Solana Confidential Compute Launches in Beta for Private AI Apps
Built with Nito, the toolkit verifies the hardware behind private AI runs with an on-chain program, and NVIDIA GPU attestation is still in development.
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Layer-1 News
Layer-1 news: hard forks, mainnets, testnets and roadmaps from Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, BNB Chain, Cardano, Sui and other chains.
23:12
MANTRA Pauses All New Unbonding for Seven Days After Wallet Exploit
The layer-1 chain for real world assets froze new staking withdrawals on November 13 as attackers used a Web3Auth and Keplr key exploit to unbond stolen stakes without consent.
21:26
Monad Token Unlock Releases 16.6 Billion MON on November 24, 2026
The one-year lock on team and early investor tokens ends on the first anniversary of Monad mainnet, and trackers count the release at more than all MON now circulating.
13:26
Stellar Sets November 23 Mainnet Vote for the Bell Protocol 30 Upgrade
Stellar's Bell upgrade goes to a mainnet validator vote on November 23, bringing post-quantum signature checks, muxed contract addresses and millisecond timing to the network.
09:27
Polkadot Approves DOT-Backed dotUSD Stablecoin in New Strategy Mandate
Referendum 1954 passed with 97.3% support, moving the Polkadot Community Foundation from infrastructure toward consumer apps and on-chain incentives.
05:00
Osmosis Restarts Block Production After a Four-Hour Network-Wide Halt
Upbit suspended OSMO deposits and withdrawals during the outage while trading stayed open, and Osmosis says no funds were lost.
23:09
Kaspa’s KOB Testnet Brings Decentralized Limit Orders to KCC-20 Tokens
The developer preview runs entirely on Kaspa's base layer, using covenants and zero-knowledge proofs from the Toccata hard fork, with trade execution software anyone can run.
13:34
OKXICE Tokenized Securities Venue From OKX and ICE Opens November 23
Eligible US customers trade tokenized shares and ETFs around the clock in the OKX app, with dividends and voting rights attached, while 67 issuers object to the model.
11:40
Cardano Foundation Expects Node 11.3 With Linear Leios in December
Intersect told members in early November that a release candidate was weeks away, and the Cardano Foundation update now points to December.
19:12
Pi Network Opens the Pi Next Hackathon With a 200,000 USDT Prize Pool
The Pi Next hackathon opens on November 19 as the closing act of the Pi Ecosystem Summit, Pi Network's first online developer event.
15:12
Hedera Mainnet v0.79 Switches the Record Stream to a Block Stream
Hedera upgrades its mainnet to v0.79 on November 18, replacing the record stream with a single verifiable block stream signed by the nodes.
11:12
DogeOS Version 1 Is Done as the Dogecoin App Layer Mainnet Nears
Dogecoin Labs says DogeOS version 1 is finished after security audits, and CEO Jordan Jefferson calls the mainnet launch very close.
09:32
Litecoin’s LitVM Moves LiteForge Testnet to Zeeve Ahead of Mainnet
The Litecoin Foundation says the LitVM mainnet is coming soon after the LiteForge testnet moved from Caldera to Zeeve infrastructure on November 11.
09:32
Avalanche to Settle NYSE Tokenized Stocks in Planned 24/7 Market
The New York Stock Exchange picked Avalanche to clear and settle trades on its planned tokenized securities platform, the Wall Street Journal reported.
15:50
Cosmos Hub Plans Gaia v29.1.0 Vote to Fix Broken Governance Queries
The repair release restores decoding for 21 older parameter-change proposals. The mainnet software upgrade proposal is planned around November 10, with the chain upgrade around November 18.
11:50
ZetaChain Approves Shutting Down Its Layer-1 and Moving ZETA to Solana
Token holders approved the wind-down with nearly every vote in favor. Block production stops at block 20,755,000 on December 9, and ZETA converts one for one into a Solana token.
23:10
Cosmos Completes IBC Protocol Donation to the Linux Foundation
The Interchain Foundation gave the cross-chain standard to the Linux Foundation initiative, where contributors from 21 organizations will guide its development.
21:22
Binance Shuts Down Binance Pool, Ending Cloud Mining and Pool Savings
Binance Pool, Cloud Mining, Pool Savings and the Transaction Accelerator stopped at 07:00 UTC on November 10, and the pool mined its last Bitcoin block on November 6.
15:30
Stacks Led Bitcoin-Linked Networks With $88.9 Million Locked in Q3
Stacks topped all Bitcoin-adjacent DeFi networks in Q3 2026, with lending making up over 90 percent of its total value locked.
11:30
RLUSD Transfer Volume on XRP Ledger Reached $20.1 Billion in October
The stablecoin's monthly transfer volume on the XRP Ledger grew roughly ninefold since January 2026, reaching $20.1 billion.