Technology

The Quip.Network testnet allows quantum processors, GPUs and CPUs to work side by side for the first time on a public blockchain, drawing six research teams and thousands of early participants.

The prediction market platform announces CTF Exchange V2, a rebuilt matching engine, and Polymarket USD — a USDC-backed collateral token designed to eliminate bridge-related risk on Polygon.

The Open Network completes its Catchain 2.0 consensus upgrade with full fast-consensus activation on both basechain and masterchain, targeting block finality under one second.

The Bitcoin network's computational power has fallen to 961 EH/s after briefly crossing the 1 zettahash threshold in late March, triggering volatile difficulty adjustments and pushing hash prices toward historic lows as miners increasingly divert infrastructure to artificial intelligence workloads.

Ethereum's next major upgrade targets a 200 million gas limit, enshrined proposer-builder separation via EIP-7732, and block-level access lists under EIP-7928, with a tentative mainnet activation in June 2026.

The Solana Foundation and Asymmetric Research have unveiled a tiered DeFi security framework offering foundation-funded monitoring for protocols above $10 million TVL and formal verification for those exceeding $100 million.

Suspected North Korean operatives compromised the widely used Axios JavaScript library on 31 March 2026 by socially engineering its maintainer over several weeks, publishing two malicious npm packages that may have infected thousands of downstream systems before being pulled three hours later.

Paris-based Lightning Stock Exchange will admit French aerospace manufacturer ST Group on 9 April 2026 in the first initial public offering conducted entirely on blockchain infrastructure under the EU's DLT Pilot Regime, merging issuance, trading, and settlement into a single on-chain system.

Aave Labs deploys its most significant protocol overhaul in over two years, introducing unified liquidity layers, soft liquidations, and native GHO stablecoin minting across three initial hubs.

UBS, Société Générale and Banque de France move beyond pilots to deploy live repo operations on Ethereum's public blockchain, targeting settlement speed and transparency gains.

The Singapore-based payments infrastructure firm has unveiled an enterprise platform that lets any business holding stablecoins issue spending cards across both major card networks through a single API, accelerating the convergence of digital dollars and traditional payments.

XRP Tokyo 2026 brings 3,000 attendees and 20 speakers to Japan's capital on April 7, with Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama delivering a keynote that signals deepening policy engagement with digital asset infrastructure.

The Monetary Authority of Singapore will pilot the issuance of tokenised government bills settled through a Singapore dollar wholesale CBDC in 2026, partnering with DBS, OCBC, and UOB in what represents one of the most advanced real-world tests of blockchain-based sovereign debt infrastructure.

Stablecoin issuer Circle has published a multi-phase roadmap to equip its forthcoming Arc blockchain with post-quantum cryptographic protections, positioning the network as the first institutional-grade chain designed to withstand quantum computing threats from launch.

Drift Protocol reveals its $285 million exploit was the culmination of a six-month social engineering campaign by a DPRK-linked group that posed as a quantitative trading firm.

Glamsterdam, Ethereum's third hard fork in twelve months, introduces on-chain block building and parallel transaction processing to cut gas fees by 78.6% and target 10,000 TPS.

Ant Group's blockchain arm unveils a platform enabling autonomous AI agents to hold assets, settle payments in USDC, and transact without human intervention — betting on a $3-5 trillion agent economy.

Solana processed a record 10.1 billion transactions in Q1 2026, roughly 50% above Q4 2025, while SOL token price declined 31% year-to-date — a split driven by stablecoin settlement and RWA tokenisation growth.

Armstrong pledges direct oversight of a new industry coalition to make Bitcoin quantum-resistant, with Coinbase planning to launch quantum-proof custody services for institutional clients by late 2026.

AllianceBernstein's research division predicted on January 7, 2026, that tokenization of real-world assets will drive a supercycle in crypto adoption.