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XRP Ledger Ships xrpld 3.2.1 After Manifest Flood
XRP News XRP (XRP), the native altcoin of the XRP Ledger, is at the center of an infrastructure advisory after Ripple engineering director Vijay Khanna urged node operators on Aug. 2 to i
Aug 2, 2026
Cardano (ADA) Targets End-2026 for First Dijkstra Phases
Cardano News Cardano (ADA) has moved into formal planning for the Dijkstra era after the Cardano ecosystem organization Intersect reported progress across protocol work, governance and technical delivery. Intersect is a member-based organ
Aug 1, 2026
Uniswap (UNI) v4 Captures About 50% of Quarterly DEX Volume
UNI News Uniswap (UNI) v4 has moved to the center of decentralized exchange activity, with on-chain data showing the latest automated market maker version handled roughly half of quarterly DEX volume about 18 months af
Aug 1, 2026
Solana (SOL) Quantumglow Proposal Targets 2 Key Algorithms
Solana News Solana (SOL) core contributors at Anza have introduced Quantumglow, a research-stage proposal that would adapt the network's Alpenglow architecture for post-quantum security while preserving high throughput. The plan is aimed at future risks facing ECDSA and Ed25519, the two
Aug 1, 2026
XRP Ledger Upgrade Would Let Sponsors Cover 1 XRP Reserve
XRP News A proposed upgrade to the XRP (XRP) ledger would let banks, issuers, or platforms pay account reserves and transaction fees for their users, removing the current requirement that every participant first acquire the <a href='https://e
Aug 1, 2026
Solana (SOL) Raises Mainnet Block Limit to 100M CU
Solana News As of July 29, Solana (SOL) has moved its mainnet block capacity upgrade into production, raising the compute ceiling from 60 million to 100 million compute units per block. The change, formalized through SIMD-0286 and backed by validator signaling above 70% of stake, expands
Jul 29, 2026
Cardano (ADA) Marks Shelley’s Sixth Year With 21.56B ADA Staked
Cardano News Cardano (ADA) marked the sixth anniversary of its Shelley transition, the July 2020 upgrade that introduced staking pools, delegation and community block production to the network. The milestone was highlighted by the project’s official community channel, which noted that th
Jul 29, 2026
Ethereum (ETH) Validator Count May Fall by One-Third Under Lido Upgrade
Ethereum News Ethereum (ETH) staking infrastructure entered a new phase after Lido rolled out Curated Module v2, an upgrade designed to consolidate validators and reduce the network’s validator set by as much as one-third. The protocol u
Jul 28, 2026
ONDO Finance (ONDO) Launches Ondo Network Execution Layer on July 27
ONDO News Ondo Finance (ONDO) launched Ondo Network on July 27, replacing its planned Layer-1 with an execution layer designed for private, high-speed trading. The Ondo team framed the move as an evolution rather than a side project, saying
Jul 27, 2026
Cardano Activates van Rossem Hard Fork, Upgrading Mainnet to Protocol Version 11
Cardano News Cardano activated its van Rossem hard fork over the weekend, moving the mainnet from Protocol Version 10 to Version 11 at the epoch boundary. On-chain data shows the network remained on Version 10 through the end of epoch 643 before switching to Version 11 upon entering epoc
Jul 20, 2026
Zcash Schedules Ironwood Hard Fork for July 28 to Seal Orchard Pool
Zcash News Zcash will activate its Ironwood hard fork on July 28, sealing the privacy-focused Orchard shielded pool to contain any hidden counterfeit ZEC. The upgrade, formally labeled NU6.3, is scheduled to go live at block 3,428,143 and retires the existing Orchard pool entirely. After
Jul 20, 2026
XRP Ledger Fix Upgrade Clears 85% Consensus, Locks In July 29 Activation
XRP News The XRP Ledger is 11 days from a major protocol upgrade after its FixCleanup3_2_0 amendment cleared the consensus threshold and entered a two-week activation window. On-chain governance data shows the amendment reached majority with
Jul 18, 2026
Cardano van Rossem Hard Fork Enacts at 21:44 UTC on July 18
Cardano News Cardano (ADA) is set to enact its van Rossem intra-era hard fork today, with activation scheduled for 21:44:51 UTC on July 18, 2026 at slot height 192,844,800. According to the protocol schedule, the upgrade triggers automatically at the coming epoch boundary, marking one of
Jul 18, 2026
Bitcoin Client Proposal Would Lift Transaction Cap to 3.9M Weight Units
Bitcoin News Bitcoin Ordinals advocate Leonidas has proposed a new open-source Bitcoin client that would raise the maximum individual transaction size to 3.9 million weight units, nearly ten times the 400,000-weight-unit ceiling enforced
Jul 17, 2026
Ethereum Maps Third Major Overhaul in Multi-Year Lean Ethereum Redesign
Ethereum News Ethereum is preparing its third foundational overhaul, as co-founder Vitalik Buterin outlined a sweeping redesign dubbed Lean Ethereum on July 5. Building on an updated long-term roadmap he calls the Strawmap, Buterin framed the effort not as a single upgrade but as a phase
Jul 12, 2026
Ethereum Energy Use Falls 99.9% to 7.87 GWh After Merge
Ethereum News Ethereum's annual electricity consumption has fallen more than 99.9% since its 2022 transition to proof-of-stake, a new Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance report concludes. The network now draws roughly 0.90 megawatts of continuous power, down from about 2.4 gigawatts
Jul 11, 2026
Solana Reaches 1,000th Mainnet Epoch, Marking Five Years of Uptime
Solana News Solana (SOL) reached its 1,000th mainnet epoch on July 10, marking more than five years of uninterrupted operation since its March 2021 launch. An epoch, the fixed time window in which validators produce blocks and stake schedules refresh, serves as a benchmark of network end
Jul 11, 2026
Zcash Locks Ironwood Upgrade for July 28 at Block Height 3,428,143
Zcash News Zcash core developers have locked the activation height for the Ironwood network upgrade, scheduling it to go live on the mainnet on July 28 at roughly 8:00 AM EST. On-chain data confirms the upgrade will trigger at block height 3,428,143, the point at which the NU6.3 consensu
Jul 10, 2026
Ethereum Foundation AI Agents Uncover Critical libp2p Flaw CVE-2026-34219
Ethereum News The Ethereum Foundation deployed a fleet of collaborative AI agents to red-team the software that Ethereum (ETH) depends on and uncovered a remotely triggerable panic vulnerability inside libp2p Gossipsub, the peer-to-peer
Jul 10, 2026
BNB Chain Unveils 100,000-TPS Layer-1 for AI Agents, Testnet Due Late 2026
BNB News BNB Chain is building a purpose-designed next-generation Layer-1 for agentic artificial intelligence, with a public testnet slated for late 2026 and mainnet in early 2027. The multi-year roadmap, published on July 8, embeds
Jul 9, 2026