Blockchain News

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

Blockchain

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

Blockchain

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

Blockchain

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

Blockchain

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

Blockchain

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

Blockchain

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

Blockchain

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

Blockchain

Platåberget Goes Live as Glamsterdam's Public Testnet

Ethereum opened Platåberget, a months-long public testnet for Glamsterdam, testing ePBS, block-level access lists, a roughly 200M gas floor and 64KiB contracts.

· 17 Aug 2026· 🕐 3 min read

Blockchain

Cardano Confirms the Two-Phase Dijkstra Roadmap

Ouroboros Linear Leios targets code completion in Q4 2026 and Peras faster finality in Q2 2027. The roadmap lands with ADA the week's worst major, down 9.9%.

· 16 Aug 2026· 🕐 3 min read

Blockchain

Harmony Ships an Emergency Patch and Pauses Its Bridge

Harmony shipped emergency patch v2026.1.1, paused its Horizon bridge and flagged four attacker wallets on 12 August. The size of the forged mint is still unconfirmed.

· 12 Aug 2026· 🕐 3 min read

Blockchain

Harmony's Forged Mint Took 106 Seconds

Forged ONE was minted through Harmony's cross-shard messaging in a 106-second window late Tuesday. An early estimate near 4 billion ONE is unconfirmed by Harmony.

· 11 Aug 2026· 🕐 3 min read