protocol
Alpenglow switches on at Solana epoch 1064 on October 21, ~15:00 UTC. Agave 4.3.0 is mandatory, Firedancer and Frankendancer must swap clients, and vote fees drop to a flat 0.8 SOL.
infrastructure
Binance will shut Binance Pool, Pool Savings, Cloud Mining, the Transaction Accelerator and all mining-pool APIs on Nov. 10 at 07:00 UTC. Pool pages stay viewable until Nov. 24.
protocol
The NFT marketplace will close its website and wind Blend lending down on Nov. 12; smart contracts and the BLUR fee switch stay live. BLUR fell ~20% to $0.015.
infrastructure
DRW and Marex closed a total return swap referencing S&P's iBoxx USD Liquid Investment Grade Index, tokenized by Kaiko and recorded on Canton via DRW's Derivnex platform.
infrastructure
Interactive Brokers has turned on Ethereum staking for eligible clients through its Client Portal, with Zerohash as the staking infrastructure provider announced as a launch partner in June.
exploit
Ledger's security team says a CryptoBilis implant reads the 24-word setup screen and exfiltrates via LTE through an eSIM. MediaMarktSaturn removes Ledger from every store it operates.
infrastructure
The free generative-UI layer went global on October 12 following a September 7 beta; Binance AI Pro and Agent OS remain behind separate rollouts.
regulation
The bank's DIFC branch now holds Ripple's RLUSD on the XRP Ledger; a planned mirror lets clients post the balance as LMAX trading collateral without moving the token.
infrastructure
Euronext Amsterdam-listed SWI, now at a €6.1B valuation, will repurpose Genesis Digital's 1.3GW mining fleet for AI/HPC and sell its Kazakhstan sites.
exploit
Ledger says at least one affected user's device contained a hardware implant. The CryptoBilis reseller widens its pause to all hardware wallet brands, not just Ledger.
exploit
Ledger paused shipments through Southeast Asian reseller CryptoBilis after on-chain investigators traced over $86M in suspected thefts across BTC, ETH and Tron.
protocol
A last-minute Prysm patch switches the validator default to 200M gas so Sepolia's October 6 Glamsterdam activation actually tests the higher capacity target.
infrastructure
GCP will delete all BNE nodes and RPC endpoints on Dec 15, 2026. Customers get a Quicknode migration path with marketplace incentives.
infrastructure
Solana DvP is an MIT-licensed escrow program for atomic delivery-versus-payment on Token-2022, with JPMorgan contributing institutional settlement requirements.
on-chain
Binance's insurance reserve, converted from stablecoins in February, sits at roughly $1.27B against a $1B cost basis. The wallet is public and verifiable on-chain.
on-chain
Beaconcha.in puts the ETH exit queue at 850,736 ETH on Oct 2, a ~14.77-day wait. MetaMask Staking's precautionary exits account for ~523,000 ETH across 17,000 validators.
infrastructure
Blast, the Blur-team Ethereum L2 that peaked at $2.3B TVL in 2024, said on Oct 2 that operating costs exceed revenue and will wind down operations.
regulation
ECB board member Isabel Schnabel outlined three options for central-bank money on DLT in a London speech on Oct 1: direct DLT issuance, a TARGET bridge, or tokenized settlement claims.
protocol
DogeOS opened its Chikyū EVM zkVM testnet for Dogecoin DeFi on Sept 30. Current trust: permissioned sequencer, TEE, Security Council. Miner-verified state waits on OP_CHECKZKP in Dogecoin Core.
infrastructure
Lloyds Banking Group booked seven US-dollar settlements with Visa through Archax USDC, moved on Canton, with each flow landing in under an hour including weekends.
infrastructure
MetaMask disclosed an infrastructure incident Sept 30 and is exiting all its ETH validators from Lido by Oct 7, ~45-day return cycle. Sentora Morpho vaults shed ~$136M PYUSD/RLUSD.
exploit
NEAR Intents paused cross-chain swaps on 11 networks Oct 1 after a bug in its Omni deposit/withdrawal layer let an attacker drain ~$3.8M. Contract patched; full reimbursement pledged.
protocol
Base's third mainnet upgrade lands validity transactions, composite allow/blocklist policies, ERC-8056 schedule multipliers, and a seizeWithMemo function for B20-standard tokens.
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.
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
Japan's dominant security-token platform completes 'Project Keystone', porting all live RWA — corporate bonds, real estate, funds — from Corda 5 onto a dedicated Avalanche EVM L1 with sub-2s finality.
