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August 30, 2026

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Solana targets Sept. 9 launch for Transaction V1 as rent cuts begin in stages

Solana sets Sept. 9 rollout for Transaction V1 Solana plans to activate Transaction V1 on Sept. 9, raising the maximum serialized transaction size to 4,096 bytes from 1,232, Solana Foundation VP of Technology Jacob Creech said on Aug. 30. Creech also said the first of five rent-reduction stages is expected in the week beginning Aug. 31, while Alpenglow remains targeted for October and further slot-time cuts will follow separate validator activations.

August 29, 2026

Infrastructure

Solana Validators Pass Faster Disinflation Plan After Late Kraken Vote Shift

Solana validators approve faster disinflation after late Kraken vote flip Solana validators passed SGP-0002 with 67% support, clearing the two-thirds threshold by about 0.33 percentage points after Kraken shifted most of its roughly 8.9 million SOL voting stake from no to yes in the final hours. The change doubles Solana’s annual disinflation rate from 15% to 30% while keeping the 1.5% terminal inflation target, pulling the timeline to reach that floor forward from about 5.7 years to 2.8 years.

August 28, 2026

Infrastructure

Ripple Urges XRPL to Drop Native XChainBridge Amendment in Favor of Axelar

Ripple recommends withdrawing XRPL bridge amendment XLS-38 Ripple has proposed scrapping XRPL’s native XChainBridge amendment, XLS-38, and relying on Axelar for cross-chain connections instead, saying Axelar already handles bridging for the XRPL EVM Sidechain and that no serious demand for XLS-38 emerged after more than a year. If adopted by validators, the move would eventually remove more than 10,000 lines of inactive code from XRPL.

Infrastructure

Solana Vote Has Inflation Cut Above Threshold While Fee-Burn Plan Lags

Solana governance vote puts inflation cut on track, fee-burn overhaul behind Solana validators are partway through the chain’s first binding governance vote, with two of three proposals above the required two-thirds support as of Friday. SGP-0001, which would ratify a Solana Constitution and activate svmgov, had 95.33% support, while SGP-0002, which would double annual disinflation to 30% and bring the 1.5% terminal floor forward to 2029 from 2032, had 68.63%; SGP-0003, a fee change that could lift daily burns to 7,500-9,000 SOL, was below the bar at 62.63%.

August 27, 2026

Infrastructure

Solana vote weighs faster SOL disinflation and a much larger fee-burn mechanism

Solana voters weigh faster SOL disinflation and expanded fee burns Solana validators and delegators are voting through epoch 1023, expected to end around 15:30 UTC on Aug. 27, on two proposals that would speed SOL’s path to its 1.5% inflation floor and burn more transaction resource fees. SIMD-0550 would raise annual disinflation from 15% to 30%, with authors projecting 18.9 million fewer SOL issued over six years, while SIMD-0553 could lift daily burns to 7,500-9,000 SOL at current activity; neither change would take effect immediately after the vote.

August 26, 2026

Infrastructure

LayerZero Debuts ATLAS Exchange Backend on Zero Blockchain

LayerZero unveils ATLAS exchange infrastructure for institutions LayerZero introduced ATLAS, a “headless exchange” backend that lets trading platforms and financial institutions launch their own branded venues without building matching, clearing, settlement and risk systems from scratch. The system runs on LayerZero’s Zero blockchain and is slated to launch later this year, with Citadel Securities, DTCC, ARK Invest and Intercontinental Exchange named as collaborators; ZRO rose as much as 30% after the announcement.

August 25, 2026

Infrastructure

TON Sets September 1 Cutoff for Legacy Bridge Retirement

TON to shut legacy bridge on September 1 TON Foundation said its legacy bridge at bridge-v3.ton.org will be permanently decommissioned on September 1, giving users a deadline to move affected assets back to native form. The notice covers Wrapped TON held as an ERC-20 on Ethereum or BNB Chain, as well as j-tokens on TON such as jUSDT; after the cutoff, access through the legacy route may be limited or impossible. The shutdown is a planned infrastructure transition, not a hack.

Infrastructure

Solana Validators Vote on SGP-0003 Fee Change With Potentially Higher SOL Burns

Solana validators open vote on fee proposal that could sharply raise SOL burns Solana validators have begun voting on SGP-0003, a proposal to replace a flat fee for affected resources with a variable, resource-based transaction fee that would be burned in full. The vote opened on Aug. 23 and runs through Epoch 1023, expected to end on Aug. 27; if approved, projected daily SOL burns would rise from about 650 SOL to 7,500-9,000 SOL. The change is not active yet, and Solana’s supply dynamics have not changed.

