Project Progress

Solana's Alpenglow consensus protocol went live on mainnet-beta on Wednesday, replacing TowerBFT at slot 459,653,000 around 14:00 UTC, core engineering team Anza said. The upgrade reduces transaction finality from about 12.8 seconds to roughly 150 milliseconds, the point at which a transaction

Bastion Trading, a shareholder in SkyAI, is demanding answers from the company's board regarding its full liquidation of $SOL holdings. The shareholder is calling for the board to either explain the liquidation decision or resign, while also demanding an increase in the tender offer price from $3 to

According to BlockBeats, Solana development team Anza launched its new consensus protocol Alpenglow on Solana mainnet today (Oct 21), reducing transaction finality time from 12.8 seconds to 150 milliseconds. The genesis block for Alpenglow has been generated, and the previous consensus mechanism

Fhenix launched its mainnet on Arbitrum, introducing transaction confidentiality features to the layer-2 scaling platform. The launch includes Fhenix's Dual Mode, which enables users to switch transactions between public and private states using FHE-powered confidentiality technology. Arbitrum is a

According to Coinpaper on October 20, XRP Ledger's native lending amendments received 19 validator votes, remaining 10 short of the required 29-vote threshold for activation. LendingProtocol and LendingProtocolV1_1 each need 10 additional votes, while SingleAssetVault has 21 votes. Meanwhile, the

According to WuBlockchain, Zcash is scheduled to activate the NU7 upgrade around November 5, which will cut block times from 75 seconds to 25 seconds and temporarily remove 60% of each block's transaction fees from

According to ChainCatcher, Lido Lend introduced a new withdrawal mechanism called Fallback Exits on October 7. When lending markets lack sufficient asset liquidity, lenders can access borrower collateral to supplement withdrawals, with corresponding debt reduction for affected borrowers.

According to Foresight News, Fhenix's fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) coprocessor CoFHE went live on mainnet on October 20. The mainnet will support Ethereum and Arbitrum, with developers able to continue writing smart contracts in Solidity on existing EVM chains while FHE computations are

According to The Block, Dogecoin Labs officially launched today (October 21) with support from the Dogecoin Foundation. The new organization integrates MyDoge wallet, DogeOS application platform, and Such App payment product under a single entity, with Jordan Jefferson serving as chief executive off

According to ChainCatcher, Alan, former AI product lead at Tencent and ByteDance, was appointed Chief Product Officer (CPO) of AI Agent trading project NeoSoul today (October 21). Alan is a Tsinghua University graduate with 8 years of Web3 experience and previously led AI product initiatives at Tenc

According to PANews, Harmony will shut down its blockchain explorer on November 18, 2026. The team will provide a query tool that allows users to search address activity and transaction records dating back to

According to ChainCatcher, BitGo announced the establishment of BitGo Labs, a new research and innovation division designed to explore applications at the intersection of AI and cryptocurrency. The division focuses on use cases that only crypto technology can enable, such as programmable yields, and

According to Odaily, BNB Standard (Nasdaq: BNC) appointed Alex Odagiu, former investment partner at YZi Labs, as CEO today, and announced the company will participate in BNB validator node operations. Odagiu is scheduled to ring the Nasdaq opening bell on October 26 alongside the board,

According to Odaily, UniSat and Utexo announced a phased integration plan to introduce USDT to Bitcoin network recently. Phase one focuses on adding USDT support in UniSat Wallet and UniScan for receiving, sending, and asset management. Phase two will introduce USDT

According to Anza, Solana activates its Alpenglow consensus upgrade on October 21 during epoch 1064, replacing TowerBFT with Votor to finalize transactions in approximately 150 milliseconds compared to the current 12.8 seconds—an 85-fold improvement. The upgrade begins at slot 459,653,000,

Boerse Stuttgart Group has obtained a DLT Trading and Settlement System license under the European Union's DLT Pilot Regime, providing its Seturion platform with regulatory authorization to operate as a digital settlement system for tokenised assets. The German financial regulator BaFin granted the

Privacy coin Zcash (ZEC) plans to roll out its NU7 upgrade next month, sharply reducing its block-generation interval. Zcash core developer Sean Bowe submitted a proposal on October 20 to activate the NU7 upgrade at block height 3,543,405, projected to be reached on November 5. Once activated, Zcash

According to PANews, on October 21, Arkham launched Arkham Enterprise, an institutional-grade on-chain analysis platform designed for professional investigators, compliance teams, and trading researchers. The platform provides on-chain fund tracking, risk scoring, case management, and transaction an

Starknet launched a governance vote inviting community members to participate in determining the distribution of 1.7 billion STRK tokens. According to the project's announcement, one day remains to cast votes for key governance changes that will affect stakeholders' voting power. Starknet is a