1 Octant Public Goods 10.0 2 Snapshot Governance 9.8 3 Safe Treasury 9.8 4 Aragon OSx DAO Creation 9.8 5 Agora Governance 9.0 6 Snapshot X Governance 8.8 7 DAOhaus DAO Creation 8.8 8 Coinshift Treasury 8.8 9 Collab.Land Community 8.8 10 Guild.xyz Community 8.8 Global Gold DAO Brings Physical Gold Tokenization To BNB Chain Global Gold DAO launched a tokenized physical gold ecosystem on BNB Chain on September 20, 2026. The protocol, branded GGD, uses a three-token structure to connect gold-referenced value with on-chain staking, minting and governance. It calls itself the first decentralized on-chain physical gold ecosystem DAO. What Concrete Launches A Foundation And Governance Token As Onchain Yield Infrastructure Matures Concrete introduced the Concrete Foundation on September 17, alongside CT, its native governance token. The move hands protocol decisions to a Cayman Islands entity and a fixed-supply token. It comes as the yield vault system reports $1.2 billion in deposits and 54,000 depositors. Concrete started as Blueprint One Wallet Almost Pulled 98% Of Ampleforth's USDC Before A Last-Minute Cancellation A proposal asking for 2.5 million USDC from Ampleforth's treasury got canceled on-chain on September 14, 2026, hours before its voting window would have opened. The request equaled about 98.5% of the treasury's visible USDC balance. No funds moved. But the sequence of Core DAO Turns A Validator Exploit Into A Case For Its Buyback Plan Core DAO spent early September patching a validator exploit that let a small group of operators claim block rewards above schedule. The fix was an emergency hard fork that burned over 150 million CORE. Staking resumed within 48 hours, and trading volume jumped more than 170%. The token, still down TRON Opens MetaMask Access To Four More DAO-Linked Applications TRON DAO has expanded MetaMask wallet connectivity to four more applications in its ecosystem: B.AI, SUN.io, JustLend DAO, and BitTorrent. The announcement came from Geneva on September 10, 2026. Users can now link MetaMask directly to these dApps instead of relying on TRON-native wallets. This builds on Arbitrum's Watchdog Sets Sept. 10 Deadline For Three DeFi Projects Facing DAO Bans Arbitrum's Watchdog Committee has given three DeFi projects one week to explain themselves or face votes on permanent exclusion from the DAO. Good Entry, Limitless, and APX Finance (formerly ApolloX) are named in a proposal published September 3 on the Arbitrum governance forum. The committee wants funds returned DAO Governance Rules Keep Rebuilding The Power They Were Meant To Remove Compound's near-miss with a $24 million treasury transfer has become the reference case for a wider problem in DAO governance. New research from the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam shows that the very rules protecting DAOs from attacks tend to concentrate control Curve DAO Hands Risk Oversight To Resupply's Own Developers Curve DAO approved yRisk as its new risk-management provider on September 2. The team will monitor crvUSD and Llamalend for the next twelve months. Its two contributors are also the primary developers behind Resupply, a protocol that lost $9.6 million to a donation attack in June 2025. The Arbitrum DAO Approves New Ecosystem Incentive Proposal Arbitrum DAO voters approved a governance proposal on Snapshot directing treasury resources toward ecosystem incentive programs. The vote gives the community another round of funding to support builders, liquidity providers, and new apps on the network. The proposal itself is procedural. It sets direction rather than releasing funds outright. Distribution Coinbase Will Suspend Badger DAO And Storj Trading On September 28 Coinbase will halt trading for BADGER and STORJ on September 28, 2026, around 2 p.m. ET. The suspension covers Coinbase.com Simple and Advanced Trade, Coinbase Exchange, and Coinbase Prime. Customers keep their balances and can still withdraw both tokens after trading stops. Coinbase announced the decision on August 1 Aave DAO $1.2B 7.50 2 ENS DAO $1.0B 7.35 3 Octant $175M 7.35 4 Lido DAO $1.4B 7.30 5 Jito DAO $500M 7.30 6 Uniswap DAO $4.8B 7.15 7 Gitcoin DAO $45M 7.10 8 Sky (formerly MakerDAO) $3.9B 6.95 9 Nouns DAO $30M 6.80 10 VitaDAO $4.5M 6.60 Global Gold DAO Brings Physical Gold Tokenization To BNB Chain Global Gold DAO launched a tokenized physical gold ecosystem on BNB Chain on September 20, 2026. The protocol, branded GGD, uses a three-token structure to connect gold-referenced value with on-chain staking, minting and governance. It calls itself the first decentralized on-chain physical gold ecosystem DAO. What Concrete Launches A Foundation And Governance