A dense batch of overnight developments across crypto and AI put institutional treasury moves, exchange remediation, Ethereum roadmap changes, and U.S. regulatory timing in focus. Strategy disclosed share sales, BTC disposals, and a larger dollar reserve, while BitMine and Sharplink updated major ETH accumulation plans. Bitget published a compensation plan tied to abnormal price moves in TUT, LOBSTER, and BICO perpetual contracts, and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said it will review a proposed customized issuance framework for certain crypto-related investment contracts on Aug. 14. Elsewhere, Vitalik Buterin’s latest Ethereum roadmap comparison elevated quantum resistance, privacy, and AI-assisted verification, large wallets continued moving BTC and ETH, and several AI infrastructure financings pointed to growing use of debt markets to fund chip purchases and compute buildouts.

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has published an updated view of his 2023 roadmap and compared it with the current "Strawmap," saying the two still overlap heavily but now differ in priority, design choices and several newly introduced areas. He said quantum security has moved up the list, while VDFs and many EVM improvement ideas have moved down. Some older proposals have also been replaced by new designs, including the shift from Verkle trees to unified BT and then PBT, as well as a move away from state expiry toward new state-type design. Buterin said the clearest change is the number of directions now present in the Strawmap that were absent from the 2023 roadmap. Those include stronger native privacy support through designs such as Keyed Nonces, Recent Roots, FOCIL-related work, Lean Privacy Pool and Wormholes; post-quantum scaling approaches using LeanSPHINCS signatures, signature aggregation and zkzk frames; protocol "leanification" to support formal verification; Blob and Gas futures mechanisms; deeper protocol-level integration of rollups; and possible long-term alternatives to the EVM, including LeanISA or RISC-V with the EVM serving as an intermediate representation layer.

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has updated the project's roadmap by comparing his 2023 version with the current Strawmap. The refreshed outline shows a clear shift in priorities. Quantum safety has been elevated to a top-tier concern, with plans for aggressive scaling and signature aggregation designs built for a post-quantum context. For the first time, strong privacy is treated as a first-class goal, spanning keyed nonces, recent state roots, privacy pools, and the so-called wormhole approach. The update also ties AI to formal verification, aiming to accelerate the process and slim down the specification. Recursive STARKs are set to become base infrastructure across the execution, consensus, and data layers. The roadmap also introduces new state types, native rollups, blob and gas futures, and a post-EVM design space for instruction sets such as leanISA and RISC-V. Taken together, these moves put quantum resistance, user privacy, and verification tooling at the center of Ethereum's near-term technical agenda, while preserving room for major design changes beyond the current EVM model.

WuBlockchain’s July technology report mapped a broad set of protocol developments across Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, BNB Chain, Zcash, NEAR, Cardano, Uniswap and Sui. On Bitcoin, Bitcoin Core v31.1 was released on July 8, 2026 with bug fixes tied to chainstate disk rewrites and an IP leak linked to the -privatebroadcast feature, while BIP-110 turned into a governance flashpoint as miner signaling stayed far below the 55% threshold. On Ethereum, the Glamsterdam upgrade moved into its final integration and performance-testing phase, Hegota remained in proposal-scope selection, and Vitalik Buterin published new pieces on Lean Ethereum, validator-state compression and privacy. The report also covered Ethereum proposals including Native UTXOs on Ethereum and EIP-8222, along with Starknet’s STRK20 privacy framework and Polygon’s Ithaca hard fork schedule. Elsewhere, Solana advanced Agave v4.2, launched Solana Governance Proposals and prepared SIMD-0286 to raise the single-block compute cap, while Zcash activated Ironwood NU6.3 on mainnet and introduced Zakura 1.0.0 as a new full-node client.

Two-dimensional semiconductors, also known as atomically thin semiconductors, are moving beyond basic research and into pilot production, process development, and early industrial deployment. The article says global chipmakers and research groups including TSMC, Intel, Samsung, imec, and IRDS have already put 2D semiconductors on their roadmaps for the post-1 nm era, where they could serve as core building blocks in heterogeneous integration. On the Chinese side, progress now spans the full stack. At the materials and equipment layer, teams led by Nanjing University and Jimo Core Technology reported advances in wafer-scale single-crystal growth, including 6-inch production and later 8-inch mass production of 2D semiconductor single crystals. Other groups addressed long-standing gaps in p-type materials and wafer-scale ferroelectric systems. On the manufacturing side, Yuanji Micro’s 8-inch engineering demonstration line in Pudong has gone online, accompanied by a 500 nm PDK designed to work with mainstream EDA flows. In applications, the field is no longer limited to isolated devices: China has reported 32-bit RISC-V processors based on MoS2, a multi-bit parallel microprocessor called MAGIC-1000, ultra-low-leakage transistor work tied to DRAM, and single-electron non-volatile storage results. The picture presented is one of an industrial chain that now covers materials, tools, process integration, design, and end applications.

Vitalik Buterin released a draft roadmap for Ethereum's "Lean Ethereum" plan, spanning 3 to 4 years and described as the third major iteration of the network, replacing nearly all core components and rivaling the Merge in scope.

Vitalik Buterin outlined a 5-year plan to migrate Ethereum smart contracts to a new language while building an 'ugly-free cypherpunk Ethereum.' FOCIL anti-censorship proposal is locked for Hegota upgrade. L2 roadmap pivots, and EF unveils three-track priorities.

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