Cardano's Dijkstra Roadmap Cleared a Vote by 0.18 Percentage Points
Cardano's constitutional committee renewed by just 0.18 of a point, the same body that must clear the Dijkstra hard fork. Node 11.1.1 has already shipped.
Cardano's constitutional committee renewed by just 0.18 of a point, the same body that must clear the Dijkstra hard fork. Node 11.1.1 has already shipped.
Price-manipulation exploits hit a record 32 in DeFi lending in 2026. The Tectonic case shows why the attack is cheap, repeatable and tough to audit away.
Liquid Network lost 3,996 BTC, near 320 million dollars, to an Elements rangeproof bug on September 6. No key was stolen, and 197 BTC now back the peg.
Solana's Alpenglow consensus upgrade activates September 28. Only 0.39 percent of stake ran the required client on September 1, and the window is tight.
Injective lost $4.9M on August 31 to a market-ID collision in binary-options settlement, then framed the near four-hour block halt as a routine upgrade.
A researcher flagged the Cosmos EVM bug in April. Cosmos Labs judged live chains safe and patched it quietly. Six networks still lost $5.7 million.
Native account abstraction has run on Ethereum since 2023. The version headlines call new is only considered for Hegota, a fork now pointing at 2027.
StarkWare ran the first quantum-safe Bitcoin transaction on mainnet, but ordinary nodes rejected it and about 7 million exposed coins get no help.
The Glamsterdam upgrade triples Ethereum's gas limit, but EIP-8037 quietly breaks the 21,000 gas rule wallets have hardcoded since 2015.
Solana's Alpenglow upgrade markets 85x faster finality at 150ms, but the baseline is a number users rarely wait for. The real gain, and the tradeoffs.
Ether.fi split restaking out of weETH. DefiLlama shows EigenCloud paid 486,066 dollars in fees over 30 days against 5.1 billion in collateral.
DeFi Saver says over $50M sits forgotten in smart wallets across 10 plus lending protocols. More than 200,000 DSProxies are now unused.
Zama benchmarked 1,040 confidential transfers per second on eight GPUs. Its live Ethereum protocol runs about 20, and the fees tell you why.
Over 34% of bitcoin has revealed its public key on chain. What quantum computers could reach, and the two BIPs written to close the gap.
Independent researcher Giancarlo Lelli broke a 15-bit elliptic curve key on publicly accessible quantum hardware, jumping the field forward by a factor of 512.
The delivery giant operates in 40+ countries and processed $75 billion in merchant sales last year. It is now working with Stripe-backed blockchain Tempo to replace fragmented regional payment rails with stablecoin payouts. Visa, Mastercard, and UBS are also on board.
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