Aave Labs Introduces Two-Part Licensing Framework for Aave V4 Repositories

Aave governance civil war ends: The AWW proposal overwhelmingly passes “all-product revenue to the DAO,” and $AAVE becomes the sole core asset

Aave founder Stani Kulechov announced that the “Aave Will Win” proposal has passed, consolidating all application product revenues into the DAO, and positioning $AAVE as the single core asset. The goal is to expand the agreement’s scale to $1 trillion. This proposal ended Aave’s governance crisis, establishing new revenue streams and governance principles aimed at strengthening community trust and value.

Zcash core development team ZODL releases strategic roadmap, focusing on post-quantum security and user base expansion

Zcash’s core development team, ZODL, has released the latest strategic roadmap, focusing on post-quantum security, scalability, and user experience, and moving into the Zcash IV phase. The new version is now live, improving user experience and advancing key development. Meanwhile, ZODL is actively involved in industry cooperation, but due to regulatory issues it has temporarily taken down the Russian app store.

Hyperliquid rejects $1 billion in funding: Jeff Yan sticks to the no-investor principle

Hyperliquid founder Jeffrey Yan declined the financing after receiving an expression of interest from an investment of $100 million at an estimated valuation of about $1 billion, to maintain the neutrality of the agreement. He believes that bringing in outside capital would undermine users’ trust in the agreement, and chose to support operations with his personal funds. Hyperliquid’s four core principles emphasize extreme decentralization and an operating model with no outside shareholders, distinguishing it from other DeFi projects.

Pi Network Major Transformation: 210 Ecosystem Applications Deployed, 23k Developers Ready

The Pi Network ecosystem is accelerating its transition, with more than 210 active applications and 23,000 developers actively participating in Pi Studio, spanning multiple areas such as payments, community engagement, education, and gaming. The ecosystem’s diversity shows indicators of healthy development, and developers’ engagement is driving ongoing application optimization. In the future, improving the usefulness of the mainnet will be a key challenge, including issues that need to be urgently addressed such as scalability, security, and user adoption rates.

Bittensor founder accuses former brother of betrayal; TAO’s sudden plunge sparks 9.1 million liquidations

Bittensor co-founder Jacob Steeves accuses Covenant AI’s Simon Dare of intentionally causing damage to the agreement, leading to a sharp drop in TAO tokens. Steeves proposes a locked-staking mechanism that uses on-chain code to enforce commitments and prevent founders from making sudden, surprise exits. Even as the crisis unfolds, Bittensor’s open-source architecture can still ensure the agreement continues to operate, and it is set to hold a meeting to introduce the new mechanism.

Scroll team manually increased the fee-rate parameters; users were overcharged with fees exceeding $50,000 within four days.

Ethereum Layer 2 network Scroll saw roughly 139,000 transactions have excess fees of more than $50k because the manual increase in the gas price multiplier led to higher transaction costs than expected. The actual cost was far above the forecast. The incident sparked widespread questions about its subsidy strategy, and Scroll’s TVL also fell sharply to $24 million.