A busy week in blockchain and decentralized finance saw over 30,000 Trustless Agents registered on the Ethereum network under the new ERC-8004 standard, the launch of Jupiter’s Offerbook lending marketplace, Lighter’s LighterEVM rollout, the go-live of Lido V3, and several other major updates shaping the DeFi landscape.
Here’s a summary of the top developments from the past week:
1. ERC-8004 Adoption Booms With 30,000+ Trustless Agents on Ethereum
The ERC-8004 standard, designed to enable decentralized “Trustless Agents” to register on-chain identities and reputations, officially went live on the Ethereum mainnet this week. Developers and users have already pushed more than 30,000 registration events for Trustless Agents, reflecting rapid ecosystem engagement across Ethereum and Layer-2 networks such as Base, Celo, Arbitrum, BNB Chain, Abstract and opBNB.
The upgrade aims to provide a foundation for autonomous agent economies — digital systems that can interact and transact without intermediaries — with identity and verification mechanisms embedded directly on chain.
2. Jupiter Launches Permissionless Offerbook Lending on Solana
Jupiter, a leading decentralized exchange aggregator in the Solana ecosystem, rolled out its Offerbook lending marketplace — a permissionless lending protocol that supports collateralized loans using a wide range of assets including tokens, real-world assets (RWAs), NFTs and more. The platform allows peer-to-peer lending with a novel time-based lending structure and liquidation engine.
This expands Jupiter’s suite of DeFi products, enabling traders and liquidity providers to earn yield or borrow assets without traditional credit checks, bringing more capital efficiency to the Solana ecosystem.
3. Lighter Unveils LighterEVM to Boost Smart Contract Deployment
Lighter, a high-performance trading engine turned full DeFi hub, announced LighterEVM — an Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) compatible execution environment enabling developers to deploy general-purpose smart contracts directly on its network.
The upgrade is designed to support popular DeFi protocols like Uniswap and Aave, facilitate deeper liquidity sharing, and enhance trading and lending efficiency by reducing latency and risk from incentive-driven yield tactics.
4. Lido V3 Launches on Ethereum Mainnet
Lido, the largest liquid staking protocol for Ethereum, officially launched Lido V3. The new version introduces a modular staking architecture called stVaults that gives institutions, node operators, and developers greater customization over validator selection, fee and reward structures, while maintaining stETH liquidity.
This modular approach helps expand the ways staking can integrate with DeFi without compromising liquidity or decentralization.
5. Hyperliquid BTC Liquidity Tops Binance
Market data shared by researchers shows that Hyperliquid’s BTC resting liquidity within tight bid-ask spreads (~±1 basis point) reached approximately $3.1 million, surpassing Binance’s $2.3 million in the same range this week. Hyperliquid also saw higher liquidity in certain markets compared with its larger competitor, highlighting the growing depth of liquidity on alternative platforms.
This shift underscores rising competition in DeFi derivatives and perpetual markets, where liquidity depth — especially near mid-price — can significantly impact price execution and trader confidence.
6. Optimism Collective Approves OP Token Buybacks
Governance on Optimism Collective passed a proposal to allocate 50 % of Superchain revenue over the next 12 months to repurchase OP tokens. The buyback program, scheduled to begin in February, will route repurchased OP back into the treasury for potential burning or future incentives such as staking rewards.
This represents a growing trend of protocol-driven tokenomics aimed at reducing circulating supply and aligning stakeholder incentives with long-term ecosystem value.
7. Story Project Delays Token Unlock to Reduce Sell Pressure
Story (IP) announced a six-month delay to its scheduled early investor and team token unlock, moving it from February 2026 to August 2026. The postponement — backed by major institutional stakeholders including a16z and Polychain Capital — is intended to mitigate anticipatory selling and market volatility.
Under the revised schedule, 25 % of tokens will unlock 18 months after the Token Generation Event (TGE), with the remainder released gradually over 42 months.
8. Additional Ecosystem News
- Zora content coin issuance on Base continues to surge, expanding token supply even as active addresses and trading volume decline, raising questions about token utility vs. synthetic creation growth.
- Ronin Chain’s Forgotten Runiverse game announced an indefinite shutdown due to financial unsustainability, though user data will be preserved.
- SSV Network unveiled its SSV Staking upgrade, shifting protocol fees to ETH denomination and introducing a liquid token representation (cSSV), with testnet and mainnet rollout plans underway.
As crypto and DeFi innovation continues at a rapid pace, these weekly developments illustrate both technological progress — such as on-chain agent standards and modular staking — and ongoing economic strategies like tokenomics realignment and liquidity competition.
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