Ethereum
Ethereum will test a major speed upgrade on Oct. 6
Ethereum will activate Glamsterdam on Sepolia Oct. 6, testing changes to block building, parallel processing and gas pricing before mainnet.
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developers
Solana’s Alpenglow upgrade reaches devnet with 150ms finality target
Solana’s Alpenglow upgrade has reached its public developer network, letting application teams test a system designed to cut transaction finality from about 12.8 seconds to roughly…
Markets
Pi Network price slips below $0.09 as moving averages cap rebound
Pi Network price fell back toward $0.088 on Sep. 23 after an intraday move above $0.092 failed to hold. The pullback came as traders weighed recent…
Markets
Zcash price enters discovery with $2,000 in sight
Zcash price traded near $1,455 on Sep. 18 after retreating from an intraday high of $1,535, while technical indicators and liquidation data pointed to continued volatility…
developers
Ethereum warns Glamsterdam testnet faces builder abuse
Ethereum set Oct. 6 for Glamsterdam on Sepolia as developers warned free test ether could let disposable builders disrupt payload delivery.
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Zcash targets Nov. 5 for NU7 mainnet upgrade
Zcash developers target Nov. 5 for NU7 mainnet activation, with 25-second blocks, preserved halvings and an Oct. 6 testnet rollout.
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XRP Ledger 3.4.0 adds lending and protocol fixes
XRP Ledger 3.4.0 adds LendingProtocolV1_1, closed-ended vaults, cash-basis accounting and a bundled protocol-fix amendment for servers.
Ethereum
Ethereum targets Oct. 6 for Glamsterdam on Sepolia
Ethereum developers have tentatively scheduled Glamsterdam on Sepolia for Oct. 6, pending results from another private devnet test.
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XRP Ledger Batch upgrade remains below 80% vote
XRP Ledger’s BatchV1_1 amendment has 68.57% validator support but must remain above 80% for 14 days before activation.
Cardano
Cardano ships node 11.1.1 ahead of Dijkstra
Cardano released node 11.1.1 as developers prepare DijkstraNet, Leios testing and a possible Dijkstra hard fork in late 2026.