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Avalanche Blockchain's Largest-Ever Upgrade Goes Live on Testnet

Avalanche9000 is meant to cut the cost of sending transactions and running validators, making it easier to build apps on the network, crypto's eighth-largest.

Emin Gün Sirer (CoinDesk archives)

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Ethereum Layer-2 Teams Welcome Proposal to Overhaul Blockchain

Far from making zero-knowledge rollups obsolete, the Beam Chain would make them work better, says Polygon. zkSync builder Matter Labs is also bullish.

Ethereum itself is made up of several layers. (Annie Spratt/Unsplash)

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Avalanche Unveils $40M Grant Program Ahead of 'Avalanche9000' Upgrade

The program, called Retro9000, is supposed to encourage developers to build on Avalanche ahead of a much-anticipated upgrade known as Avalanche9000.

Ava Labs CEO Emin Gün Sirer (Ian Allison/CoinDesk)

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Ethereum Developers Confirm Plan to Split 'Pectra' Upgrade In Two

The decision to split up the upgrade wasn't unexpected. Developers had discussed that Pectra was becoming too ambitious to ship all at once, floating the idea of splitting it up to minimize the risk of finding bugs in the code.

The latest Ethereum upgrade, Pectra, is partly named after Electra, one of the "seven sisters" in the star constellation known as Pleiades, shown in an artistic rendering here inside the ring of circles. (Wikipedia, modified by CoinDesk using PhotoMosh)

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Ethereum Devs Poised to Split Blockchain's Next Big Upgrade, 'Pectra,' in Two

On Thursday, Ethereum developers will decide if Pectra will be split into two forks. If developers agree on the split, the first package could come in 2025, as early as February.

The latest Ethereum upgrade, Pectra, is partly named after Electra, one of the "seven sisters" in the star constellation known as Pleiades, shown in an artistic rendering here inside the ring of circles. (Wikipedia)

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Polygon Begins Token Swap, in Move to Allow More Issuance

The migration from Polygon's MATIC token to POL will also bring in some tokenomics changes with a new emission rate of 2% annually.

Polygon Labs CEO Marc Boiron (Polygon Labs)

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Polygon to Start Much-Awaited Swap of POL Token for Longstanding MATIC

The migration to POL from MATIC will also bring in some tokenomics changes with a new emission rate of 2% annually.

Polygon Labs CEO Marc Boiron (Polygon Labs)

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Cardano’s Chang Hard Fork Goes Live, Introducing On-Chain Governance

The highly anticipated upgrade turns Cardano's ADA cryptocurrency into a governance token.

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Cardano Blockchain Heads for 'Chang Hard Fork,' Biggest Upgrade in Two Years

The main feature of the upgrade is to give Cardano the ability to introduce on-chain governance features.

(CoinDesk)

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NEAR Blockchain Gets Major Upgrade to Add 'Stateless Validation'

The upgrade, known as "Nightshade 2.0," has been on the NEAR roadmap for years, with the first version introduced in 2022.

NEAR Co-Founder Illia Polosukhin (CoinDesk/The Protocol podcast)

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