Infrastructure

BNB Smart Chain activates Pasteur hard fork with bridge and validator security changes

BNB Chain activates Pasteur hard fork on BSC BNB Smart Chain has activated the Pasteur hard fork on mainnet, rolling out three BNB Evolution Proposals aimed at fixing bridge verification and validator authorization gaps while raising transaction capacity without changing the 450-millisecond block time. The upgrade blocks duplicate validator counts in bridge approvals, removes authority from old validator keys, restricts certain addresses from voting, and adds a new block-submission route that lifted test throughput by about 88% to 2,324 TPS.

August 24, 2026

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BNB Chain schedules Pasteur hard fork on BSC mainnet for Aug. 25

BNB Chain sets Pasteur hard fork for Aug. 25 on BSC BNB Chain will activate the Pasteur hard fork on BNB Smart Chain at 02:30 UTC on Aug. 25, 2026, making client v1.7.7 mandatory for all mainnet nodes and requiring operators to remove EnableBAL from config.toml. The upgrade adds stricter bridge block verification, closes validator key-rotation and governance gaps, and introduces a new builder-submitted block path that lifted tested throughput on QANet to 2,324 TPS from 1,237, though no mainnet gain is confirmed yet.

August 22, 2026

Infrastructure

TON Validators Update Nodes Ahead of Vote on New Collator Configuration

TON validators told to update software ahead of collator vote TON validators were instructed to update node software to commit 140320b and mytonctrl to commit 7e90e26 before a configuration switch vote tied to the network’s new collator architecture, scheduled for Aug. 21 at 08:00 UTC. The move is still in the preparation and voting stage, not confirmed full activation, with final status depending on the vote and any subsequent switch execution.

Infrastructure

Arbitrum’s Elara Upgrade Goes Live With Optional Orbit Compliance Filters

Arbitrum activates Elara upgrade with optional Orbit compliance filters Arbitrum’s ArbOS 61 “Elara” upgrade went live on August 20, adding an optional protocol-level compliance filtering feature for Orbit chains aimed at private or enterprise deployments, not public Arbitrum One or Nova. The release also raises the Stylus contract size limit from 24 KB to 96 KB, and node operators must update to Nitro v3.11.3.

August 21, 2026

Infrastructure

Solana Cuts Mainnet Slot Time to 350 Milliseconds in First Live Reduction

Solana activates first mainnet slot-time reduction Solana has activated a mainnet feature that cuts its target slot time to 350 milliseconds from 400 milliseconds, the network’s first reduction since launch. The change is meant to speed up transaction confirmations and went live on Mainnet Beta at slot 440,208,000 in epoch 1019, Solana’s explorer shows. The move is the first step in a staged plan to reach 200-millisecond slots, with later 50-millisecond cuts gated by block skip rates.

Infrastructure

Circle Aims for Sept. 16 Public Mainnet Launch of Arc Network

Circle targets Sept. 16 public mainnet launch for Arc Circle said Arc is on track to go live on Sept. 16, opening its blockchain to public users and apps while keeping block production in a permissioned validator set. The network will let developers deploy Ethereum-compatible contracts and pay fees in USDC, with Circle and 11 founding validators including BlackRock, DTCC, Mastercard, Standard Chartered and Visa operating validation. Arc’s testnet has logged more than 500 million transactions, while public mainnet would introduce real-value activity.

Infrastructure

Solana Starts Four-Step Plan to Reduce Block Time From 400ms to 200ms

Solana begins block time cut from 400ms to 200ms Solana has started the first step in halving its block time, with the initial cut to 350 milliseconds scheduled for epoch 1020 as part of a four-stage rollout in Anza’s Agave software. If completed, the change would lift output from about 144 blocks per minute to 300, while keeping total network load unchanged by making blocks smaller; validators can pause the sequence if skipped blocks rise, and Solana’s tracker showed 96.7% of stake already on the required software.

August 20, 2026

Infrastructure

Optimism Vote Redirects 546.9M OP From User Airdrops to Foundation Ecosystem Fund

Optimism approves shifting 546.9M OP into Foundation ecosystem fund Optimism governance approved a plan to move 546.9 million OP, about $49.7 million and 12.7% of total supply, from the user airdrop allocation into a Foundation-run Strategic Ecosystem Fund for OP Mainnet and Enterprise. The vote passed 17.974 million to 10.931 million after core development team Test in Prod cast 8.486 million OP with less than 17 minutes left, flipping support from 45.77% to 61.84%.

