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What happens on BNB Smart Chain on August 25, 2026 On August 25, 2026 at 02:30 UTC, BNB Smart Chain activates the Pasteur hardfork. If you hold BNB, delegate your balance or plan a transfer o
MANTRA Chain has resumed block production after deploying version 8.4.0 to fix a Cosmos-EVM vulnerability that kept its mainnet unable to process transactions for about 30 hours. Summary MANT
Key Takeaways The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Trust established a fresh $352.7 million stake in Home Depot (HD) by acquiring 1 million shares during Q2. To finance this investment, the tr
SwarmBase Roadmap Explained: Phases, Milestones and Future Plans SwarmBase describes itself as the "cognitive backbone of agentic swarms" decentralized infrastructure built for deploying, coo
The Last Mile: Taking a STON.fi Integration From Test Network to Real Users Getting a swap working in a test environment is the easy 80% of shipping a STON.fi integration. The remaining 20% —
A Week That Turned Chainlink News Today Into A Long Story of Momentum Some weeks in crypto blur together. This wasn't one of them. In the span of a few days, Chainlink went from an infrastruc
Espresso Testnet Reaches 0.24 Second Finality: Is Mainnet Ready Next? Espresso Systems has announced a milestone for its sequencing infrastructure: the Decaf testnet has reached subsecond fin
Although the deadline for the previous major protocol update passed days ago, the Core Team behind the project finally announced its successful deployment. Moreover, they provided more detail
Britain’s tax authority sent more than 81,000 warning letters to crypto investors over the past year. This highlights a sharp rise in scrutiny of digital asset holdings. Meanwhile, a much big
Crypto and blockchain companies announced approximately $1.298 billion across six disclosed transactions between Aug. 16 and Aug. 22, 2026. ZeroStack accounted for most of the total through a
Key Highlights Pi Network has begun rolling out Protocol 27 on Testnet following the successful completion of Protocol 26.1 on Mainnet — with the Mainnet upgrade target set for September 15,
Crypto Hack News: Bofur Faces $2M Loss in Address Poisoning Scam In the latest Crypto Hack News, security firm PeckShield flagged a wallet labeled Bofur Capital for losing $2 million in an ad