS uses stateful signatures to reduce their size, requiring wallets to track previously used signing keys. The scheme remains in an early stage without a completed security proof, and its design adds complexity and potential user failure modes.

Magazine: Bitcoin’s new quantum defenses, 18.9M SOL cancelled: Hodler’s Digest

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1inch launches Aqua to the public, introducing the first shared liquidity layer for DeFi
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1inch launches Aqua to the public, introducing the first shared liquidity layer for DeFi

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  • Following its developer launch in November 2025, Aqua now offers a risk-controlled alternative to DeFi’s pool-based model.
  • 1inch unveils a Merkl-powered liquidity incentive program for Aqua, funded with 10 million 1INCH by the 1inch Foundation and 500k USDC from 1inch DAO.
  • Aqua goes live across 13 EVM chains from day one.

ROAD TOWN, British Virgin Islands, July 28, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — 1inch, the leading DeFi ecosystem, announces the full public launch of Aqua, a self-custodial shared liquidity layer that enables liquidity providers to use the same wallet balance across multiple positions without locking assets in liquidity pools.

Following its developer launch in November 2025, Aqua today offers one of the first risk-controlled alternatives to DeFi’s traditional pool-based model, enabling more capital-efficient liquidity provisioning.

1inch Aqua works as a registry: a user connects their wallet to approve a token balance and create liquidity positions that can access that balance. The Aqua protocol tracks that balance, and when it receives a swap order that meets the criteria of the position, it pulls the requested tokens from the wallet and pushes back received tokens and fees in a single atomic transaction. Otherwise, the user’s tokens remain in their wallet and completely under their control.

“The liquidity provisioning space is broken, but you only see how broken once there’s an alternative. Today, that alternative has arrived. With Aqua, liquidity providers no longer have to accept the inefficient pool structure they’ve put up with for years,” said Sergej Kunz, 1inch co-founder. “DeFi doesn’t just need more liquidity. It needs more useful liquidity, active wherever demand appears. We built Aqua so providers get that reach without giving up custody: your tokens stay in your wallet until the moment a swap fills.”

Alongside the product launch, 1inch Network Incentives goes live — a liquidity reward program for Aqua, led by Degensoft Ltd (BVI) and delivered through Merkl. The 1inch Foundation has committed 10 million 1INCH in provider rewards, and a further 500,000 USDC boost from the 1inch DAO. The initiative is designed to accelerate liquidity growth and swap activity across supported pairs. As a result, liquidity providers not only benefit from Aqua’s improved experience but also have the opportunity to earn additional rewards. Program terms, markets and safeguards are set out in the published campaign configuration.

According to 1inch, the current pool based system is a major limiting factor on DeFi’s ability to scale and bring TradFi capital on chain. For liquidity providers, the current model of depositing into pools means handing over custody, while active capital gets spread thin across protocols, pairs and price ranges. The scale of the problem is stark: per on-chain research by Dune commissioned by 1inch, 85% of concentrated liquidity across major DEXs was underutilized in H1 2026, roughly $1.6 billion of the $1.84 billion tracked. That includes about $542 million sitting fully out of range in an average week, resulting in an estimated $150 million in fees foregone per year.

Through Aqua, 1inch is showcasing a more efficient model for shared liquidity, allowing the same wallet balance to back multiple positions simultaneously. Unlike the traditional model, where liquidity must be split across multiple pools and positions, Aqua enables a single balance to support multiple quotes at once. For example, a $100,000 balance can support three positions collectively quoting $300,000 of liquidity, with the potential to quote more. The underlying tokens remain available to every position at all times; nothing is borrowed, and any swap can only execute against the assets actually held in the wallet.

A position on Aqua can be full range, concentrated or pegged, depending on the selected pair and position type. A user can open and close positions themselves, with no lock-up. Their exposure is capped by the tokens they actually hold, not by the theoretical combined size of every position they create. If their wallet cannot cover a swap, Aqua simply does not call on their tokens.

