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The Security Council raised activation gas to a prohibitive level on Arbitrum One and Nova. Existing programs keep running and no reopening date was given.

· 4 Oct 2026· 🕐 3 min read

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Ethereum's zkAPI Goes Live, Paying for AI Without an Identity

The Ethereum Foundation and the Open Anonymity Project put zkAPI on mainnet on 1 October. Users deposit ETH or USDC, then spend against zero-knowledge proofs.

· 3 Oct 2026· 🕐 3 min read

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Blast Winds Down Its Ethereum Layer-2 With a 26 October Exit Date

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

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EIP-8363 Authors Pull Ethereum's Staking Reward Burn From Hegota

The authors of EIP-8363 withdrew their tapered issuance burn from Ethereum's Hegota fork, saying an issuance policy change deserves a process of its own.

· 2 Oct 2026· 🕐 3 min read

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NEAR Intents Loses $3.8M to a Bug in Its Omni Deposit Layer

A fault in NEAR Intents' deposit and withdrawal layer drained $3.8 million on Thursday. Cross-chain transfers were paused and full compensation pledged.

· 2 Oct 2026· 🕐 3 min read

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Petrobras Tests Two Cardano Apps for Jet Fuel and Diesel Tracking

Petrobras is working with the Cardano Foundation and PUC-Rio on two fuel traceability applications. Both are research, with no commercial deployment announced.

· 1 Oct 2026· 🕐 3 min read

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Base's Cobalt Upgrade Adds Conditional Transactions and Token Seizure

Base activated Cobalt on 30 September. It adds transactions that wait for an on-chain condition, and lets B20 asset administrators reassign balances.

· 1 Oct 2026· 🕐 3 min read

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Brazil's CSD BR Mirrors BTG Pactual Fund Shares on the XRP Ledger

CSD BR, the depository behind 22 trillion reais of Brazilian assets, is copying BTG Pactual fund ownership onto the XRP Ledger. Its own database stays official.

· 30 Sept 2026· 🕐 3 min read

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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

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Goldman's Treasury Fund Comes to Lynq Without Being Tokenized

Goldman's Financial Square Treasury Instruments Fund is now distributed to qualified US clients on the Lynq settlement network. The fund itself is not tokenized.

· 29 Sept 2026· 🕐 3 min read

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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

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Buterin Puts Ethereum's 2030 Finality Target at 8 to 32 Seconds

An essay published Sunday sets slot intervals of 4 to 8 seconds and finality of 8 to 32 seconds by 2030, with the shift beginning after the Hegota fork.

· 28 Sept 2026· 🕐 3 min read