Polygon Labs stated any Polygon PoS node that stayed on pre-hardfork Bor or Heimdall binaries previous two August activation heights has already fallen out of canonical consensus. In follow, the stale node should upgrade and catch up earlier than it could actually comply with the community’s accepted historical past once more. The firm’s Aug. 27…
One of the weakest hyperlinks within the fee chain for cross-border enterprise transactions has lengthy been the worldwide enterprise fee system. The banking charges, variety of intermediaries, international trade necessities, and days required for settlement are all high when corporations ship cash abroad. These delays can pressure working capital and trigger extra operational inefficiencies for…
The proposal to double Solana’s annual disinflation price has been marked Accepted after closing with 176.29 million SOL For, 66.19 million SOL Against and 20.63 million SOL Abstain, based on Validator Info. The end result offers Solana validators and stakers a directional mandate to speed up the community’s path towards decrease issuance. However, it doesn’t…
Ethena is increasing USDe into fairness perpetual-basis trades, targeting funding yields extra than 5 occasions higher than Bitcoin’s as the artificial greenback seems to be to recuperate from its 2026 contraction. On Aug. 28, Ethena revealed plans to prolong the foundation technique behind USDe into fairness perpetual futures, the place open curiosity has surged to…
A Cosmos EVM vulnerability exploited across six networks, together with MANTRA, uncovered a safety hole spanning round 40 blockchains. On Aug. 28, Cosmos Labs said the identical accounting flaw was exploited on six networks, together with MANTRA, TAC, and KiiChain, before an emergency response unfold across the broader Cosmos EVM ecosystem. Attackers transformed about $2.87…
Bitcoin fell beneath $77,000 Friday after Fed Chair Kevin Warsh revived the specter of larger rates of interest at Jackson Hole. Data from CryptoSlate reveals the biggest cryptocurrency dropped to as low as $76,909 earlier than recovering to $77,712 as of press time, down about 4% over the earlier 24 hours. The retreat accelerated a…
MIAX, the U.S. options alternate group, restored Monday and Wednesday short-term expiries for options on BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF after dropping IBIT from its third-quarter roster. A MIAX listing alert stated the alternate group would start itemizing IBIT below a brand new, lower-threshold Tier 2 framework on Aug. 18, 2026. It named IBIT expirations…
Chelsea Football Club has named Circle Internet Group as its principal and official front-of-shirt associate for the 2026/27 season, placing USDC on the membership’s kits as the stablecoin firm seeks a bigger mainstream viewers. The deal announced by Chelsea covers the males’s, girls’s and academy shirts. Circle and USDC branding is scheduled to seem for…
BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) pulled in extra money than your entire US Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) market gained on Aug. 27. IBIT attracted $277.6 million throughout the buying and selling session, whereas US spot Bitcoin ETFs collectively recorded $242.3 million in web inflows, in keeping with Farside Investors knowledge. That means BlackRock’s fund accounted…
Gate’s week was outlined by three converging storylines: the alternate recorded $201.96 million in web inflows over seven days, inserting it within the international high three amongst centralized exchanges per DefiLlama; it accomplished the rollout of Japanese inventory buying and selling to its cell App, giving customers unified USDT-based entry to equities throughout 4 main…