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JPMorgan deploys JPMD deposit token on Ethereum mainnet
Kinexys by J.P. Morgan put JPMD, its dollar-deposit token, live on Ethereum mainnet on October 19, extending it beyond Base and opening EVM-wide institutional transfers.
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XRPL's fixCleanup3_4_0 patch locks in October 23 as lending amendment stays 10 votes short
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
Network School acquires Farcaster from Neynar; adds onchain-NFT 'social smart contract'
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.
protocol
Ledger unveils Atom at Op3n Paris: Android signer with EAL6+ secure element and Solana Mobile integration
Ledger announces Atom, an Android touchscreen device with EAL6+ secure element, FPGA Secure Mode isolation, Solana Mobile Seeker integration, $849 Founder's Edition shipping summer 2027.
protocol
Ripple Prime adds 24/7 RWA perpetual swaps on 100+ markets via Hyperliquid
Ripple Prime opens RWA perpetual swaps on 100+ markets referencing Trade.xyz futures on Hyperliquid, 24/7, with RLUSD as collateral and Virtu among first users.
governance
Starknet opens 7-day Snapshot vote on becoming an independent L1 over quantum risks
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.
protocol
Coinbase pushes to start Bitcoin's post-quantum migration, backing BIP-360 and P2TRv2
Coinbase, custodian of about 5% of all BTC, says Bitcoin's quantum migration must begin now. Its design brief favors BIP-360 (P2MR) and P2TRv2, plus a 1-of-2 classical/post-quantum spending path.
protocol
Solana sets Alpenglow activation at epoch 1064 on Oct 21, replacing TowerBFT
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.
protocol
Blur announces frontend shutdown on November 12 as volumes fall 99%
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.
protocol
Filecoin's six-year vest ends mid-October, cutting gross FIL issuance ~75%
Protocol Labs' 300M FIL and the Filecoin Foundation's 100M FIL finish linear vesting around Oct 15; gross annual issuance drops ~75%, from ~88M to ~22M FIL.
protocol
Zakura rolls PIR into Vizor wallet, targets post-quantum opcodes for Zcash in January
Zcash node developer Zakura ships private information retrieval in Vizor this week and plans hash-based signature opcodes on transparent addresses for January.
protocol
StarkWare floats a Starknet L1 shift at Token2049, framing it as the quantum play
StarkWare CEO Eli Ben-Sasson and the Starknet account say the project is actively considering a move from Ethereum L2 to a standalone L1 to chase 2027 post-quantum security. No proposal yet.
protocol
XRPL discloses a 10-year payment-engine overflow that could have minted XRP from nothing
XRPLF's October 9 disclosure describes an unchecked 64-bit overflow in the payment engine, present since 2015 and patched in rippled 3.4.1. No evidence of mainnet exploitation.
protocol
Arbitrum joins Paxos' Global Dollar Network, routes DRIP toward USDG
USDG goes live on Arbitrum. The chain requests a 100M-ARB DRIP allocation to steer liquidity toward Paxos' stablecoin and away from USDC's ~60% dominance.
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Ethereum ships Prysm 7.2.1 hours before Glamsterdam's 200M-gas Sepolia test
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.
protocol
Polymarket Protocol V2 opens canary markets, full switchover set for November 2
Polymarket's V2 replaces Gnosis Conditional Tokens with a single ERC-1155 contract, pUSD-only collateral, and a pluggable oracle layer (UMA plus Chainlink).
protocol
Spiko raises $90M Series B led by NEA to expand tokenized cash funds
French tokenized money-market-fund issuer Spiko closed a $90M Series B led by NEA, taking AUM to $2.7B — on paper larger than BlackRock BUIDL or Franklin OnChain by that narrow slice.
protocol
Metaplanet sold 10,000 BTC and bought back 11,000 in Q3 to prove liquidity
Metaplanet disclosed a Q3 round-trip of 10,000 BTC sold for ¥124.7B and 11,000 BTC repurchased for ¥149.9B — a net +1,000 BTC to 44,000, framed as a liquidity demonstration to rating agencies.
