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Choosing the right RPC provider for Robinhood Chain
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Choosing the right RPC provider for Robinhood Chain

Robinhood Chain crosses $1 billion in total assets as tokenized-finance infrastructure enters production. The RPC layer underneath is what determines whether regulated builders can actually ship.
Marinade Says 28.83% of Solana Stake Went Delinquent, Nearing Finality Halt
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Marinade Says 28.83% of Solana Stake Went Delinquent, Nearing Finality Halt

Teraswitch confirmed a 12-site routing failure; Marinade said 94% of the 118.89 million SOL on its autonomous system went dark.
Solana Community Argues Over Whether Its Foundation Should Pick Winners
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Solana Community Argues Over Whether Its Foundation Should Pick Winners

Flash.Trade's founder said Foundation backing for a rival contributed to his decision to wind the perps exchange down. Foundation president Lily Liu says the market decides who wins.
Bitcoin's BIP Editors Remove Luke Dashjr Two Days After BIP-110 Fork Stalled
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Bitcoin's BIP Editors Remove Luke Dashjr Two Days After BIP-110 Fork Stalled

Dashjr lost editor and admin access to the BIPs repository about 26 hours after Mark "Murch" Erhardt filed a motion on the developer mailing list. Dashjr called the accusations false. Minutes before the removal was confirmed, he announced a sabbatical from mining pool Ocean.
Vitalik Buterin's Ethereum Roadmap Prioritizes Quantum Readiness and Privacy
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Vitalik Buterin's Ethereum Roadmap Prioritizes Quantum Readiness and Privacy

Quantum safety moved up the queue, VDFs and most EVM improvement work moved down, and Verkle trees and state expiry were dropped for other constructions. Privacy, post-quantum scaling and native rollups were not on the 2023 diagram at all.
BIP-110 Bitcoin Fork Stalls at Two Blocks as Its Only Miner Quits
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BIP-110 Bitcoin Fork Stalls at Two Blocks as Its Only Miner Quits

OCEAN will refund roughly 0.3 BTC to miners whose hashrate its Stratum templates sent to the breakaway chain for about 18 hours.
SharpLink Opposes Ethereum Proposal to Burn a Growing Share of Validator Rewards
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SharpLink Opposes Ethereum Proposal to Burn a Growing Share of Validator Rewards

Joseph Chalom argues the draft would strip the base rate out from under roughly $35 billion in liquid staking token collateral and could push institutions to sell ETH as they unstake.
Robinhood Chain's DEX Volume Fell 72% While Transactions And Deposits Set Records
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Robinhood Chain's DEX Volume Fell 72% While Transactions And Deposits Set Records

Daily volume dropped from $878 million on Jul. 11 to $241 million on Aug. 1 as transactions, deposits and stablecoin supply climbed to all-time highs. Volume per transaction fell 74%. More than 90% of the chain's incentive spending pays depositors.
Aave And ether.fi Founders Lead Opposition To Ethereum's Staking Yield Burn
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Aave And ether.fi Founders Lead Opposition To Ethereum's Staking Yield Burn

Stani Kulechov and Mike Silagadze headline two days of opposition to the tapered issuance burn, now renumbered EIP-8363. Ethereum core devs decide Thursday whether to consider it for Hegotá.
Circle Names BlackRock, Visa, ICE and DTCC Among 11 Founding Arc Validators
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Circle Names BlackRock, Visa, ICE and DTCC Among 11 Founding Arc Validators

Circle's own disclaimer says Arc will be "operated by a permissioned validator set" and has not been reviewed by the New York State Department of Financial Services or any other regulator.