September 21, 2026
Ethereum

Ethereum Protocol Update 1 | Ethereum Foundation Blog

Here comes the first Frontier patch, and this is a big one! Before you go further, if your keys date back from Go 1.0 rc or C++ 0.9.36, note that you should regenerate all of your keys NOW. Though some releases of the pre-alpha and alpha clients are secure, this depends on which codebase and

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Bitcoin

Flowra and Honeypot Partner to Bring Sanctions Screening Directly to Solana Block Building

Seoul, South Korea, July 30th, 2026, Chainwire Flowra, the open orderflow auction and validator infrastructure platform for Solana, today announced a collaboration with compliance infrastructure provider Honeypot to integrate sanctions and risk screening directly into the block-building process. The collaboration combines Honeypot’s compliance intelligence with Flowra’s Programmable Block Policy (PBP), enabling institutional validators to define

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Crypto

Strategy is selling stock to pay dividends on stock

The company raised $544.5 million in one week by issuing common shares, bought no bitcoin with it, and put it in a reserve whose stated purpose is covering preferred dividends. The obligation runs $1.76 billion a year. The flywheel that made Strategy famous now turns in the opposite direction, and the coverage is calling it

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Ethereum

On Public and Private Blockchains

Over the last year the concept of “private blockchains” has become very popular in the broader blockchain technology discussion. Essentially, instead of having a fully public and uncontrolled network and state machine secured by cryptoeconomics (eg. proof of work, proof of stake), it is also possible to create a system where access permissions are more

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Crypto

Ethereum price stalls below $2K as fear blocks breakout

Ethereum price remained trapped near $1,920 on July 30 as resistance below $2,000, restrictive US monetary policy, delayed crypto legislation, and broader market fear limited demand. Summary Ethereum price traded near $1,922, below resistance around $1,938 and the psychological $2,000 level. 4-hour momentum remains constructive, but a negative CMF reading shows weak capital inflows. US

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Bitcoin

The IMF Is Right About Tokenisation but Misses the Point

Originally published in American Banker on 26 May 2026 A recent note from the IMF highlights tokenisation as a structural shift in financial architecture; it reconfigures trust, settlement, and risk management to the benefit of investors and issuers, but in their view also risks amplifying financial instability. To counter these risks, the Note emphasizes the

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Ethereum

Security Alert 1 [windows+alethzero] | Ethereum Foundation Blog

This affects users of Alethzero GUI client on Windows. Users of eth CLI client or not on the Windows platform are unlikely to be affected but should take action detailed below. Users of Frontier command line interface geth are unaffected. Issue description: While setting privacy permissions on the keys directory, insufficient error handling can cause the

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Crypto

Bank of Korea tests tokenized reserve transfers through BIS Project Agora

The Bank of Korea has successfully completed live cross-border payment tests using tokenized central bank reserves under the Bank for International Settlements-led Project Agora, processing transactions across six currencies and multiple payment scenarios. Summary Bank of Korea completed live Project Agora payment tests using tokenized reserve funds across six currencies. South Korean banks tested cross

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Ethereum

Chain Reorganisation Depth Expectations | Ethereum Foundation Blog

This following shows our current and planned expectations concerning maximum likely chain-reorganisation depth. We would not consider transactions within this depth to have an exceptionally high chance of being permanent. These are our own expectations only and do not constitute any sort of guarantee. They are derived from theoretical considerations, ongoing empirical data, human factors

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Bitcoin

Crypto News Today (July 29): BTC Loses $64K Following FOMC, Tether Expands into Africa, and the US Targets Iran’s Crypto

In crypto news today (July 30), Bitcoin climbed -0.5% overnight, dropping below $64,000 following yesterday’s FOMC meeting, in which a rate hike wasn’t announced but SEC Chair Paul Atkins hinted at hikes to come, causing a slight sell-off across crypto. However, crypto held up well in comparison to the US stock market, which saw $1Bn

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