Blockchain
Protocol upgrades, security research, and developments across Bitcoin, Ethereum, and the broader blockchain ecosystem.
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Uniswap’s StablePair Hook Turns Stablecoin Arbitrage Into LP Profit
Forty-three billion dollars in stablecoin trades moved through Uniswap in a single quarter this year, more volume than the next three onchain trading venues combined. Yet until September 10, 2026, the liquidity providers funding those trades were quietly losing a slice of that volume every time a stablecoin pair drifted even a fraction of a…
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Zcash’s Ironwood Upgrade Passes an 87% Migration Milestone
Nearly nine out of every ten shielded ZEC coins have now moved into a privacy pool that didn’t exist five months ago. The Zcash Ironwood upgrade just passed a milestone that says more about trust than about technology: as of September 12, the network’s shielded supply climbed to 4.86 million coins, and 87% of that…
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India’s Demat 2.0 Pilot Makes Tokenized Bond Settlement Instant
$620 billion. That is roughly the size of India’s corporate bond market, and until last week, every trade in it still carried the same old risk: pay first and hope the bonds show up later, or the other way around. On September 11, the Securities and Exchange Board of India flipped that arrangement on its…
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VeChain’s Interstellar Upgrade Wires 11 Ethereum EIPs Into VeChainThor
VeChain’s Interstellar upgrade (VIP-255) bundles 11 Ethereum EIPs into one hard fork, adding zero-knowledge-ready cryptography and passkey support to VeChainThor without touching VET or VTHO tokenomics.
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XRP Ledger’s New Security Amendment Quietly Patches AMM and Vault Bugs
On September 11, XRP Ledger validators flipped on fixCleanup3_3_0, a bundle of eleven small fixes touching automated market makers, lending vaults, checks, and the permissioned DEX. Validator support for this XRP Ledger security amendment cleared the required 80 percent threshold weeks earlier, in a vote most crypto news sites never mentioned. That silence is the…
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Quantus Launches a Post-Quantum Blockchain From Block One
Roughly $2.7 trillion in crypto assets sit behind encryption that a sufficiently powerful quantum computer could eventually crack. On September 9, the Quantus post-quantum blockchain went live with a different bet: instead of waiting for that threat to arrive and scrambling to patch it later, Quantus built quantum-resistant security into its very first block. The…
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MoneyGram’s Stablecoin Card Turns Remittances Into Everyday Spending
Stablecoin spending on cards blew past $1.1 billion in August 2026 alone, and MoneyGram just opened a much wider door for that money. The company’s new MoneyGram stablecoin card went live this month in Colombia, and it lets anyone who receives a remittance through the MoneyGram app spend those dollars directly at any store that…
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Circle Arc Blockchain Hits Sub-Second Finality
Circle’s Arc blockchain reaches deterministic finality in under 500 milliseconds, and BlackRock, DTCC and Visa are already signed on as validators ahead of its September mainnet launch.
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ZKsync’s Prividium Engine Goes Open Source, and a Central Bank Is Already Testing It
“What open weights did for AI, giving serious institutions the option to hold the technology in their own hands, open source is now doing for financial infrastructure.” That’s how Alex Gluchowski, CEO of ZKsync developer Matter Labs, framed a release his team had held back for more than a year. On September 8, Matter Labs…
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DBS and Citi Settle Weekend Payments on Swift’s Ledger
“We are pleased to be working with Citi to demonstrate how tokenized money is moving from experimentation to real-world adoption.” That’s Rachel Chew, DBS’s group chief operating officer, describing the bank’s first weekend run of Swift Digital Ledger payments: a live cross-border dollar transfer that settled on a Saturday, something no bank pair had pulled…