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Analyst firm The Kobeissi Letter counted a record 4.2 billion Solana transactions in July, up 13.5% on June and 91% above December 2025. Validators are in the final epoch of Solana’s first formal governance vote on SIMD-0550, which would remove about 18.9 million SOL of issuance over six years, and SIMD-0553. All three ballot measures had met quorum by Aug. 28, and the disinflation proposal’s own modelling puts nominal staking yields at 2.25% by year three if it passes. Solana’s network processed a record 4.2 billion transactions in July, according to analyst firm The Kobeissi Letter, while validators entered the…
MANTRA Chain restored mainnet block production on v8.4.0 six days after a security incident forced a chainwide halt. The promised technical account remains unpublished, leaving the exploitation of the upstream dependency and the activity inside two project-managed wallets unexplained.The official incident timeline says mainnet resumed at approximately 05:30 UTC on Aug. 22. The chain said there was no rollback or state change between the halt and restart, user balances were not altered, and token holders did not need to take action.The team behind the chain marked the incident resolved on Aug. 24 but again said a postmortem would arrive in…
Ethereum’s plan to triple network speed could silently break millions of existing smart contracts
Ethereum’s next attempt to expand base-layer throughput includes contracts and transactions that create persistent state, which would cost far more gas for new accounts, storage slots, and deployed bytecode.The Ethereum Foundation said the candidate Glamsterdam schedule is designed to support roughly three times more base throughput by aligning gas charges with the network resources each operation consumes.The two proposals are scheduled for Glamsterdam, yet EIP-8037 and EIP-8038 both retain formal Review status. Ethereum’s official roadmap plans the upgrade for the fourth quarter of 2026, with fixed Sepolia, Hoodi, and mainnet fork dates still unannounced.That leaves builders a testing window before…
Ethereum and Solana are hosting trillions in dollar volume, yet their native tokens risk losing direct consumer demand
Matt Corallo followed up on an earlier post on Aug. 25, addressing what stablecoin users increasingly see: apps routing around ETH, SOL, and other non-stablecoin tokens.A wallet can let someone receive and send USDC without displaying a native-token balance. Behind that interface, an app, paymaster, sponsor, or infrastructure provider still settles the network fee in the asset the chain accepts.The native-token demand debate turns on who funds execution, manages the fee balance, and absorbs volatility after the user-facing requirement disappears.The scale of the stablecoin rail makes that question more than a user-experience footnote. Visa’s Onchain Analytics dashboard showed about $1.3 trillion…
HashKey Cloud backs Stacks’ Genesis Bond to prove institutional appetite for native Bitcoin yield
Stacks founder Muneeb Ali said on Aug. 27 via X that HashKey Cloud will deploy Bitcoin in Stacks, making the Asian infrastructure provider the second institution announced for the network’s Genesis Bond pilot.HashKey will time-lock BTC on Bitcoin, retain the keys, and pair the position with STX worth roughly 5% of the committed Bitcoin.Retaining custody of the principal does not make the yield native to Bitcoin. Stacks targets about 3% annualized from BTC committed by its miners, so payouts depend on STX and Stacks miner economics and are therefore variable.HashKey’s allocation was not disclosed, while the total BTC committed is…
KuCoin has expanded sanctions screening to indirect crypto transfers across 17 crypto platforms, including Justin Sun-linked HTX.Under an Aug. 27 compliance notice, KuCoin said Shelbit, Aban Tether, A7 Nigeria, A7 Africa, PilotFinance, Rapira, Aifory Pro, ABCeX, WhiteBird, NoOnecrypto, Tradex, Monease, BitPapa, Exnode, Exnode Pay, EXMO and “HTX (Huobi Global SA)” are covered by the restrictions.The policy means users can face held or rejected transactions even when they do not transact directly to one of the listed platforms. KuCoin said it may screen the source of funds, originating and destination addresses, and intermediary service providers for connections to the affected entities.Transactions…
Bitcoin has confirmed a quantum-resistant transaction on mainnet using its existing consensus rules, showing that some holders could migrate funds away from future quantum risk without waiting for a protocol upgrade.The Aug. 26 transaction used a construction developed by StarkWare researcher Avihu Levy that shifts the critical spending condition away from elliptic-curve signatures and toward hash-based security. It was included in block 964,199 after being submitted directly to Bitcoin miner MARA through its Slipstream service.StarkWare described the transaction as the first quantum-safe spend on Bitcoin mainnet. Earlier experiments explored post-quantum approaches in Bitcoin Script and on Blockstream’s Liquid sidechain, but…
A New York Federal Reserve study found that dollar stablecoins are more likely to flow into wallets tied to countries experiencing currency or banking crises.Wallets linked to countries experiencing some form of financial crisis were 1.8% more likely to receive dollar stablecoins during the week a crisis began, researchers Pablo Azar, Maryam Farboodi and Nish Sinha found in an August staff paper. Receipt volumes of these assets across these wallets also increased significantly during those periods.The findings provide evidence for a growing challenge facing central banks in economies under financial stress.Governments have traditionally relied on banks and other regulated intermediaries…
It just got 25 times easier to move self-custody Bitcoin directly onto Wall Street, and $5 billion already has
BlackRock cut the minimum for converting privately held Bitcoin into IBIT shares from $25 million to $1 million, while Bitwise lowered its floor from $100 million to $3 million. While this might sound like a niche development for a small number of institutional users, it signals that custody is no longer just a slogan for Wall Street.BlackRock cut the minimum transaction size for a qualifying Bitcoin holder to convert coins directly into shares of its iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF from $25 million to $1 million in July, the company told Bloomberg. The 96% reduction now brings a service once reserved…
Gold and Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) drew roughly $7 billion over five US trading sessions, a record combined haul that puts both assets at the center of a renewed investor push for protection against currency weakness and mounting fiscal pressure.About $3.4 billion of this capital went into SPDR Gold Shares (GLD) while BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) attracted roughly $1.5 billion. GLD manages more than $150 billion in assets, while IBIT holds around $60 billion, making each the dominant institutional access point in its respective market.Together, the two funds accounted for about 70% of the combined “debasement trade” inflow, showing…