# Network Related Articles

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Urgent News: Coinbase Adds Four Altcoins to Its Listing Plan! A Significant Move Amid Cryptocurrency Growth

Coinbase has added four new altcoins to its asset listing roadmap: Basecat (BASECAT), DebtReliefBot (DRB), Dolphin (POD), and Grass ($GRASS). According to the exchange, BASECAT, DRB, and POD operate on the Base network, while $GRASS is on Solana. The roadmap also includes plans to integrate the Cluster Protocol (CP) on Base. Coinbase emphasized that inclusion on the roadmap does not guarantee a final listing. The exchange currently does not support transfers or trading of these tokens and warned users against attempting to deposit them, as this could lead to permanent loss of funds. Any listing will be subject to a future official announcement.

cryptonews.ru2 days ago 19:41

Urgent News: Coinbase Adds Four Altcoins to Its Listing Plan! A Significant Move Amid Cryptocurrency Growth

cryptonews.ru2 days ago 19:41

Solana reduced network slot time to 350 milliseconds

Solana has reduced its network slot time to 350 milliseconds, a first since the network's launch, announced Jacob Crick, VP of Engineering at Solana Foundation. He stated the next target is 300 ms. Prior to this change, the average slot time was 360 ms, already below the network's original 400 ms target. This is part of a broader plan, introduced in June, to progressively cut the slot time from 400 ms to 200 ms. The goal is to improve network responsiveness and accelerate transaction confirmations. The plan involves a total of four 50-ms reductions. These changes are scheduled to be implemented on the mainnet with the release of the Agave v4.2 validator client from Anza, although the timeline is tentative. The underlying proposal for the slot time reduction, SIMD-0525, was approved and incorporated into the code on May 14.

cryptonews.ru2 days ago 14:23

Solana reduced network slot time to 350 milliseconds

cryptonews.ru2 days ago 14:23

Cardano Network Activity Increases by 33%

Cardano's network activity has surged by 33%. Since its launch in September 2017, the blockchain has processed approximately 123.02 million transactions. Developer activity is also high, with 303,143 commits recorded, indicating active efforts to improve the network. In a notable single-day spike, transaction activity jumped nearly 48%, processing over 24,000 transactions. Comparatively, Polkadot leads in developer commits with over 701,000, followed by Ethereum with over 520,000, and Arbitrum and Optimism with 200,000 and 182,000 respectively. Cardano's Total Value Locked (TVL) grew 6.05% in 24 hours to $58.01 million. Trading volume on its decentralized exchanges rose 22.42% weekly to $9.15 million. Concurrently, the ADA token price increased by 13% to $0.2139, with its market cap at $7.8 billion and daily trading volume up 52% to $857.6 million. Developers have announced the Dijkstra upgrade roadmap, featuring a two-phase deployment. The first phase will implement Ouroboros Linear Leios (CIP-164) to enhance network throughput, followed by Ouroboros Peras (CIP-140) to accelerate transaction processing.

cryptonews.ru2 days ago 11:26

Cardano Network Activity Increases by 33%

cryptonews.ru2 days ago 11:26

Michael Saylor Compares Bitcoin and Gold!

Michael Saylor, founder of MicroStrategy, argues that Bitcoin fundamentally changes how wealth is stored and transferred by transforming digital scarcity into economic value. He describes Bitcoin as the first digital monetary network, combining computers, digital networks, and cryptography. It digitizes monetary assets, allowing their supply to be controlled by public protocols rather than institutions, thus converting economic value into information transmissible over global networks. Comparing Bitcoin to gold, Saylor states that while increasing Bitcoin's supply is harder, its integration with software and transfer is easier. He highlights Bitcoin's proof-of-work mechanism, which ties it to the physical world by consuming real energy to secure the ledger, making past transactions immutable. This creates a shared security system involving miners, energy companies, and investors. Saylor suggests "digital monetary energy" is a more accurate term than "digital gold." He emphasizes that the Bitcoin network is an adaptive ecosystem of miners, nodes, developers, and users. Its core design is intentionally simple, focused on maintaining a secure ledger for scarce digital assets, with complex functionalities built in higher-layer applications. This architecture allows Bitcoin to serve as a foundation for transmitting value and fostering innovation in payments and financial services. Saylor notes Bitcoin's deeper impact lies in creating digital sovereignty, where private keys give individuals permissionless control over their economic power, with ownership verified mathematically, not by institutions. He concludes that while gold's physical scarcity makes it money, Bitcoin's digital scarcity does the same, characterizing Bitcoin as the monetary energy of the digital age.

