Bonzo Bytes Newsletter - #53 🐵🗞️

Hello, Bonzo Community!

Welcome to another edition of the Bonzo Bytes Weekly Newsletter.

🎧 Listen to the full 𝕏 Space recording: February 27 Bonzo Bytes Space

Bonzo Vaults v1 Beta

Bonzo Vaults v1 remain live in beta. The Bonzo Finance Labs team continues to operate in fast iteration cycles, incorporating community feedback in the same way Bonzo Lend evolved through its beta phase.

Users are encouraged to share feedback directly in the official Discord 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 Vaults: Strategy and UI Updates

Two new blog posts outline meaningful updates across both vault mechanics and the front-end experience.

On the strategy side, several Single Asset DEX vaults have shifted toward a more defensive posture. Active ranges have been widened to roughly 40 percent concentration, a 3 percent move within a rolling 20-minute window now triggers Defensive Mode, and the inventory guardrail has been tightened from 77 percent to 81 percent. These changes aim to reduce impermanent loss-driven drawdowns and forced inventory conversion during sharp market moves, even if that results in lower headline fee APRs in calmer conditions.

🔗 Read more: Bonzo Vaults: Single Asset DEX Defensive Range Updates

On the interface side, Vaults received a substantial UI and data update. Dual Asset DEX vaults now display APY calculations based on realized yield data rather than only estimated pool APR conversions. Single Asset DEX vaults have transitioned performance tracking to primary asset-denominated values, simplifying how users interpret position growth. Charting has been streamlined, tooltips simplified, token ratio visualization improved, and a new 30-day Hold vs Vault comparison has been introduced to provide clearer performance context over a longer timeframe.

🔗 Read more: Bonzo Vaults: Performance & Data UI/UX Updates

Together, these updates reflect a focus on risk management, transparency, and clearer performance reporting.

Bonzo Points

Get ready, Bonzo Points Season 5 officially ends next 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.

Check your position on the Bonzo Finance Leaderboard: app.bonzo.finance/points

Bonzo Finance TVL & Scoreboard Update

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Hedera Hello Future Apex Hackathon 2026

Bonzo Finance is an official partner of the Hedera Hello Future Apex Hackathon 2026, a five week virtual event running from February 17 through March 23 with a $250,000 total prize pool.

The hackathon brings together new developers, legacy builders, and returning ecosystem participants to collaborate across multiple tracks, including AI and Agents, DeFi and Tokenization, Sustainability, Open Track, and Legacy Builders. Participants receive access to live mentorship, workshops, and AMAs throughout the event.

Bonzo Finance is sponsoring an $8,000 bounty focused on building an Intelligent Keeper Agent using the Hedera Agent Kit. The challenge centers on evolving DeFi vault automation beyond static parameters and simple harvest logic. Builders are encouraged to design agents that can ingest external data such as price feeds, volatility metrics, or sentiment signals, and autonomously interact with Bonzo Vault contracts in a more adaptive way.

This positions Bonzo Vaults as programmable infrastructure within Hedera DeFi, inviting experimentation at the intersection of AI agents and onchain liquidity management.

Register for the hackathon and learn more: Hedera Hello Future Apex Hackathon 2026 

On March 2, Gaurang, Co-Founder and CTO of Bonzo Finance Labs, hosted a workshop on using AI agents to design and deploy new Bonzo Vault strategies across Hedera DeFi.

🔗 Watch the recording on YouTube: Building AI Agents on Bonzo Finance

Hedera EVM and HTS on Kraken

Kraken has begun rolling out support for Hedera EVM and HTS tokens, with $DOVU becoming the first HTS token listed. DOVU deposits are now live, with trading launched shortly after.

Beyond the listing itself, DOVU activity has been notable across the Hedera ecosystem. On February 28, DOVU transactions accounted for 14.42 percent of total HTS transactions on Hedera mainnet.

On SaucerSwap, DOVU has surpassed $100 million in total trade volume, positioning it as one of the more active markets on the platform, with activity tied to real carbon credit infrastructure rather than purely speculative volume.