From today, users can create positions across 13 EVM chains, including Ethereum, Arbitrum, Base, Robinhood Chain and BNB Chain. Aqua also launches with a number of additional functionalities, including a liquidity leaderboard, an incentives screen, liquidity map visualizations, batch position creation, provider profiles with cross-chain positions, sub-wallets, and an AI-assisted liquidity provisioning flow via the 1inch Business MCP with safe batch deployment, coming soon.

Aqua has undergone eight independent security audits conducted by OpenZeppelin, Bailsec, Hashlock, Hexens, MixBytes, Nethermind, Theori, and Decurity. Combined with its fully self-custodial design, which never holds user tokens, a swap can only move assets that are actually in the provider’s wallet at the moment it fills. Revocation stops new fills as soon as it confirms on-chain. Aqua is also protected from JIT fee sniping by design, as each position has a single owner, thus there is no shared fee moment bots can capitalize on. While Aqua’s design keeps exposure bounded and providers in control of their own tokens, swap fees are not guaranteed, prices can move against a position (impermanent loss), and providers bear market and smart-contract risk.

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About 1inch

1inch accelerates decentralized finance with a seamless crypto trading experience for 27M users. Beyond being the top platform for low-cost, efficient token swaps with $100M+ in daily trades, 1inch offers a range of innovative tools, including a secure self-custodial wallet, a portfolio tracker for managing digital assets, a dedicated business portal giving access to its cutting-edge technology, and even a debit card for easy crypto spending. By continuously innovating, 1inch is simplifying DeFi for everyone.

Website | 1inch Business | 1inch Network | Follow on X | Explore Blog

Aqua involves risk, including loss of funds. It’s built for experienced users — do your own research. Not financial advice. Incentive rewards are variable, not guaranteed, and subject to the program’s published terms.

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Canton’s Decentralized App Layer Launches, Backed by $1M+ Foundation Grant
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Canton’s Decentralized App Layer Launches, Backed by $1M+ Foundation Grant

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New York, United States, July 28th, 2026, Chainwire

BitSafe has released infrastructure for builders launching decentralized financial applications on Canton Network.

Backed by a Canton Foundation Development Fund grant of over $1 million (8,500,000 $CC), BitSafe today opened the public beta of Decentralization Manager, an open-sourced framework allowing apps and institutions to build resilient products that distribute control across multiple independent operators.

Canton Network has become critical infrastructure for institutions bringing real capital and operations on-chain. Meeting institutional application standards requires audit trails and distributed trust, but until now every team building on Canton has had to build threshold custody, governance, and audit infrastructure from scratch. Decentralization Manager makes those reusable, so teams build the application, not the infrastructure.

Independently audited by Quantstamp, Decentralization Manager marks an exciting expansion of on-chain use cases and allows institutions to continue leveraging the network’s privacy-native architecture while mitigating risk by distributing their operations.

Decentralization Manager ships with pre-built frameworks for token issuance and custody and enables additional products such as:

  • Token issuance: Issuers can launch and govern Canton-native tokens, ranging from wrapped cryptoassets to stablecoins and RWAs.
  • Custody and multi-signature wallets: Teams can hold and transfer assets under shared, multi-party control, removing reliance on any single custodian.
  • Tokenized real-world assets and securities: Builders can bring real-world assets on-chain and govern them under distributed control.
  • DEXs, lending, and structured products: Institutions can launch institutional-grade financial applications with Decentralization Manager.

Contact us to start launching decentralized applications and assets.

CBTC, the first non-native asset on Canton, is the first live use case of Decentralization Manager. With over 10 million transactions to date, node operators powering CBTC already earn a share of Canton fees from on-chain transactions. Decentralization Manager now extends that opportunity across the network. Application builders get an easier path to high quality node operators who can support their products, and those operators earn the same share of Canton fees in return.

“The future of institutional blockchain depends on making sophisticated infrastructure easier to build and adopt,” said Viv Diwakar, Head of the Canton Foundation. “By open-sourcing Decentralization Manager, BitSafe is giving developers the tools to create resilient, privacy-preserving applications that distribute trust across independent operators without compromising the governance and control institutions require. Contributions like this strengthen the Canton ecosystem and help accelerate the growth of institutional digital assets and tokenized financial markets. We’re pleased to see BitSafe making this capability available to the wider community and look forward to seeing the next generation of institutional applications built on Canton.”

