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Solana’s 50,000 SOL security contest did not cover a clock attack disclosed months earlier
Solana's legacy PoH and TowerBFT paths were out of scope, and no paper-specific implementation review is public.
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A crypto network just voted to abandon its standalone blockchain and unlock 27% of its token supply
Gnosis Chain’s overhaul will retire its validator system and release about 350,000 staked GNO back into liquid markets.
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Down 50% on crypto and burning $8 million in cash, this Nasdaq firm just pivoted to event robots to survive
Its holdings were valued at $5.21 million on June 30, while order economics and sale timing remain undisclosed.
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Solana is slashing per-block compute limits so its new 350ms speed boost doesn’t overload the network
The draft cuts per-slot limits as slots shorten, squeezing leader handoffs and off-chain timing without raising the theoretical CU-per-second ceiling.
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Ripple just scored two major institutional wins but XRP traders are bracing for a bigger move
Ripple’s institutional expansion is accelerating even as its flagship token trades at its weakest level since 2024.
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Ethereum’s 12-GPU proving problem just got a 4-GPU answer
ZisK claimed 9.62-second p99 fits Ethereum's latency target, while workload, proof and whole-system power details remain undisclosed.
Privacy
Ethereum wants to hide your trades from bots before they can attack
An Aug. 19 meeting will examine proposals designed to conceal pending trades until their place in a block is fixed.
Research
Blockchains may finally break their hidden reliance on a ticking randomness clock to keep networks secure
Distributed samplers replace fresh public randomness while a common random string, DDH, LWE, and proof-of-work assumptions remain.
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Solana’s Agave 4.2 activation target arrives with mainnet feature gates still pending
The first slot-time gates were still pending, while the 90% rent cut and 4,096-byte transactions lacked confirmed starts.
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Bitcoin Core feature freeze nears as rebase issues hit unencrypted-connection proposal
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Ethereum’s next major upgrade just slipped to late 2026, forcing a two-week scramble to save its 2027 roadmap
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Cardano has two weeks to avoid a governance freeze as 4 committee seats expire
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