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Hoskinson Says He's 'Taking a Break' as Cardano Governance Limits Come Into Focus

Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson announced on X that he is "taking a break" after a tense livestream in which he questi...

Nov 2, 2026, 02:06 AM

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Solana Mobile Removes Fake 'SKR Claim' App After Store Spotlight Breach

Solana Mobile removed a malicious app called 'SKR Claim' from its dApp Store after it appeared in the App Spotlight for ...

Nov 1, 2026, 06:48 PM

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Zcash Orchard Flaw Patched by Emergency Fork; Shielded Labs Seeks Supply Proof Upgrade

Zcash activated an emergency soft fork and then the NU6.2 hard fork in early June to fix a soundness bug in the Orchard ...

Nov 1, 2026, 09:02 AM

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Zcash Loses Over Half Its Value After Disclosed Orchard Counterfeiting Bug

Zcash developers disclosed a flaw in the Orchard shielded pool that could have allowed undetectable counterfeit ZEC, and...

Nov 1, 2026, 02:01 AM

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Pi Network Ships Four Developer Updates Ahead of November Ecosystem Summit

Pi Network released four developer-facing updates on October 29, covering app configuration, Testnet token price trackin...

Oct 31, 2026, 12:08 PM

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CF Benchmarks Launches CFB Oracle to Put Institutional Price Indices Onchain

CF Benchmarks launched CFB Oracle on October 27, delivering cryptographically signed index data to applications on Ether...

Oct 31, 2026, 10:01 AM

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SUN.io Completes 52nd SUN Buyback and Burn, Cumulative Burn Passes 685 Million

SUN.io executed its 52nd SUN token buyback and burn, removing 7,232,977.17 SUN from circulation and lifting the cumulati...

Oct 31, 2026, 06:02 AM

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XRP Ledger Developers Propose Zero-XRP Wallet Creation for Stablecoin Payments

XRP Ledger developers are testing an experimental change that would let companies cover the reserve for new customer and...

Oct 31, 2026, 04:02 AM

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MetaMask Adds Stellar as Default Network, With Manual Trustline Steps for USDC

MetaMask made Stellar a default network on Mobile and Extension on Oct. 29, giving existing multichain accounts a Stella...

Oct 30, 2026, 10:58 PM

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eMudhra Certificate Flaw Prompts Teku and Besu Docker Fixes; Binary Users Face Separate Java Check

Ethereum client software Teku and Besu released Docker updates removing trust in four certificate roots tied to a compro...

Oct 30, 2026, 03:49 PM

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Binance Hack Estimated at $6.3B; Sources Split on EIP-7702 Role

Reports tie an Ethereum account-permission feature, EIP-7702, to the drain of about $2.5 billion from a Binance Ethereum...

Oct 30, 2026, 03:05 PM

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Stellar Launches VIA Labs Cross-Chain Bridge to Ethereum

Stellar activated VIA Labs' cross-chain messaging system on its mainnet, enabling two-way interoperability with Ethereum...

Oct 30, 2026, 01:01 PM

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