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BitMine Ethereum Holdings Reach 6.05 Million After Week of Accumulation

BitMine Immersion Technologies reported holdings of 6,060,506 ETH as of November 1 in a November 2 filing exhibit, with ...

Oct 27, 2026, 09:06 AM

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Zcash Co-founder Proposes Ending Grants Funding, Redirecting to Mining Reserve

Zcash co-founder Sean Bowe has proposed permanently ending the Community Grants program's 8% share of block subsidies, r...

Oct 27, 2026, 07:06 AM

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BNB Chain Plans Parallel Layer 1 With 200ms Blocks, Shared BNB Token

BNB Chain announced plans for a new Layer 1 blockchain targeting 200-millisecond block times, running parallel to BNB Sm...

Oct 27, 2026, 07:02 AM

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Grayscale Credits Zcash's Developer Fund Model After 10 Years

Grayscale highlighted Zcash's 20% developer funding allocation as a key driver of the network's decade-long innovation c...

Oct 27, 2026, 05:04 AM

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Ritual Launches EVM-Compatible Layer 1 for Autonomous AI Agents

Ritual, a lab founded by former Polychain Capital partners Niraj Pant and Akilesh Potti, has launched Ritual Chain, an E...

Oct 27, 2026, 12:09 AM

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Akash Network Moves to Leave Cosmos for Solana With 98% Support

Akash Network's Prop 346 has garnered approximately 98% community support to migrate AKT from Cosmos to Solana as a Sola...

Oct 26, 2026, 10:09 PM

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BitMine Adds 10,452 ETH and Repurchases Shares Amid Market Dip

BitMine Immersion Technologies has bought a further 8,573 ETH, lifting its holdings to 6,060,506 tokens, or about 4.9% o...

Oct 26, 2026, 01:03 PM

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Fhenix Launches Encrypted Smart Contract Layer on Ethereum and Arbitrum

Fhenix has deployed CoFHE, a protocol enabling encrypted computation on smart contracts, to both Ethereum and Arbitrum m...

Oct 26, 2026, 08:02 AM

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StraitsX Brings XSGD and XUSD Stablecoins to Solana in Early 2026

Singapore-based stablecoin issuer StraitsX will deploy its XSGD and XUSD stablecoins on Solana blockchain by early 2026,...

Oct 26, 2026, 01:13 AM

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Pi Network Launches Desktop 0.6.4 Update as PI Token Slides Below $0.08

Pi Network released Desktop 0.6.4 with improved SoloHost access and enhanced app security features. The token has fallen...

Oct 26, 2026, 01:12 AM

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Cardano Leios Targets 3-5x Capacity in Staged Rollout Through 2025

Input Output outlined a phased deployment for Cardano's Leios scaling upgrade on October 20, beginning with a 3-5x incre...

Oct 25, 2026, 05:02 PM

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Cardano Leios Roadmap Targets 3–5x Capacity Boost Through Staged Rollout

Input Output released an October 20 roadmap for Cardano's Leios upgrade detailing a phased deployment to increase transa...

Oct 25, 2026, 05:02 PM

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