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Short answer: Stellar validators vote on Bell (Protocol 30) on November 23, 2026 at 17:00 UTC. A testnet vote comes first, on November 3. If you just hold XLM, you do not need to move coins or change addresses. The real work sits with wallets, exchanges and anyone decoding raw ledger data. Your only job…
Short answer: NEAR proposal HSP-029 would lower maximum annual issuance from 2.5% to 1.6% over 24 months. Modeled gross staking yield falls from about 5.27% to 3.37%. The House of Stake vote is reported to close November 2, 2026, and validators must then adopt a separate upgrade. Nothing has passed yet. A vote is open…
Short answer: Zcash’s NU7 network upgrade shortens block spacing from 75 to 25 seconds, sends at least 60% of transaction fees into a reserve, and disables version 4 transactions, which ends spending from the old Sprout pool. Mainnet is targeted for November 5, 2026, but the official upgrade page still said the activation height was…
Short answer: Ethereum’s Glamsterdam upgrade is set to activate on the Hoodi test network on October 26, 2026 at 17:42:48 UTC. It already ran on Sepolia on October 6. Mainnet has no date yet. If you hold ETH, nothing changes for you today. Node operators and contract developers are the people who have homework. Earlier…
Short answer: Starknet opened a non-binding vote on October 15, 2026, asking STRK holders whether it should research becoming an independent, post-quantum layer-1 blockchain instead of an Ethereum L2. The poll closes October 22. A yes only supports research. It does not approve a move, and no timeline exists. STRK fell almost 50% in the…
Short answer: Monad’s one-year lock-up ends on November 24, 2026. Team tokens worth about 10.7% of the initial supply start to release. That is close to the 11.83 billion MON already circulating. Investor tokens then unlock in 1/48 monthly slices. Aggregators disagree on the exact cliff-day total, from about 16.6 to 17.1 billion MON. None…
Short answer: Solana’s Alpenglow consensus upgrade activates on mainnet at epoch 1064, expected around 15:00 UTC on Wednesday, October 21, 2026. If you hold or stake SOL, you do nothing. Wallets, transactions and fees work exactly as before. Validators are the ones with a deadline. They must be on an Agave 4.3.0-based client and keep…
TL;DR — By Marcus Han · Last updated August 1, 2026 · 3 sources checked Quick answer Polygon activated its Ithaca hard fork on mainnet at block 50,185,000 in the July 29-30, 2026 window. By Marcus Han · Last updated August 1, 2026 · 3 sources checked Quick answer Polygon activated its Ithaca hard fork…
TL;DR — By Marcus Han · Last updated July 28, 2026 · 3 sources checked Quick answer Native staking locks your altcoin directly with a validator. Liquid staking gives you a receipt token instead, so you keep something tradable while the underlying coin is staked. The tradeoff is simple on paper. By Marcus Han ·…
TL;DR — Most altcoin losses come down to one thing. Someone skipped the boring homework. I’ve watched it happen, and honestly I’ve been tempted to skip it myself. So here’s the process I actually run before any altcoin gets a dollar from me. It’s repeatable. You can copy it. Quick answer: Run five checks, in…