Infrastructure
Every Infrastructure read CryptoBloggers has picked: 353 so far, 297 in the last 30 days, strongest first under “Start here” and newest first below.
Infrastructure picks in the 6:30 email
The day’s five best crypto reads, plus AI agents doing real things on-chain. Free, every morning at 6:30 a.m. Central.
Every Infrastructure card
newest first · page 3 of 12- 1
Base Now Makes a Block Every 0.2 Seconds After Its Denim Upgrade
Base's Denim upgrade cuts block time to 0.2 seconds, so block-based timers now run 10 times faster. Important for builders relying on block counts.
- 2
Zcash Activates NU7, Taking 60% of Transaction Fees Out of Circulation
Zcash NU7 activated, routing 60% of transaction fees into a Network Sustainability Mechanism that removes them from circulation.
- 3
Base Says Users Unaffected as Reth and Base Ship Fixes for State Root Bug
Reth and Base shipped fixes for a state root bug; Base says users were unaffected after recomputing its state root.
- 4
ZetaChain Targets Dec. 9 to Switch Off Its Blockchain and Move ZETA to Solana
ZetaChain sets Dec. 9 to shut its blockchain and move ZETA to Solana, with holders needing to unwrap before the snapshot.
- 5
I built a live 3D view of the Bitcoin network. You can watch the next block get found as it happens.
A live visualization of the Bitcoin network showing mempool transactions and block discovery in real time.
- 6
Anza Urges Solana Validators to Upgrade Agave Before Epoch 1079
Agave 4.4.1 changes how loader-v3 program data counts toward transaction limits; unpatched Solana validators face a Nov. 6 cutoff.
- 7
EEZ Launches Rollup X With Swaps Filled by Mainnet Liquidity
EEZ's Rollup X devnet shows swaps filled by mainnet liquidity, but batches are attested by a designated signer rather than proven.
- 8
Base deploys Denim upgrade on mainnet, replacing Flashblocks with 200ms block times
Base activated its Denim upgrade on mainnet, moving to five 200ms blocks per second and replacing Flashblocks.
- 9
Zcash's Next Upgrade Arrives
Zcash's NU7 upgrade brings faster blocks, more throughput and new token economics toward private payments at scale.
- 10
Blockaid Warns Reth Bug Can Produce Incorrect State Proofs
Blockaid warns a reth bug can produce incorrect state proofs, with patched builds for reth, op-reth and Base.
- 11
SoFi Says Crypto Vendor Issue Is Delaying Deposits and Withdrawals
SoFi says a crypto vendor issue is holding incoming and outgoing transfers for review, and that customer funds are secure. Useful for users waiting on money, but details are thin.
- 12
Zcash Nears NU7 Upgrade and Sprout Spending Cutoff
Zcash nears its NU7 upgrade, ending the Sprout pool and cutting target block spacing from 75 to 25 seconds.
- 13
VerifiedX Ships Vault Update Aimed at Stopping Hacked vBTC Transfers
VerifiedX added a vault feature letting owners set their own delay before vBTC transfers settle, after attackers took 18,000 BTC from Binance. The main claim is a product response to a hack.
- 14
Polygon Draft Would Give Labs a New Route to Upgrade Contracts
PIP-93 would put Polygon's upgrade powers under an 8-of-11 Security Council with a seven-day delay on Labs proposals. A meaningful governance shift on contract upgrade control.
- 15
I built EDITH so AI agents can remember bad API purchases
A hackathon builder let an agent pay a Sui API for an empty response, then built EDITH to block repeat paid requests; the repeat cost nothing, showing the fix worked on one test.
- 16
XRP Ledger Turns On Fix for Delegated Burn Permission That Could Mint New Tokens
XRP Ledger enabled a fix for delegated burn permissions that could allow minting new tokens, after a first attempt broke 12 days into the window.
- 17
ZetaChain Opens Vote to Shut Down Layer 1 Around Dec. 9
ZetaChain has opened a governance vote to shut down its Layer 1 around Dec. 9, with staked ZETA counting toward claims.
- 18
Binance, Polymarket seek Polygon hard fork to recover $6.8M in stolen crypto
Binance and Polymarket are seeking a Polygon hard fork to return $6.8M in stolen tokens, which are already frozen by block producers.
- 19
Zcash is about to freeze $16 million in its oldest privacy pool
Zcash is set to freeze about 12,200 ZEC, roughly $16M, left in its oldest privacy pool, Sprout.
- 20
XRP Ledger fixes a disclosed bug that could have led to the creation of new tokens
The XRP Ledger shipped a fix for a disclosed bug that could have allowed creating new tokens; XRP itself was unaffected.
- 21
Why Bitcoin's Next Soft Fork Could Feel Like a Practice Run
Matt Corallo explains why Bitcoin's next soft fork patching four legacy bugs is about maintenance practice as much as the fixes themselves.
- 22
Ethereum Is Shipping Around Itself
Ethereum is gaining faster deposits, cheaper contracts and a post-quantum signature check without a hard fork.
- 23
Canton Coin Gets SEC Nod as Wall Street Tokenization Heats Up
SEC staff view Canton Coin as a digital commodity and won't recommend enforcement over its minting, alongside DTCC's tokenization service.
- 24
Wall Street’s Plumbing Goes Onchain as Morgan Stanley Tokenizes Securities
Morgan Stanley converted US equities and Treasuries into tokenized form via the DTCC Tokenization Service, with 20 firms signed up.
- 25
Elias Rohrer, instagibbs, darosior & more - Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #429 Recap
Bitcoin Optech newsletter recap covering silent payments for multiparty wallets, a DoS disclosure and a Bitcoin Core policy update.
- 26
Zcash Grants Committee Backs Down on Plan to Give Up 98,000 ZEC
Zcash Community Grants withdrew its offer to give miners part of the treasury, leaving rival plans for its 8% share open.
- 27
Polkadot Treasury Lost $1.38 Million After XCM Patch Missed Production
A Polkadot XCM patch missed production and cost the treasury $1.38M through distorted DOT/dotUSD pool pricing.
- 28
Core Lightning Urges Upgrade to 26.06.10 to Patch Channel Flaws
Core Lightning maintainers urge node operators to upgrade to 26.06.10 to patch channel-balance risks and remote crashes.
- 29
Moscow Exchange Details Clearing and Settlement for Bitcoin, Ether and USDT Trades
Moscow Exchange released clearing and settlement details for BTC, ETH and USDT trades, with pilot deals first.
- 30
Morgan Stanley among first banks to tokenize US equities, Treasurys through DTCC’s service
Morgan Stanley says it tokenized US equities and Treasurys via DTCC's new service, one of the first banks to do so.