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Fogo Mainnet Halt Extends to 46 Hours With No Restart Timeline
Fogo's mainnet has remained halted for roughly 46 hours with no public restart timeline, leaving block production stalled and the chain's applications, validators, and users waiting on an operator update before normal settlement can resume.
Circle Adds Native USDC, EURC and CCTP Support to Plasma
Circle is adding native USDC, native EURC, and its Cross-Chain Transfer Protocol (CCTP) to Plasma, extending first-party stablecoin settlement and canonical cross-chain transfer rails to the network.
Revolut Starts EURR Rollout With Bridge as Regulated Issuer
The rollout was outlined in Revolut's stablecoin announcement covering EURR for the European Economic Area, published on the company's blog .
Ethereum Developers Propose First Step to Protect ETH Staking From Quantum Attacks
Ethereum core developers have opened a draft Ethereum Improvement Proposal to shield ETH staking from future quantum attacks, introducing a post-quantum-ready validator deposit contract as the first concrete protocol-level step toward retiring the network's current BLS signature scheme.
LayerZero Unveils ATLAS Exchange Infrastructure on Zero Blockchain
LayerZero announced ATLAS, short for Aggregated Trading, Liquidity, and Settlement, on August 25, 2026, describing it as a headless exchange with no consumer app or venue of its own, according to the company's announcement .
LayerZero Unveils Trading Infrastructure for Crypto and Tokenized Markets
On August 25, 2026, LayerZero introduced ATLAS, short for Aggregated Trading Liquidity and Settlement, describing it as a universal backend built to power global markets, according to the launch post . The design targets both open, permissionless venues and institutional trading desks from a single stack.
Kinetiq Unveils Elysium L2 for Hyperliquid
Kinetiq has unveiled Elysium L2 for Hyperliquid, adding a new layer-2 to the Hyperliquid infrastructure stack.
Solana Activates 350-Millisecond Slots on Mainnet
Solana has activated 350-millisecond slots on mainnet, tightening the network's core block-production interval and marking a direct change to how quickly the chain opens new opportunities to produce blocks.
MANTRA Halts Chain After Cosmos EVM Module Issue
MANTRA halted its blockchain after identifying an issue tied to the Cosmos EVM module, pausing block production while the team investigated the fault at the network's execution layer. The MANTRA chain halt was disclosed as an infrastructure incident, with the Cosmos EVM component named as the cited cause.
Arbitrum Activates Elara With Optional Compliance Filters for Dedicated Chains
Elara sits within Arbitrum's chain configuration layer, where operators of dedicated chains define validation behavior. The compliance filtering documentation describes the feature as part of how a chain's validation can be set up.
Nethermind exits LayerZero verifier role as Chainlink takes over
Nethermind is exiting its LayerZero verifier role, with Chainlink taking over the function in an infrastructure handoff inside the cross-chain messaging stack. The change is a swap of who operates a verifier slot, not a protocol exploit, outage, or yield event.
Gnosis Chain to Abandon Its Validator Set and Settle to Ethereum
The proposal, tracked as GIP-153 on the Gnosis governance forum , asks whether Gnosis Chain should transition into the Ethereum economic zone. At its center is the element under change: the chain's existing native validator-set model, which the proposal frames as giving way to Ethereum settlement.