News on layer-1 blockchains beyond Bitcoin and Ethereum: network upgrades, ecosystem funding and adoption.
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Solana is preparing to replace the consensus system it has used since launch, with Anza confirming that Alpenglow is scheduled to activate on mainnet-beta on October 21 at approximately 14:50 UTC.
Circle Internet Group launched Arc’s public mainnet on September 16, bringing online a Layer 1 blockchain designed for payments, capital markets and other institutional…
Algorand is expanding its push into agentic commerce, giving AI agents and software services a way to pay for APIs, data and digital resources directly through HTTP…
Sonic Labs has activated its V2.2 upgrade, doubling the maximum size available for smart contracts and deployment code.
Monad has launched Metropolis, a six-week global hackathon aimed at turning early-stage ideas into working applications and startups on its Layer 1 network.
Monad has added support for SoFiUSD through BitGo, extending the Layer 1 network’s stablecoin infrastructure with a dollar token issued by SoFi Bank.
Ethereum node operators have two new client releases to assess after Erigon and Teku published updates addressing execution-layer bugs, dependency changes and…
The Algorand ecosystem has launched the GoPlausible x402 Facilitator, a developer-facing payment and analytics platform for autonomous agents, APIs and digital services.
BIP-110, a Bitcoin soft fork proposal aimed at changing how the network handles certain forms of data, remains stalled as miner signaling has failed to gain meaningful…
The Algorand Foundation has outlined a post-quantum security roadmap aimed at moving the protocol toward broad quantum resilience before the end of 2027.
Tezos has released its May 2026 ecosystem digest, consolidating network activity, developer deployments and user-facing product updates into a single operational…
Digital Asset has closed a $355 million funding round to expand the Canton Network, a privacy-configurable blockchain designed for regulated capital market activity.
The Aptos mainnet has reached a performance milestone of 25-millisecond block times, according to network data.
