Performance

Ethereum

2026-09-26 10:09:22

EIP-8198 proposal seeks to cut Ethereum block time from 12 seconds to 10

An Ethereum Improvement Proposal known as EIP-8198, or Quick Slots, is being advanced by teams including Ethlabs, according to Techub News. The proposal lays out a two-step path aimed at improving Ethereum mainnet performance. It would first rework the software to remove the hardcoded 12-second block time, then gradually reduce block production time from the current 12 seconds to 10 seconds. Any move to shorten block time beyond that would not be automatic. The report said further reductions would require separate testing and broader consensus before moving ahead. The update was cited by Techub News and attributed to Wu Blockchain in the source note.

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Vitalik Buter

2026-09-06 13:13:51

Vitalik: Universal STARK Performance Exceeds Early Expectations, Future Overhead Could Drop to Double Digits

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin said the Poseidon hash function family has created significant practical value in Ethereum and beyond. Modern privacy protocols rely on Poseidon to generate SNARK proofs quickly on the client side. Universal STARKs now achieve extremely high performance, with batch computation proof overhead down to three digits, and could drop to double digits or lower, exceeding early 2020s expectations.

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AUSD

2026-09-03 22:14:49

AUSD Supply on Monad Surges 462% to $184 Million in 90 Days

The supply of Agora's stablecoin AUSD on the Monad network has surged 462% from approximately $33 million to $184.3 million over the past 90 days, now accounting for about 69% of the token's total circulation. The growth is driven by a yield pool launched by Pendle on Monad on June 19, offering $75,000 weekly incentives and packaging yield assets into tradable tokens. Monad's mainnet went live in November 2025, boasting 10,000 TPS and sub-second finality.

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OpenClaw

2026-09-01 22:20:46

OpenClaw 2 Released: Major Update with 933 Contributors and 16,000 Merged PRs

The self-hosted open-source AI agent framework OpenClaw has released its largest update, version 2026.8.1, branded as OpenClaw 2. The update was contributed by 933 developers, of which 569 were first-time contributors, and merged over 16,000 pull requests, about half of the project's total historical merged PRs. Key features include a chat-centric control interface, automatic subscription detection for Claude or ChatGPT, and team-based shared cloud sessions. Performance improvements show JavaScript requests reduced from 140 to 45 and startup time from 1.6 seconds to 575 ms. Security additions include request-level approval, sandboxing, and team key vaults, but these are off by default.

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Zcash

2026-08-30 14:44:18

Zakura Unveils Zakura Common Library for Zcash, With 14x Mobile Proof Generation Speedup

Zakura, the team behind the Zcash full-node client, has released Zakura Common, a library that supplies cryptographic and protocol functions for the Zcash ecosystem. According to official benchmarks released with the announcement, the new library delivers significant performance improvements. Mobile proof generation speed is now more than 14 times faster. Desktop proof generation speed is more than 5 times faster. Sinsemilla hashing speed is more than 21 times faster, while trial decryption speed is more than 1.5 times faster. zk-SNARK verification speed improves by a factor of 4 to 8. In many cases, the time it takes to create a transaction in a wallet can be reduced from more than 3 seconds to under 200 milliseconds. The improvements do not require a network upgrade. Zakura Common is available as open source under the dual MIT and Apache 2.0 licenses. Zakura 1.3.0, the upcoming version of the client, will switch to this technology stack.

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Coinbase

2026-08-12 19:20:12

Brian Armstrong Says Coinbase Rolling Out Major Performance Upgrade

Brian Armstrong said on X that Coinbase is rolling out a major performance upgrade, one it says is meant to speed up trade processing and strengthen platform stability. The work covers the trading matching engine and broader infrastructure architecture, with the company pointing to high-concurrency trading scenarios as the key driver behind the changes. A smoother user experience is also cited as a goal. Armstrong's post frames the upgrade as part of a sustained push: Coinbase has continued investing in technology development recently, a longer-term effort to defend its market position.

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Polygon

2026-07-22 15:20:13

Polygon Upgrade Goes Live as POL Block Time Falls to 1.75 Seconds

Polygon has activated a network upgrade that cuts POL block time from 2 seconds to 1.75 seconds, boosting Bor-layer throughput by 14% while keeping transaction costs unchanged.

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Tencent

2026-07-10 23:13:13

Tencent Launches HunYuan Hy3 Preview with 295B Parameters and 54% Latency Cut

Tencent's new HunYuan Hy3 Preview AI model boasts 295 billion parameters and a hybrid expert architecture, reducing response latency by 54%. Integrated into Tencent Cloud and WorkBuddy, it excels in reasoning but faces challenges in complex task execution.

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