Bonzo Bytes Newsletter - #52 🐵🗞️

Hello, Bonzo Community!

Welcome to another edition of the Bonzo Bytes Weekly Newsletter.

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Bonzo Vaults v1 Beta

Bonzo Vaults v1 are now live in beta, and community feedback is actively encouraged. The team is operating in fast iteration cycles, refining strategies the same way Bonzo Lend was successfully brought out of beta and into production.

Yield graph updates are also underway to provide clearer, more transparent performance visibility.

Bonzo Vaults are automated strategies that handle routing, rebalancing, and compounding on behalf of users. Instead of actively monitoring pools, ranges, and rewards, users deposit into a vault and let the strategy manage execution over time.

This phase is focused on tightening strategy performance, improving user experience, and refining configurations before broader scaling. Visit the official Discord to submit feedback by opening a ticket.

👉 Explore all available vaults here: app.bonzo.finance/vaults

🔗 For a deeper look at how Bonzo Vaults work, the strategies available, and what’s coming next, read the full blog post: Now Live: Bonzo Yield Strategy Vaults

Bonzo Points Season 6 Announced

Season 5 officially ends on Monday, March 9, with claims opening later in the week.

Season 6 has now been announced and will begin on Tuesday, March 10. Points structure changes are coming with the new season. Stay tuned for more details.

Bonzo Finance TVL & Scoreboard Update

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Hedera DevDay Highlights

Hedera DevDay took place on February 17 alongside ETHDenver and delivered technical depth across the ecosystem. Leemon Baird spoke on quantum-resistant upgrades and enterprise scaling. Sessions also covered HTS v2 enhancements for royalties and compliance, EVM optimizations for improved Solidity efficiency, and cross-chain integrations with oracle and bridge providers.

Brady Gentile was on site at the Bonzo booth representing Bonzo Finance Labs, connecting with builders, sharing updates on Bonzo Vaults, and engaging directly with the Hedera developer community. Attendees highlighted the value of in-person collaboration and direct access to engineers across the ecosystem.

Project Full-Send & Cross Ledger Protocol

Unveiled at DevDay, Project Full-Send removes artificial TPS throttles and dynamically adapts to load, targeting extremely high throughput for AI payments, IoT, and enterprise applications.

Alongside it, the Cross Ledger Protocol introduces a bridgeless bridging design secured by ABFT, aiming to reduce validator-dependent bridge risk and enable trust-minimized cross-network value transfer. These developments align with Hedera’s expanding real-world asset footprint, now exceeding $5B in tokenized value.

SaucerSwap DAO DUNA Formation

SaucerSwap DAO has approved formation as a Wyoming Decentralized Unincorporated Nonprofit Association. This gives the DAO recognized legal status to hold assets, enter into agreements, and administer governance programs within a defined legal structure. It represents an important step forward for DAO operational clarity and legitimacy.

Clarity Act Momentum

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has called on Congress to pass the Digital Asset Market Structure bill, commonly known as the Clarity Act, by spring. The focus is on reducing regulatory fragmentation and establishing clearer federal oversight. If momentum continues, 2026 may become a defining year for U.S. crypto market structure.

Read more on Yahoo Finance: 2 Big Crypto Regulations Dropping in Q2 2026

2026 Is the Year of DeFi Vaults

By Gaurang Torvekar, Co-Founder & CTO, Bonzo Finance Labs

In this piece, Gaurang lays out why vaults are not a short-term narrative but a product format that solves DeFi’s biggest adoption problem: turning infrastructure into usable financial products.

The article explores why DeFi primitives alone never scaled to mainstream users, how vaults act as the productization layer that abstracts complexity, and why distribution, risk controls, and automation matter more than raw APY.

Gaurang also explains how Bonzo Vaults brings this model to Hedera, positioning vaults as the missing layer that allows onchain capital markets to scale sustainably.

If you’re interested in where DeFi is headed in 2026, this is a must-read.

🔗 Read on Medium: 2026 is the Year of DeFi Vaults

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- The Bonzo Finance Team

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