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October 5, 2026

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Shiba Inu Expands to Solana Through Sunrise as SHIB Trading Moves Cross-Chain

Shiba Inu launches on Solana via Sunrise Shiba Inu’s SHIB is now live on Solana through Sunrise, a token gateway backed by Wormhole Labs, marking a break from the project’s long push toward its own Shibarium network. Sunrise uses Wormhole’s Native Token Transfers standard, so SHIB on Solana is the canonical token rather than a wrapped version. SHIB rose 3.89% in the 24 hours after the listing went live.

October 2, 2026

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Upbit Adds Dolphin (POD) Trading Pairs in KRW, BTC and USDT Markets

Upbit lists Dolphin (POD) on KRW, BTC and USDT markets Upbit said on October 2 it will add trading support for Dolphin (POD) across KRW, BTC and USDT markets, giving the token direct access to South Korea’s closely watched retail liquidity pool. The new KRW pair could quickly change POD’s liquidity and volume profile, though the listing itself does not guarantee a lasting price move.

September 25, 2026

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Streamflow Burns 699.99 Million STREAM, Reducing Total Supply to 300 Million

Streamflow burns 699.99M STREAM, cutting total supply to 300M The Streamflow Foundation burned 699.99 million STREAM tokens on Sept. 23, reducing total supply from about 1 billion to 300 million in a single onchain transaction. The foundation said the burn removed roughly 70% of supply it controlled, while Streamflow’s vesting, staking, airdrop and other product operations remain unchanged.

September 18, 2026

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Polygon Plans Permissionless Burn of 100 Million POL From Fee Collector

Polygon readies contract to burn 100 million POL from fee collector Polygon is preparing a permissionless contract to permanently burn 100 million POL from a base-fee collector holding 121 million tokens, Polygon Foundation CEO Sandeep Nailwal said. The contracts are on testnet and will move to mainnet after final Security Council signatures; the first call would burn 100 million POL at once, with quarterly burns afterward that anyone in the community could trigger.

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AVA Surges After Bithumb Launches KRW Market, With Futures Activity Adding Momentum

AVA jumps after Bithumb opens KRW trading AVA, the token tied to Travala, surged as much as 112% after South Korea’s Bithumb launched an AVA/KRW market on Thursday, before easing to about $0.27, still up roughly 72% in 24 hours. Nearly $40 million traded on the new Bithumb pair, while Binance futures open interest rose about 454% to $6.9 million, suggesting leveraged trading and short covering amplified the rally.

September 16, 2026

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Zcash Vote Backs 25-Second Blocks and Fast NU7 Rollout

Zcash holders back 25-second blocks in NU7 vote Zcash token holders overwhelmingly backed cutting block time to 25 seconds from 75 seconds in a vote on the scope of the NU7 network upgrade, with about 2.4 million ZEC participating, above the 1 million ZEC threshold. CoinDesk reported that 99.9% of votes supported the change, while 99.3% favored launching NU7 as quickly as possible with only features ready by Sept. 30 if needed.

September 7, 2026

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Flare staking reaches 21.5 billion FLR after FIP.16 tokenomics overhaul

Flare staking jumps 34% after tokenomics overhaul Staked FLR rose from about 16 billion in July to 21.5 billion by late August, a roughly 34% increase, as Flare’s FIP.16 upgrade cut inflation from 5% to 3%, reduced the annual issuance cap from 5 billion to 3 billion FLR, and pushed more network activity into token burns and protocol revenue. DefiLlama Research said the share of staked or delegated FLR reached about 46%, while base-fee burns are now running at more than 10 times the pre-upgrade pace.

September 6, 2026

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StonkFun Jumps After Raydium LaunchLab Tie-Up, With STONK Rising More Than 250%

StonkFun token surges 250% after Raydium LaunchLab integration Solana-based token launchpad StonkFun saw its STONK token jump more than 250% in 24 hours to about $0.16, after saying new token issuance will be integrated with Raydium’s LaunchLab. STONK briefly hit a record $0.212, lifting its market cap to about $140 million, as the company said the tie-up would cut distribution costs, reduce early sniping risk and deepen post-bonding liquidity.

September 3, 2026

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PONS Breaks Into Top 100 After Binance Alpha Addition and Two-Week Price Surge

PONS enters top 100 after Binance Alpha listing PONS climbed to a new all-time high of about $0.55 after Binance added the token to its Binance Alpha section, a move that likely fueled its latest rally. The Robinhood Chain-linked token is up roughly 1,300% over the past two weeks, with a market cap near $395 million, making it the 98th-largest cryptocurrency, while also ranking as CoinGecko’s top trending coin.

