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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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Ethereum Draft Would Let Validator Deposits Carry 8,192-Byte Keys

A draft EIP would replace the deposit contract's fixed BLS fields with keys of up to 8,192 bytes, and leave the post-quantum algorithm itself for later.

· 27 Aug 2026· 🕐 3 min read

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Japan Studies Blockchain Stock and Bond Settlement for the Early 2030s

Nikkei reported that the FSA, the finance ministry and the Bank of Japan will study blockchain rails for stocks and government bonds. None has confirmed it.

· 26 Aug 2026· 🕐 3 min read

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State Bankers Associations Form BankChain, Targeting a 2027 Launch

Bankers associations across dozens of US states announced an industry-owned blockchain for tokenized deposits and stablecoins. No technology partner has been picked.

· 26 Aug 2026· 🕐 3 min read

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Ledger Patched an Ethereum Signing Flaw, Then Fought Over the Disclosure

Ethereum app 1.22.2 closed a race condition that could swap a transaction mid-review. The patch shipped on 12 August; the argument is about how it reached the public.

· 25 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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MANTRA Restarts Without a Rollback and the Market Sells the News

MANTRA resumed blocks Saturday on patch v8.4.0 and kept its state intact, but OM kept sliding on Sunday and the promised technical report has still not appeared.

· 23 Aug 2026· 🕐 3 min read

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Two Chains Hit the Kill Switch in One Day

MANTRA halted its chain over a Cosmos EVM module flaw as OM hit an all-time low, while BounceBit chose to shut its L1 for good after a 286.5M-BB exploit.

· 22 Aug 2026· 🕐 3 min read

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Gnosis Votes on Dissolving Its L1 Into an Ethereum ZK Rollup

Gnosis Chain will dissolve into a ZK rollup on Ethereum after GIP-153 passed almost unanimously, freeing 27% of GNO supply. The token hit a three-month high.

· 20 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