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Mina's Mesa Fork Leaves Every zkApp Verification Key Out of Date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

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Ripple Sets Out a Four-Stage Path to a Quantum-Safe XRP Ledger

Ripple's engineering lead described four stages of post-quantum work on the XRP Ledger, with the network-wide amendment targeted for 2028. The stage dates differ by account.

· 30 Aug 2026· 🕐 3 min read

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Fogo Halts Its Mainnet After 400 Million Tokens Left Its Wallets

The Fogo Foundation says an unknown actor took 400 million FOGO from its wallets. The chain stopped about fifteen hours after it said all was normal.

· 30 Aug 2026· 🕐 3 min read

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Solana Cuts Slot Time to 350ms, Its First Reduction Since Genesis

SIMD-0525 took Solana's target slot from 400 to 350 milliseconds in epoch 1020. Three more 50ms cuts are staged, each needing a fresh validator supermajority.

· 25 Aug 2026· 🕐 3 min read

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BNB Chain's Pasteur Fork Activates Tuesday With Bridge Fixes

Node operators have until 02:30 UTC on Tuesday to move to client v1.7.7. Pasteur closes a bridge verification gap and changes key rotation.

· 24 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