1+ hour, 11+ min ago   (291+ words) The 4,096-byte limit is set out in SIMD-0385, the Solana Improvement Document covering the Transaction v1 format. It compares with the existing 1,232-byte maximum, a difference of 2,864 bytes. SIMD-0385 also caps v1 transactions at 64 accounts and 64 instructions. Those constraints define the practical…...

4+ day, 1+ min ago   (259+ words) World announced on September 2 that it has open-sourced ProveKit, a production-ready zero-knowledge toolkit already integrated into World ID. The release makes its on-device proof-generation stack available to developers, according to the World Foundation. ProveKit is now part of World ID, World’s…...

4+ day, 4+ min ago   (1757+ words) 2026 was the year the free blockchain API got harder to find. Blockscout moved all API traffic to a keyed Pro API on July 1. Dune's Sim APIs shut down on August 1. Blocknative switched its APIs off in June. GetBlock retired flat…...

1+ week, 19+ hour ago   (299+ words) The changes are client-side software optimisations, not an alteration to Zcash’s network rules. Zakura said the code is publicly available now and can be adopted without a network upgrade. The headline result concerns the time required to create a Zcash…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (1019+ words) Validator resource exhaustion is the point at which a blockchain validator lacks enough computing, memory, storage, operating-system capacity or network throughput to complete its consensus work on time. The node may still be running and reachable, yet be too far…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (542+ words) Cosmos Labs says a critical Cosmos EVM vulnerability reported through its bug bounty programme in April was incorrectly judged not to affect production networks. Attackers exploited the vulnerability across six chains between August 20 and August 25, 2026. The activity moved about $2.87 million…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (379+ words) Under the draft, an account’s address would remain fixed at 20 bytes rather than being tied permanently to one authentication setup. The associated authentication configuration could change over time, allowing an account to retain its existing address while changing the authenticators…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (238+ words) TON 2026.08 activates collators on Aug 17. TON Status says validators must update to mytonctrl 7e90e26 and node 140320b and vote Aug 21 at 08:00 UTC. TON Core said its “TON 2026.08” network update will switch on the collator architecture on mainnet on Aug 17, 2026, moving block…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (286+ words) All of that remains contingent on inclusion in a network upgrade. And here, Hegotá’s priorities put inclusion before refactoring. In its April 10, 2026 developer update, the Ethereum Foundation confirmed that FOCIL (EIP‑7805) is the Hegotá headliner. Fork‑Choice Enforced Inclusion Lists…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (437+ words) Wallet metadata is the off-chain exhaust that accompanies wallet use: the RPC requests you send, the IP address those requests originate from, analytics pings, WalletConnect handshake fields, and browser headers. Unlike on-chain data, this metadata is observable before any transaction…...