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Strategy books $20.9B Q3 fair-value gain, buys 334 BTC, repurchases $176M of STRC
Strategy's October 5 filing reports a $20.91B Q3 fair-value gain on bitcoin, a 334-BTC purchase for $28.7M between September 28 and October 4, and $176.3M of STRC preferred-share repurchases.
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Zcash NU7 activates on testnet with 25-second blocks, mainnet set for Nov 5
NU7 cut Zcash's target block time from 75 to 25 seconds at testnet block 4,465,026 on Oct 4, with mainnet activation scheduled for Nov 5 if a Oct 20 review clears.
protocol
Hyperliquid routes first $14.5M USDC reserve yield to HYPE buybacks under AQAv2
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.
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Ethereum Foundation ships zkAPI: pay-for-API ZK proofs land on mainnet
Ethereum Foundation and Open Anonymity Project launched zkAPI on Oct 1, letting users pay OpenAI/Ollama-compatible endpoints from an ETH vault without the gateway linking requests to the deposit.
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DogeOS opens Chikyū public testnet, bets Dogecoin DeFi on OP_CHECKZKP
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.
protocol
EIP-8363 tapered issuance burn pulled from Ethereum's Hegota upgrade
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.
infrastructure
Lloyds and Visa settle $750K in USDC on Canton in seven-day cross-border pilot
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.
protocol
AllUnity launches MiCA-regulated USD stablecoin USDAU on six chains
The DWS / Flow Traders / Galaxy joint venture ships USDAU under its BaFin e-money licence, live on Ethereum, Solana, Base, Polygon, Tempo and Arc.
protocol
Base activates Cobalt: conditional transactions and B20 seize-with-memo go live
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
Robinhood adds 10x crypto perps and AI trading agents for US users
Robinhood pairs perpetual futures on eight assets, routed through Bitstamp, with in-app AI agents customers can leave running. Perps go live in the coming months.
protocol
Aztec Labs relaunches zk.money privacy wallet on Aztec Network
The self-custodial wallet returns two years after Aztec Labs shut down the original, now settling private DAI payments on its own zk-rollup with per-transfer caps.
protocol
Bitwise NEAR ETF (NRR) opens on NYSE Arca with in-house staking
The first US spot NEAR ETF starts trading on NYSE Arca with a 0.75% fee and staking rewards routed to shareholders through NAV.
governance
Ethereum Foundation adds SEAL 911 co-founder pcaversaccio as fourth board member
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
Vitalik's obfuscation part II walks through diamond iO — 'planetary,' not 'galactic'
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 ships v2.13 to mainnet: FIPS-204 ML-DSA signatures and dynamic resharding go live
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.
protocol
Cardano enacts Van Rossem hard fork, first Voltaire-ratified upgrade goes live
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 V4 goes live on Avalanche with hub-and-spoke, first V4 chain beyond Ethereum
Aave activated V4 on Avalanche on July 15 with one Liquidity Hub, three Spokes and a $15M Avalanche Foundation milestone-based incentive envelope.
protocol
Progmat migrates ¥452B ($2.7B) of tokenized securities from Corda to Avalanche
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
Zcash locks NU6.3 Ironwood activation to block 3,428,143 on July 28
Core devs pin NU6.3 to mainnet block 3,428,143 (~Jul 28, 08:00 EST). Orchard becomes spend-only; new shielded value flows through a turnstile into the Ironwood pool.
governance
Uniswap v4 protocol-fee temp check clears at ~93%, binding on-chain vote follows
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
Ethereum Foundation disbands Protocol Support team as five-cluster reorg lands
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
Stellar Zipper (Protocol 27) activates on mainnet, ships Soroban auth delegation
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.
governance
Polkadot enacts referenda 1909 & 1910: 10k DOT self-stake, unslashable nominators
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.
protocol
THORChain rolls Monero, router V6 into v3.20 as consensus bug halts churning
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.
