Solana Just Got Faster: Mainnet Slot Time Drops to 350ms, But This Just A Step Towards the Goal...
Solana has reduced its mainnet target slot time from 400 milliseconds to 350 milliseconds, the first step in a staged plan to eventually cut it to 200ms. The change went live around the start of epoch 1020 on Friday and marks the first time Solana has shortened its target slot duration since the network launched. It is a small-looking number with a fairly large engineering job behind it. A slot is the window in which a leader validator can produce a block. Shorter slots mean blocks can be produc
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Wall Street Returns to Crypto: Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs See a $3 Billion Weekly Swing
After months of inconsistent institutional demand, U.S. crypto ETFs just produced the kind of week traders have been waiting for. Spot Bitcoin and Ethereum funds collected roughly $2.6 billion in net inflows during the five trading days ending August 21, their strongest combined week since October 2025. Bitcoin funds took in about $1.92 billion, while spot Ethereum ETFs added roughly $697 million. Both categories posted their best weekly inflow totals of 2026. More importantly, the money arrived
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The Sandbox Bridge Was Exploited, Creating More SAND Than Was Ever Supposed to Exist...
The Sandbox has contained a cross-chain bridge exploit that allowed an attacker to create unbacked SAND tokens on Base and BNB Smart Chain, producing one of those crypto headlines that sounds physically impossible at first glance: security researchers counted billions of newly minted SAND, with one estimate putting their nominal value near $49 billion. No, an attacker did not steal $49 billion from The Sandbox. There was never $49 billion of real value sitting there waiting to be withdrawn. The
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Strategy Makes $334 Million in New Investments... None of it Bitcoin.
For years, Strategy had one of the easiest corporate capital allocation stories in America to explain: sell securities, buy Bitcoin, repeat. That story is now getting more complicated. Strategy sold 3,458,866 shares of MSTR between August 10 and August 16 and raised $333.7 million in net proceeds. It bought no Bitcoin. It also sold no Bitcoin during the week. Instead, the entire haul went toward preferred-stock dividends, repurchasing STRC preferred shares and adding cash to the company's growin
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Harmony Exploit Forged 3.01 Trillion Tokens, They Want to Fix it By Reverting Blockchain to Pre-Hack Date...
Harmony's latest security incident has gone from bad to surreal. What initially looked like an unauthorized mint of about 4 billion ONE has turned into a reconstructed total of roughly 3.01 trillion forged tokens, and the network's chosen fix is equally dramatic: roll the blockchain back to a point before the exploit and throw away everything recorded after it. Harmony says the forged supply was created through six cross-shard transactions and sent to four attacker-controlled wallets. One wallet
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Bitcoin ETFs Bleed $300+ Million, While Solana Funds Quietly Pull In Fresh Cash...
Bitcoin started the week with a modest rebound, but the money moving through U.S. crypto ETFs is sending a less comfortable message. Spot Bitcoin funds saw roughly $390 million in net withdrawals during the trading week of August 10 through August 14, reversing the strong inflows from the week before. At the same time, Solana ETFs attracted fresh money and posted their strongest weekly inflow since mid-May. That split is more interesting than another day of Bitcoin moving a percent or two. ETF f
