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The BLAKE2b chain locked out every SHA-256 rig in existence when it activated on 1 September. The one venue quoting the coin showed a 131.7 per cent bid-ask spread, and no major exchange has listed it at all.

Hitting December 2029 means a hard fork roughly every seven months from Glamsterdam onward, and Hegotá, the next one in line, carries no post-quantum code at all.

The 2003-vintage botnet spent its final eight years swapping copied bitcoin and ether addresses for the operator's own, and took about $150,000 doing it. There was never a command server to seize.

The first of five cuts to Solana's storage deposit reaches mainnet this week, trimming roughly 9 per cent. A sixth feature gate exists purely to put the whole thing back.

Cosmos Labs cleared the underflow in April after testers could not reproduce it on live configurations. The fix finally shipped on 19 August, under a release note that named nothing, and validators had twenty hours.

Four of seven seats expire at the end of epoch 653, and below five members the committee cannot ratify treasury withdrawals, parameter changes or the hard fork initiation that Dijkstra depends on.

The custodial Wallet bot has been renamed Walt and demoted to trading and yield, which leaves self-custody as the default for an audience that never went looking for it.

Avici's card-issuing partner Rain traced the theft to an outdated version of its Solana contract. The attacker registered himself as an administrator on 1,685 collateral accounts; every one of them will be refunded in full.

StarkWare's transaction is nonstandard under Bitcoin Core's relay rules, so MARA had to mine it directly. Hours of computation and up to $200 went into moving 10,000 satoshis.

A race condition in versions before 1.22.2 let a malicious dapp swap the payload the device signed for the one the user approved. Ledger fixed it quietly two weeks before a researcher went public.

The upgrade also lifts testnet throughput from 1,237 to 2,324 transactions per second and tightens the rules on how validator keys are retired.

The team blames an authorisation flaw in the Evmos stack its chain was built on. Rebuilding was impossible because Evmos itself was discontinued in May, so BB is moving to BNB Chain as a BEP-20 token.

SIMD-0525 shortens each epoch to 42 hours and rotates validators every 1.4 seconds. The change cuts confirmation latency without adding throughput; three more 50ms cuts are queued.

The two-part SGP-0003 package would double Solana's annual disinflation rate and pull its 1.5% terminal inflation floor forward from 2032 to 2029.

The Foundation is warning wallets, indexers and gas estimators that Glamsterdam's repriced gas will break any tool that hard-codes a maximum limit, and the fork lands on the new testnet within days.

The Nasdaq-listed miner's managed hashrate more than halved year on year to 15.3 EH/s, and FUFU shares dropped 17% before the open on Monday.

The Continuous Clearing Auction contracts landed on Avalanche on Tuesday, extending a system that has already cleared Aztec at $59 million and priced Cap Labs at a $106 million FDV.

The exploit expanded circulating supply by roughly 26 per cent through empty blocks, and 2.8 billion of the newly minted tokens reached exchanges before Harmony could freeze anything. A network rollback is on the table for the second time in Harmony's history.

Two mining pools now decide whether four days of transaction history survive, after the project team's request for a closer recovery point was refused.