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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

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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

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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

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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

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XRPL Ships xrpld 3.3.0 With Confidential Transfers and Batching

The XRP Ledger shipped xrpld 3.3.0 on 6 August, retiring five old amendments and putting confidential transfers and batching in front of validators.

· 6 Aug 2026· 🕐 4 min read

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Solana Raises Its Block Compute Limit 66% to 100M Units

Solana lifted its maximum block compute budget from 60 million units to 100 million at epoch 1009, a 66% capacity increase that left slot timing untouched.

· 29 Jul 2026· 🕐 3 min read

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A Stolen Owner Key Mints 5.23M WEMIX$

An attacker took owner privileges on the WEMIX$ contract and minted over five million tokens, forcing WEMIX to halt its bridges. Loss estimates differ.

· 26 Jul 2026· 🕐 3 min read

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AFX Trade Loses $24.15M After Five of Seven Keys Fall

An attacker with five of seven validator keys took $24.15M in USDC from AFX Trade's Arbitrum bridge. AFX offered to let the attacker keep 30% if 70% comes back.

· 22 Jul 2026· 🕐 3 min read

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Solana's Validator Admission Ticket Goes Live on Mainnet

Solana now drops validators without a registered BLS key from the leader schedule. About 3.87% of stake was still unregistered at epoch 1004.

· 22 Jul 2026· 🕐 3 min read

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XRPL v3.2.0 Passes 66% of Nodes as a Fix Heads to a Vote

Version 3.2.0 reached 66% of the XRP Ledger's trusted validators, while the fixCleanup3_2_0 amendment held 85.71% support ahead of a July 29 activation.

· 21 Jul 2026· 🕐 3 min read

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Wanchain's Cardano Bridge Loses 515.2M NIGHT

A signature-encoding flaw let an attacker drain 515.2 million NIGHT from Wanchain's Cardano bridge in nine minutes. Dollar estimates run from $500K to about $10M.

· 20 Jul 2026· 🕐 3 min read

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Cardano's Van Rossem Fork Is Its First Fully On-Chain Upgrade

Cardano moved to protocol version 11 with no downtime, in the first upgrade its own token holders authorized by on-chain vote rather than a foundation.

· 18 Jul 2026· 🕐 3 min read