cryptonews.ru08/16 10:45

Michael Saylor Compares Bitcoin and Gold!

cryptonews.ru08/16 10:45

Solana Nearly Halted Finalization Due to an Outage

On August 12th, a routing failure at infrastructure provider TeraSwitch caused approximately 90 Solana validators, representing 28.83% of staked SOL, to go offline simultaneously. This brought the network dangerously close to the 33.34% threshold at which transaction finality would halt, stopping the blockchain. The incident, highlighted by Marinade Finance, lasted about 33 minutes before routing was restored. The affected validators missed out on roughly 333 SOL in rewards during the downtime. The event underscored significant risks from infrastructure concentration, as TeraSwitch alone managed validators with 27.34% of the total staked SOL prior to the outage. Marinade Finance stated it would revise limits on validator distribution across autonomous systems and data centers to improve resilience. Some major operators, like Coinbase, already distribute infrastructure across multiple providers with backup servers to mitigate such single points of failure. The incident echoes a 2022 event where provider Hetzner, hosting ~40% of validators, disconnected nodes, though the network remained operational.

cryptonews.ru08/12 21:00

Solana Nearly Halted Finalization Due to an Outage

cryptonews.ru08/12 21:00

TRON USDT Transfers Hit $2.1T In Q2 As Stablecoin Supply Reaches Record

In Q2 2026, TRON processed a staggering $2.1 trillion in USDT transfers, as reported by Messari. The network's circulating USDT supply reached a record $87.9 billion, surpassing Ethereum, while average daily transactions increased 8.7% to 11.8 million. This cements TRON's position as a leading stablecoin settlement layer, primarily due to its low fees and fast transactions for USDT transfers. However, the report notes the massive transfer volume encompasses various activities like exchange flows and arbitrage, not solely retail payments. The key takeaway is that TRON has secured a dominant, utility-driven role in the stablecoin market by efficiently facilitating large-scale digital dollar movements, even as it may not lead in other crypto sectors like DeFi.

bitcoinist08/12 07:51

TRON USDT Transfers Hit $2.1T In Q2 As Stablecoin Supply Reaches Record

bitcoinist08/12 07:51

MoneyGram Expands Cash and Cryptocurrency Conversion Service to Solana

MoneyGram has expanded its "Ramps" service for cash-to-crypto conversion to the Solana blockchain. The move extends its existing service from the Stellar network, making Solana the second supported blockchain. The integration enables wallets, exchanges, and developers on Solana to offer users the ability to convert between fiat currency and cryptocurrency through MoneyGram's vast retail network, which serves over 60 million customers across nearly 500,000 locations in more than 170 countries. The Rift wallet has become the first Solana wallet to integrate the Ramps service. Through a single API within the Solana Developer Platform, developers can now incorporate MoneyGram's fiat on- and off-ramp infrastructure directly into their applications, eliminating the need for building custom banking integrations. MoneyGram's expansion onto Solana is part of a broader strategy to embed its services across multiple blockchain ecosystems. This follows the company's move in June to become a validator on the Solana network, staking SOL tokens and processing transactions.

cryptonews.ru08/11 20:40

MoneyGram Expands Cash and Cryptocurrency Conversion Service to Solana

cryptonews.ru08/11 20:40

Glassnode: Bitcoin Recovery Continues, But This Key Signal is Missing!

