Jonathan Alexander participated in a panel discussion about RWA tokenization alongside representatives from Apex Group, T-REX, and Polygon.

Sponsored a track at the Polkadot Solidity Hackathon co-organized by OpenGuild and Web3 Foundation, with Hyperway (a decentralized AI compute marketplace) winning the OpenZeppelin Track.

Contango v3 contracts are undergoing an audit by OpenZeppelin.

Launched Role Manager, an open-source tool for managing onchain access control across smart contracts, on March 20, 2026.

Hosts a Security Soirée event with Chainlink on March 23, 2026, in New York City for 100 institutional leaders ahead of Blockworks DAS.

Snapshot integrated native support for OpenZeppelin Governor and Governor Bravo, enabling gasless voting, delegates dashboard, execution builder, transaction simulation, and custom domain features, live as of 2026-03-19 with ENS and Uniswap.

Released 9 AI agent capabilities providing authoritative knowledge of OpenZeppelin Contracts libraries for smart contract development, setup, and upgrades.

Released Solidity Contracts v5.6 with crosschain bridging, trustless state verification across chains, and enhanced account abstraction capabilities, fully audited and production-ready.

Audited EVMBench, an AI security benchmark by OpenAI and Paradigm, identifying 4 out of 120 critical vulnerabilities as false positives.

Participates as a partner in the Arbitrum Open House NYC Founder House event on March 6-8, 2026, which features $1.8M total prizes and $340k in NYC grants.

Confirmed that Solidity Contracts are not affected by a transient storage vulnerability because the libraries do not use delete on transient storage variables.

Completed audit of the Ether.fi eETH Automated Redemption Manager (ARM) built by Origin Protocol.

Participates as a speaker at EthCC[9] conference and in Zama Builder Villa, March 30 - April 2, 2026, at the Palais des Festivals in Cannes for sessions on blockchain privacy.

Mentioned as a security research organization whose input is being sought on FTC's proposed standards for reasonable and appropriate software development practices in blockchain, with comment deadline on January 20th (2026-01-20).

Processed $13.2 trillion in onchain value transfers through OpenZeppelin Contracts in 2025, representing 106% growth from $6.4 trillion in 2024.

Added ERC-7984 support to Contracts Wizard, a confidential ERC-20 standard developed with Zama, Confidential Token Association, and Inco, enabling confidential fungible tokens using Zama's FHE with private balances and transfers.

Released Confidential Contracts v0.4 (with Zama), introducing BatcherConfidential for private aggregate routing, building on v0.3.0's FHE upgrade to fhevm/solidity 0.9.1.

OpenZeppelin Contracts ranked 4th by DeepFunding team in their review of Ethereum's most impactful open source projects, in a process funded and supported by Vitalik.

OpenZeppelin recognized at DevConnect as advanced in AI smart contract auditing technology, standing out among security auditors who do not believe AI can audit smart contracts.

Develops Private State Management (PSM) system with Miden for privacy-first multisigs on the Miden network, with early public proof-of-concept already deployed.

Vitalik Buterin participates in fireside chat with OpenZeppelin founder at Convergence summit on November 21 at 12:15pm, discussing open source, public goods, and keeping crypto radically open.

Completed security audit for Origin Ether (OETH) contracts implementing trustless validation for liquid staking through EIP-4788 Merkle proofs, working alongside Sigma Prime and Nethermind.

Acts as silver sponsor for Sui Connect's LATAM debut event in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

OpenZeppelin UI Builder adds support for Midnight Network, enabling developers to generate plug-and-play mini app interfaces for deployed contracts to inspect state, interact, and execute transactions.

Hosts Convergence flagship summit on November 21 at EFDevcon Buenos Aires with participation from Ethereum Foundation, Uniswap, Circle, Chainlink, Arbitrum, Across Protocol, Stellar, Zama, Miden, Espresso Systems, and Linea.

Launches Solidity Contracts v5.5 featuring native passkey authentication, formal verification support, cross-chain interoperability, and gas optimizations.

OpenZeppelin audited earlier versions of Balancer v2 codebase before the attack vector that led to the recent exploit was introduced to the protocol.

Announced as Zama's genesis operator to secure the private FHE key as an MPC operator for the Zama Protocol.

Released Contracts v0.7.0 for Stellar's Soroban, featuring Smart Accounts rework, RWA 3643 standard, Tokenized Vaults, governance and voting modules, and ZkEmail DKIM registry. Also launched Relayer Service for contract execution, sponsored transactions, and x402 agentic payments.

Launched Move Contracts library on Sui Network March 12, 2026, providing DeFi math primitives, access control, and infrastructure and security services for Hashi. Added Sui Network guide to Access library covering two-step transfers, time delays, and wrapped capabilities.