stVaults, introduced in February 2025 as part of the Lido V3 upgrade, are finally rolling out in a mainnet.
Despite Solana's validator contraction, non-vote transactions have remained relatively stable at around 100 million per day.
Phylax's Credible Layer allows developers to preprogram rules — or “assertions” — into smart contracts to mitigate exploits.
When Solana maintainers told validators to move quickly on Agave v3.0.14, the message arrived with more urgency than detail. The Solana Status account called the release “urgent” and said it contained a “critical set of patches” for Mainnet Beta validators. Within a day, the public conversation drifted toward a harder question: if a proof-of-stake network […]
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The aim is to make staking more resilient while dramatically reducing technical complexity for large ETH holders.
SOL Strategies has launched STKESOL, staking over 500,000 SOL to expand its Solana-focused infrastructure operations.
More than 36 million ETH is now staked in Ethereum's proof-of-stake system, close to 30% of the circulating supply and worth over $118 billion at recent prices. That headline number sounds like a clean vote of confidence: holders are locking up their ETH to secure the network, collect yield, and signal they’re in no rush […]
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Market onlookers have long speculated that Anchorage, the first federally chartered digital asset bank, was considering going public.
Sui core developers said the high-throughput Layer 1 is “currently experiencing a network stall,” in a post on X.
Coinbase is one of the largest Solana stakers, with nearly 10% of the network’s total staked SOL, according to its Validator Performance Report.
The following article is adapted from The Block’s newsletter, The Daily, which comes out on weekday afternoons.
JupUSD is an Ethena whitelabel stablecoin backed primarily by BlackRock's tokenized USD Institutional Digital Liquidity Fund.
The project previously raised an unannounced pre-seed round of about $5 million in mid-2024, founder Kevin Lepsoe told The Block.
Firedancer could boost client diversity on Solana, which historically has been dominated by forks of Solana Labs' original codebase.
Solmate previously announced plans for an aggressive M&A strategy to bolster its treasury and staking operations.
Consensys said Ethereum researchers are now looking to “roll out hard forks on an accelerated twice-a-year cadence."
Aztec says Ignition Chain, which enables programmable privacy, is the first fully decentralized Layer 2 network on Ethereum.
As institutional comfort with Ethereum grows, more participants appear willing to commit capital for extended periods to earn yield.
The tie-up will bring data for major global indices like the Russell 1000, Russell 2000, Russell 3000, and other FTSE products onchain.
The backwards-compatible Fusaka hard fork will implement about a dozen Ethereum Improvement Proposals.
The move kicks off the countdown to Ethereum’s second hard fork of 2025.
Hoodi represents the third and final testnet deployment, following successive activations on Holesky and Sepolia earlier this month.
In a conversation with CoinDesk, Marinade Labs' Michael Repetny gives an overview of the Solana staking ecosystem and the upcoming Alpenglow upgrade.
The institutional blockchain has reached more than 500K daily transactions, with major banks and U.S. crypto exchanges fueling unprecedented growth.
Blockchain Builders Fund, GSR, Kindred Ventures, Rocket Pool, and the Stanford Blockchain Accelerator, are among the other notable backers.
The backlog pushed exit wait times to more than 46 days on Monday, the longest in Ethereum’s short staking history, dashboards show. The last peak, in August, put the exit queue at 18 days.
On Wednesday, Polygon PoS experienced 10–15 minute delays in recording block "milestones" after a bug was detected.
The validators were tied to the SSV Network, a distributed validator technology protocol that decentralizes staking infrastructure.
The following article is adapted from The Block’s newsletter, The Daily, which comes out on weekday afternoons.
Kiln described the ETH validator exits as a precautionary step to safeguard client assets in the wake of the SwissBorg event.