September 1, 2026

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Solana Fee Revenue Climbs as Validators Back Faster SOL Inflation Cuts

Solana approves proposal to slow SOL issuance as on-chain activity jumps Solana validators approved SGP-0002 on Aug. 28, accelerating the network’s inflation reduction to 30% from 15% and cutting projected new supply by about 18.9 million SOL over six years. The vote drew a record 60.7% turnout from 1,326 validators and passed with just over 67% support, as network activity also climbed: seven-day average fee revenue reached about 9,200 SOL by Aug. 27 and non-vote transactions hit a record 191 million.

August 24, 2026

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Solana validators open stake-weighted vote on constitution, inflation path and fee changes

Solana validators vote on constitution, inflation and fee overhaul until Thursday Solana validators and delegators began stake-weighted voting on Aug. 23 on three governance proposals that stay open until epoch 1023 ends, expected around Thursday 15:30 UTC. The package would ratify a network constitution, speed SOL disinflation from 15% to 30% annually toward the 1.5% terminal floor, and split transaction fees into a fixed 2,500-lamport inclusion fee plus a resource fee burned by the protocol. Approval needs one-third participation and two-thirds of participating stake.

August 17, 2026

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Cardano’s Leios Upgrade Reaches 96% as ADA Holds Key Support After Nine-Day Slide

Cardano’s Leios upgrade hits 96% readiness as ADA steadies at key support ADA traded at $0.1770 on August 17, up 1.32%, after bouncing off the 0.382 Fibonacci level at $0.1762 and ending nine straight red days. The move comes as Cardano’s Leios progress tracker showed 96% readiness for a planned 1,000 TPS upgrade, while governance risk remains in focus with DRep approval for the new Constitutional Committee at about 30% versus the 67% threshold ahead of a September 1 expiry.

August 3, 2026

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Ripple Releases 1 Billion XRP From Escrow in August’s Scheduled Unlock

Ripple unlocks 1 billion XRP from escrow for August Ripple released 1 billion XRP from escrow on Aug. 1, 2026, in three tranches, according to XRP Ledger escrow data. The move is part of Ripple’s regular monthly schedule, and past cycles have often seen about 70% of the tokens re-locked into new long-term escrows within the first week, meaning the full amount may not immediately enter market circulation.

August 2, 2026

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ADA Rises as Cardano Begins Planning for the Dijkstra Development Era

Cardano starts Dijkstra planning as ADA rises nearly 10% ADA climbed nearly 10% in 24 hours to about $0.189 after Intersect said planning has begun for Cardano’s next development phase, the Dijkstra era, following the van Rossem hard fork on July 18. Intersect said key upgrades include Nested Transactions, Linear Leios and Peras, with the Haskell node team targeting mainnet delivery of Nested Transactions and Linear Leios by the end of 2026.

July 27, 2026

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Upbit KRW Listing Drives MORPHO Whale Activity to Multi-Month Highs

Upbit KRW listing sends MORPHO activity to multi-month highs Morpho (MORPHO) saw a sharp one-day spike on Saturday as Upbit opened KRW trading at 6 p.m. KST: Santiment logged 68 whale transactions above $100,000, 337 new addresses, and 4.35 million MORPHO withdrawn from exchanges, each the strongest reading in months. The token jumped from about $1.93 to $2.17 and volume nearly quintupled to around $71 million, though activity later cooled and Upbit still accounts for the largest share of MORPHO trading at 12.26%.

July 14, 2026

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Kraken Opens Trading for Hippius Token SN75 on July 14

Kraken lists Hippius token SN75 for trading Kraken said funding and trading for Hippius’ SN75 token went live on July 14, 2026. SN75 is the native token of Hippius, a decentralized cloud storage network built on Bittensor’s subnet 75 that offers S3-compatible object storage. Trading in the Kraken App and via Instant Buy will open once liquidity conditions are met, and geographic restrictions may apply.

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Derive jumps after Upbit and Bithumb listings open trading in South Korea

Upbit and Bithumb listings send Derive up about 30% Derive (DRV) rose roughly 30% after South Korea’s biggest exchanges, Upbit and Bithumb, listed the token on July 14, lifting it from about $0.12 to as high as $0.18 before it settled near $0.15. Upbit opened trading at 17:00 KST with KRW, BTC and USDT pairs, and the rare dual listing gives the Ethereum-based DeFi derivatives protocol broader liquidity and exposure in one of crypto’s most active markets.

July 12, 2026

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Lighter Plans First Revenue-Funded LIT Burn of 15.5 Million Tokens

Lighter to burn 15.5M LIT in first revenue-funded supply cut Lighter said it will carry out its first revenue-funded LIT burn, removing about 15.5 million tokens, or 6.3% of circulating supply, after repurchasing them with trading revenue through the end of Q2 2026. The move is the first under Lighter’s late-June tokenomics overhaul, which redirects buybacks into permanent burns, and the exchange said it will publish the Ethereum transaction hash once the burn settles on-chain.