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BNB Chain Schedules Pasteur Hard Fork for August 25 Mainnet Deployment

BNB Chain announced a mainnet upgrade called Pasteur scheduled for August 25, which will strengthen cross-chain transfer...

Aug 25, 2026, 01:12 PM

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Monad Proposes Wallet Upgrade to Enable Passkeys and Quantum Security

Monad, an Ethereum-compatible blockchain, has proposed a wallet security upgrade that would allow users to replace crypt...

Aug 25, 2026, 11:01 AM

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Solana Validators Vote on Constitutional Reform, Disinflation, and Fee Burn

Solana validators are voting through Thursday on three linked governance proposals: a network constitution, accelerated ...

Aug 25, 2026, 10:03 AM

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Solana Validators to Vote on Proposals to Accelerate SOL Burns and Cut Inflation

Solana validators are preparing to vote on multiple proposals that would increase daily SOL burns more than tenfold and ...

Aug 24, 2026, 09:02 PM

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Zcash Rallies Past $1,190 as Breakout Accelerates on ETF Demand

Zcash traded near $1,197 on September 7, posting a 43% weekly gain after breaking above $1,000 on ETF inflows and short ...

Aug 24, 2026, 08:09 PM

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Zcash Surges Past $880 as Holders Prepare Governance Vote on Token Issuance

Zcash rose more than 70% over the past week to an eight-year high near $885, driven by Grayscale's ETF conversion plans ...

Aug 24, 2026, 07:07 PM

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Flowra Launches Open Orderflow Auction for Solana Blockspace

Flowra launched an open block-building framework for Solana that allows registered searchers to compete for transaction ...

Aug 24, 2026, 01:19 PM

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BlackRock, Coinbase Back $15M Bitcoin Quantum-Security Consortium

Nine institutional firms including BlackRock, Coinbase, and Strategy formed the Bitcoin Security Consortium on July 23, ...

Aug 24, 2026, 12:02 PM

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Pi Network Falls Below $0.09 Ahead of Protocol 27 Mainnet Launch

PI dropped below $0.09 on Monday, retreating from its recent recovery as the Pi Core Team prepares Protocol 27 for mainn...

Aug 24, 2026, 09:02 AM

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Lido Consolidates $16B Staked ETH Into Larger Validators After Curated Module v2 Approval

Lido has begun moving approximately $16 billion in staked Ethereum into larger validators following approval of its Cura...

Aug 23, 2026, 04:02 AM

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BitSafe Launches Canton App Layer With $1M Foundation Grant

BitSafe opened the public beta of Decentralization Manager, an open-source framework for building decentralized financia...

Aug 23, 2026, 01:07 AM

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MANTRA Blockchain Offline After Exploit, Restart Delayed Pending Patch

MANTRA Chain halted all network activity after validators discovered an exploit in an upstream dependency, keeping mainn...

Aug 22, 2026, 12:10 AM

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