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  1. Stellar Bell Upgrade Goes Live on Testnet Ahead of Mainnet Vote

    The Stellar Bell upgrade reached testnet on November 3, introducing muxed contract addresses and millisecond ledger times for future scaling.

  2. Elysium L2 Mainnet Launches on Hyperliquid with 100ms Blocks and HYPE Gas Token

    Elysium L2, built by Kinetiq as an Arbitrum Orbit rollup, activated its public mainnet on Hyperliquid on November 9, 2026, offering 100 ms canonical blocks and native HYPE gas payments.

  3. Midnight Network Ledger 9 Hard Fork Activates on Mainnet for Private Asset Transfers

    The Midnight Network activated its Ledger 9 hard fork on mainnet on November 6, 2026. The change introduces native ECDSA support and contract improvements for private asset transfers.

  4. Telcoin Network Mainnet Launch Set for December 2026 With Genesis on December 2

    Telcoin Network schedules its mainnet genesis for December 2, 2026, with a code freeze on November 16 and public launch later in the month. GSMA member operators serve as the initial validators.

  5. Akash Network Governance Approves Solana Migration With 97% Support in Proposal 346

    Akash Network stakers voted to move the AKT token to Solana on November 2, 2026. Proposal 346 passed with 97% approval and sets a one-way migration path.

  6. Zcash NU7 Upgrade Activates November 5 With 25-Second Block Time

    The Zcash NU7 upgrade activates at block height 3,543,405 around November 5, 2026, cutting target block time from 75 seconds to 25 seconds.

  7. Payward Hyperliquid perps Set for First CFTC-Regulated HIP-3 Deployment Through Bitnomial

    Hyperliquid confirmed on October 26, 2026 that Payward subsidiary Bitnomial will become the first CFTC-regulated deployer of HIP-3 permissioned perpetual futures markets.

  8. Dune Market Data Feeds Deliver Real-Time Onchain Trade Data Across 200+ Venues

    Dune Analytics released real-time normalized trade feeds covering spot and perpetuals markets on October 22, 2026. The service aggregates data from more than 200 decentralized venues across 12 blockchains.

  9. Solana Alpenglow Upgrade Goes Live Targeting 150ms Transaction Finality

    The Solana Alpenglow upgrade replaced TowerBFT consensus on October 21, 2026, introducing off-chain BLS voting to cut finality times toward a 150 ms target under normal conditions.

  10. MoonPay Dunamu Partnership Explores Stablecoin Payments and GIWA Blockchain Expansion

    MoonPay and Dunamu announced a strategic collaboration on October 20, 2026, to examine stablecoin payments, corporate treasury services and expansion of the GIWA Ethereum Layer 2 network.

  11. Cronos v1.8 Mainnet Upgrade Delivers Parallel EVM and Over 90 Percent EVM API Equivalence

    Cronos EVM mainnet completed its v1.8 upgrade on October 22, 2026, introducing native parallel execution and expanded EVM compatibility on the Cosmos SDK base.

  12. Solana Alpenglow Consensus Upgrade Activates on Mainnet with 150 Millisecond Finality

    Solana activated the Alpenglow consensus upgrade on mainnet-beta October 21, 2026, retiring TowerBFT at slot 459,653,000 and targeting 150 ms deterministic finality.