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Protocol upgrades
Protocol upgrades and hard forks. Every Le Coin piece tagged Protocol upgrades, newest first, Learning Hub dives included.

Protocols & Policy
Ethereum developers delay next upgrade's test run over risks to user funds
Core developers called off the Oct. 26 activation on the Hoodi testnet so they can study how EIP-8037's gas changes interact with existing contracts. No new date is set, the Ethereum Foundation says.

Protocols & Policy
Solana payments now aim to settle for good in under a second
Solana's Alpenglow upgrade went live on Oct. 21, cutting the time before a transaction can't be reversed from about 12.8 seconds to a target of about 150 milliseconds, according to the Solana Foundation.

Protocols & Policy
Solana's Alpenglow upgrade will shrink its activity numbers by design
Alpenglow is scheduled to activate on Oct. 21 and takes validator votes out of blocks, so transaction counts will fall without any fall in use.

Evening brief · Wed. Oct. 21, 4:31 p.m. ET
Evening brief: OCC finalizes its GENIUS Act stablecoin rule, Standard Chartered agrees to buy Zodia Custody, bitcoin ends 2.36% above Tuesday
The OCC finishes its GENIUS Act rule for stablecoin issuers, effective Jan. 18, 2027.

Morning brief · Mon. Oct. 19, 8:01 a.m. ET
Morning brief: the CFTC's casino-style carve-out takes effect, SEC crypto-offering comments close Tuesday, and Cipher Digital closes $850 million of convertible notes
The CFTC’s casino-style carve-out takes effect today, and comments on it and the event-contract proposal are due Nov. 18.
Learning Hub · L1
How Ethereum upgrades happen: from proposal to hard fork
Changes to Ethereum start as written proposals called EIPs, move through review and client testing, and take effect for everyone at once in a scheduled hard fork.


Learning Hub · L1
Ethereum
Ethereum is a public blockchain that runs smart contracts, which ethereum.org defines as programs that run on the Ethereum blockchain.

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