Infrastructure

GnosisDAO backs plan to turn Gnosis Chain into Ethereum-based EEZ rollup

GnosisDAO approves Gnosis Chain move to Ethereum rollup GnosisDAO has approved GIP-153 to convert Gnosis Chain from a standalone layer-1 into a ZK-proven Ethereum Economic Zone rollup, retiring its validator set and settling directly on Ethereum. The vote passed with 123,158 GNO in favor out of 123,425 cast, above the 75,000 quorum, with launch targeted for late 2026 or early 2027 if the required EEZ technology is ready.

August 19, 2026

Infrastructure

Gnosis Chain Approves Move to Ethereum-Settled Rollup Model

Gnosis Chain approves shift from L1 to Ethereum-settled rollup Gnosis Chain will move from a standalone Layer 1 to an Ethereum-settled rollup, retiring its independent validator set under a direction approved via GnosisDAO governance. The change would unlock about 350,000 GNO now staked in validators and end the treasury-funded staking subsidy, while keeping xDAI as gas and preserving addresses, balances and contract state without migration. Gnosis Ltd will initially run a centralized composer.

Infrastructure

Sei begins phased Eidos mainnet upgrade as Giga roadmap targets 200,000 TPS

Sei starts Eidos storage upgrade on mainnet Sei has begun rolling out its Eidos storage upgrade through the v6.6 mainnet release, overhauling how the layer-1 stores and verifies on-chain data as its Giga roadmap targets 200,000 transactions per second. The phased migration keeps the network online, splits EVM state into a dedicated database, and later plans to add FlatKV and LtHash, with governance able to pause or roll back the rollout if needed.

August 18, 2026

Infrastructure

Proposed XLS-68 Would Let XRPL Users Start Using the Ledger Without Buying XRP First

XLS-68 would let XRPL users onboard without buying XRP first The proposed XLS-68 amendment would let XRP Ledger users create accounts, set up supported trustlines and pay network fees without first buying XRP, by shifting those reserve and fee costs to a sponsor while users keep control of their wallets and private keys. If a sponsor runs out of XRP or stops paying, sponsored transactions pause until the account is funded again by the user or another sponsor.

Infrastructure

Solana Starts Agave 4.2 Mainnet Rollout With Rent Cut, Larger Transactions, Faster Slots

Solana begins activating Agave 4.2 upgrades on mainnet Solana started rolling out three feature-gated Agave 4.2 upgrades on mainnet in the week of Aug. 17: a 90% cut in on-chain storage rent, a 3.3x increase in maximum transaction size to 4,096 bytes, and staged slot-time reductions from 400ms toward 200ms with a safeguard tied to block skip rates. The release also includes Alpenglow code, but its mainnet activation is deferred to Agave 4.3 in October.

August 17, 2026

Infrastructure

Polkadot’s Parachain Model Now Ties Network Demand More Directly to DOT

Polkadot shifts parachain economics to DOT-paid coretime Polkadot’s Agile Coretime model has replaced parachain slot auctions, ending long lease competition and moving projects to bulk or on-demand Relay Chain resources bought with DOT; on Kusama, purchases use KSM. Lease auctions stopped on Sept. 19, 2024, with existing leases moved into Coretime and unused future leases canceled and refunded, creating a more direct—though not automatic—link between parachain demand and native token utility.

August 14, 2026

Infrastructure

BNB Chain Sets Pasteur Hard Fork for Aug. 25 With Security and Throughput Changes

BNB Chain sets Pasteur hard fork for Aug. 25 BNB Chain will activate its Pasteur hard fork on BNB Smart Chain at 2:30 a.m. UTC on Aug. 25, adding stricter cross-chain transfer checks, tighter validator key controls, and a transaction processing change that lifted tested capacity to 2,324 TPS from 1,237 on QANet. Node operators must upgrade to BSC v1.7.7 before activation and remove the outdated EnableBAL setting or the updated software will not start.

Infrastructure

Solana Targets October 2026 for Alpenglow Consensus Upgrade

Solana targets October 2026 for Alpenglow mainnet rollout Solana Foundation’s Agave 4.2 guidance says the Alpenglow consensus code is already included for testing, but it will not go live on mainnet in 4.2. The Foundation points to Agave 4.3 for activation, targeted for October 2026, with Alpenglow aiming to cut finality to about 150 milliseconds from roughly 12.8 seconds by replacing TowerBFT.