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.
protocol
Protocol 27 lands on Stellar mainnet on July 10, adding CAP-0071-01 authentication delegation for Soroban custom accounts and CAP-0071-02 address-bound credentials.
protocol
A consensus bug hit during vault rotation forces THORChain to pause churning. v3.19.4 is scrapped; the fix ships in v3.20 alongside XMR and router V6. Solana re-enables first.
protocol
VALR, Africa's largest regulated exchange, ships 200+ cross-asset perps on July 6 by natively integrating Hyperliquid's L1 — the first CEX to route perp order flow to an on-chain DEX.
infrastructure
Loopring took its zk-rollup DEX relayer offline on June 28, 2026, ending the first production zkRollup on Ethereum. A whitelist-only smart contract upgrade returns L2 balances to L1.
on-chain
On June 26 the on-chain investigator said the BitMax-era exchange's known hot wallets on Arkham and TRM lack large-cap reserves. AscendEX has not responded.
infrastructure
A consensus bug sequenced an invalid block, halting Base's single sequencer for ~2 hours. Sequencing restored by 17:51 UTC; Beryl mainnet upgrade still set for 18:00 UTC.
infrastructure
BitGo CEO Mike Belshe announced on June 25, 2026 a ~15% headcount cut — about 90 jobs — and a refocus on security, trading, stablecoins, settlement and AI-powered infrastructure.
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.
exploit
Taiko's chain state verification was compromised on June 22; proposers stopped producing blocks, the ERC20 Vault on Ethereum was drained for an estimated $1.7M, and all bridges are flagged unsafe.
exploit
Forged-packet attack on Secret's ICS-20 contract minted unbacked wrapped tokens, then redeemed them via the legitimate Axelar IBC channel. Caught June 17 when an escrow accounting check failed.
protocol
Beryl ships a native B20 token precompile, cuts L1 withdrawal delay from 7 to 5 days, and lands Reth V2 with ~50% lower disk and +33% throughput. Sepolia live June 18, mainnet June 25.
protocol
Glamsterdam-devnet-5 and -6 are now running with every planned EIP — ePBS, BALs, gas repricing. Foundation engineers describe it as the last phase before testnet hardening.
infrastructure
Backpack Securities and Sunrise launched SPCX on Solana on June 12, the day SpaceX priced at $135 on Nasdaq. The token is 1:1-backed and redeemable into shares via ACATS.
protocol
Validator voting for NEAR protocol version 84 opened June 10, 2026, 00:00 UTC. nearcore v2.12.0 switches the contract runtime to Wasmtime and enables Wasm bulk memory ops.
protocol
Stellar publishes a three-stage Quantum Preparedness Plan. Stage 1 (2026) ships ML-DSA-44/65 verification as Soroban host functions, then quantum-safe contract accounts.
protocol
IoTeX mainnet hard-forks at block 48,985,561 (~23:52 UTC on June 7). v2.4.0 'Yap' ships EIP-7702 account abstraction, EIP-7623 calldata repricing, EIP-2935 and EIP-2537.
infrastructure
Mastercard's June 3 update lets issuers settle card flows on-chain in USDC, PYUSD, USDG, USDP, RLUSD and SoFiUSD across Ethereum, Solana, XRPL and five others.
protocol
An under-constrained Orchard circuit could have minted undetectable counterfeit ZEC. Zcash froze the pool with a June 2 soft fork, then re-enabled it via NU6.2 the next day.
exploit
Gnosis co-founder Martin Köppelmann confirms an active exploit on Gnosis Pay tied to Zodiac Delay Modifier v1.1.0 and Roles Modifier v2; Gnosis pledges to cover all user losses.
regulation
The June 2 draft (File DSP-3) makes digital assets and DLT a standalone SEC objective for fiscal years 2026-2030; comments due July 2.
regulation
Paxos Securities Settlement Company, LLC won temporary SEC registration as a clearing agency under Section 17A — the first blockchain-native firm to clear and settle US securities.
exploit
Cosmos-Ethereum Gravity Bridge lost ~$5.4M on May 30. Peckshield and on-chain analyst Specter call it a signing key compromise. Team halted validators; attacker holds ~2,102 ETH.
protocol
Zcash Foundation ships Zebra 4.5.0 plus a 4.5.1 hotfix, closing 15 advisories including a critical P2SH disabled-opcode sigop undercount that could split the chain.
infrastructure
DTC will tokenize Russell 1000 equities, ETFs and US Treasuries on Stellar under its SEC no-action letter. First production trades targeted for July, broader rollout October.
infrastructure
Leap Wallet shuts down all products on May 28, 2026 — browser extension, mobile apps, Compass, Swapfast and the Leap Cosmos Hub validator. ATOM stakers need to redelegate before the unbonding window.
exploit
Bybit's primary ETH cold wallet lost about 401,000 ETH on Feb 21, 2025 via a Safe{Wallet} UI manipulation. Arkham and the FBI attribute the attack to Lazarus.