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Blast said operating costs exceed revenue and it sees no credible path to sustainability. Users have until 26 October to withdraw through its own interface.

· 3 Oct 2026· 🕐 3 min read

Blockchain

Aztec Caps zk.money Transfers at $2,500 on Its Privacy Relaunch

Aztec Labs revived its private payments wallet after three years. Every transfer is capped at $2,500 and deposits share a $50,000 daily ceiling.

· 30 Sept 2026· 🕐 3 min read

Blockchain

Chainlink's CCIP 2.0 Lets Apps Add Their Own Cross-Chain Verifiers

Chainlink released CCIP 2.0 on Monday, letting applications layer their own verifiers over a default set of 16 node operators. The Risk Management Network is retired.

· 29 Sept 2026· 🕐 3 min read

Blockchain

LayerZero Ends Offchain Service for 13 Chains on 30 September

DVN and Executor service stops for Aurora, Taiko, opBNB, Gnosis and nine others. Stargate Hydra holders are told to bridge out before the date.

· 27 Sept 2026· 🕐 3 min read

Blockchain

Robinhood Chain's Fees Fall 97% as Transactions Hold Near Peak

Daily fees ran near $8 million at the early-September peak and about $230,000 on the 16th. Transactions over the same week fell 6%.

· 19 Sept 2026· 🕐 3 min read

Blockchain

S&P Global Agrees to Buy OpenZeppelin, the Code Behind $37 Trillion

Terms were not disclosed and neither side gave a closing date. The security firm keeps its name, its team and its open-source libraries under S&P Global Ratings.

· 18 Sept 2026· 🕐 3 min read

Blockchain

XRP Ledger Activates fixCleanup3_3_0 Ahead of Its Lending Protocol

A bundle of protocol fixes went live on XRPL mainnet with 31 of 35 validators behind it. The lending protocol it prepares for is still switched off.

· 13 Sept 2026· 🕐 3 min read

Blockchain

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

Blockchain

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

Blockchain

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

Blockchain

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