Ethereum’s next upgrade turns a 2-second block bottleneck into a roughly 9-second window
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August 20, 2026
Ethereum node operators now have an active public network for rehearsing Glamsterdam’s coordinated execution- and consensus-client upgrade. Platåberget has an open, permissionless validator set, turning the upgrade into a practical test of whether client…
Solana’s 50,000 SOL security contest did not cover a clock attack disclosed months earlier
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August 20, 2026
At USENIX Security on Aug. 12, researchers presented a Solana Proof-of-History clock attack they had disclosed privately to Solana developers in December 2025. Anza’s 50,000 SOL Alpenglow competition closed seven days later, and its rules appear to…