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MANTRA Restarts Without a Rollback and the Market Sells the News

MANTRA resumed blocks Saturday on patch v8.4.0 and kept its state intact, but OM kept sliding on Sunday and the promised technical report has still not appeared.

· 23 Aug 2026· 🕐 3 min read

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Two Chains Hit the Kill Switch in One Day

MANTRA halted its chain over a Cosmos EVM module flaw as OM hit an all-time low, while BounceBit chose to shut its L1 for good after a 286.5M-BB exploit.

· 22 Aug 2026· 🕐 3 min read

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Gnosis Votes on Dissolving Its L1 Into an Ethereum ZK Rollup

Gnosis Chain will dissolve into a ZK rollup on Ethereum after GIP-153 passed almost unanimously, freeing 27% of GNO supply. The token hit a three-month high.

· 20 Aug 2026· 🕐 3 min read

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Harmony Plans to Roll Back 141,628 Blocks After a Forged Mint

Harmony will return two shards to an 11 August state after a cross-shard receipt flaw minted trillions of ONE, discarding 141,628 blocks and 109,441 transactions.

· 19 Aug 2026· 🕐 3 min read

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Platåberget Goes Live as Glamsterdam's Public Testnet

Ethereum opened Platåberget, a months-long public testnet for Glamsterdam, testing ePBS, block-level access lists, a roughly 200M gas floor and 64KiB contracts.

· 17 Aug 2026· 🕐 3 min read

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Cardano Confirms the Two-Phase Dijkstra Roadmap

Ouroboros Linear Leios targets code completion in Q4 2026 and Peras faster finality in Q2 2027. The roadmap lands with ADA the week's worst major, down 9.9%.

· 16 Aug 2026· 🕐 3 min read

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Harmony Ships an Emergency Patch and Pauses Its Bridge

Harmony shipped emergency patch v2026.1.1, paused its Horizon bridge and flagged four attacker wallets on 12 August. The size of the forged mint is still unconfirmed.

· 12 Aug 2026· 🕐 3 min read

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Harmony's Forged Mint Took 106 Seconds

Forged ONE was minted through Harmony's cross-shard messaging in a 106-second window late Tuesday. An early estimate near 4 billion ONE is unconfirmed by Harmony.

· 11 Aug 2026· 🕐 3 min read

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XRPL Ships xrpld 3.3.0 With Confidential Transfers and Batching

The XRP Ledger shipped xrpld 3.3.0 on 6 August, retiring five old amendments and putting confidential transfers and batching in front of validators.

· 6 Aug 2026· 🕐 4 min read

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Solana Raises Its Block Compute Limit 66% to 100M Units

Solana lifted its maximum block compute budget from 60 million units to 100 million at epoch 1009, a 66% capacity increase that left slot timing untouched.

· 29 Jul 2026· 🕐 3 min read

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A Stolen Owner Key Mints 5.23M WEMIX$

An attacker took owner privileges on the WEMIX$ contract and minted over five million tokens, forcing WEMIX to halt its bridges. Loss estimates differ.

· 26 Jul 2026· 🕐 3 min read

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AFX Trade Loses $24.15M After Five of Seven Keys Fall

An attacker with five of seven validator keys took $24.15M in USDC from AFX Trade's Arbitrum bridge. AFX offered to let the attacker keep 30% if 70% comes back.

· 22 Jul 2026· 🕐 3 min read