Glassnode reports that Bitcoin's recovery continues but lacks a key signal. While the price has stabilized around $65,000 after rebounding from June lows near $58,000, the firm characterizes the market outlook as a "transitional recovery." Despite stable prices below $66,000 and a return to neutral momentum, overall exchange trading volume remains low. Analysts note this divergence suggests a gradual demand increase rather than widespread speculative frenzy. In derivatives markets, perp futures buying activity has surged, yet open interest and funding rates remain moderate, indicating controlled leverage. Options market skew has narrowed, showing reduced demand for downside protection. A key positive signal is robust institutional demand, with regulated Bitcoin investment products seeing significant net inflows. Blockchain data also shows an increase in "hot capital" and a rising ratio of short-term to long-term holder supply, signaling price-sensitive capital is re-entering the market. However, key on-chain metrics have not recovered. Active addresses, blockchain transaction volume, and fee revenue remain near lower statistical bounds, indicating low organic network demand and a lack of urgency among investors. Overall network profitability has seen only minor improvement, with realized losses still exceeding profits. Glassnode concludes that while institutional inflows, spot/futures demand, and reduced defensive positioning are positive, low spot liquidity and weak on-chain activity indicate the recovery hasn't yet broadened into a full bull phase. A sustained break above $66,000 is seen as a critical level to watch for confirming a stronger upward trend.

cryptonews.ru08/10 19:06

Glassnode: Bitcoin Recovery Continues, But This Key Signal is Missing!

cryptonews.ru08/10 19:06

Bitcoin's "Anti-Spam" Update Failed, Lasting Less Than a Day

A Bitcoin update proposal aimed at curbing spam by temporarily banning non-financial data from being stored on the network, BIP-110, has failed decisively. After months of debate, developers attempted to launch a separate blockchain, which collapsed within a day. The failure stemmed from a critical lack of miner support, with less than 1% signaling approval for the update. The vast majority of miners chose to continue mining the main Bitcoin blockchain without providing explanations. Despite this, the initiative's developers proceeded to launch an alternative blockchain—a hard fork of Bitcoin—on August 8. This meant a small subset of miners stopped mining Bitcoin to support the new chain with BIP-110 changes. However, the new network inherited Bitcoin's mining difficulty. With only a tiny fraction of the total computational power, block times stretched to roughly 7 hours instead of the standard 10 minutes, rendering the network practically non-functional. Michael Saylor, founder of major corporate Bitcoin holder MicroStrategy and a vocal opponent of BIP-110, commented: "Bitcoin worked exactly as designed. The BIP-110 fork occurred, and network participants were free to choose which chain to follow. As a result, about 99.85% of the network's hash power remained with Bitcoin." The event had no significant impact on Bitcoin's price, which traded in a narrow range between approximately $64.5k and $65.5k from August 7 through August 10.

cryptonews.ru08/10 11:40

Bitcoin's "Anti-Spam" Update Failed, Lasting Less Than a Day

cryptonews.ru08/10 11:40

ZEUS shuts down its infrastructure following a hacker attack; this is the third Lightning network outage within a week

On August 5, the ZEUS wallet disabled its Lightning services following a cybersecurity incident, becoming the third major Lightning service provider (after Boltz and AQUA) to halt operations within roughly 72 hours. ZEUS confirmed the attack was contained and no user funds were lost. These sequential outages raised user concerns about the security of Lightning infrastructure providers, though not about the underlying Bitcoin Lightning Network itself. Broader crypto markets showed little reaction, with Bitcoin trading around $64,600. ZEUS founder Evan Kaloudis stated the company disabled its infrastructure for a comprehensive security audit. While customer channels were affected, ZEUS assured that funds were safe and promised replacement liquidity service provider (LSP) channels upon restoration. Despite the disruptions, analytics from Lightning Amboss indicated the overall Lightning Network remained healthy. Public network capacity and channel count actually saw slight increases during the week of the incidents. The events are seen as highlighting risks associated with centralized dependencies within the Lightning ecosystem, reinforcing the value of self-custody and decentralized node operation. ZEUS stated the incident will strengthen its security measures, referencing its prior SOC 2 audit and plans to implement technologies like Validating Lightning Signer (VLS) to enhance long-term security.

cryptonews.ru08/06 11:20

ZEUS shuts down its infrastructure following a hacker attack; this is the third Lightning network outage within a week

cryptonews.ru08/06 11:20

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