The long-anticipated London upgrade is now ready for deployement on the Ethereum testnets! The upgrade will first go live on Ropsten, at block 10499401, which is expected to happen around June 24, 2021. This upgrade follows Berlin, which was activated only a few months ago on the Ethereum mainnet. By starting the work on London
Stablecoins have become the engine of on-chain finance. a16z’s 2025 report shows $46 trillion in annual transfers, nearly triple Visa’s. What began as a trading tool now underpins a global settlement network. Summary Stablecoins processed $46 trillion in onchain transactions in 2025, nearly triple Visa’s annual volume, per a16z’s State of Crypto report. Monthly adjusted
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Midnight airdrop enters its next stage after the project mints all 24 billion NIGHT tokens on Cardano. Summary Cardano price fell 6.5% despite the excitement around the Midnight mint Midnight minted 24 billion NIGHT tokens on the Cardano Network The project has entered the Scavenger Mine phase, ahead of the Redemption phase One of Cardano’s
The event is open to everyone, from startup teams to solo creators. The hackathon runs until February 7, 2026. Winning participants will enjoy a $150,000 prize pool. Blockchain network Mantle has officially opened its first-ever global hackathon, inviting creators and developers to build innovative blockchain solutions in a five-month online competition. The event has started
Community organizers are the glue that holds the Ethereum ecosystem together, and whether they’re leading large-scale events, local meetups, hackathons or seminars, we might all be wandering in the dark forest of the analog world without them. But where’s the fun in relying on chance encounters with kindred spirits identified by a telltale laptop sticker,
Mercer Park Opportunities Corp. is acquiring crypto platform Cube Group, in a merger deal set to create a $500 million Solana treasury company. Summary Mercer Park and Cube are eyeing a SPAC deal that values Cube Group at $300 million. The transaction will create a new company expected to buy $500 million Solana tokens for
Important Update On July 21, 2021, a consensus issue was identified on the Ropsten network, where the go-ethereum, Erigon and Nethermind implementations had different transaction validation logic than Besu and OpenEthereum. New versions of the affected clients have been released and are linked in the “Client Versions” table below. The block number for London is
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tl;dr Upgrade for London, yes you! The hotly anticipated upgrade to Ethereum mainnet — London — has a fork block scheduled, and mainnet client releases are out. As mentioned before, to allow for validator deposits, the beacon chain validators come to consensus on the state of the proof-of-work chain and process deposits sequentially from there.
