Solana Cuts Block Slot Time to 350 Milliseconds in First Speed Upgrade Since Genesis
Solana activated its first slot-time reduction since genesis, dropping the target from 400ms to 350ms as the opening step in a roadmap toward 200ms.
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Optimism Governance Vote Redirects 546.9 Million OP From User Airdrops to Ecosystem Fund
A governance vote moved 546.9 million OP tokens from future user airdrops into a Foundation-controlled Strategic Ecosystem Fund for partnerships and institutional growth, leaving no further airdrops planned.
Solana Routing Bug Pushed Network 86% Toward Losing Finality
A misconfigured default route at hosting provider Teraswitch took nearly 29% of staked SOL offline, coming within 20 million tokens of the threshold that would have halted finality.
Bitcoin’s BIP-110 ‘Anti-Spam’ Fork Collapses After Mining Just Two Blocks
A breakaway Bitcoin fork built around the BIP-110 anti-spam proposal mined just two blocks before stalling, drawing only about 2.53% of network hashpower and exposing divisions among miners over how to handle non-financial transactions.
New Ethereum proposal would burn validator rewards toward zero as staking nears 50%
Six Ethereum researchers, Justin Drake of the Ethereum Foundation among them, want to burn a growing slice of validator rewards as more ETH gets staked.