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All the latest Cryptovolix news on blockchain protocols, infrastructure, and technology.

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39 US State Banking Groups Unite to Build Bank-Run Blockchain Network

39 US state banking associations formed the BankChain Alliance, targeting a 2027 launch of a blockchain network for stablecoins and tokenized deposits.

August 25, 2026

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Kinetiq Unveils Elysium L2 to Speed Up Hyperliquid, Uses HYPE as Gas

Kinetiq has announced Elysium, a new layer-2 built to boost HyperEVM throughput on Hyperliquid, with HYPE serving as the network's gas token.

August 25, 2026

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BNB Chain Activates Pasteur Hard Fork to Harden Bridges, Lift Throughput

BNB Smart Chain activated its Pasteur hard fork, bundling three upgrades that close a bridge-verification gap and target faster block building.

August 25, 2026

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Standard Chartered Becomes First Bank to Distribute Hong Kong's HKDAP Stablecoin

Standard Chartered is now distributing HKDAP, one of Hong Kong's two regulated stablecoins, to institutional clients as Anchorpoint's rollout widens.

August 24, 2026

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Phantom Ends Sui Support as Network's TVL Falls 82% From Peak

Phantom will stop supporting Sui on September 24, just 20 months after adding it, as the network's total value locked has fallen 82% from its 2025 peak.

August 24, 2026

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Coldcard Firmware Bug Enabled $116M Bitcoin Wallet Heist

A five-year-old Coldcard firmware bug let attackers predict seed phrases and drain 1,816 BTC, worth $116 million, from over 5,200 wallets since July.

August 24, 2026

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35% of Post-ChatGPT Web Pages Are AI-Written, Pew Finds

A Pew Research study of 490,000 pages finds AI authorship signals in 35% of post-ChatGPT web content, a trend fueling blockchain-based provenance tools.

August 23, 2026

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Tokenized Stocks Could Repeat Wall Street's 1960s Paper Crisis

Fairmint CEO Joris Delanoue warns tokenized equities are solving distribution but not ownership records, risking a digital repeat of the 1960s paper crisis.

August 23, 2026

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Robinhood Chain Nears $1B TVL in Under Two Months, Fastest Ever

Robinhood Chain's TVL grew 213x to roughly $960 million in under two months, which Standard Chartered calls the fastest growth any blockchain has recorded.

August 23, 2026

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Microsoft Patches Maximum-Severity Entra ID Flaw Rated CVSS 10.0

Microsoft fixed CVE-2026-69836, a maximum-severity Entra ID deserialization flaw that could allow unauthenticated remote code execution.

August 23, 2026

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Solana Cuts Slot Time to 350ms in First-Ever Speed Upgrade

Solana reduced its slot time from 400ms to 350ms on mainnet, its first-ever slot time cut, as part of a staged roadmap targeting 200ms.

August 21, 2026

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Rust Supply-Chain Attack Hits Crates With Solana Ecosystem Exposure

Security researchers found a coordinated supply-chain attack on three popular Rust crates, with exposure reaching into Solana ecosystem dependency chains.

August 21, 2026