Token As Onchain Yield Infrastructure Matures Concrete introduced the Concrete Foundation on September 17, alongside CT, its native governance token. The move hands protocol decisions to a Cayman Islands entity and a fixed-supply token. It comes as the yield vault system reports $1.2 billion in deposits and 54,000 depositors. Concrete started as Blueprint One Wallet Almost Pulled 98% Of Ampleforth's USDC Before A Last-Minute Cancellation A proposal asking for 2.5 million USDC from Ampleforth's treasury got canceled on-chain on September 14, 2026, hours before its voting window would have opened. The request equaled about 98.5% of the treasury's visible USDC balance. No funds moved. But the sequence of Core DAO Turns A Validator Exploit Into A Case For Its Buyback Plan

Core DAO spent early September patching a validator exploit that let a small group of operators claim block rewards above schedule. The fix was an emergency hard fork that burned over 150 million CORE. Staking resumed within 48 hours, and trading volume jumped more than 170%. The token, still down TRON Opens MetaMask Access To Four More DAO-Linked Applications TRON DAO has expanded MetaMask wallet connectivity to four more applications in its ecosystem: B.AI, SUN.io, JustLend DAO, and BitTorrent. The announcement came from Geneva on September 10, 2026. Users can now link MetaMask directly to these dApps instead of relying on TRON-native wallets. This builds on Arbitrum's Watchdog Sets Sept. 10 Deadline For Three DeFi Projects Facing DAO Bans Arbitrum's Watchdog Committee has given three DeFi projects one week to explain themselves or face votes on permanent exclusion from the DAO. Good Entry, Limitless, and APX Finance (formerly ApolloX) are named in a proposal published September 3 on the Arbitrum governance forum. The committee wants funds returned DAO Governance Rules Keep Rebuilding The Power They Were Meant To Remove Compound's near-miss with a $24 million treasury transfer has become the reference case for a wider problem in DAO governance. New research from the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam shows that the very rules protecting DAOs from attacks tend to concentrate control Curve DAO Hands Risk Oversight To Resupply's Own Developers Curve DAO approved yRisk as its new risk-management provider on September 2. The team will monitor crvUSD and Llamalend for the next twelve months. Its two contributors are also the primary developers behind Resupply, a protocol that lost $9.6 million to a donation attack in June 2025. The Arbitrum DAO Approves New Ecosystem Incentive Proposal Arbitrum DAO voters approved a governance proposal on Snapshot directing treasury resources toward ecosystem incentive programs. The vote gives the community another round of funding to support builders, liquidity providers, and new apps on the network. The proposal itself is procedural. It sets direction rather than releasing funds outright. Distribution Coinbase Will Suspend Badger DAO And Storj Trading On September 28 Coinbase will halt trading for BADGER and STORJ on September 28, 2026, around 2 p.m. ET. The suspension covers Coinbase.com Simple and Advanced Trade, Coinbase Exchange, and Coinbase Prime. Customers keep their balances and can still withdraw both tokens after trading stops. Coinbase announced the decision on August Term Finance Shuts Down Meta Vaults For Good After $8.5 Million Governance Attack Term Labs has permanently closed every Term Meta Vault and stripped their DAO governance roles. The move follows an attack that drained roughly $8.5 million from the protocol's strategy vaults on August 23, 2026. The shutdown cannot be undone. New deposits are blocked forever, though existing users Solana Puts Its First Constitution And Money Supply To A Vote Solana validators are casting the network's first onchain governance vote this week. Three proposals are on the ballot, and the outcome will decide how Solana sets rules, issues tokens, and prices transactions going forward. Voting opened August 22 and runs through the end of epoch 1023, expected to Governance proposals Snapshot 35K+ DAOs DeepDAO 14K tracked Messari Governor Paid Optimism Retro Funding 60M+ OP Octant Every 90 days Multi-Asset Trading Venue Monochrome Exchange Announces IEO of Its Native Token, $MCR Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, September 20th, 2026, Chainwire Monochrome Exchange, a multi-asset trading platform, has announced the Initial Exchange Offering (IEO) of its native utility token, MCR. The platform aims to consolidate crypto, equities, bonds, and real-world assets into a single venue where trades settle on-chain. 