All blockchain stories from the Blockchain Posts desk.
governance
The Ethereum Foundation named security researcher Pascal Caversaccio to its board on July 29, 2026 — a one-year voluntary term, expanding the Swiss foundation's board from three to four.
regulation
Paul Atkins told CNBC the SEC will move on crypto rulemaking under existing authority if the CLARITY Act does not pass the Senate; Project Crypto is already on the 2026 rulemaking agenda.
protocol
Vitalik Buterin's July 28, 2026 essay walks through Sora Suegami's diamond iO — the first iO construction whose overhead is measured in millions of years, not universe-lifetimes.
protocol
NEAR activated protocol upgrade 2.13 on July 20, adding NIST-approved ML-DSA-65 as a third signature scheme and automatic shard splitting at epoch boundaries.
exploit
Allbridge Core paused its Solana deployment on July 19 after an attacker used a $1.12M Kamino flash loan and USDC/USDT swaps to drain roughly $1.65M and bridged to Ethereum.
regulation
HM Treasury confirmed on July 16 that HSBC Orion has passed DSS Gate 2 — first firm cleared to run a live digital-securities depository in the UK, ahead of the DIGIT gilt pilot.
exploit
Across said its Solana deployment was attacked at ~5:30 AM UTC on July 17. Users were kept whole; the loss sits with the Risk Labs relayer. Solana deposits paused.
protocol
Cardano crossed the Van Rossem hard fork boundary on July 18 at 21:44:51 UTC — Protocol Version 11, ratified entirely through on-chain Voltaire governance without an IOG or Cardano Foundation trigger.
protocol
Aave activated V4 on Avalanche on July 15 with one Liquidity Hub, three Spokes and a $15M Avalanche Foundation milestone-based incentive envelope.