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Zcash activated its Ironwood upgrade, known formally as NU6.3, on July 28, 2026, at block height 3,428,143. The upgrade replaced Orchard, the network's main privacy pool, with a new pool call
Ripple locks XRP in time-based smart contracts on the XRP Ledger and releases a maximum of 1 billion XRP on the first day of each month, a supply schedule set up in December 2017 and enforced
Sei Network is rebuilding its blockchain from the ground up to hit 200,000 transactions per second with finality under 400 milliseconds. The project, called Giga, is not one upgrade but three
The KelpDAO exploit forced LayerZero to end support for single-verifier security setups and rebuild its default configuration around multiple independent verifiers. On April 18, 2026, attacke
Dogwifhat (WIF) became a multi-billion-dollar coin by combining a viral dog photo, a fully distributed token supply on Solana, rapid listings on major exchanges, and backing from a handful of
Pudgy Penguins built its physical consumer brand by licensing its penguin characters into toys, trading cards, and games sold through Walmart, Target, and Amazon, while keeping that retail bu
A Chainlink price oracle collects asset price data from many independent sources, aggregates that data off-chain, and publishes a single trusted value on the blockchain so smart contracts can
XDC Network is adopting the x402 payment standard through a new product called XDC AI, a marketplace that lets AI agents pay for digital services on their own using USDC, without a human appr
Monad's MIP-12 upgrade cut the network's block time from 400 milliseconds to 300 milliseconds. It activated on mainnet on July 23, 2026, at round 89,758,000, and lowered Monad's deterministic
Aptos and Sui both run on the Move programming language, but they process transactions in very different ways. Aptos uses an account-based model with a parallel execution engine called Block-
Pepe has no white paper, no product roadmap, and no built-in use case, yet as of September 2, 2026 it trades around $0.0000035 with a market cap near $1.43 billion, keeping it inside the top
Artificial Inu is a memecoin with the ticker $AI that trades directly against tokenized Nvidia stock instead of a stablecoin or a mainstream cryptocurrency. It launched on Robinhood Chain in