Infrastructure
Infrastructure

Solana nearly froze as a single routing error took 29% of the network stake offline

The newly detailed Teraswitch failure stayed below Solana’s finality-halt threshold, while independent telemetry showed delayed finality and sharply lower throughput.…
Sep 16, 2026
Infrastructure

Ripple’s university strategy is evolving from blockchain labs to XRP logos in packed stadiums

The 69-day rollout spans Kansas uniforms, Florida’s football field and Louisville basketball, but stops short of token adoption. The post…
Sep 16, 2026
Infrastructure

Solana Lifts Its Transaction Size Cap to 4,096 Bytes to Make Room for Zero-Knowledge Proofs

A new v1 transaction format lifts the ceiling on a single Solana transaction from 1,232 bytes to 4,096, letting operations…
Sep 15, 2026
Infrastructure

Tonkeeper Rebrands to Keeper and Adds Bitcoin, Ethereum and Four More Chains

A self-custodial wallet with more than 77 million users on the Telegram-linked TON blockchain is expanding to Bitcoin, Ethereum and…
Sep 15, 2026
DeFi

Solana lender Kamino taps fintech veteran Michael Weisz as CEO for massive U.S. expansion

Michael Weisz will lead Kamino from a new New York headquarters as the DeFi lender is expanding into tokenized assets.…
Sep 15, 2026
DeFi

Kamino Names Michael Weisz CEO for US and Institutional Expansion

The Solana lending protocol has $1.35 billion in TVL and $1.02 billion in active loans, according to DefiLlama. Read Full…
Sep 15, 2026
Infrastructure

Coinbase-backed Base just exposed the uncomfortable truth about Ethereum’s L2s

Ethereum and Coinbase-backed layer-2 network Base have abandoned an effort to agree on how the next generation of crypto wallets should…
Sep 15, 2026
Industry News

XRP Ledger is one vote away from starting its next big payments upgrade

Batch V1.1 would let users bundle up to eight linked transactions into one operation, with 27 of 35 trusted validators…
Sep 15, 2026
Infrastructure

A new XRPL upgrade could concentrate XRP ownership inside banks instead of retail wallets

Pending sponsorship rules could shift reserves and fees to businesses, whose ability to release capital would depend on user funding…
Sep 15, 2026
Infrastructure

Circle’s Arc launch ties Wall Street firms to the network without making them its safety net

Ahead of the planned Sept. 16 launch, institutional validators offer ledger accountability without a blanket guarantee for applications or losses.…
Sep 14, 2026