Solana's fees hit a record — average cost stayed near a cent
Solana's fees averaged ~9,200 SOL/day in August 2026 — yet the typical transaction still costs a fraction of a cent.
66 proposals were on the table. Two made Hegotá's cut.
Ethereum's Hegotá fork narrows 66 candidate EIPs to two scheduled: FOCIL (EIP-7805) and Frame Transaction (EIP-8141).
ETH's proposed tax could out-earn 4 years of dev funding
A new proposal would redirect up to 10% of Ethereum validator staking rewards to fund core development.
Every Ethereum wallet assuming 21,000 gas is about to break
How EIP-2780 replaces Ethereum's flat 21,000 gas fee, and why wallets must update before Glamsterdam's 2026 launch.
Citi will let Bitcoin cross-margin against bonds
Citi's Custody+ lets institutions cross-margin Bitcoin against traditional securities in one account.
$115M drained from wallets that never went online
Galaxy Research pins Coldcard seed-flaw losses at $115M through Aug 13, 2026 — causes and affected models.
UBS's IBIT call bet jumped 24x in a single quarter
UBS's Q2 2026 13F shows IBIT call options up 24-fold to $65M, while its outright bitcoin ETF stake rose just 12%.
MSCI's delisting test just caught a uranium miner, not crypto
MSCI's August 2026 consultation could remove Strategy and Metaplanet from the ACWI IMI over non-operating asset rules.
A single router config took Solana 86% of the way to a halt
A TeraSwitch BGP fault knocked 28.83% of staked SOL offline — 4.51 points from Solana's halt threshold.
72 bits, not 128: the entropy gap draining Coldcard wallets
Coinkite's advisory: effective entropy fell to ~72 bits, letting attackers brute-force seeds offline.
One leaked file was enough to sweep a Lightning node
BTCPay Server's LND macaroon leak let attackers drain Lightning channels before the August 2026 patch (v2.4.2).
One Ethereum proposal would cut staking rewards 48%
EIP-8363 would burn validator rewards as staked ETH rises, cutting yield up to 48% — mechanism and backlash explained.