Monthly Progress Report: April 2026

TL;DR

• Shipped Mainnet v3.0.3 with major performance and stability upgrades
• Wrapped Global Hackfest 2026 and announced winners (AI, DeFi, dev tools, stablecoins)
• Grew the ecosystem via new partnerships in RWA, payments, AI, gaming, and DeFi (incl. Fireblocks, Orbit, Byzanlink)
• Strong event presence: Web3 Festival Hong Kong, RWA & Payments 2026, plus Blockchain Tuesdays in NYC and Toronto
• Expanded RWA/stablecoin access: USDT0 on MEXC and XAUt0 live on Conflux

Public Chain

• Released Mainnet v3.0.3.
• Continued cleaning up legacy code and upgrading dependencies to improve maintainability.
• Fixed network-layer and consensus-related issues.
• Strengthened safety and robustness across the network.
• Introduced performance optimizations for transaction processing.

Scan

• Added a new open API to list all EIP-7702 authorizations.
• Optimized the transfer records API in the transaction detail view.
• Enhanced the trace view of executed transactions (in progress).
• Added a new open API to support account abstraction-related functions (in progress).

Confura

• Supported event logs of internal contracts based on traces (data syncing).
• Optimized cache strategy and added more metrics for better monitoring and statistics.

Partnerships & Ecosystem Growth

• Partnered with Byzanlink to support more efficient and scalable pathways for structured real-world assets to move across on-chain environments.
• Announced a strategic collaboration with Orbit, connecting its DLMM-based prediction markets with the Conflux ecosystem and introducing probability data and liquidity to the Asian market.
• Integrated with Thentic Pay, enabling businesses to accept CFX, USDT0, and AxCNH, expanding real-world payment use cases across the network.
• Entered a collaboration with Fireblocks, allowing institutions and builders to custody CFX, manage transfers, connect via WalletConnect, and interact with on-chain applications directly through their platform.
• Partnered with Catto to support AI agent infrastructure, combining Conflux’s Layer 1 capabilities with intelligent on-chain agents.
• Collaborated with MetaOne to enable AI-powered game creation on-chain, combining no-code game generation with scalable infrastructure and real-time on-chain economies.
• Announced a partnership with Rax Finance to expand DeFi infrastructure and support seamless payments and financial applications within the Conflux ecosystem.

Events

April was a busy month for our team, with a lot of presence across global events and local community meetups.

• Joined Web3 Festival Hong Kong as a Secondary Exhibition Sponsor, connecting with the community at HKCEC, meeting partners, and sharing ongoing work across payments, remittances, and DeFi.

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• Our Co-founder & COO Yuanjie Zhang spoke at the HashKey Exchange Asia Connect Forum, joining a panel on the future of on-chain asset value and the role of infrastructure in moving the space forward.

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• Co-hosted RWA & Payments 2026 in Hong Kong, bringing together builders and industry participants to discuss real-world assets, stablecoins, and on-chain payments through panels, demos, and networking.

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• Participated in “The New Liquidity Highway: Connecting Stablecoins, OTC, and Global Pay,” a side event focused on liquidity flows and how value moves across financial systems.

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• Hosted Blockchain Tuesdays in NYC at Station3 during New York Fintech Week, with a session focused on working with AI in a practical way. The workshop, “Managing AI Like a Team Member,” explored how to integrate AI into workflows, assign tasks effectively, and improve output reliability.

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• Hosted a Blockchain Tuesdays session in Toronto, focused on prediction markets and the APIs behind autonomous AI agents, exploring how these systems are built and used on-chain.

Community Highlights

Global Hackfest 2026 remained the community's focus, with multiple initiatives supporting builders throughout the program and beyond.

• Hosted a series of workshops as part of Global Hackfest 2026, covering topics such as the Conflux Builder Toolkit, the Hive3 virtual world environment, and AI agent payments, including how stablecoins and on-chain systems are used in this space.
• Successfully wrapped Global Hackfest 2026 and announced the winners, recognizing projects across categories including developer tools, DeFi, AI, and stablecoin integrations. Winning teams included:

🥇 Devkit-workspace — Main Prize + Best Developer Tool🥇 Realyx — Main Prize + Best DeFi Project🥇 GigShield — Main Prize + Best AxCNH Integration🥇 Tippy.Fun — Main Prize + Best AI + Conflux🥇 InsightMesh — Main Prize🏅 FluxPay — Best USDT0 Integration

• USDT0 became available on MEXC via Conflux, with deposits opening on April 2, expanding access to omnichain stablecoin liquidity.
• XAUt0 (omnichain Tether Gold) went live on Conflux, increasing accessibility to tokenized gold within the ecosystem.
• Launched the Community Champions Video Campaign, allowing community members to create videos and be featured on stage during our upcoming event as part of a global Conflux showcase.
• Conflux was featured in a new report by Presto Research, highlighting its role in the future of Asian finance. The report explored the growing importance of RWAs and stablecoins in the region, recent regulatory developments across Hong Kong, Singapore, and mainland China, and how Conflux is positioned with compliant infrastructure and multi-currency stablecoin rails, including USDT0, AxCNH, AUDX, and XAUt0.

Conflux: Building the Asia-centric Asset Settlement Stack | Presto Research

Summary1. Market Landscape 1.1. The Stablecoin Settlement Layer 1.2. The RWA Tokenization Frontier2. Asia's Regulatory…

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Developer Community

The Conflux developer community continued to expand educational resources and tooling, supporting builders at different stages of development.

• Released new Solidity tutorials covering core programming concepts. “Learn Conditional Statements in Solidity” breaks down logical operators and decision-making in smart contracts.

While “Loops in Solidity” explores for/while loops and introduces gas optimization techniques for more efficient contract execution.

• Launched Conflux Agent Skills, providing developers with new tools and capabilities to build AI-powered applications and agents on Conflux.
• Continued progress on the Conflux Bounties Program, with 6 out of 7 bounties successfully delivered, supporting ongoing development and community contributions across the ecosystem.