THORChain declined Bitget's formal request to block addresses linked to the $387.5 million hack, stating it 'doesn't censor by design' and comparing itself to Bitcoin's permissionless nature, while approximately $6 million in stolen funds moved through the protocol.
The XRP Ledger's Batch upgrade, which would allow users to bundle up to eight transactions, was delayed by at least 10 days after validator support temporarily fell below the required 80% threshold, resetting the two-week activation clock. The upgrade now targets October 9 as the earliest activation date if support holds.
A Cosmos Hub governance proposal that would have returned 1.2 million ATOM tokens seized after the Neutron attack, plus allocated 500,000 ATOM to supporting voters, is being vetoed by the community. The proposal sought to pay 1.72 million ATOM total from the Hub's community pool.
Cosmos Hub validators stopped block production for nearly 25 hours following a governance attack on Neutron that initially led to losses of approximately $9.5 million, moving 1.23 million ATOM from attacker wallets after restart.
XRP Ledger's Batch V1.1 upgrade has maintained support from 30 of 35 tracked validators and is approaching activation on September 29. The feature allows up to eight transactions to be grouped together to succeed or fail as a unit, with Ripple reporting that asset managers and commercial projects are already preparing to use it following extensive security reviews.
A vault flaw created during a routine code refactor three years ago enabled a $1.3 million theft on the Radix blockchain, forcing validators to halt the network for 10 days. The Radix Foundation disclosed the incident on September 17.
Avalanche is implementing a network upgrade scheduled for Sept. 22 that reduces validator lockup periods from weeks to 48 hours, while introducing auto-renewal features and new requirements for earning full cycle rewards.
Nearly 2.4 million ZEC tokens, representing about two-thirds of eligible supply, voted in favor of reducing Zcash's block time from 75 to 25 seconds and maintaining the existing halving schedule in Network Upgrade 7 sentiment polls that closed September 14. The proposals received 98.9% support from participating coinholders.
Zcash gained about 20% over 24 hours after Paradigm co-founder Matt Huang disclosed that the crypto investment firm made an unspecified purchase of ZEC. The rally came as Zcash holders voted to preserve Bitcoin-style halvings and speed up block times to 25 seconds.
The XRP Ledger's BatchV1_1 amendment has secured 68.57% validator support (24 of 35 votes) as of September 8, 2026, falling short of the 80% threshold required to begin its two-week activation period. XRP is trading at $1.41 as the governance vote continues.
The Ethereum Foundation's Protocol cluster has published its first unified tier list grading all 62 EIPs proposed for the Hegotá network upgrade, identifying two "must ship" proposals focused on censorship resistance and flexible account authentication.
The Ethereum Foundation's Protocol Cluster published a unified graded ranking of all 62 EIPs proposed for the Hegotá upgrade, identifying two 'must ship' proposals focused on censorship resistance and flexible account authentication. The upgrade is scheduled to follow Glamsterdam in 2027.
Ethereum-compatible layer-1 network Harmony has proposed sunsetting its seven-year-old blockchain and migrating its native ONE token to Ethereum. The project has allocated $1.37 million in compensation for validators who halt node operations starting September 10 and transition to governor roles in new projects.
Ethereum-compatible layer-1 network Harmony has proposed sunsetting its seven-year-old blockchain and migrating its native ONE token to Ethereum. The project has allocated $1.37 million in compensation for validators who halt node operations starting September 10 and transition to governor roles in new projects.
Hyperliquid is testing HIP-3, an upgrade that introduces optional permissioned markets using on-chain allowlists controlled by independent deployers. The venue-scoped controls allow operators to restrict trading access to their own markets without affecting existing permissionless markets.
Solana's Aug. 28 vote on fee reform proposal SGP-0003 failed despite receiving majority support from participating stake, exposing the extent of founder Anatoly Yakovenko's power over the network's governance.
A layer-1 blockchain network froze operations for four hours in an emergency response to prevent a $4.9 million hack, then publicly characterized the incident as a routine upgrade. The emergency action jailed validators and disrupted exchange transfers while maintaining consensus-level security.
Core DAO is coordinating an emergency hard fork after a small group of validators exploited the blockchain to claim more CORE token rewards than the protocol was designed to issue. Several exchanges have halted CORE transfers in response to the incident.
