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IREN delivered the first of four planned Horizon AI cloud deployments to Microsoft under a five-year, $9.7 billion contract, the company announced Monday. The delivery follows a cloud service agreement signed in November 2025. IREN is transitioning from bitcoin mining to AI infrastructure

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin stated that Ethereum is exploring a hybrid model that combines the advantages of different blockchain governance approaches to increase scalability. Buterin explained that Ethereum aims to combine the strengths of UTXO-type state, dynamic state, and models in

Zcash (ZEC) surged past $500 on Monday, reaching $518 after ZODL founder Josh Swihart announced key protocol upgrades. The privacy coin rebounded from an Aug. 11 slump below $470, falling from under $495 on Sunday afternoon to a 24-hour low of $484 before recovering to $490 just before midnight.

Ethereum Foundation researchers proposed prioritizing Frame Transactions and Fork-Choice Enforced Inclusion Lists (FOCIL) for the Hegotá upgrade scheduled for 2027, according to a post on X by Protocol Architecture team researcher Toni Wahrstätter on Monday. The proposals aim to enable privacy

According to Ethereum Foundation researcher Toni Wahrstätter on Monday, the Protocol Architecture team wants to prioritize Frame Transactions (EIP-8141) and Fork-Choice Enforced Inclusion Lists or FOCIL (EIP-7805) for Hegotá, the major Ethereum upgrade scheduled for 2027. Frame Transactions would

According to ChainCatcher, Yield Guild Games (YGG) announced the official launch of YGG 3.0 today, transitioning from a Web3 gaming pioneer to a cross-domain infrastructure platform. The new version provides communities with tools for organizing labor, skills, and capital across digital economy

Cardano (ADA) published its Dijkstra Era hard fork roadmap, outlining the Layer-1 blockchain network's next major technical transformation with code development targeted for completion by the end of Q4 2026. The roadmap details a two-phase upgrade process designed to enhance network performance,

According to Cardano's official announcement, the Layer-1 blockchain network has released its hard fork roadmap for the 'Dijkstra Era.' The first phase targets completion of core software development by the end of Q4 2026, including Cardano protocol upgrade to version 12 with improvements to network

According to ChainCatcher, decentralized lending protocol Compound Finance has approved a record $52 million budget following recent leadership changes. The protocol's total value locked has declined from a 2021 peak of $12 billion to $1.2 billion. Compound is now refocusing on institutional

According to Pump.fun's weekly report, the platform generated $10.74 million in protocol revenue for the week ending August 16, representing a 7% week-over-week increase and marking the highest weekly revenue since late January. On August 12 alone, Pump.fun recorded $1.73 million in daily revenue, t

According to Foresight News, permissionless leveraged trading market HertzFlow launched its mainnet on BNB Chain today, opening Season 1: Genesis Vault with two stablecoin vaults. The USD stablecoin vault has a deposit cap of $4.44

According to ChainCatcher, NeoSoul, the largest AI economic infrastructure project on BSC and 0G ecosystems, officially launched NeoTrade today (August 17). NeoTrade is a universal AI agent trading workbench enabling users to directly define how their AI trading agents operate. Unlike most

According to the official announcement, HertzFlow, a self-custody leveraged trading protocol backed by Yzi Labs, has launched its mainnet on BNB Chain. The one-week Genesis Vault deposit campaign has launched simultaneously with limited allocation available on a first-come, first-served

Blockstream launched Blockstream Swaps on August 10, 2026, a service designed to move funds across the Bitcoin mainchain, Lightning Network, and Liquid Network. The launch came one week after Boltz, the leading swap provider linking Lightning and Liquid, suspended operations on August 3, 2026,

According to The Block, Bitcoin miner HIVE Digital Technologies signed a five-year GPU cloud services agreement worth approximately $350 million through its BUZZ high-performance computing subsidiary. The undisclosed enterprise customer is investment-grade. The contract is expected to add

JPMorgan Chase terminated its banking relationship with Polymarket in October 2025 over regulatory concerns, according to a source familiar with the matter. The termination adds to challenges facing the prediction market platform as industry scrutiny intensifies. However, a Polymarket spokesperson s

According to the Ethereum Foundation Protocol DevOps team, the early-stage testnet Platåberget for the Glamsterdam upgrade launched on August 17, enabling community participation. The testnet is expected to run for several months, with the Glamsterdam fork scheduled for August 20 on Platåberget.

According to Foresight News, Synthetix completed the SIP-423 upgrade, deprecating native stablecoin sUSD and reforming its SNX staking mechanism. New SNX converts from sUSD at a 4:1 ratio with a one-year lock-in period and one-year unlock period. The original SNX supply of 344.94 million tokens

Anchorpoint, established by Standard Chartered Bank (Hong Kong), clarified in a recent LinkedIn announcement that HKDAP's on-chain functions operate alongside a comprehensive off-chain governance framework. The company stated that on-chain analysis alone does not reflect the complete control