protocol
The XRP Ledger bug-fix bundle hits the 29-validator threshold with zero spare votes. The Lending amendment it partly repairs is still 10 votes shy of mainnet activation.
protocol
Balaji Srinivasan's Network School takes over the Farcaster app and protocol repos; users must accept moderation rules recorded in an access NFT or drop to read-only.
governance
MSCI's new non-operating screens take effect at the November 2026 review. Final list drops Nov 11, removals Nov 30. Strategy, Metaplanet and SharpLink flagged.
governance
Starknet opens a 7-day Snapshot poll on Oct. 15 asking STRK holders whether to research an independent post-quantum Layer 1; early tally shows 177.6M STRK cast with 99.91% in favor.
governance
The Ripple-backed XRP treasury firm names Hugo Jeandesboz, previously co-CIO at Coinbase Asset Management, as investment chief; treasury sits at 473M XRP (~$672M).
regulation
CBS News will display Kalshi contract prices alongside its Battleground Tracker; a Reuters/Ipsos survey of 4,506 adults finds 60% oppose betting on elections.
regulation
Three wagers totaling ~$173 on Katie Zacharia resolved to roughly $9,600 after Trump named her press secretary; one bet landed 15 hours before any public report.
regulation
SCOTUS docket 26-299 drew NFL, Gensler, Dodd, 39 states, 145 tribes and AGA briefs in a one-week window; Kalshi's cert response is now due November 9.
regulation
New York settled its 2023 civil fraud case against ex-Celsius CEO Alex Mashinsky with up to $35M in conditional payments and a permanent securities, commodities and crypto industry ban.
governance
Greenfield Capital asked Switzerland's Federal Supervisory Authority for Foundations to intervene at the Safe Ecosystem Foundation after months of failed board-reform talks.
protocol
AQAv2's first Assistance Fund payment lands on October 3, 2026 — ~$14.5M in USDC reserve yield routed to HYPE buy-and-burn, on top of the trading-fee buyback engine.
governance
SVRN's Sal Ternullo filed a NEAR issuance-cut proposal (2.5% → 1.6% over two years), set for a House of Stake vote by Oct 11. Staking yield drops ~5.4% to ~3.5%; ~66M NEAR left unminted.
protocol
Co-author Jérôme de Tychey withdrew EIP-8363 from Hegota consideration Oct 1, conceding the fork scoping process is the wrong venue for an issuance-policy change. A separate track runs through 2027.
governance
A Snapshot vote would liquidate remaining collateral to ETH and pay MIM holders roughly $0.04 per token, closing out a stablecoin whose effective backing has collapsed.
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.
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.
governance
EMURGO, one of Cardano's five Pentad governance entities, stepped down on July 8 to lead recovery for its SecondFi wallet, drained of 16M ADA (~$2.4M) via an Ed25519 signer flaw.
governance
Uniswap Labs' Snapshot temperature check on activating v4 protocol fees closed July 12, 2026, with roughly 93% support. Binding on-chain vote runs the week of July 13.
protocol
The EF Protocol Support account announced its own dissolution on July 9, absorbing the team that ran All Core Devs into the new Protocol Layer cluster from the June 23 restructure.
governance
Polkadot's OpenGov enacted two staking overhauls on July 6, 2026 — validators need 10,000 DOT self-stake at zero commission, nominators lose slashing exposure, unbonding drops from 28 days to ~2.
governance
SCRT Labs proposes moving native SCRT off Cosmos to Arbitrum via a Sept 1 snapshot. Inflation drops 9%→5%; sSCRT, bridged and IBC balances excluded. Vote pending.
governance
BonkDAO confirmed a ~$20M treasury drain on July 6, 2026 after malicious proposal BIP-76 'Sowellian BonkDAO' passed on its own governance platform. Upbit and Kraken paused BONK.
governance
Solana activated Solana Governance Proposals: 100,000 SOL staked to open, 15% of active stake to advance, two-thirds supermajority to pass — with staker sovereignty for delegators.
governance
Researchers flagged a June 25 Tornado Cash governance proposal that swaps the DAO treasury address for a lookalike — ~$23M in TORN and relayer balances at risk.
governance
Snapshot closed GIP-151 on June 27 above 215% of quorum, authorising pro-rata redemption of GNO for the DAO's liquid treasury — over the cofounders' opposition.
protocol
The Ethereum Foundation laid off 54 staff (~20%) and slashed its 2026 budget 40% on June 23, reorganizing into five layer-clusters under a 5% endowment-spend target by 2030.
protocol
A June 21 ethresear.ch post by Clément Lesaege would let Ethereum validators vote to redirect 0–10% of staking rewards — ~50–70k ETH a year — to ecosystem funding via a splitter contract.
protocol
The Protocol Version 11 hard-fork action was submitted to the Cardano chain on June 16, 2026. Earliest possible enactment: June 28.
exploit
An attacker bought >50% of a 16,384-supply MiniMeToken, used a no-timelock Aragon Voting app to mint 10B TOP in a single tx, and swapped them for 944.2 WETH from a Balancer V1 pool.
governance
Input Output Global's 32.9M ADA Cardano Vision 2026 research ask is on track to fail its DRep vote today, June 8, with 86.72% no — Hoskinson says IOG will not resubmit.
governance
The Foundation proposes a $43.5M 2027 operating budget — $16M stablecoins/RWA, 1,740 ETH and 230M ARB — drawn from the DAO treasury. On-chain vote opens June 8.
governance
Cardano's on-chain treasury vote for the Foundation's Singapore summit closed May 29 with 65.21% DRep stake yes, 1.46 points below the 66.67% supermajority.
governance
Cardano's delegated reps approved Input Output's Leios funding on May 24 with about 84% turnout, unlocking ₳27.7M from the treasury. Testnet targets June 23.