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Base Activates B20, the Token Standard Its June Outage Delayed

Base switched on B20, a token standard built into its node software rather than deployed as a contract, two weeks after June's outages pushed it out of Beryl.

· 8 Jul 2026· 🕐 3 min read

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Injective's npm SDK Was Backdoored to Steal Seed Phrases

A poisoned release of Injective's TypeScript SDK hid a fake telemetry function that captured seed phrases and private keys from wallet calls.

· 8 Jul 2026· 🕐 4 min read

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Bitcoin Core 31.1 Fixes a Disk-Thrashing Chainstate Bug

The maintenance release stops the chainstate database from rewriting itself repeatedly, closes a PrivateBroadcast clearnet leak, and credits 20 contributors.

· 8 Jul 2026· 🕐 3 min read

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Buterin Argues for an Extremely Lean Ethereum Base Layer

Vitalik Buterin's July 6 post would cut on-chain validator state to about 6 bytes using daily ZK-STARK proofs. Researchers back it, but call 3-4 years slow.

· 6 Jul 2026· 🕐 3 min read

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Base Halted Block Production Twice in Two Days, Delaying Beryl

Base stopped producing blocks for 116 minutes on 25 June and again for 20 minutes on 26 June, after stale state from a failed transaction produced a block validators rejected. No funds were at risk, but the Beryl hardfork was postponed.

· 26 Jun 2026· 🕐 3 min read

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Taiko Halts Its Ethereum Layer-2 After a $1.7M Bridge Exploit

Taiko stopped block production and froze its bridge on June 22 after forged withdrawal proofs drained about $1.7 million, traced to a leaked SGX signing key.

· 22 Jun 2026· 🕐 3 min read

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Secret Network's Axelar Bridge Hit by a $4.67M Infinite Mint

An attacker minted unbacked wrapped tokens on Secret Network through a customized bridge contract, draining $4.67 million before Axelar cut the connection.

· 17 Jun 2026· 🕐 3 min read

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Anza and a16z Researchers Propose Gatling, Targeting 10ms Solana Slots

Researchers at Anza and a16z Crypto published Gatling, a design that runs nine consensus instances in parallel to produce a block proposal every 56 milliseconds, with 10ms slots as the theoretical target. It is a paper and a prototype, with no production timeline.

· 16 Jun 2026· 🕐 3 min read

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XRP Ledger v3.2.0 Renames Its Core Server From rippled to xrpld

The XRP Ledger's v3.2.0 release renamed its core server from rippled to xrpld, a change XRPL Operations tied to an ecosystem it describes as increasingly independent of Ripple. The release itself was maintenance only, with no new features and no amendments.

· 15 Jun 2026· 🕐 3 min read

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Firedancer v1.0.0 Reaches Testnet, Completing Solana's C Rewrite

Firedancer reached v1.0.0 on Solana's testnet, finishing the ground-up C rewrite. It is not recommended for mainnet, where the Frankendancer hybrid still runs.

· 12 Jun 2026· 🕐 3 min read

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Starknet Ships STRK20, Bringing Privacy to Arbitrary ERC-20 Tokens

Starknet put STRK20 live on mainnet on 9 June, a privacy standard covering arbitrary ERC-20 tokens. Private transfers are validated by zero-knowledge proofs, with encrypted notes stored in contract storage and a stated cost of roughly 4 STRK each.

· 9 Jun 2026· 🕐 3 min read

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Syscoin Halts Its Bridge After an Exploit Minted 5 Billion SYS

An attacker exploited a mismatch between Syscoin's two layers to mint about 5 billion SYS, roughly $10 million. The funds were recovered and destroyed; the bridge stays paused.

· 7 Jun 2026· 🕐 3 min read