Weekly Project Updates: ERC-8004 Officially Goes Live, Hyperliquid Surpasses Binance in Liquidity Depth, Jupiter Launches Lending Market, etc

Jan 31, 2026

1. Over 30,000 Trustless Agents Registered on Ethereum Based on ERC-8004 Standard link

Following the recent launch of ERC-8004, there have been over 30,000 registration events for Trustless Agents based on the ERC-8004 standard on Ethereum. Additionally, several to hundreds of such Trustless Agent registrations have been recorded on Base, Celo, Arbitrum, BNB Chain, Abstract, and opBNB.

2. Jupiter Launches Lending Market Offerbook link

Jupiter has launched Jupiter Offerbook, a permissionless lending marketplace for all assets on Solana. Jupiter Offerbook supports loans collateralized by tokens, RWAs, NFTs, and various other assets, allowing users to engage in time — based P2P lending without a price — driven liquidation mechanism.

3. Lighter Unveils LighterEVM link

Lighter has launched LighterEVM, planning to introduce Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) support that enables developers to directly deploy general — purpose smart contracts on its platform. Originally positioned as a high — performance trading engine, Lighter will transform into a comprehensive blockchain and DeFi platform after this upgrade. LighterEVM will support the operation of DeFi applications like Uniswap and Aave on the platform, achieving in — depth integration of trading, lending and other functions as well as liquidity pool sharing, so as to improve overall efficiency and reduce the risk of incentive — based “farming for rewards”. Lighter also stated that it is exploring ways to further reduce system latency and even looking into a “synchronous execution” solution to support more complex DeFi application scenarios.

4. Lido Announces Lido V3 Launch on Ethereum Mainnet link

Lido announced the launch of Lido V3 on the Ethereum mainnet, introducing stVaults, a modular staking architecture. The new version allows institutions, node operators and developers to customize validator selection, fee and reward mechanisms while maintaining stETH liquidity, supporting isolated and customized staking products and further expanding the integration space between Ethereum staking and DeFi.

5. Hyperliquid BTC Inactive Liquidity Hits $3.1 Million, Surpassing Binance as the Most Liquid Platform link

According to data shared by Blockworks researcher Shaunda Devens, Hyperliquid has quietly achieved the deepest top-of-book liquidity in the crypto market. Within the mid-price ±1bps range, Hyperliquid’s BTC resting liquidity stands at $3.1 million, surpassing Binance’s $2.3 million. In addition, its HIP-3 silver market has a liquidity of $33,000 at the tightest spread, also outperforming Binance’s $24,000. Its quantitative analysts are currently developing a relevant dashboard.

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6. Optimism Collective Approves OP Buyback Proposal, 50% of Superchain Revenue to Be Used for Buybacks link

The joint governance proposal submitted by the Optimism Foundation has been approved. The proposal authorizes the launch of a 12 — month program to allocate 50% of Superchain revenue to repurchase OP tokens. The buyback program will kick off in February, and the repurchased tokens will be transferred back to the treasury, which can be used for token burning or as staking rewards in the future.

7. Zora Drives Surge in Base Token Supply with Declining Activity and Trading Volume link

Over the past month, the number of new tokens launched on Base has risen markedly, with the daily issuance volume once exceeding 100,000, and the increase has come almost entirely from Zora’s content coin mechanism. Characterized by near-zero-cost and low-friction minting, this mechanism has driven up the number of token creations, yet the network’s active addresses have dropped to an 18-month low over the same period and trading volumes have also continued to decline, indicating that token issuance has not translated into substantive economic activity. Data shows that Zora content coin is more of a vanity metric that inflates “creation numbers”, lacking stable user participation and fundamental value support.

8. Story Delays Early Investor and Team Token Unlock by 6 Months to August from February link

Story (IP) announced the six-month postponement of the unlock of early investor and team tokens originally scheduled for February 2026 to August, so as to reduce short-term selling pressure and market volatility. The plan has been approved by major investment institutions including a16z and Polychain Capital. The board stated that this move is intended to avoid anticipatory selling prior to the unlock, and the next six months will be dedicated to driving revenue growth, validating Product-Market Fit (PMF) and forging partnerships with major AI enterprises. Following the adjustment, investors will unlock 25% of their tokens 18 months after the Token Generation Event (TGE), with the remaining portion to be released linearly on a monthly basis by the 42nd month. The Story Foundation noted that the relevant unlock arrangements have not yet been officially confirmed to the public.

9. Ronin Chain Game Forgotten Runiverse Announces Indefinite Shutdown link

Forgotten Runiverse, a blockchain game built on Ethereum scaling network Ronin, has announced an indefinite server shutdown, becoming the latest crypto gaming project to fold. The project team stated that it has decided to suspend game services as operations have become financially unsustainable, while emphasizing that the project itself is not being abandoned and that user account and progress data will be preserved. This shutdown continues the trend of crypto games being successively closed due to funding shortages and sluggish user growth. Following projects such as Deadrop, Nyan Heroes and Pirate Nation, the industry consolidation has persisted into 2026.

10. SSV Network Unveils SSV Staking Upgrade link

SSV Network has announced the launch of the SSV Staking upgrade, with protocol fees switched to ETH denomination. Clusters pay ETH fees based on validator balances, tracked on-chain by a decentralized oracle committee. A staking contract for SSV tokens has been introduced, where ETH fees are routed to staked SSV. Staking SSV yields the liquid token cSSV (1:1 ERC-20), and holding cSSV accumulates daily ETH rewards. The testnet and mainnet rollout is imminent.

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