Infrastructure

Deribit gains Dubai broker-dealer licence to route spot trades through Coinbase

Deribit wins Dubai broker-dealer licence to route spot orders via Coinbase Dubai’s VARA has granted Deribit a Broker Dealer Licence, allowing the exchange to route spot orders through Coinbase Exchange and add Coinbase’s centralized orderbook to its execution options. Deribit said the move should deepen liquidity, tighten spreads and expand asset access for retail, qualified and institutional clients, while keeping its own spot orderbook for selected assets.

August 13, 2026

Infrastructure

Conflux schedules mandatory v3.1.0 hard fork for Aug. 25 with seven network proposals

Conflux sets Aug. 25 deadline for mandatory v3.1.0 hard fork update Conflux Network said all node operators must install v3.1.0 before epoch 155140000, expected on Aug. 25, or risk falling out of sync with the chain and losing the ability to download blocks, process transactions or mine. The hard fork activates seven CIPs, including Ethereum compatibility changes, transaction and staking fixes, plus a private security patch that Conflux will disclose only after the upgrade; CIP-173 is expected to take effect on Aug. 26.

August 12, 2026

Infrastructure

Gnosis Chain Opens Vote to Rebase Onto Ethereum as First EEZ Rollup

Gnosis Chain votes to become first Ethereum Economic Zone rollup Gnosis Chain has opened voting on GIP-153 to rebase the network from a standalone Layer 1 onto Ethereum as the first Ethereum Economic Zone rollup. If approved, it would keep the same chain, addresses and xDai gas token, while shifting validation to Ethereum and ending the GnosisDAO staking subsidy in favor of a fee-capture model; the first phased deployment could come as early as December 2026.

Infrastructure

DTCC Finishes Live Tokenized Securities Pilot, Plans Phased Launch From October

DTCC completes live blockchain trading pilot with JPMorgan and Goldman DTCC said it has completed a four-hour live test of tokenized securities trading with about 40 major Wall Street firms, including JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs, simulating stocks, ETFs and Treasuries trades, collateral pledges, margin calls, repo transactions and asset transfers on its Besu private blockchain and the Canton Network. DTCC plans a phased rollout starting in October, though broader adoption still depends on regulatory alignment and integration with existing systems.

August 11, 2026

Infrastructure

Pi Network Sets Aug. 11 Protocol 26 Cutoff for Mainnet Node Operators

Pi Network sets Aug. 11 Protocol 26 cutoff for node operators Pi Network said node operators who fail to complete the Protocol 26 upgrade by Aug. 11, 2026 will be disconnected from mainnet, a move that could temporarily reduce active validators across its 421,000-node network. The upgrade focuses on contract security, state management and cryptographic capabilities, and comes ahead of Protocol 27, which Pi describes as the final major step before full network maturity.

August 6, 2026

Infrastructure

Injective Activates Testnet IBC Link to Cardano as ADA Pulls Back and Futures Volume Jumps

Injective launches first live IBC testnet connection to Cardano Injective said it has become the first blockchain with a live on-chain IBC rail to Cardano, currently active on testnet, allowing ADA to move into the Injective ecosystem and INJ into Cardano’s. The update comes as ADA fell 1.44% on Aug. 6 to $0.1882 after rejecting at the 100-day EMA, while ADA futures volume jumped 380% in a week to $650M.

Infrastructure

Solana Hits Record 169.9 Million Daily Non-Vote Transactions After Capacity Upgrade

Solana sets daily record with 169.9M non-vote transactions Solana processed a record 169.9 million non-vote transactions on Aug. 4, the highest single-day total ever recorded, Blockworks data shows. The milestone came six days after Solana activated the SIMD-0286 upgrade, which raised the per-block compute limit from 60 million to 100 million units, a 66% capacity increase, while block times stayed at 400 milliseconds.

Infrastructure

World Chain Rolls Out Streaming Block Access Lists Through Flashblocks

World Chain deploys streaming Block Access Lists via Flashblocks World Chain said it has become the first production Layer-2 to deploy streaming Block Access Lists through Flashblocks, letting validators verify transactions while blocks are still being built instead of waiting for completion. The system splits two-second blocks into 200-millisecond Flashblocks and, in tests on standard cloud hardware, maintained real-time performance as throughput rose from 1.7 million gas per second to 1 gigagas per second.