DOVU is also available on Bonzo Finance with HBAR/DOVU and DOVU/HBAR paired Bonzo Vaults on app.bonzo.finance/vaults. 

Stripe's Co-Founders Say Blockchains Need 1 Billion TPS

Stripe co-founders Patrick and John Collison said blockchains may need to scale to 1 billion transactions per second to support an AI agent economy.

Their view is that autonomous AI agents will transact continuously, creating machine-to-machine payment volume far beyond human-driven activity.

For context, Visa peaks around 65,000 TPS. Ethereum mainnet processes roughly 15-30 TPS. Hedera’s network has recorded up to 3,302 transactions per second in peak throughput tests, with architectural capacity targeting 10,000 TPS and beyond.

Stripe has already integrated USDC, and this framing positions stablecoins and programmable settlement as core infrastructure for AI-driven commerce.

The broader implication is long term scalability across execution, data availability, and interoperability if blockchains are to support that kind of volume.

🔗 Read more on Blockster: Stripe's Co-Founders Say Blockchains Need 1 Billion TPS

Ethereum Releases “Strawmap” Roadmap

The Ethereum Foundation released a long-term roadmap, the “Strawmap,” focused on scaling, privacy, and quantum resistance.

Targets include around 10,000 TPS at L1 and up to 10 million TPS across L2s, using tools like embedded zkEVMs and data availability sampling.

The plan also introduces quantum-resistant cryptography and outlines multiple forks through 2029 to implement these upgrades.

The key theme is a structured, multi-year push toward higher throughput, stronger privacy, and post-quantum security.

🔗 Read more on TradingView: Ethereum Releases “Strawmap” for Scaling, Privacy, and Quantum Resistance

DeFi Corner with The HBAR Bull ft. Brady Gentile

In the latest episode of DeFi Corner, Brady Gentile, Co-Founder and CEO of Bonzo Finance Labs, joins The HBAR Bull for a deep dive into the recent Bonzo Vault updates, the SaucerSwap V3 Launch, and more.

🔗 Watch on YouTube:  Built on Hedera - Bonzo Vault Update 

Hashgraph to replace Blockchain

Sachin Kumar, Vice President at Morgan Stanley, shared commentary titled “Hashgraph to Replace Blockchain,” contributing to broader discussion around distributed ledger design and infrastructure evolution.

🔗 Check out his post on LinkedIn: Hashgraph to replace Blockchain

Hedera Developer Highlights – February 2026

The February Hedera Developer Newsletter outlines several infrastructure and tooling updates across the ecosystem.

Key highlights include updates to the Hiero JSON RPC relay configuration, migration guidance for AccountBalanceQuery, and expanded interoperability through Axelar. The edition also covers enterprise key management using AWS KMS for secure transaction signing, the x402 payment standard for agent-driven micropayments, and OpenClaw’s onchain agent tooling integrated with Hiero CLI.

On the standards side, multiple Hedera Improvement Proposals are in review or last call status, including updates supporting Ethereum’s Pectra release and enhancements to error response handling. The newsletter also recaps Hedera DevDay 2026 and highlights active community projects and hackathon bounties.

🔗 Read the full February Developer Highlights here: Hedera Developer Highlights February 2026

Friday, March 6: Monthly Bonzo Finance AMA

The next Bonzo Finance AMA will take place on Friday, March 6.

These AMAs occur on the first Friday of every month and provide an open forum for the community to ask questions about Bonzo Vaults, Bonzo Lend, or anything else happening in the Bonzo Finance ecosystem.

Questions can be submitted in advance through an anonymous Google form. A link to the form is included below for those who would like to participate.

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🔗 Submit a question: https://forms.gle/idHDPLgnpDJtijPq6 

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

- The Bonzo Finance Team

The views shared in this newsletter are personal opinions and do not represent official Bonzo Finance advice. Any forward-looking statements about Bonzo Finance and its associated projects involve risks and uncertainties. Please do your own research and consult a professional before making any investment decisions. Bonzo Finance is not liable for any actions taken based on the information provided.