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Ethereum Foundation Names Two Must-Ship EIPs for the Hegota Fork

The Foundation graded all 62 proposals for Hegota and put two in the top tier. If either is at risk, it says the schedule moves before the scope does.

· 8 Sept 2026· 🕐 3 min read

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DBS and Citi Settle a Weekend Dollar Payment on Swift's Ledger

The transfer between Singapore and New York settled on Saturday in minutes. How many live transactions the ledger has carried so far is counted two different ways.

· 7 Sept 2026· 🕐 3 min read

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Harmony Proposes Shutting Down Its Layer 1 and Moving ONE to Ethereum

Harmony wants to end its seven-year-old chain and reissue ONE on Ethereum. Validators can start shutting down on 10 September, and the vote is non-binding.

· 7 Sept 2026· 🕐 3 min read

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XRP Ledger Order-Book Volume Rises 79% While Trader Count Drops

Evernorth's quarterly report puts order-book volume at 3.57 million XRP a day against 1,111 trading accounts. Outlets differ on how far the account count fell.

· 6 Sept 2026· 🕐 3 min read

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Solana Sets 9 September for Transaction V1 and a 4,096-Byte Limit

The opt-in format lifts the transaction ceiling from 1,232 bytes to 4,096 and drops Address Lookup Tables. Legacy transactions keep working unchanged.

· 5 Sept 2026· 🕐 3 min read

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Southeast Asia's Blockchain Funding Doubles to $680M on 25 Rounds

Tracxn counts $680 million so far in 2026 against $319 million last year. The deal count nearly halved, and one round took close to 60% of the money.

· 5 Sept 2026· 🕐 3 min read

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Mina's Mesa Fork Leaves Every zkApp Verification Key Out of Date

The chain restarted on schedule. Every application on it now needs a freshly compiled verification key, and nobody has published how many are affected.

· 4 Sept 2026· 🕐 3 min read

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Core DAO Readies a Hard Fork After Validators Drew Excess CORE

The upgrade rolls nothing back. Five exchanges restricted CORE transfers, and the project has still not said how much extra CORE was issued.

· 3 Sept 2026· 🕐 3 min read

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Robinhood Chain Books $1.92M in a Day, Lifting Arbitrum's ARB

A tenth of the chain's net revenue is routed to Arbitrum under its expansion program. Accounts of ARB's move and of the September token release do not agree.

· 2 Sept 2026· 🕐 3 min read

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Cronos Restarts Its Chain With the Tectonic Exploit Rolled Back

Validators restored the chain state to a point before the attack and resumed from block 90,896,189. The restart timestamps in circulation do not agree.

· 1 Sept 2026· 🕐 3 min read

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Tokenized Stock Transfers Jump 415% in 30 Days to $29.5B

RWA.xyz counted $29.5 billion in tokenized-stock transfers over 30 days, up 415%, while the value of the tokens themselves rose 1.45% to $2.54 billion.

· 31 Aug 2026· 🕐 3 min read

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Zcash Wallet Proofs Get 14x Faster on Mobile With No Fork Needed

Zakura's new library cuts shielded transaction creation from over three seconds to under 200 milliseconds in many cases. No consensus change is involved.

· 31 Aug 2026· 🕐 3 min read