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ForkLog 38 16.07.2025

BNB Chain to Boost Performance Tenfold

The BNB Chain team has unveiled a roadmap for the network’s development through 2026. Developers aim to “create a next-generation blockchain” capable of competing with CEX and TradFi platforms like Nasdaq. BNB Chain is entering its next era. We’re bringing a CEX-level experience to a decentralized, permissionless blockchain. All without sacrificing what makes Web3 powerful. […]

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ForkLog 22 09.07.2025

Polygon’s Token Rises 8% Ahead of Major Heimdall v2 Upgrade

The cryptocurrency POL of the Polygon project has surged by over 8% as preparations are underway for the Heimdall v2 upgrade, scheduled for July 10.

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ForkLog 11 07.07.2025

Vitalik Buterin Proposes Enhancements for Ethereum Security

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin and developer Tony Warshtetter have proposed a gas limit of 16.77 million for individual transactions. Their proposed improvement, EIP-7983, aims to enhance Ethereum’s security and resilience against DoS attacks. This mechanism would also simplify the calculation of on-chain operation costs. If a transaction’s gas limit exceeds 16.77 million, it will not […]

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ForkLog 122 30.06.2025

BNB Chain Update Reduces Block Interval to 0.75 Seconds

The BNB Chain team has successfully completed the Maxwell hardfork. As a result of the upgrade, the average block creation time has been halved to 0.75 seconds. ✅ Maxwell hardfork: successfully completed. BSC now delivers 0.75-second blocks and 1.875s finality. Here’s what just changed ? https://t.co/38Gi5bv8dK pic.twitter.com/qPrRXbplKN — BNB Chain (@BNBCHAIN) June 30, 2025 In […]

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ForkLog 25 27.06.2025

Ripple to Enhance XRP Ledger with Ethereum-like Features

The Ripple team plans to introduce more programmable features to the XRP Ledger (XRPL), as revealed by DL News and the company’s CTO, David Schwartz. The Ethereum-inspired update includes the launch of smart contracts for payment management and a new lending protocol. According to Schwartz, the aim is to gain the benefits of programmability while […]

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ForkLog 157 11.06.2025

Bitcoin Core Update to Remove Data Limit for OP_RETURN

Bitcoin Core developers will remove the default data limit for OP_RETURN in the client release v30, scheduled for October. I posted a full writeup for the #32406 merge decision on the PR. These changes go into effect in v30, which is scheduled for release in October.The PR changes the defalt value of -datacarriersize. You will […]

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ForkLog 24 27.05.2025

StarkWare Launches Mobile ZK-Prover

The StarkWare team, developers of the Ethereum Layer 2 network StarkNet, has launched Stark Two (S-two) — a tool for verifying ZK-proofs on phones, laptops, and other everyday devices. 1/ S-two is live. The fastest prover in the world, and the first to make client-side proving actually possible on everyday devices. Now open to all, […]

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ForkLog 30 20.05.2025

Solana Developers Unveil High-Performance Alpenglow Protocol

The new consensus protocol for Solana, named Alpenglow, with finalization in 150 ms, aims to compete with Web2 in response speed. The testnet launch is expected in a few months. BREAKING NEWS: @anza_xyz research team announces new state of the art Solana Consensus on stage at Solana Accelerate. The new Alpenglow protocol ? brings transaction […]

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ForkLog 51 19.05.2025

Jack Dorsey Backs Proposal to Abandon Satoshi as Bitcoin’s Base Unit

Block CEO Jack Dorsey has joined the ranks of experts advocating for the removal of satoshis as the base unit of digital gold. this sats are so confusing to people just getting into bitcoin. bits of bitcoin is better, and just bitcoin is best. https://t.co/DjF77wecwD — jack (@jack) May 18, 2025 Dorsey was responding to […]

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ForkLog 12 19.05.2025

Vitalik Buterin Proposes Reducing Node State Size

Scaling Ethereum should enhance performance without compromising the usability of personal nodes, believes network co-founder Vitalik Buterin. In a new essay, he offered relevant recommendations. These include the implementation of: EIP-4444; distributed history storage; stateless verification synchronization; light nodes with “partial state” (partially stateless nodes). According to Buterin, the full deployment of EIP-4444 will reduce […]

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ForkLog 103 19.05.2025

Fusaka upgrade: what it means for Ethereum’s future

The second-largest cryptocurrency has finally stirred after a prolonged slump, particularly visible in the ETH/BTC pair. Despite a recent outperformance rally, ether still trades nearly 50% below its all-time high of ~$4900 set in November 2021. Rising competition from DeFi ecosystems on Solana, BNB Chain and, paradoxically, Ethereum’s own layer-2 (L2) solutions is taking its […]

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ForkLog 27 15.05.2025

Chainlink Connects JPMorgan Blockchain with Ondo Chain Testnet

JPMorgan’s digital payment platform Kinexys conducted settlements using the DvP scheme with a tokenized money market fund on the Ondo Chain test network. This was made possible by Chainlink’s CCIP technology. The trial demonstrated how different blockchains can interact to handle RWA. This marks the first such coordination experience between a Wall Street permissioned network […]

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