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Optimism activates Karst on 10 Superchain mainnets, ships L2CM and kona fault proofs
Karst (Upgrade 19) activated July 8 16:00 UTC across op, ink, zora, mode, lisk, metal, unichain, soneium, ethernity, tbn. Adds L2CM, promotes kona-client, ports five Osaka EIPs. op-geth EoS.
governance
Secret Network proposes SCRT migration from Cosmos to Arbitrum, Sept 1 snapshot
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.
protocol
VALR launches 200+ Hyperliquid perps, a first for a regulated CEX
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.
exploit
Aptos patched a Move VM stale-cache bug Hexens says risked ~$70B in cross-chain value
Security firm Hexens disclosed a stale-cache type-confusion in the Aptos Move VM in late February. Aptos patched within days; no funds lost. Coverage went public on July 4.
protocol
MetaMask ships Money Account on Monad with 4% APY on mUSD via Morpho
Consensys launched MetaMask Money Account on June 30 on Monad, paying up to 4% variable APY on mUSD routed through Morpho vaults curated by Steakhouse Financial, with Mastercard spending.
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Robinhood Chain launches on Arbitrum Orbit with Chainlink day one
Robinhood launched its Ethereum L2 on July 1 on Arbitrum Orbit with Chainlink CCIP and Data Streams live day one, Uniswap and Pleiades AMMs, and 24/7 stock tokens in 120+ countries.
governance
Solana turns on onchain governance: 100k SOL to open, 67% to pass
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.
protocol
Strategy authorizes up to $1.25B in BTC sales as Saylor formalizes capital pivot
Strategy's June 29 8-K introduces a Digital Credit Capital Framework with $2B in buybacks, a $2.55B USD reserve floor, a 12% STRC dividend, and up to $1.25B in bitcoin sales.
protocol
Cardano boots first Ouroboros Leios public testnet under the name Musashi Dojo
IOG launched the Musashi Dojo testnet for Ouroboros Leios on June 23, 2026. The CIP-0164 protocol targets 30–65x current mainnet throughput on a Praos overlay.
protocol
Ethereum Foundation cuts 54 jobs and 40% of 2026 budget in restructure
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.
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Kleros founder Lesaege proposes 10% Ethereum validator revenue redirect
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.
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Base Beryl hardfork hits Sepolia, mainnet activation set for June 25
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
Cardano's van Rossem hard fork hits mainnet vote, first via Voltaire governance
The Protocol Version 11 hard-fork action was submitted to the Cardano chain on June 16, 2026. Earliest possible enactment: June 28.
protocol
Ethereum Glamsterdam enters final devnet phase, all EIPs in one bundle
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.
protocol
NEAR opens voting for protocol version 84 — Wasmtime runtime on mainnet
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.
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Stellar publishes Quantum Preparedness Plan, ML-DSA to Soroban 2026
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.
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IoTeX activates v2.4.0 Yap hard fork tonight, pulls in four Pectra EIPs
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.
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Zcash patches Orchard soundness bug with NU6.2 emergency hard fork
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.
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Zcash Zebra 4.5.0 patches P2SH sigop bug that risked chain split
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.
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Ethereum Foundation ships Kohaku Railgun SDK alpha-22 with ERC-4337 relaying
The Kohaku privacy SDK landed @kohaku-eth/railgun v0.0.1-alpha.22 on May 26 — brotli compression, ERC-4337 mempool relaying operational. Tornado Cash and Privacy Pools modules still in dev.
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Ethereum activates Pectra at epoch 364032 — EIP-7702 ships
Pectra went live on Ethereum mainnet on May 7, 2025. Eleven EIPs ship together; EIP-7702 gives EOAs temporary contract code, EIP-7251 raises the validator effective-balance cap to 2048 ETH.