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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

Blockchain

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

Blockchain

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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Alpenglow Goes Live on Solana's Devnet With a 150ms Finality Target

Anza retired TowerBFT on the developer cluster on Friday evening, the second public test network to switch. Nothing published this week sets a mainnet date.

· 26 Sept 2026· 🕐 3 min read

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One Dip Below 80% Pushes the XRP Ledger's Batch Upgrade to 9 October

Support is back at 30 of 35 validators, but losing the majority once wiped the two-week countdown. The earliest activation is now 9 October at 14:46 UTC.

· 26 Sept 2026· 🕐 3 min read

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Zcash's 5 November Upgrade Would Lock About 23,000 ZEC in Sprout

ZIP 2003 disallows version 4 transactions, and Sprout balances cannot be spent without them. The coins are not burned, and the text leaves a route back open.

· 24 Sept 2026· 🕐 3 min read

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Zilliqa Retires Its Legacy Chain and Binance Migrates ZIL 1:1

Two hard forks moved exchange balances onto Zilliqa EVM after a Ledger app defect exposed 6,772 accounts. Self-custody holders are still waiting for a tool.

· 23 Sept 2026· 🕐 3 min read

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Canada's Big Six Banks Plan a Shared Tokenized Deposit System

Canada's six biggest banks will test transfers of tokenized Canadian-dollar deposits between themselves. No platform, no launch date and no project name yet.

· 23 Sept 2026· 🕐 3 min read

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Hana Bank Settles a $100M Digital Bond Same Day on Euroclear's Ledger

Hana Bank's five-year, $100 million bond ran on Euroclear's D-FMI and settled at T+0, a first for Korea's foreign-currency bond market.

· 22 Sept 2026· 🕐 3 min read

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ZetaChain Votes 99.4% to Retire Its Layer 1 and Move ZETA to Solana

Proposal 68 passed with 58% turnout. ZETA becomes a Solana token one-for-one, and a second vote will set the snapshot and the shutdown block.

· 21 Sept 2026· 🕐 3 min read