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Solana Cuts Slot Time to 250ms at Epoch 1037, Capacity Flat

The third of four staged cuts under SIMD-0525 landed Friday morning. Each slot carries proportionally less compute, so throughput does not move.

· 18 Sept 2026· 🕐 3 min read

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S&P Global Agrees to Buy OpenZeppelin, the Code Behind $37 Trillion

Terms were not disclosed and neither side gave a closing date. The security firm keeps its name, its team and its open-source libraries under S&P Global Ratings.

· 18 Sept 2026· 🕐 3 min read

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Bitcoin Core 32 Enters Final Testing Before an October Release

Version 32.0rc1 was tagged on 14 September with a 10 October release in view. Parallel validation, a mempool fee estimator and two security fixes.

· 17 Sept 2026· 🕐 3 min read

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Circle Opens Arc's Mainnet With USDC as the Network's Gas Token

Circle's layer 1 went live on Wednesday with fees paid in USDC and eleven institutional validators. Sub-second finality, and no ARC token in public hands.

· 16 Sept 2026· 🕐 3 min read

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Zcash Coinholders Back 25-Second Blocks and Keep the Halving

Nearly 2.4 million ZEC voted on NU7's scope. Faster blocks won, the bitcoin-style halving stays, and fee reissuance waits until February 2031.

· 16 Sept 2026· 🕐 3 min read

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XRP Ledger's Batch Amendment Sits One Validator Short of 80%

Twenty-seven of 35 validators back BatchV1_1, the rebuilt version of an upgrade pulled in February. Accounts differ on whether 28 or 29 votes starts the clock.

· 15 Sept 2026· 🕐 3 min read

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Ledger's ATOM Support Stays Down Days After Cosmos Hub Recovered

Ledger's status page has shown Cosmos balances and transactions unavailable since Tuesday. The chain resumed blocks on Wednesday. The wallet has not.

· 14 Sept 2026· 🕐 3 min read

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XRP Ledger Activates fixCleanup3_3_0 Ahead of Its Lending Protocol

A bundle of protocol fixes went live on XRPL mainnet with 31 of 35 validators behind it. The lending protocol it prepares for is still switched off.

· 13 Sept 2026· 🕐 3 min read

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India's Demat 2.0 Pilot Settles $107 Million of Tokenized Bonds

Three Indian issuers sold bonds created natively on a ledger, with the cash leg settled in wholesale CBDC. Retail access waits for a phase with no date.

· 12 Sept 2026· 🕐 3 min read

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Canada's Bank Regulator Says Tokenized Deposits Are Just Deposits

OSFI told Canada's banks that a deposit recorded on a blockchain is still a deposit. Existing guidelines apply and no new legal category is created.

· 12 Sept 2026· 🕐 3 min read

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Three Banks Join Arya.ag's Avalanche Chain for Indian Grain Loans

Arya.ag has a dedicated Avalanche Layer-1 for the warehouse receipts behind $1.3 billion of annual farm lending. Three banks are on it, and none is named.

· 11 Sept 2026· 🕐 3 min read

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Quantum Attack Estimate for Bitcoin and Ethereum Falls by 86%

A crowdsourced challenge cut the estimated quantum resources for a core step in attacking secp256k1 by 86%. The authors say it is not an attack.

· 10 Sept 2026· 🕐 3 min read