A major outage and corporate backlash hit Robinhood Chain at the peak of its growth
Robinhood Chain’s rapid growth ran into two problems at once on Sept. 4 as the network briefly stopped producing blocks while AMC challenged its fast-growing Stock Token business. On Sept. 4, the Ethereum layer-2 network halted block production for at…
Monad’s mainnet upgrade makes storing data together 98% cheaper
Monad, an EVM-compatible blockchain, activated its MonadTen revision on mainnet at 14:30 UTC on Sept. 2. The MIP-8 upgrade changes how the network charges contracts for reading storage, replacing slot-by-slot warming with groups of 128 consecutive slots.…
Scan reveals 96,000 fake-address outputs clogging Bitcoin’s unspent database
Blockchain data company Bitquery published a census on Sept. 2 of four ways text appears in Bitcoin, scanning 965,135 blocks and revealing that the same words can impose very different costs on nodes. Its study counted 13,062 OP_RETURN taunt transactions…
Phemex puts 82 tokens on notice over liquidity and project compliance concerns
Phemex placed 82 unique USDT spot pairs under Special Treatment on Aug. 31, requiring users to pass a mandatory Risk Cognizance Test before trading them. The restriction took effect at 10:00 UTC and applies to established assets including ETC, XTZ, SNX,…
It just got 25 times easier to move self-custody Bitcoin directly onto Wall Street, and $5 billion already has
BlackRock cut the minimum for converting privately held Bitcoin into IBIT shares from $25 million to $1 million, while Bitwise lowered its floor from $100 million to $3 million. While this might sound like a niche development for a small number of…