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- Solana Proposal Would Retire Durable Nonces and Require Recent Block Hashes
The proposed mainnet change could begin after May 5, 2027, giving users time to migrate.
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- Hydra Replay Measures 1.9-Fold Gain on Midnight Claim Workload
The replay processed 24,576 transactions, with throughput rising to 79 claims per second from 42 on version 0.22.4.
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- Solana’s Alpenglow Upgrade Targets 150-Millisecond Finality Oct. 21
The consensus change removes validator votes from blocks, a shift expected to lower reported transaction and TPS totals without reducing user activity.
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- Aptos Activates Encrypted Mempool as Annual APT Unlocks Fall 60%
The opt-in feature conceals transaction payloads until block finalization as the network’s four-year unlock cycle for early investors and core contributors ends.
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- Injective Proposal Would Set Fixed Gas for Selected Exchange Messages
Proposal 709 would make gas requirements more predictable for orders, cancellations and transfers while leaving trading fees unchanged.
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- Starknet Says Its Network Can Upgrade Cryptography Without Address Changes
The network said it compared 10 blockchains and found most lack a quantum-security plan beyond moving funds to new addresses.
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- StarkWare Completes Quantum-Safe Bitcoin Payment on Mainnet
The transaction used existing Bitcoin scripts without a soft fork, new opcode or consensus change, but the system remains an emergency research solution.
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- Solana Schedules Final Step to Cut Target Slot Time to 200 Milliseconds
The upgrade would create five target block-production opportunities per second while increasing voting and network demands for validators.
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- Algorand’s ALGO Rises 23% Before Pulling Back on Oct. 8
ALGO reached $0.14355 and closed at $0.13815 as traders focused on Algorand’s progress toward post-quantum security.
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- Algorand Adds Falcon-1024 Accounts as Herkelrath Becomes CEO
The August upgrade improves resistance to quantum attacks while leaving consensus cryptography and other protections under development.
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- XRP Ledger Upgrade Enables Delegated Permissions Without Master Keys
PermissionDelegationV1_1 lets account owners authorize specific actions while retaining control of the permission set.
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- Litecoin Marks 15 Years With a Launch Designed to Limit Premine
Charlie Lee mined Litecoin’s genesis block on Oct. 7, 2011. Public mining began six days later after a community poll, with code available before launch.
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- Bleep Uses Internet Computer Canisters for Social-Network Functions
The platform runs core functions and ckBTC transactions through Internet Computer canisters while keeping media storage and mobile notifications centralized.
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- THORChain Completes Native Zcash Integration for Cross-Chain Swaps
The upgrade supports transparent Zcash transactions, UTXO handling, ZIP-317 fees and the NU6.3 Ironwood consensus branch, but not shielded cross-chain transfers.
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- Project Tachyon Developers Begin Integrating Recursive Proofs Into Zakura Common
The first release, Udon, targets faster cryptographic operations while a long-term design goal calls for more than 50,000 transactions per second.
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- Solana Urges Caution on 200-Millisecond Slot Time Before Alpenglow
Solana has reduced its target slot time from 400 milliseconds to 250 milliseconds while keeping skipped-slot rates stable, but shorter slots have increased voting latency.
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- Ethereum Plans Hybrid Architecture After Hegota Fork
The roadmap includes FOCIL, EIP-8288, consensus changes, state management updates and privacy-focused mempool improvements.
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- Polygon Plans Another 25 Million POL Burn as It Targets 1ms Confirmation
The community has already permanently removed 100 million POL, about 1% of total supply, with another 25 million accumulating.
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- Solana Activates Alpenglow on Testnet for Faster Transaction Finality
The upgrade targets about 150-millisecond finality overall, with a fast path targeting 100 milliseconds, but neither has been demonstrated on mainnet.
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- Nik Bougalis Submits XRP Ledger Core-Code Modernization
Pull request No. 8300 targets low-level utilities used in hashing, account IDs, serialization and protocol components. The change remains open and has not been merged or deployed.
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- Solana Activates Alpenglow Consensus Upgrade on Devnet
The upgrade targets transaction finality of about 150 milliseconds, down from roughly 12.8 seconds under TowerBFT, with mainnet timing still undecided.
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- Vitalik Says a New Solidity Compiler Has Now Been Released
Vitalik said in an X post that a new Solidity compiler had been released.
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- Solana Moves Alpenglow Upgrade to Public Testnet for 150ms Finality
The test phase replaces TowerBFT with Votor and requires validators to run Agave 4.3. Mainnet activation is tentatively scheduled for Sept. 28.
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- Bloom Unveils LDEX Orderbook DEX Targeting CEX-Level Speed on Locus Chain
Bloom Technology introduced LDEX, an orderbook-based DEX demo on Locus Chain aimed at delivering centralized exchange-level speed while maintaining decentralization.
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