August 5, 2026

Infrastructure

World Chain to Activate Streaming Block Access Lists on Mainnet on Aug. 17

World Chain to enable EIP-7928 Block Access Lists on Aug. 17 World Chain said it will activate full EIP-7928 Block Access Lists on mainnet on Aug. 17, making it the first production Layer 2 to stream BALs inside every flashblock ahead of Ethereum’s Glamsterdam upgrade later this year. The change lets validators verify independent transactions in parallel while blocks are still being built, with World Chain targeting throughput of up to 1 gigagas per second without requiring stronger hardware.

August 4, 2026

Infrastructure

Solana Validators Back Proposal to Raise SOL Burns and Speed Up Disinflation

Solana proposal seeks vote on higher SOL burns and faster disinflation Solana validators have begun signaling support for SGP-0003, which combines SIMD-0553’s resource-based fees with SIMD-0550’s faster disinflation, potentially raising daily SOL burns from about 650 to as many as 9,000 and bringing the 1.5% terminal inflation rate forward to 2029 from 2032. The package has 24.94 million SOL in backing and needs about 40 million more by Aug. 18 to clear the 15% threshold for a formal vote.

August 3, 2026

Infrastructure

Kenya Puts 15 Million Academic Records on Avalanche for Certificate Verification

Kenya anchors 15 million academic records on Avalanche Kenya’s National Examinations Council has launched a national electronic certificate verification system on Avalanche C-Chain, anchoring more than 15 million exam records dating back to 1989 and issuing 2025 secondary school certificates only through its digital platform. KNEC says the system cuts verification times from months to seconds and plans to expand it to about 35 million records, including teacher-training certifications.

August 2, 2026

Infrastructure

XRPL 3.3.0 Release Expected Next Week With Five Amendments as XRP Holds Near $1

XRPL set for five amendments in xrpld 3.3.0 next week RippleX Head of Product Jazzi Cooper said xrpld 3.3.0 is expected next week with five XRP Ledger amendments: Confidential MPT, Batch, Permission Delegation, Sponsored Fees and Reserves, and Dynamic MPT. The release would add native privacy for MPTs, atomic execution for up to eight transactions across accounts, delegated permissions, sponsored fees and reserves, and updateable MPT properties.

August 1, 2026

Infrastructure

XRP Ledger Prepares Five Proposed Amendments for xrpld 3.3.0 Release

XRP Ledger lines up five amendments for xrpld 3.3.0 RippleX said XRP Ledger developers are preparing five proposed amendments for the xrpld 3.3.0 release next week, aimed at institutional use cases including private token transfers, atomic batch settlement, delegated permissions, sponsored fees, and adjustable token settings. The changes will not go live with the software release and still need validator approval, which typically requires 80% support from trusted validators for two straight weeks.

July 29, 2026

Infrastructure

Zcash activates Ironwood upgrade, retires Orchard to exit-only after shielded pool flaw

Zcash activates Ironwood to replace Orchard shielded pool Zcash activated its Ironwood upgrade at block 3,428,143 via NU6.3 on Tuesday, replacing the Orchard shielded pool after a flaw was found that could theoretically have enabled undetectable counterfeit ZEC. Orchard is now exit-only, while Ironwood adds a separate accounting boundary and a machine-checked proof that researchers said prevents hidden inflation under its design assumptions; about 40,207 ZEC have migrated so far, with roughly 3.6 million ZEC still in Orchard.

July 28, 2026

Infrastructure

COTI says Garbled Circuits mainnet topped 125M transactions as V1 sunset approaches

COTI says Garbled Circuits mainnet passed 125M transactions since March 2025 COTI says its Garbled Circuits mainnet has processed 125 million transactions since March 2025, with private USDT and USDC now live via the Privacy Portal. The Foundation says Privacy-on-Demand will bring COTI’s privacy stack natively to Ethereum, shifting it from a standalone chain to EVM infrastructure, while V1 will sunset at the end of Q3 2026 and native holders on VIPER and Ledger must migrate before then.

Infrastructure

Zcash activates Ironwood and seals Orchard pool holding 3.66 million ZEC

Zcash activates Ironwood, retires Orchard shielded pool Zcash has activated the Ironwood upgrade, sealing the Orchard shielded pool with about 3.66 million ZEC and forcing users to migrate into a new pool that started at zero. The move follows the discovery on May 29 of a four-year-old bug in Orchard’s proof circuit that could have allowed undetectable counterfeit ZEC; Ironwood’s new turnstile rule limits total withdrawals from Orchard to verifiable deposits, trapping any counterfeit coins if they exist. As of press time, 1,500 ZEC had moved.

