Bonzo Bytes Newsletter - #42 🐵🗞️

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Welcome to another edition of the Bonzo Bytes Weekly Newsletter.

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Bonzo Vaults Development Continues

Work on Bonzo Vaults is moving forward. The Bonzo dev team is focused on the Vaults UI, and internal testing is underway. This follows the successful Halborn audit earlier this month, which cleared the Beefy Hedera Contracts that power Vaults. With testing and design refinement ongoing, Vaults are one step closer to launch in October.

HBAR Guide Goes Live

Brady Gentile introduced hbar.guide, built in collaboration with the Hashgraph DeFi Alliance. The site provides a simple, step-by-step guide for retail users exploring Hedera wallets, DeFi, and NFTs. It’s designed to be easy to share and highlights a curated set of projects to help new users get started.

CTO Gaurang joined Michael Kantor (Hashgraph Online) and Fil (HashPack) for a livestream demonstration of how AI Agents can autonomously interact with Bonzo Finance to lend, borrow, and manage strategies on Hedera. The session demonstrated how autonomous AI-driven agents can interact with Hedera protocols to execute DeFi strategies, opening new possibilities for automation in lending, borrowing, and beyond.

Hedera Goes Live on Stargate Finance

Hedera is now live on Stargate Finance, connecting to more than 40 chains and bringing canonical wETH on-chain for the first time. The first liquidity pool is already live on SaucerSwap, giving users immediate access to Ethereum’s most liquid asset.

This integration brings Hedera into Stargate’s unified liquidity layer, which has already processed more than $70 billion in cross-chain transfers. Developers can now integrate wETH into Hedera dApps, while users benefit from sub-three-second settlement, fixed low fees, and protection from MEV and front-running.

Read more in the Hedera Foundation Blog Post: Canonical Wrapped Ether (wETH) Goes Live on Hedera via Stargate Finance

Bringing the HEAT: Hedera Enterprise Adoption Team Introduced

Hashgraph announced the Hedera Enterprise Adoption Team (HEAT), led by longtime Council member and payments innovator Rob Allen. HEAT is designed to help Council members move from proofs of concept to enterprise-grade solutions, building on Hedera’s enterprise-first mission.

Mance Harmon described HEAT as “turning Council Members’ ambitions into lasting solutions.”

Read more in the Hashgraph Blog Post: Bringing the HEAT

Hedera at the AI Conference in San Francisco

The Hedera team spent two days at the AI Conference in San Francisco, showing how Hedera provides the trust layer for autonomous intelligence. The Hedera booth featured demos and discussions around how trust and sustainability intersect with AI and agentic workflows.

📰Hgraph Launches Redesigned Hedera Stats Dashboard

Hgraph unveiled a redesigned Hedera Stats dashboard with 3x the stats and 10x faster performance. The new dashboard improves transparency, with insights powered by GraphQL API and Grafana. Developers, Council members, and community can better track network activity and performance.

SEC Approves Generic Standards for Crypto ETFs

The U.S. SEC approved generic listing standards for crypto ETFs across Nasdaq, Cboe BZX, and NYSE Arca on Sept 18. This change removes the need for individual approvals and is expected to unleash a wave of new ETFs.

The first U.S. multi-crypto ETF, Grayscale’s Digital Large Cap Fund (GLDC), was also approved, holding BTC, ETH, XRP, Solana, and Cardano. Analysts expect memecoin ETFs and thematic funds to follow. Galaxy noted that 10 tokens already meet the fast-track criteria, including Bitcoin, Solana, Chainlink, Polkadot — and Hedera.

ETF launches historically jumped 3x after similar standards were approved for traditional markets. As Bloomberg’s James Seyffart put it: “We’re gonna be off to the races in a matter of weeks.”

Read more on Investopedia: SEC Approves Standards That Could Lead to a Flurry of New Crypto ETFs

Deep Dive: Hedera n8n Plugin

Ashe Oro and Jay Cool explore Hedera’s new n8n plugin, enabling no-code blockchain workflows and AI Agent integrations.

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Webinar: Why DeFi Infrastructure Must Work for Everyone

Hedera Foundation CBO Gregg Bell joins The Tie’s Ben Jochem to discuss fairness in DeFi, MEV protection, and instant settlement. The conversation explored why DeFi must remain accessible to everyone and how Hedera is working to solve the biggest barriers to adoption.

Watch on YouTube: Why DeFi Infrastructure Must Work for Everyone

Swarm Markets & Hedera Foundation Talk DeFi + ReFi

In this interview with the HBAR Bull, Swarm Markets CEO discussed how the platform is making traditional investments DeFi-ready on Hedera.

The conversation also featured Hedera Foundation’s Hania Othman, who connected the effort to Hedera’s biggest growth vertical, ReFi (Regenerative Finance), and shared the Foundation’s perspective on how Hedera is positioned to lead in this space.

Watch the interview on YouTube

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Thank you for being part of Bonzo Finance and the Hedera DeFi 2.0 journey.

- The Bonzo Finance Team

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