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Goldman's Treasury Fund Comes to Lynq Without Being Tokenized

Goldman's Financial Square Treasury Instruments Fund is now distributed to qualified US clients on the Lynq settlement network. The fund itself is not tokenized.

· 29 Sept 2026· 🕐 3 min read

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Chainlink's CCIP 2.0 Lets Apps Add Their Own Cross-Chain Verifiers

Chainlink released CCIP 2.0 on Monday, letting applications layer their own verifiers over a default set of 16 node operators. The Risk Management Network is retired.

· 29 Sept 2026· 🕐 3 min read

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Buterin Puts Ethereum's 2030 Finality Target at 8 to 32 Seconds

An essay published Sunday sets slot intervals of 4 to 8 seconds and finality of 8 to 32 seconds by 2030, with the shift beginning after the Hegota fork.

· 28 Sept 2026· 🕐 3 min read

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LayerZero Ends Offchain Service for 13 Chains on 30 September

DVN and Executor service stops for Aurora, Taiko, opBNB, Gnosis and nine others. Stargate Hydra holders are told to bridge out before the date.

· 27 Sept 2026· 🕐 3 min read

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Alpenglow Goes Live on Solana's Devnet With a 150ms Finality Target

Anza retired TowerBFT on the developer cluster on Friday evening, the second public test network to switch. Nothing published this week sets a mainnet date.

· 26 Sept 2026· 🕐 3 min read

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One Dip Below 80% Pushes the XRP Ledger's Batch Upgrade to 9 October

Support is back at 30 of 35 validators, but losing the majority once wiped the two-week countdown. The earliest activation is now 9 October at 14:46 UTC.

· 26 Sept 2026· 🕐 3 min read

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Zcash's 5 November Upgrade Would Lock About 23,000 ZEC in Sprout

ZIP 2003 disallows version 4 transactions, and Sprout balances cannot be spent without them. The coins are not burned, and the text leaves a route back open.

· 24 Sept 2026· 🕐 3 min read

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EU Supervisors Flag Quantum Risk to Blockchains in Autumn Report

The joint EBA, ESMA and EIOPA report says the risk could arrive before quantum computing is commercially useful. Estimates of exposed bitcoin do not agree.

· 24 Sept 2026· 🕐 3 min read

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Zilliqa Retires Its Legacy Chain and Binance Migrates ZIL 1:1

Two hard forks moved exchange balances onto Zilliqa EVM after a Ledger app defect exposed 6,772 accounts. Self-custody holders are still waiting for a tool.

· 23 Sept 2026· 🕐 3 min read

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Canada's Big Six Banks Plan a Shared Tokenized Deposit System

Canada's six biggest banks will test transfers of tokenized Canadian-dollar deposits between themselves. No platform, no launch date and no project name yet.

· 23 Sept 2026· 🕐 3 min read

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Hana Bank Settles a $100M Digital Bond Same Day on Euroclear's Ledger

Hana Bank's five-year, $100 million bond ran on Euroclear's D-FMI and settled at T+0, a first for Korea's foreign-currency bond market.

· 22 Sept 2026· 🕐 3 min read

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ZetaChain Votes 99.4% to Retire Its Layer 1 and Move ZETA to Solana

Proposal 68 passed with 58% turnout. ZETA becomes a Solana token one-for-one, and a second vote will set the snapshot and the shutdown block.

· 21 Sept 2026· 🕐 3 min read