Ontology's development team stopped the blockchain's mainnet block production on August 31 after flagging a potential security issue during routine checks. The network remained halted with no confirmed incident or restart timeline disclosed.
Cronos validators halted the blockchain and erased 10,000 blocks to reverse a price manipulation exploit on the Tectonic lending protocol that resulted in over $70 million in losses. The controversial rollback saved $69 million in frozen assets but sparked debate about blockchain immutability.
The Cronos blockchain halted block production on Sunday after an attacker exploited Tectonic, its largest lending protocol, by artificially inflating the TONIC token price roughly 100-fold and using it as collateral to borrow approximately $75 million in assets. Validators paused the network, stranding most of the stolen funds.
Hackers exploited a critical balance-handling flaw in the Cosmos EVM module to drain funds from six blockchains between August 20-25, 2026. Cosmos Labs had identified the vulnerability affecting approximately 40 blockchains but failed to act for four months before the attacks occurred.
Solana's proposal to double its annual disinflation rate passed with 176.29 million SOL in favor versus 66.19 million against, after Kraken and Galaxy switched their votes in the final hours. The closely watched governance vote will accelerate the reduction in new SOL token issuance.
Solana's first binding on-chain governance vote passed SGP-0002 to double the network's disinflation rate from 15% to 30%, hitting the 1.5% issuance floor by 2029 instead of 2032. The vote passed narrowly after Kraken and Galaxy switched their votes in the final hours.
Arbitrum deployed its ArbOS 61 'Elara' upgrade on August 20, introducing optional compliance screening tools that Orbit chain owners can control on their dedicated networks. The upgrade affects both Arbitrum One and Arbitrum Nova, though priority fees remain disabled on Arbitrum One pending further governance votes.
Solana Company announced its voting positions ahead of the Aug. 22 Solana governance vote, supporting the proposed constitution while opposing economic plans that would reduce token issuance by 18.9 million SOL and implement variable resource fees. The company's stock surged 12% on the news.
Evernorth is preparing to deploy its XRP holdings across the XRP Ledger ecosystem as a proposed native lending functionality undergoes review on the network. The company's Chief Business Officer Sagar confirmed the firm is eyeing DeFi opportunities tied to the potential new lending framework.
A critical consensus flaw allowed invalid blocks onto the Ravencoin blockchain starting August 7 at block height 4,487,776. Two mining pools controlling majority hashpower are building a replacement chain from before the exploit, threatening to reverse four days of deposits, withdrawals, and payments.
A demonstrated consensus flaw let invalid blocks onto Ravencoin starting at block height 4,487,776 on August 7. Pools controlling majority hashpower are mining a replacement chain, putting deposits and withdrawals made since then at risk.
A minority Bitcoin blockchain fork created by BIP-110 supporters split from the main network at block height 961,632 but stalled after producing only two blocks, with lead mining group Roughnecks announcing it has ceased operations. The main Bitcoin chain pulled ahead by over 18 blocks as the controversial anti-spam proposal failed to gain miner support.
Circle announced 11 founding validators for its Arc blockchain public mainnet launching September 16, including BlackRock, Visa, Mastercard, DTCC, and SBI Group. The company reported Q2 revenue of $701 million with USDC circulation reaching $73.3 billion.
Solana validators are signaling support for linked governance proposals SGP-0003 (SIMD-0550 and SIMD-0553) that would introduce resource-based transaction fees and double the disinflation rate, potentially increasing daily SOL token burns from approximately $47,000 to $650,000.
Illia Polosukhin, co-founder of NEAR Protocol, has proposed creating a protocol sovereign fund seeded with approximately 30 million NEAR tokens (valued between $57-450 million) to generate yield for network operations and potentially reduce token inflation. The fund would consolidate treasury assets and use protocol revenue to support validators, security, and public goods.
Law firm Linklaters has advised fintech company SWIAT on establishing a European cooperative structure for the Regulated Layer One (RL1) blockchain initiative, with the new entity now incorporated.
The cryptocurrency industry has experienced $972 million in security breaches during 2026, with the majority of stolen funds traced to compromised private keys, signature exploits, and governance vulnerabilities rather than smart contract flaws.