As of today, Palladium Labs is the first builder announced using Decentralization Manager to enable multi-party authorization for protocol operations. “Distributed trust and full auditability are table stakes for institutional-grade credit infrastructure like Alpend,” said Akshay Sinha, Cofounder & CTO of Palladium Labs. “Decentralization Manager makes that a framework the entire Canton ecosystem can build on. Adopting it was one of the easier decisions we’ve made.”

In addition to Palladium, CBTC Attestors Nethermind, DSRV, and Finoa Consensus Services have already implemented Decentralization Manager. Their institutional participation affirms a collective effort across Canton to embrace decentralized technology that prioritizes data privacy, operational control, and resilience.

The public beta is open now on the Canton Foundation’s GitHub, with an additional grant application underway. Builders who need operators to complete their Decentralized Party can reach out to BitSafe to be matched with vetted, institutional-grade node operators. Institutions looking to issue and govern Canton-native tokens can engage BitSafe’s Decentralization Services for custom tokenization engagements.

Additional quotes from ecosystem partners:

“The CBTC Decentralized Party has shown how far Canton has come, and the public beta opening of Decentralization Manager is a big step for the whole ecosystem. Onboarding was remarkably smooth for our team – contract deployment was essentially one click. For any app still running on a single validator, this is the easiest path we’ve seen to move beyond a single point of failure.” – Joonkyo Kim, CTO, DSRV

”As one of the attestors securing CBTC, we’ve operated inside BitSafe’s decentralized signing architecture from an early stage, so we’ve seen firsthand what it takes to distribute trust across independent operators in production. Onboarding into Decentralization Manager was refreshingly straightforward, the admin tooling is intuitive and whenever we hit an issue the BitSafe team resolved it quickly and communicated the whole way through.

Institutions bringing real assets onto Canton increasingly expect exactly this: no single point of control with the audit trails and operational resilience their risk teams demand. Making that kind of infrastructure open and repeatable is a meaningful step for the ecosystem.” – Mateusz Jędrzejewski, CIO, Nethermind

“BitSafe’s Decentralization Manager turns the infrastructure we already run into a setup with no single point of failure, the kind institutions expect from Canton. We’re glad to extend our partnership with BitSafe and look forward to building more together as new applications join the network.” – Daniel Schrader, Managing Director, Finoa Consensus Services

About BitSafe

BitSafe builds decentralized, privacy-enabled digital asset infrastructure on the Canton Network. As the team that brought Bitcoin to Canton ($CBTC), BitSafe’s threshold-governed multi-sig infrastructure distributes custody and governance, eliminates single points of failure, and enables institutions and developers to launch trading venues and build compliant financial products and assets across the ecosystem.

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Kadeem Clarke
BitSafe
marketing@bitsafe.finance

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A Decentralized Coordination Layer For Web, Blockchain, & AI
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A Decentralized Coordination Layer For Web, Blockchain, & AI

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Sheridan, USA / Wyoming, June 30th, 2026, Chainwire

Five years in the making, Autheo is launching its decentralized operating system on Mainnet — after public testnet adoption surpassed 1.8 million wallets, nearly 1 million smart contracts, and 8.8 million transactions.

Autheo today formally introduced its decentralized operating system to the public: a coordination layer designed to let the traditional Web, blockchain networks, and AI agents interoperate natively as a single system. The company is now launching its Mainnet — the production environment for the network — after more than a year of public testnet activity.

THE COORDINATION LAYER THE INTERNET NEVER HAD

The networking wars of the 1980s and early 1990s settled a principle that has shaped the Internet ever since: interoperability comes from pragmatic, openly deployed protocols, not top-down frameworks. The standards that won — TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP, TLS — succeeded by being practical and deployable, and the modern Internet still rests on them. The blockchain era took a different path: each network optimized for its own internal consistency — its own security model, consensus mechanism, APIs, SDKs, and developer tooling — and the result has been a fragmented landscape of largely siloed chains. The rapid rise of AI agents now amplifies that fragmentation, as a growing population of autonomous actors needs to transact across Web, blockchain, and AI systems that were never designed to coordinate with one another.

