August 6, 2026
Ethereum

Roundup #5 | Ethereum Foundation Blog

Development has steadily continued over the last month and a half as we approach the launch of Metropolis. Over a series of core dev calls over the last few months, we have specified and finalized the EIPs for Metropolis, and made the appropriate changes to the Yellow Paper. Metropolis has now been split up into

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Bitcoin

Pavel Durov’s Native Telegram Wallet Play: What It Means for Gram’s Price

Telegram founder Pavel Durov announced on July 21, 2026, that the messaging app will roll out a native, non-custodial wallet across all versions of its app, targeting more than 1 billion monthly active users with instant, zero-fee crypto transactions. GRAM, the native token of The Open Network (TON) blockchain, jumped roughly +7% on the news,

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Crypto

Crypto wrench attacks reach 52 as financial exposure hits $124M: CertiK

Crypto-related “wrench attacks” continued through the first half of 2026, with 52 verified incidents worldwide and $124.1 million in recorded financial exposure, according to CertiK.  Summary CertiK recorded 52 wrench attacks in H1 2026, with financial exposure reaching $124.1 million worldwide. France accounted for 33 verified incidents as Europe became main center of physical crypto

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Ethereum

Geth 1.7 – Megara | Ethereum Foundation Blog

The Go Ethereum team is proud to announce the next release family of Geth, the first incarnation focusing on laying the groundwork for the upcoming Metropolis hard forks (Byzantium and Constantinople), consisting of 125+ code contributions for various parts of the project. Byzantium fork The current incarnation of Geth contains all the Byzantium EIPs implemented and

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Bitcoin

Ethics, other provisions in crypto Clarity Act to be further discussed

A group of Democrat Senators said in a statement late Wednesday that the bill still fell “short” of where it needed to be to get their support, but that they would keep working on it with Republicans. Senator Elizabeth Warren, the top Democrat on the Senate Banking Committee, argued Wednesday that the policy as written

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Crypto

Japan’s first Bitcoin ETF could arrive by 2028 with ¥3T inflows

Japan could launch its first Bitcoin exchange-traded fund as early as 2028 as regulators prepare rules that would allow investment trusts and ETFs to hold crypto assets directly. Summary Japan could approve its first Bitcoin ETF by 2028 as financial rules continue evolving nationwide. Major Japanese asset managers are preparing crypto funds while regulators work

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Ethereum

Roundup #6 | Ethereum Foundation Blog

Metropolis is finally (almost) here! The fork for Byzantium, the first and larger part of Metropolis, succeeded on the testnet over two weeks ago, and the likely date for the fork on the mainnet has been set to block 4.37 million, which is expected to be on Oct 17. New features include opcodes such as REVERT

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Bitcoin

Nasdaq-listed Zhibao Technology To Take 3,500 Bitcoin In Proposed PIPE Financing

Zhibao Technology, a Shanghai-based insurance-technology firm listed on the Nasdaq, said Wednesday it has signed a non-binding term sheet for a stock sale that would be paid for in bitcoin — some 3,500 coins, worth near $220 million at current prices. The deal, a private investment in public equity known as a PIPE, would have

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Crypto

UK Treasury races to solve cash barrier before tokenized bond debut

The UK Treasury has set Q1 2027 for its first tokenized sovereign bond transaction, but the project has remained dependent on finding a workable method to settle its cash leg on-chain. Summary The UK plans to issue its first tokenized sovereign bond by Q1 2027. Missing on-chain cash infrastructure remains the main barrier to institutional

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Ethereum

Byzantium HF Announcement | Ethereum Foundation Blog

The Ethereum network will be undergoing a planned hard fork at block number 4.37mil (4,370,000), which will likely occur between 12:00 UTC and 13:00 UTC on Monday, October 16, 2017. The Ropsten test network underwent a hard fork on September 19th (UTC) at block number 1.7mil (1,700,000). A countdown timer can be seen at https://fork.codetract.io/. As a user,

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