Solana’s plan to cut account deposits by 90% could weaken a reason to hold SOL
Eligible Solana token-account owners can reclaim excess SOL previously needed to keep their token accounts open after the network’s first rent reduction went live Sept. 3. For businesses funding new accounts, the same change lowers the upfront…
Zcash breaks $1,000 as its spot ETF crosses $400 million in assets
Zcash broke above $1,000 on Sept. 4, pushing the asset value of Grayscale’s recently listed ZCSH ETF past $400 million less than two weeks after its debut. ZEC registered an intraday high of $1,050.70, up roughly 20% over 24 hours and nearly 100% over…
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…
El Salvador added 1,540 Bitcoin, but the IMF says Bukele’s government didn’t pay for them
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) says El Salvador’s Bitcoin reserve growth over the past year came from private donations, not new government spending. In its latest review of the country’s loan program, the global financial agency said documents…
Hidden Solana upgrade bug can freeze network readers and silently disable fee limits
Solana’s v1 transaction format promises more than three times as much room per transaction, but RPC clients, indexers, relayers and fee sponsors that are not ready for it can fail in two very different ways: some systems stop, while others keep running…
Bitwise 14% yield gap in XRP futures shows how institutions are quietly extracting cash from traders
Bitwise has given the market a rare look inside an institutional XRP carry trade. The Bitwise Crypto Carry Fund, or USCC, paired XRP held in custody with an almost equal short position in September Coinbase XRP futures. The structure was 97.48% matched…
Privacy coin flaw risks endless token creation, leaving node operators with a deadline in hours to fix it
The Firo hard fork was 153 blocks away from activation early Friday, leaving wallet users and network operators only hours to install software that repairs an August vulnerability in the privacy coin’s Spark transaction system. The chain reached block…
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…
Parked Coldcard loot begins moving as attacker routes $1.6M in stolen Bitcoin to Ethereum
Bitcoin flagged by blockchain data provider Bitquery as linked to the 2026 Coldcard hardware-wallet theft crossed into Ethereum this week after a tracked 20.5 BTC stash began moving. The route shifted the case from a largely parked stash to an active…