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  1. Enjin Fort Canning Upgrade Activates on Relaychain with Dispute Slashing

    The Enjin Fort Canning upgrade went live on the Relaychain on November 9 2026 at block 18,059,101, adding dispute slashing and raising the GRANDPA authority limit.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. 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.

  7. CoreWeave Stock Upgrade to Buy by Goldman Sachs Reflects AI Cloud Momentum

    Goldman Sachs raised CoreWeave from Neutral to Buy on October 19, 2026, citing durable advantages in AI cloud infrastructure and expected contract economics.

  8. KuCoin 5.0 Upgrade Launches with Unified Trading Account and AI Controls

    KuCoin introduced its 5.0 platform upgrade in October 2026, featuring a unified trading account for spot, margin and futures plus an enhanced AI assistant.

  9. 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.

  10. 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.

  11. NEAR Protocol Token Issuance Reduction Approved by House of Stake to 1.6%

    NEAR Protocol’s House of Stake approved a gradual cut in maximum annual token issuance from 2.5% to 1.6% on November 2, 2026.

  12. SonicWall CVE-2026-19868 Patches Fix SonicOS SSLVPN SAML Bypass Flaw

    SonicWall disclosed CVE-2026-19868 on November 6, 2026, and issued patches for a high-severity authentication flaw in SonicOS that affects SAML-protected SSL VPN logins.