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Pharos Network Partners with Licensed Payments Provider KUN to Tokenize Supply Chain Credit and Enable Real Cross-Border Payments On-Chain

Pharos Network, a Layer-1 blockchain purpose-built for real-world financial applications, today announced a strategic partnership with KUN, a licensed enterprise digital payments specialist operating across Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East.

NEAR Governance Votes to Scrap Developer Gas Rebate

NEAR's on-chain governance body, House of Stake, passed proposal HSP-027 to eliminate the protocol's developer gas rebate, a change that will send all network gas fees to be burned rather than partly rebated to smart-contract owners. NEAR co-founder Illia Polosukhin confirmed the outcome Monday,…

NEAR Governance Votes to Scrap Developer Gas Rebate

Monolythium Introduces Public Testnet After Full Protocol Reset

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EthSystems Launches Privacy Tools for Institutional Ethereum

Coinbase CEO Says Base's Content Coins 'Didn't Work'

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Solana

Solana Launches Onchain Governance With Stake-Weighted Voting for Validators

Solana Foundation says onchain governance is now live, letting validators with at least 100,000 SOL delegated open proposals that go to a stake-weighted vote once they clear 15% cluster support.

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Ethereum

EthSystems Launches Privacy Tools for Institutional Ethereum

Bitmine and SharpLink backed the launch, and the founding team spent the past year running the Ethereum Foundation's Institutional Privacy Task Force.

Vitalik Buterin Outlines 'Lean Ethereum' Roadmap, a Three-to-Four-Year Protocol Overhaul

Ethereum Institutional Launches as Independent Nonprofit to Court Banks and Asset Managers

Ethlabs Will Overlap with the Ethereum Foundation and Draw Its 'Densest Talent,' Funders Say

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Pharos Network Partners with Licensed Payments Provider KUN to Tokenize Supply Chain Credit and Enable Real Cross-Border Payments On-Chain

NEAR Governance Votes to Scrap Developer Gas Rebate

Monolythium Introduces Public Testnet After Full Protocol Reset

Monolythium Foundation today introduced the public testnet for Monolythium, a rebuilt Layer 1 blockchain designed as settlement infrastructure for autonomous agents, post-quantum accounts, native markets, and operator-cluster infrastructure.

EthSystems Launches Privacy Tools for Institutional Ethereum

Bitmine and SharpLink backed the launch, and the founding team spent the past year running the Ethereum Foundation's Institutional Privacy Task Force.

Coinbase CEO Says Base's Content Coins 'Didn't Work'

Brian Armstrong says Base pivoted away from creator tokens early in 2026 but pushed back on criticism that its new focus on AI agents is a mistake.

South Korea Super-App Toss to Run Won Stablecoin Pilot on OP Stack

Optimism says Toss is the fourth regulated financial institution in a year to pick the OP Stack, after Bitpanda, Kraken and Mitsui.

Robinhood Chain Metrics Surge as the Network Leans Into Memecoins

Pump.fun added trading for Robinhood Chain tokens and prediction market World said it will migrate from Solana, as CEO Vlad Tenev reversed course to call the RWA-focused chain 'great for memes.' The biggest jump in value locked, though, came from an Ethena stablecoin deposit.

Vitalik Buterin Outlines 'Lean Ethereum' Roadmap, a Three-to-Four-Year Protocol Overhaul

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin laid out an updated "Lean Ethereum" roadmap in a post on X Saturday, describing a three-to-four-year overhaul he called the network's third major protocol iteration since the 2022 Merge. The plan follows a researcher meeting in Berlin and would replace direct…

Moonbeam to Fully Migrate GLMR From Polkadot to Base, Pivot to AI Agent Network

Moonbeam is fully migrating its GLMR token from the Polkadot parachain to Base, and relaunching as an AI-agent focused network, the project said in a strategic update posted to its official site. The bridge from Moonbeam to Base is open now, with a deadline of July 31, 2026. GLMR converts 1:1 into…

ENS DAO Sunsets Public Goods Working Group After 4.5 Years of Ecosystem Grants

The working group's final term committed $450,000 in USDC and 72.5 ETH to Ethereum infrastructure projects including Vyper, Argot Collective and Remix Labs before it was wound down.