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Firedancer v1.1.0 Reaches Testnet as the Agave 4.3 Branch Opens

Solana's independent validator client hit testnet at v1.1.0 on July 16, the same week Agave opened its 4.3 branch, the release set to carry Alpenglow.

· 16 Jul 2026· 🕐 3 min read

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Glamsterdam Devnet-7 Tests a 300M Gas Limit

Ethereum's final Glamsterdam devnet went live on July 14 testing a 300 million block gas limit, five times mainnet, with state access repriced to match.

· 14 Jul 2026· 🕐 3 min read

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Jito Votes to Burn All DAO Exchange Revenue in JTO

Jito's JIP-38 would route 100 percent of the DAO's share of JTX revenue into open-market JTO buybacks and burns for at least a year, through Q4 2027.

· 13 Jul 2026· 🕐 3 min read

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Cambridge Puts Ethereum's Power Draw at 0.90 Megawatts

Cambridge measured Ethereum at 7.87 gigawatt-hours a year and 0.90 megawatts of continuous demand, more than 99.9% below its pre-Merge level.

· 12 Jul 2026· 🕐 3 min read

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Swift's Blockchain Ledger Goes Live With 17 Banks

Swift declared its shared blockchain ledger ready for initial use, with 17 banks including First Abu Dhabi Bank and Mashreq set to move tokenized deposits on it.

· 9 Jul 2026· 🕐 3 min read

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Base Activates B20, the Token Standard Its June Outage Delayed

Base switched on B20, a token standard built into its node software rather than deployed as a contract, two weeks after June's outages pushed it out of Beryl.

· 8 Jul 2026· 🕐 3 min read

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Injective's npm SDK Was Backdoored to Steal Seed Phrases

A poisoned release of Injective's TypeScript SDK hid a fake telemetry function that captured seed phrases and private keys from wallet calls.

· 8 Jul 2026· 🕐 3 min read

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Bitcoin Core 31.1 Fixes a Disk-Thrashing Chainstate Bug

The maintenance release stops the chainstate database from rewriting itself repeatedly, closes a PrivateBroadcast clearnet leak, and credits 20 contributors.

· 8 Jul 2026· 🕐 3 min read

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Buterin Argues for an Extremely Lean Ethereum Base Layer

Vitalik Buterin's July 6 post would cut on-chain validator state to about 6 bytes using daily ZK-STARK proofs. Researchers back it, but call 3-4 years slow.

· 6 Jul 2026· 🕐 3 min read

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Base Halted Block Production Twice in Two Days, Delaying Beryl

Base stopped producing blocks for 116 minutes on 25 June and again for 20 minutes on 26 June, after stale state from a failed transaction produced a block validators rejected. No funds were at risk, but the Beryl hardfork was postponed.

· 26 Jun 2026· 🕐 3 min read

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Taiko Halts Its Ethereum Layer-2 After a $1.7M Bridge Exploit

Taiko stopped block production and froze its bridge on June 22 after forged withdrawal proofs drained about $1.7 million, traced to a leaked SGX signing key.

· 22 Jun 2026· 🕐 3 min read

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Aztec's Retired Contracts Are Drained Twice in Four Days for $4.4 Million

A deprecated Aztec 2.0 escape-hatch verifier lost about $2.2 million this week, days after the retired Aztec Connect rollup lost $2.19 million. Both contracts have been outside Aztec Labs' control since 2024.

· 18 Jun 2026· 🕐 3 min read