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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

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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· 🕐 4 min read