July 27, 2026

Infrastructure

Ondo launches Ondo Network, shifting from chain concept to execution layer

Ondo Finance launches Ondo Network execution layer Ondo Finance said the first version of its Ondo Network is now live, replacing its earlier Ondo Chain concept with an execution layer for real-world asset markets. The system separates execution from verification and settlement, using hardware enclaves for private, high-speed processing, decentralized attestors for verifiability, and public blockchains like Ethereum for settlement; Ondo Perps is the first app running on it.

July 25, 2026

July 24, 2026

Infrastructure

Stacks clears SIP-045 Bitcoin staking upgrade with 99% support before July 29 fork

Stacks approves SIP-045 Bitcoin Staking upgrade ahead of July 29 hard fork Stacks holders approved SIP-045 with more than 99% support, clearing the way for a hard fork around July 29 at roughly Bitcoin block 907,740. The PoX-5 upgrade will let users lock BTC in a timelocked Bitcoin L1 contract under their own keys and pair it with locked STX to earn BTC yield; companion proposal SIP-044, adding Clarity 6 and new staking post-conditions, also passed.

July 23, 2026

Infrastructure

Pyth adds USDY/USD oracle feed for Ondo’s asset on Aptos and Sui

Pyth launches USDY/USD oracle feed for Aptos and Sui Pyth Network has rolled out a USDY/USD price feed to support Ondo Finance’s yield-bearing USDY asset across Aptos and Sui DeFi ecosystems. The feed gives developers real-time pricing data needed to use USDY in lending, collateral and trading products, removing a key infrastructure barrier for broader on-chain RWA integration.

Infrastructure

Sui Begins Devnet Testing for Confidential Transactions

Sui starts devnet testing for confidential transactions Sui has begun testing confidential transactions on devnet as of June 8, 2026, bringing a privacy upgrade into a live developer environment. The feature is designed to hide transaction amounts and balances while keeping sender and recipient addresses visible for auditability, a selective confidentiality model Sui says could suit enterprise and financial applications. It is not live on mainnet yet.

Infrastructure

Base and Optimism Advance Native Account Abstraction for the OP Stack

Base and Optimism test native account abstraction for OP Stack Base and Optimism are bringing native account abstraction to the OP Stack, with developer testing now live on Base Vibenet and mainnet rollout planned for the Cobalt upgrade in September 2026. The work centers on EIP-8130 and is meant to make accounts more flexible across OP Stack chains, supporting smoother onboarding, transaction flows, and wallet features such as sponsored transactions, recovery, spending limits, and batched actions.

July 21, 2026

Infrastructure

XRPL v3.2.0 reaches 66% validator adoption ahead of July 29 amendment deadline

XRPL v3.2.0 reaches 66% validator adoption before July 29 amendment XRP Ledger’s v3.2.0 is now running on 99 validators, or 66% of the tracked set, and on 481 nodes, or 57.33% of the network, as the fixCleanup3_2_0 amendment heads toward a July 29, 2026 activation. The amendment already has 85.71% support, above the 80% threshold, and bundles maintenance fixes for vaults, lending and permissioned DEX functions; operators that stay on unsupported versions risk becoming amendment-blocked once it goes live.

July 20, 2026

Infrastructure

Cardano Activates Van Rossem Hard Fork, Moving Mainnet to Protocol Version 11

Cardano activates Van Rossem hard fork on mainnet Cardano has activated the Van Rossem hard fork on mainnet at Epoch 644 on July 18, moving the network to Protocol Version 11. The upgrade requires Cardano Node v11.0.1 or later, and Cardano describes it as its first hard fork fully enacted through on-chain governance, making it a key test of the network’s push to coordinate major protocol changes through its decentralized governance framework.

Infrastructure

Aurora mainnet goes offline after block production stops, with no immediate recovery timeline

Aurora mainnet halts block production, suspending transactions Aurora’s mainnet went fully offline early July 20 after block production stopped at 02:16:11 UTC, halting transactions and smart contract execution on the NEAR-based EVM network. Onchain Lens flagged the outage, while Aurora had not released a technical explanation or recovery timeline for several hours after the crash, leaving all onchain activity paused.

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XRPL Validators Set to Vote on Upgrade Adding Batch Transactions and Confidential Transfers

XRPL validators to vote on batch transactions and confidential transfers XRP Ledger validators are expected to begin voting in about two weeks on a package of protocol amendments that would add batch transactions, confidential transfers, sponsored fees and reserves, permission delegation, dynamic Multi-Purpose Tokens, and a bug fix. XRPL validator Vet said the release also includes major performance optimizations aimed at improving node efficiency and network reliability.