1win Adds Provably Fair Technology to Its Crypto Games Willemstad, Curacao, September 17th, 2026, PlayNewswire 1win, a leading crypto casino and betting platform, is introducing Provably Fair technology that lets crypto players independently verify game fairness. The technology becomes available on Coin Flip and Dice on September 17, 2026, and will expand to more of 1win’s crypto games BASIS.pro Expands On-Chain Infrastructure with XDC Network Partnership and Zypher DAO as Auto Earn Goes Live London, United Kingdom, September 16th, 2026, Chainwire New developments extend BASIS across real-world asset and AI-native infrastructure while introducing automated reward restaking for BTC, ETH, SOL, and PAXG participants BASIS, the institutional-grade crypto yield and staking platform built on market-neutral execution infrastructure, is continuing to expand BingX Evolves into a Multi-Asset Trading Platform, Connecting Users to Global Opportunities PANAMA CITY, Panama, September 15th, 2026, Chainwire BingX today announced its strategic evolution into a multi-asset trading platform and will further its strategy through "Connect Markets. Unlock Opportunities.", bringing crypto and traditional markets together through an integrated trading experience. The move reflects BingX's ambition to Arctic to open USDC-denominated launchpad as Circle's Arc goes live Arctic will launch a token launchpad denominated entirely in USDC on Sept. 16, timing its debut to the public opening of Arc, the blockchain built by stablecoin issuer Circle. The platform, Arctic.fun, will let users create and trade tokens priced in USDC rather than a volatile crypto asset. New Tag Markets Names Craig Lund Chief Executive Officer Dubai, United Arab Emirates, September 10th, 2026, Chainwire The appointment brings a veteran of regulated digital-asset and brokerage businesses to a firm turning its focus from growth alone to the foundations that sustain it. Tag Markets today announced the appointment of Craig Lund as Chief Executive Officer. Lund will Alessio Vinassa Unveils an Emerging Technology Investment Approach Shaped by Financial Challenges Dubai, United Arab Emirates, September 10th, 2026, Chainwire Tech entrepreneur and angel investor Alessio Vinassa today announced the expansion of his investment framework focusing on the convergence of artificial intelligence and cybersecurity, applying strategic risk-mitigation model lessons derived from managing high-pressure financial turnarounds to emerging enterprise technologies. Before Zamanat Targets GCC’s $250 Billion SME Financing Gap With Up to $100 Million Tokenized Private Credit Fund Dubai, UAE, September 10th, 2026, Chainwire Zamanat Fund CEIC Limited is the company’s first live proof point for regulated fund tokenization on ZIGChain focused on GCC private credit. Zamanat today announced its sponsorship of Zamanat Fund CEIC Limited (the “Fund”), a DIFC-domiciled tokenized private credit fund with a 1win Expands Crypto Offering With USDC on Solana and New Ecosystem Developments Willemstad, Curaçao, September 7th, 2026, PlayNewswire 1win is expanding its crypto offering by introducing USDC deposits and withdrawals via the Solana network and by participating in new Web3 community initiatives, including Sona’s fundraising campaign supporting emergency efforts in Nepal. The developments come as the company continues to broaden the CoinRabbit Wins “Best Crypto Lending Platform 2026” Award from International Business Magazine Toronto, Canada, September 4th, 2026, Chainwire CoinRabbit has been named Best Crypto Lending Platform 2026 by International Business Magazine, highlighting a lending product that has issued more than $1.45 billion in loans since 2020. About the International Business Magazine Award The International Business Magazine Awards recognize companies and executives Liquid Mercury Announces Initial Closing of ACQUA1 Offering Chicago, United States, September 4th, 2026, Chainwire Liquid Mercury today announced that ACQUA1, LLC completed the initial closing of its MERC exchange offering on September 1, 2026. ACQUA1 is a Liquid Mercury subsidiary that operates Liquid Mercury’s Lab Company program, licensing Liquid Mercury technology to companies primarily tokenizing real- DWF Labs Expands Global Regulatory Footprint with BVI Virtual Asset Service Provider Approval Road Town, Tortola, British Virgin Islands, September 3rd, 2026, Chainwire DWF Labs, an established, market-tested investor and market maker built to strengthen digital asset market infrastructure at scale, today announced an expansion of its global regulatory footprint with a group entity granted Virtual Asset Service Provider (VASP) regulatory approval