The cryptocurrency industry has experienced $972 million in security breaches during 2026, with the majority of stolen funds traced to compromised private keys, signature exploits, and governance vulnerabilities rather than smart contract flaws.
The Ethereum Foundation appointed Pascal Caversaccio (pcaversaccio), co-founder of crypto security response group SEAL 911, to its board on a one-year voluntary term. The appointment follows significant leadership changes at the foundation.
Cardano successfully activated its Van Rossem hard fork on July 18, 2026, upgrading to Protocol Version 11 in what marks the blockchain's first upgrade approved entirely through on-chain governance without Input Output (IOHK) control. The upgrade reduces smart contract execution costs and adds Plutus enhancements.
Jordan Fish (Cobie), a Coinbase product executive, publicly acknowledged that the company and its Base blockchain platform have become too distant from crypto-native users and eroded community trust through preventable errors. The admission comes amid growing criticism and leadership changes at the company.
Input Output announced it will transfer control of Cardano's Haskell node, Plutus platform, Daedalus wallet, and Hydra scaling tool to outside specialist companies starting in August, marking a major decentralization milestone.
Coinbase executive Jesse Pollak handed Base app leadership to trader 'Cobie' after publicly acknowledging the network's push into on-chain social and creator coins 'was wrong,' refocusing Base on becoming 'the blockchain for global finance.'
South Korea's government has reaffirmed its commitment to expanding its blockchain and digital asset sector in the second half of 2026, announcing plans for stablecoin legislation, crypto ETF frameworks, and a 2027 pilot program linking tokenized government bonds to its institutional CBDC infrastructure. The push comes as crypto trading volumes hit a two-year low amid broader market challenges.
Major crypto companies including OKX, MetaMask, and Matter Labs have backed the creation of a specialized dispute resolution court designed to handle contractual disputes between AI agents as autonomous agent-to-agent transactions become more common.
The Ethereum Foundation has published a policy guide for policymakers and institutions, advocating that governments differentiate between decentralized public blockchains and corporate-controlled networks when evaluating platforms for public sector use, emphasizing governance structures as a key criterion.
The Cardano Foundation announced a three-year partnership with the Brazilian Olympic Committee to modernize sports administration using blockchain technology, while separately the network's 2026 Summit in Singapore was canceled after treasury governance failed to approve funding.
The Ethereum Foundation has returned to the center of controversy in the crypto community, facing questions about its governance practices and stewardship of the Ethereum blockchain amid growing concerns from token holders about the network's direction despite technical progress.
Ondo Finance has partnered with Broadridge Financial Solutions to allow holders of its tokenized stocks and ETFs to participate in on-chain proxy voting, bringing tokenized equities closer to traditional brokerage account functionality. The feature covers Ondo's $700 million in tokenized equities across 250+ stocks.
Litecoin underwent a chain reorganization spanning more than three hours to undo its first major privacy-layer exploit, with attackers attempting double-spends against cross-chain swap protocols during the fork window.
Paul Sztorc announced a Bitcoin hard fork that would introduce a competing layer-1 blockchain and seven layer-2 networks, with plans to reallocate Satoshi Nakamoto's estimated 1.1 million BTC reserve to investors.
The Arbitrum Security Council froze $71 million worth of ETH stolen in the $292 million Kelp DAO exploit, with funds only movable through further governance action. Kelp DAO and LayerZero continue to dispute responsibility for the bridge vulnerability.
Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson releases a video calling BIP-361 a mischaracterized soft fork that would render 1.7 million BTC permanently unrecoverable. He tweets "Have fun stealing Satoshi's coins" directly at supporters of the proposal and argues Bitcoin's lack of on-chain governance makes the quantum problem unsolvable, while positioning Cardano's governance model as the alternative.
Galaxy shareholders holding tokenized GLXY shares will be able to participate in proxy voting on-chain in May through a partnership with Broadridge. This represents the first implementation of on-chain corporate governance for tokenized securities.
Alabama Governor signed legislation on April 2, 2026, creating a legal framework for decentralized nonprofit associations (DUNAs), making Alabama the second US state after Wyoming to grant legal personality to DAO-like entities. The law provides liability protection for members and enables internet-native organizations to operate with legal recognition.
