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London, UK, August 27th, 2026, Chainwire Any traders can now buy lower fee tiers on Hyperliquid - and any HYPE staker can sell their discounts to earn extra yield. Valantis and Pendle have la
How Stellar Path Payments Work A path payment on @StellarOrg lets a sender dispatch one asset and have an entirely different asset arrive at the destination, all within a single on-chain oper
nOPAL Comes to Bybit RWA Earn Plume Network has added its nOPAL vault to Bybit's RWA Earn platform, giving eligible users a new route into tokenized Brazilian credit card receivables. The pro
A different approach to sharding Most blockchains that support sharding fix the number of shards in advance. The Open Network (@ton_blockchain) takes a different path. TON dynamically splits
Resource-Based Fees at the Heart of SIMD-553 Solana could be on the verge of a significant shift in how it handles transaction fees and token supply. A governance proposal known as SIMD-553 w
The Algorand Foundation has publicly launched AC2 (Agentic Communication and Control Protocol), an open-source, blockchain-agnostic standard for secure peer-to-peer communication between user
International tax rules still see only a small part of on-chain crypto activity. Chainalysis estimates potentially taxable flows observed in 2025 across six major blockchains at at least 457
The Algorand Foundation has publicly launched AC2 (Agentic Communication and Control Protocol), an open-source, blockchain-agnostic standard for secure peer-to-peer communication between user
Council members hold all the votes On most crypto networks, holding the native token comes with a say in how the protocol evolves. Hedera does not work that way. The Governing Council is resp
On September 6, 2026, Hyperliquid’s unlock calendar lists a tranche of roughly 9.92 million HYPE for the core contributors. At the August 27 price of $81.42 that is nominally about $808 milli
A different approach to sharding Most blockchains that support sharding fix the number of shards in advance. The Open Network (@ton_blockchain) takes a different path. TON dynamically splits
How Stellar Path Payments Work A path payment on @StellarOrg lets a sender dispatch one asset and have an entirely different asset arrive at the destination, all within a single on-chain oper
