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Ethereum Schedules Glamsterdam Upgrade Test on Hoodi for October 26

Ethereum developers will activate the Glamsterdam upgrade on the Hoodi testnet on October 26 at 17:42:48 UTC, following ...

Oct 20, 2026, 12:08 AM

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Qubic Halts Layer-1 After $1.4M Token Theft From Wallet Flaw

Qubic stopped its layer-1 blockchain on October 18 after attackers exploited a wallet seed generation flaw to steal 2.94...

Oct 19, 2026, 09:13 PM

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Zcash Rallies on Ironwood Upgrade Plans; Price Volatility Persists

Zcash bounced 45% this week as developers proposed the Ironwood upgrade, which would enable anyone to verify total suppl...

Oct 19, 2026, 06:01 PM

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BNB Chain Commands Over 40% of Tokenized Equities Market

BNB Chain holds 41% to 42.6% of the tokenized equities market with roughly $1.47 billion in assets and led Q3 2024 with ...

Oct 19, 2026, 11:01 AM

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XRP Ledger Bug Fix Loses Validator Support, Activation Delayed to November 4

XRP Ledger's fixCleanup3_4_0 amendment lost its earlier validator majority and is counting down again toward potential N...

Oct 19, 2026, 08:02 AM

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Zcash Developers Propose Quantum-Resistant Privacy Fix for NEAR Intents

Zakura, a Zcash infrastructure developer, has proposed assigning unique viewing keys to each ZEC swap routed through NEA...

Oct 19, 2026, 07:02 AM

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BitTorrent Burns First Batch of BTT in Web3 Rebrand Push

BitTorrent completed its inaugural BTT token burn on October 16, incinerating tokens repurchased with decentralized serv...

Oct 18, 2026, 11:05 PM

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Aptos Burns 174K APT Monthly, but Staking Issuance Outpaces Reduction

Aptos burned 174,570 APT over the past 30 days, bringing cumulative burns to 1.9 million tokens. However, monthly stakin...

Oct 18, 2026, 09:02 PM

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Fidelity Report: Solana Resilient, But Concentration Risks Remain

Fidelity's technology research team found that Solana has operated for over two years without a major mainnet outage and...

Oct 18, 2026, 07:10 PM

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Humanity Protocol's $32M Hack Raises Questions About Private Key Controls

Humanity Protocol, a biometric blockchain identity project, lost approximately $32 million from over 17 wallets on June ...

Oct 18, 2026, 09:11 AM

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Nine Crypto Firms Launch Quantum Alliance to Counter Future Cryptographic Threats

Nine cryptocurrency companies have formed the Quantum Alliance to develop post-quantum cryptographic standards and prepa...

Oct 17, 2026, 05:01 PM

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Solana Mobile Partners with Ledger to Expand Beyond Branded Smartphones

Solana Mobile announced a partnership with Ledger, making the hardware wallet manufacturer its first external device par...

Oct 17, 2026, 04:03 PM

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