Monthly Wrap-Up September 2025: Bridge Development, Red September Breakdown & More

In September, we covered the latest wave of 2025 crypto heists and analyzed the “Red September” downturn shaking up the crypto market. On the development side, we’re gearing up for the near launch of the Kusama–Polkadot bridge, bringing new possibilities for interoperability, and we’ve been working on an exciting AI-powered solution that’s just around the corner. Keep reading to see what the Integritee team was up to last month!

Business Updates

Budapest Blockchain Community Week 2025
From September 15 to 21, the Budapest Blockchain Week brought together innovators and enthusiasts from across the Web3 ecosystem. September 19 was dedicated to Polkadot, organized by the Hungarian Polkadot DAO, showcasing the latest developments and projects within the ecosystem.

Our CTO, Alain Brenzikofer, presented a talk highlighting Incognitee, explaining the privacy and compliance dilemma, and how privacy is key in the development of today’s Web3. It was a great opportunity to connect with the community, exchange insights, and reaffirm our commitment to advancing trusted computing within the broader Web3 landscape.

Incognitee on Polkadot Asset Hub Stats:

• Total events: 305
• Total TVL on L2 is over 24’000 USD

Try Incognitee on Polkadot now

TEERdays Progression
The TEERdays campaign continues to attract enthusiasts wanting to participate in the success of Incognitee, and the numbers are looking good: we surpassed 473 million active TEERdays, and more than 1,333,000 TEER were bonded by 83 TEERday holders. Bond your TEER today as well and earn TEERdays.

September Articles
Crypto Heist Stats: 2025’s Half Was Worse Than All of 2024, and It Will Get Worse
In this article, we explore how crypto heists are escalating in 2025, with attackers shifting from major platforms to individual wallets and adopting more sophisticated laundering methods. We also highlight some of the year’s most notable breaches and what they reveal about the growing risks in the crypto ecosystem. Read the full article here.

Metadata in Messaging: How It Works and Why You Should Be Wary of It
In this article, we dig into what metadata in messaging really is, how even when messages are “encrypted,” the extra data (who, when, where) can still leak sensitive insights, and why that can be dangerous. We also show how metadata is used (and weaponized) for surveillance, profiling, or manipulation, and present how Integritee’s architecture can protect metadata too, not just message content.

Crypto Market’s “Red September” Selloff: 162 Billion USD Drop in Market Value, More Than 1,5 Billion USD Liquidated
We examined the “Red September” plunge in crypto markets — how a sudden sell-off triggered cascading liquidations, drove sharp losses across major tokens, and exposed the fragility behind leveraged positions and market sentiment. Read the article here.

Community Update
In episode 32 of “It’s TEE Time!”, our team shared a few updates regarding Incognitee and talked about the project’s next steps, including the imminent release of the Polkadot–Kusama bridge and a new AI solution. For those who were unable to tune in to September’s AMA live, here’s the recording. Check out “It’s TEE Time!” Episode 32, and let us know your thoughts and questions in the YouTube comments!

Governance

Referendum #61
Referendum #61 passed with 100% aye. The proposal was for a new Runtime upgrade v560 that included important updates, such as introducing pallet-porTEER (our solution to fungibly bridge TEER between integritee-kusama and integritee-polkadot using XCMv5), support for various convenient APIs like DryRun, XcmPaymentApi, and AssetConversionApi, and upgrade polkadot-SDK to stable-2503–8, among other things. Check out more details here.

Tech Updates

Technical advancements:

Integritee Parachain & SDK

• Integritee SDK Release v0.17.0
• Integritee Node Release 1.18.8
• Integritee Parachain Release 1.18.1 and 1.18.2
• Bump deps to polkadot-stable2503–8
• [CI] use ubuntu 22.04 and also update the docker build env
• Migrate `CurrencyAdapter` to `FungibleAdapter`
• Switch to BABE consensus
• Prepare bridging of TEER P<>K
• Initial porteer setup
• [porteer] add source nonce to more events
• Bridge UI overflow fix in notification and added destination
• Bridge UI improvements

Incognitee App

• Support sending long notes (offchain, proxy-re-encrypted via IPFS)
• Introduce credits
• Support Extrinsiv V5

For more details, check our repository.

What’s Ahead

Incognitee: Next Steps
With the integration of ChatGPT into the Incognitee Messenger, we will continue to add more AI-related features to Incognitee to provide enhanced privacy to everyday AI users.

TEER on Polkadot
With the release of Polkadots XCMv5, we will be able to create a bridge between Integritee Kusama and Integritee Polkadot to move over TEER to the Polkadot Parachain and close the loop to Ethereum and Hydration.

TEER on Uniswap
We have launched TEER on Ethereum, and the next station is Uniswap. We are now preparing campaigns regarding this launch.

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About Integritee

Integritee is the most scalable, privacy-enabling network with a Parachain on Kusama and Polkadot. Our SDK solution combines the security and trust of Polkadot, the scalability of second-layer Sidechains, and the confidentiality of Trusted Execution Environments (TEE), special-purpose hardware based on Intel Software Guard Extensions (SGX) technology, inside which computations run securely, confidentially, and verifiably.

Community & Social Media:
Join Integritee on Discord | Telegram | Twitter | Medium | Youtube | LinkedIn | Website

Products:
L2 Sidechains | Trusted Off-chain Workers | Teeracle | Attesteer | Securitee | Incognitee

Integritee Network:
Governance | Explorer | Mainnet | Github

TEER on Exchanges:
Kraken | Gate | Basilisk