Protocols such as IBC, LayerZero, CCIP, Wormhole, and Axelar have made meaningful progress on chain-to-chain messaging and asset transfer — but those efforts operate at the bridging layer. Autheo addresses the problem from a different angle: a shared substrate where Web services, blockchain networks, and AI agents coordinate natively on a common identity, communications, execution, and infrastructure layer, rather than relying on bridges that pass messages between otherwise disconnected systems.

At the same time, approximately three-quarters of business applications today are delivered as SaaS, and identity, storage, compute, payments, and messaging already run as distributed services across the Web. The Internet, in other words, has quietly taken on many of the functions of an operating system. What it has lacked is the layer that lets those services — together with blockchain networks and AI agents — interoperate by default, rather than through one-off, brittle integrations built per partner, per protocol, and per chain.

Autheo’s purpose is to provide that coordination and execution layer. The Autheo OS exposes the standard functions one would expect of an operating system—identity, scheduling, messaging, state, compute, storage, and execution—as open, programmable services that any application, protocol, or agent can call. The objective is an integration substrate on which Web2 systems, Web3 protocols, and AI agents can transact and collaborate without needing to know which environment the counterparty is in. For autonomous AI agents specifically, Autheo is built around an on-chain, quantum-resistant trust and identity layer — designed so agents can hold credentials, sign transactions, and invoke services without depending on external systems or exposing private keys. The two design imperatives behind the project are simple: integration and interoperability.

“We didn’t set out to build just another network,” said Scott Bayless, Managing Director and co-founder of Autheo. “We set out to find the right relation between the ones we already have. A body has many parts. A city is many trades. The Internet today is many systems — each doing its work, none of them moving as one. With Mainnet now live, Autheo is the layer where the web, the chain, and the agent can finally work together.”

FOUNDED BY LONG-TIME COLLABORATORS

Autheo was founded in July 2021 by Todd Mortenson and Scott Bayless, long-time collaborators who have built and operated multiple ventures together over the past two decades.

The founders shared a simple thesis: the next phase of the Internet will be defined less by any single technology — and more by the coordination layer that enables the traditional Web, blockchain networks, and AI to operate as a single system. Much of what ultimately matters in technology tends to begin far from the loudest places — quietly, slowly, by those who would not have been the obvious choices.

Guided by that vision, the founders and engineering leadership spent the project’s first several years researching networks, ecosystems, protocol design, digital identity, post-quantum security, and decentralized coordination before building Autheo from the ground up around four distinct architectural foundations: TheoID — Autheo’s W3C-compliant Decentralized Identifier (DID) implementation — as the native identity primitive for users, services, and AI agents; PQCNet, Autheo’s post-quantum communications and identity framework, built upon NIST-standardized post-quantum cryptography, including ML-KEM (FIPS 203), ML-DSA (FIPS 204), and SLH-DSA (FIPS 205); a sovereign Cosmos SDK Layer 0 with native IBC interoperability; and an integrated EVM-compatible Layer 1 execution environment, operating as a Proof-of-Stake network with delegated staking and licensed validator eligibility, secured by CometBFT block finality (“Proof of Autheo”).

Solidity smart contracts can be deployed natively on Autheo or migrated from existing EVM-compatible chains, providing developers with a familiar development environment while benefiting from native IBC interoperability across the broader blockchain ecosystem.

The research and development underlying the platform has also resulted in an expanding portfolio of patent families covering core architectural innovations, reflecting the team’s long-term intellectual property strategy surrounding decentralized operating systems, digital identity, interoperability, post-quantum security, and related technologies.

