August 5, 2026
Ethereum

Hard Fork No. 4: Spurious Dragon

The Ethereum network will be undergoing a hard fork at block number 2,675,000, which will likely occur between 15:00 and 16:00 UTC on Tuesday, November 22, 2016. A countdown timer can be seen at https://fork.codetract.io/. The Morden test network will be undergoing a hard fork at block number 1,885,000. As a user, what do I

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Bitcoin

Senate Dems should accept the victory they won on Trump’s crypto limits: White House

This negotiation over the government conflict-of-interest piece had delayed progress on the Clarity Act for months — now potentially beyond the window in which it could most easily become law in 2026. This week’s release of the final working draft of Clarity included the first ethics language openly circulated, so Democrats are now responding —

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Crypto

Odos Protocol to shut down DEX aggregator on July 30

Odos Protocol has announced plans to shut down its decentralized exchange aggregator, giving users until July 30 to withdraw assets from the platform. Summary Odos Protocol will shut down its DEX aggregator and has asked users to withdraw assets by July 30. The project said the Odos DAO will announce its own plans separately, while

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Ethereum

From Morden to Ropsten | Ethereum Foundation Blog

Testing a fork The Spurious Dragon hardfork is scheduled for the coming week; block 2675000 is likely to occur Tuesday evening (CET). The block number for the testnet “Morden” was scheduled at block 1885000. Performing the fork in the test network prior to performing it in the main network was an important measure taken in

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Crypto

Can bulls defend $500 support as Zcash faces Ironwood upgrade?

Zcash price has fallen toward the $500 psychological support as a 4-hour breakdown, leveraged liquidations, and caution before the Ironwood upgrade have weakened market sentiment. Summary Zcash price has fallen toward $500 after losing $520 and triggering more than $2 million in long liquidations. Bulls must reclaim $530 to neutralize the bearish structure, while $550

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Ethereum

Security alert [11/24/2016]: Consensus bug in geth v1.4.19 and v1.5.2

Security Alert Affected configurations: Geth Severity: High Summary:  An issue has been identified with Geth’s journaling mechanism. This caused a network fork at block #2686351 (Nov-24-2016 14:12:07 UTC). The new Geth release 1.5.3 fixes the journaling issue and repairs the fork. Details: Geth was failing to revert empty account deletions when the transaction causing the

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Bitcoin

Bitcoinist.App Brings Private Mining Pools To IOS

RAS AL KHAIMAH, UAE, July 23, 2026: BFM Company Limited today introduced Bitcoinist.App, a non-custodial Bitcoin mining app and Learn-to-Mine platform released exclusively for iOS. Available from the Apple App Store, Bitcoinist.App gives people a simple way to learn how Bitcoin mining works, access real hashpower, create private Bitcoin mining pools, and receive payouts directly

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Crypto

If CLARITY passes, here is what Monday morning looks like

The Senate treats the crypto bill as a finish line. It is a starting gun. Some provisions fire the moment the president signs, others wait years for two short-staffed agencies to write the actual rules, and the gap between those two speeds is where the market’s expectations will be made and broken. Summary If the

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Ethereum

Ethereum Research Update | Ethereum Foundation Blog

This week marks the completion of our fourth hard fork, Spurious Dragon, and the subsequent state clearing process, the final steps in the two-hard-fork solution to the recent Ethereum denial of service attacks that slowed down the network in September and October. Gas limits are in the process of being increased to 4 million as the network

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Bitcoin

XLM Supply Warning: Is Stellar Quietly Locking Away Millions of Tokens Now?

XLM reserves lock 1 XLM per funded account and 0.5 XLM per trustline, while the price holds above $0.166955 support on the chart. Stellar holders are reviewing how network reserve rules affect usable XLM supply. The debate centers on tokens held inside accounts and ledger entries. Cheeky Crypto said every funded Stellar account needs a

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