Network engineering and Autheo’s post-quantum security architecture are led by Chief Engineering Officer Kenneth Harper, who has overseen the design, architecture, and implementation of the platform through public testnet and into Mainnet launch. Supporting those efforts is a multidisciplinary organization spanning engineering, product, project management, quality assurance, infrastructure, operations, ecosystem development, developer support, business development, partnerships, marketing, global channels, finance, legal, compliance, and intellectual property. Autheo’s broader contributor base spans approximately 100 people across 25 countries — blockchain pioneers, Fortune 500 operators, and researchers from institutions including MIT, Harvard, Stanford, and Caltech. Independent security audits have been completed by Halborn (testnet) and CertiK (Mainnet).

Autheo collaborates with leading infrastructure, security, and ecosystem partners — including Zeeve, InfStones, Hydrex, Halborn, CertiK, TrustSwap, Team.Finance, Utila, Ape Bond, Antier, EVU, among others — across validator and node operations, security audits, custody, token services, and ecosystem development.

TESTNET ADOPTION HAS COMPOUNDED

Autheo’s public testnet went live in 2025 and, over its first twelve months, attracted approximately 350,000 wallets and 60,000 smart contracts as developers stress-tested the network. Following the May 12, 2026, announcement of Mainnet Phase 1, adoption accelerated. In the roughly 45 days since, cumulative wallet addresses have grown more than 5x and smart contracts have grown more than 15x. As of today, cumulative testnet totals stand at:

  • 1,812,088 wallet addresses
  • 968,502 smart contracts

(Figures per Autheo network data, June 24, 2026. Independently verifiable on the public testnet explorer: testnet-explorer.autheo.com · verified contracts.)

Daily activity over the past month has averaged approximately 30,000 new wallet addresses and 20,000 new smart contracts. The Autheo testnet is now onboarding more wallets and deploying more contracts in a single day than it did across full months of its first year. Contract density at this stage is unusual for a Layer-1 testnet and reflects the breadth of developer use cases the team has supported across the build-out.

“Mainnet is live,” said Todd Mortenson, Managing Director and co-founder of Autheo. “The industry will be racing to retrofit post-quantum security ahead of NIST’s timeline — our developers won’t have to. We built PQC in from the ground up. One interface for Web services, on-chain protocols, and AI agents. One million human developers on-chain within three years. And the AI agents building alongside them? Orders of magnitude more. The coordination layer for that future is live today.”

WHAT’S NEXT

With the testnet validating the architecture and the Mainnet now launching, Autheo’s near-term focus is on expanding partnerships across the Web2, Web3, and AI communities and supporting builders deploying applications, agents, and protocols on the platform.

Developer Access (Mainnet, Live Today):

Testnet explorer (with verified-contract source): testnet-explorer.autheo.com

For developers seeking an early path into the Mainnet ecosystem, the Core Node and Prime Node tiers remain available at commerce.autheo.com (settlement via ETH on Arbitrum). These programs provide eligibility for long-term THEO token emissions, enabling developers to begin accumulating THEO for building, deploying, and participating in the network as the ecosystem expands. The Sovereign Validator Node program (399 nodes total) has its first 275 slots fully subscribed; the remaining 124 are reserved for enterprise partners and ecosystem customers. A dedicated builder portal at autheolabs.com is anticipated to launch, providing additional THEO token and validator allocations for projects deploying on the network.

THEO is anticipated to become available on Hydrex.fi in early July 2026, with additional exchange access expected to follow.

Additional documentation ecosystem, security, infrastructure, and listing announcements are expected over the coming weeks.

ABOUT AUTHEO

Autheo is building the Internet operating system — a decentralized coordination and execution layer that enables the traditional Web, blockchain networks, and AI agents to interoperate as a single system. The platform utilizes W3C Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) as its native identity framework and is anchored by PQCNet, Autheo’s quantum-resistant communications and identity infrastructure built upon NIST-standardized post-quantum cryptography, including ML-KEM (FIPS 203), ML-DSA (FIPS 204), and SLH-DSA (FIPS 205). Operating alongside Autheo’s sovereign Cosmos-based Layer 0 and EVM-compatible Layer 1, PQCNet is designed to provide next-generation security for digital identity, communications, authentication, encryption, and trusted interactions across Web, blockchain, and AI ecosystems.

Autheo integrates a sovereign Cosmos SDK Layer 0 with native IBC interoperability and an EVM-compatible Layer 1 execution environment, allowing developers to deploy Solidity smart contracts natively or migrate existing applications from other EVM-compatible networks. Founded in July 2021 by Scott Bayless and Todd Mortenson, Autheo opened its public Testnet in 2025 and launched Mainnet in 2026.

For more information, visit autheo.com and follow Autheo on X at @Autheo_Network. Find the Media Kit at mediakit.autheo.com

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Marketing & Media Relations
Ryan Teigen
Autheo LLC
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DeFi Innovations

DeFi’s automated yield protocols were built for retail, now they just add another layer of risk

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Automated yield protocols built DeFi’s most persuasive retail pitch that depositing into a vault was all a user needed to do, with the protocol handling everything else.

For users wanting exposure to Curve’s boosted yields without manually managing CRV locks, vote power, wrappers, gauges, and incentives, Stake DAO offered a product that packaged the full stack behind a simple interface and, in doing so, also packaged what could break.

According to Blockaid, an attacker minted over 5.4 trillion vsdCRV on Arbitrum through a suspected compromise of a deployer key and began swapping tokens for ETH.

The attacker altered LayerZero-related peer configuration to forge a cross-chain message before minting 5,446,744,073,709 vsdCRV, converting a portion into roughly 43.78 ETH, with liquidity constraining realized extraction far below the nominal mint.

Stake DAO told users not to interact with vsdCRV while the situation was active. The incident spread to Curve, which warned users in an affected Arbitrum LlamaLend market, and Beefy Finance paused a connected vault with exposure to Curve and Convex.

Stake DAO’s Liquid Lockers let users deposit governance tokens like CRV, receive liquid sdTokens, and access boosted yield and governance exposure without managing the Curve-locking stack directly.

The vault interface hides all of that and, in doing so, also hides the deployer keys, cross-chain messaging trust, wrapper-token accounting, and oracle dependencies that the exploit traveled through.

What 'one-click yield' hides underneath
An infographic contrasting the four steps users see in automated yield vaults against the seven hidden risk layers they inherit underneath.

Automated yield moves DeFi complexity out of sight, a relocation that only becomes visible when something in the hidden layer breaks.

Ido Ben-Natan, co-founder and CEO of Blockaid, framed the security disconnect in a note:

“Wherever there is value on-chain, there will be attackers trying to exploit it, and that’s true regardless of how simple or complex a protocol’s strategy is. Two things matter here. First, whether protocols have the right governance infrastructure in place to ensure there is no easy point of failure to exploit. Second, having a real-time on-chain security tooling that validates every transaction before execution.”

The broader reckoning

April 2026 was DeFi’s worst month for exploits, with roughly $635 million extracted across 28 incidents, driven by social engineering, bridge spoofing, and AI-assisted reconnaissance.

Manuel Aráoz, who co-founded OpenZeppelin and served as its CTO until 2019, wrote that he now considers “all” of DeFi unsafe because AI coding agents have become “superhuman” at finding vulnerabilities, while defenders must fix every bug and attackers need only one.

DeFi's exploit environment is getting harder for retail productsDeFi's exploit environment is getting harder for retail products
A data graphic showing April 2026 as DeFi’s worst exploit month, with $635 million lost across 28 incidents and a 5.4 trillion vsdCRV fake mint.

OpenZeppelin publicly rejected that claim, stating that Aráoz’s posts do not reflect the company’s position. The asymmetry he describes, though, has drawn serious attention beyond the attribution dispute.

Ben-Natan puts the defensive advantage in real-time tooling and adaptive threat detection:

“Hackers are increasingly leveraging AI to move faster and find new attack vectors. However, on-chain cybersecurity providers like Blockaid have deep experience using AI to stay well ahead. We continuously analyze and adapt to new threat patterns in real time, using AI agents for investigations, simulations, and malicious pattern matching.”

That real-time capability makes transaction validation a viable countermeasure to the speed edge attackers are gaining, and for automated yield protocols, governance controls, and monitoring have become the actual security layer that the vault interface depends on.

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