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According to official news from the Polygon Foundation, the Giugliano hard fork upgrade will take place around 22:00 on April 8 at block height 85,268,500 on the Polygon mainnet.This upgrade will bring the following improvements: allowing producers to announce blocks earlier for faster finality; directly adding fee parameters to the block header; introducing new RPC interfaces to support fee data.The official reminds all node operators that they must upgrade Bor to version v2.7.0 or upgrade Erigon to version v3.5.0 to ensure normal operation.

According to official news, BlackRock's first ETF offering staking rewards, the iShares Staked Ethereum Trust ETF (ETHB), has been listed for trading on Nasdaq, with Figment selected to provide validation node infrastructure for ETHB, supporting transaction validation and Ethereum network security.Industry insiders point out that the launch of ETHB benefits from regulatory clarity driven by long-term policy initiatives, allowing Ethereum staking to be participated in by a broader range of investors. The amount staked has reached a historic high, enhancing not only network security and risk resistance but also providing a solid foundation for on-chain economic activities and development.

The DFINITY Foundation stated on platform X, "The economic model of the Internet Computer is changing: the old model rewarded node providers simply for running nodes. The new model allocates 80% of cloud engine revenue to nodes that provide computational support, with 20% used to burn ICP.Currently, the Node Provider Association has begun preparations to promote cloud engine services to businesses across Europe."

The shipping giant FedEx announced its joining of the Hedera Network's governance body, the Hedera Council, where it will operate network nodes and participate in on-chain governance.

Data shows that the number of validator nodes on the Solana network has significantly decreased from a peak of 2,560 in March 2023 to the current 795, a drop of 68%, raising concerns in the market about the network's level of decentralization.Industry insiders point out that, in addition to clearing "zombie nodes," a more core reason is the continuous rise in operating costs + zero-fee competition among large nodes, which is systematically squeezing out small and medium-sized validators. An independent validator node operator stated that many small nodes are not bearish on Solana, but rather that the economic model has become unsustainable: "Without economic viability, decentralization becomes a charitable act." Meanwhile, Solana's Nakamoto Coefficient has dropped from 31 to 20 during the same period, a decline of about 35%, indicating that the control of staked SOL is concentrating in the hands of a few large nodes, reducing the network's level of decentralization.From a cost perspective: to maintain operation (excluding hardware and servers), a node needs at least $49,000 worth of SOL in the first year; approximately 401 SOL is required annually to pay for voting fees; and daily voting transaction costs can reach up to 1.1 SOL/day. The trend signals are clear: Solana is gradually evolving from a "broad participation node structure" to a structure dominated by large institutional nodes, which may have a profound impact on the network's security structure and governance patterns in the long term.

According to Cointelegraph, the number of Bitcoin nodes supporting Bitcoin Improvement Proposal 110 (BIP-110) has risen to 2.38%. This proposal is a temporary soft fork that limits the amount of data per transaction at the consensus level.According to data from The Bitcoin Portal, out of 24,481 nodes, 583 are running BIP-110, with the main node software implementation for this soft fork proposal being Bitcoin Knots. BIP-110 limits the size of transaction outputs to 34 bytes and sets the OP_RETURN data limit to 83 bytes. According to the proposal's description on its GitHub page, this temporary soft fork will be deployed for 1 year, after which it may be extended or modified. OP_RETURN is a script code that allows users to embed arbitrary data.Since the release of the latest version of the most widely used Bitcoin node software—Bitcoin Core 30—this feature has been a focal point of intense debate within the Bitcoin community. The OP_RETURN data limit was originally set to 83 bytes, but Bitcoin Core developers unilaterally removed this restriction in the Bitcoin Core 30 version. This change stemmed from a controversial code merge request first proposed in April 2025, which was widely opposed by the Bitcoin community.

According to market news, the Nasdaq-listed company AVAX One announced the launch of public validation nodes on the Avalanche blockchain to support the Avalanche consensus mechanism, providing staking services for delegators. It is reported that the AVAX One validator will support public delegation and utilize an institutional-grade cloud architecture to ensure high availability and high performance.

According to GlobeNewswire, NASDAQ-listed company AVAX One announced the launch of public validation nodes on the Avalanche blockchain to support the Avalanche consensus mechanism and provide staking services for delegators.It is reported that AVAX One validators will support public delegation and utilize enterprise-grade cloud architecture to ensure high availability and high performance.

According to official news, the Zcash Foundation has announced that in response to the Electric Coin Company (ECC) ceasing service responses for its DNS seed nodes, five new DNS seed nodes have been deployed in the United States and Europe. The newly deployed seed nodes are located in South Carolina and Oregon in the United States, as well as in Belgium, Germany, and Finland in Europe.As of now, including the existing seed nodes, the total number of seed nodes operated by the Zcash Foundation has reached six, aimed at ensuring reliable node discovery for users and improving the startup performance of wallets and nodes.In addition, the Zcash Foundation is considering further deployments in other regions to enhance coverage and reliability, and Shielded Labs is also working on deploying additional seed nodes.

According to official news, the U.S. stock SOL treasury company Sharps Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: STSS) announced that it is further deepening its partnership with Coinbase Institutional by jointly supporting the launch of institutional-grade validation nodes on the Solana network.Under this expanded cooperation framework, STSS will delegate part of its SOL holdings (currently over 2 million SOL) to a newly established validation node operated by Coinbase. This collaboration integrates Coinbase's institutional-grade infrastructure, security standards, and proven validation node operational capabilities to ensure high availability, strict operational standards, and long-term reliability.

According to the latest official data, BitTorrent's distributed storage network BTFS has reached an important milestone in 2025, with the total global storage capacity of BTFS surpassing 800 PB, successfully building a decentralized storage infrastructure that covers the globe with over 2 million nodes. As of now, the network has processed more than 196 million storage contracts, with a total consumption of BTT fuel exceeding 8.3 billion, demonstrating strong network activity and economic ecosystem vitality. As the core data storage layer serving the next generation of the internet and the era of artificial intelligence, BTFS is continuously promoting the decentralized evolution of storage technology, providing secure, efficient, and scalable distributed storage solutions for global developers, enterprises, and users, and helping to build a more open and trustworthy data future.

According to official data, by 2025, BitTorrent, as the world's largest distributed network, will see significant growth in its data. The total number of BitTorrent addresses will exceed 539 million, with an annual increase of over 56.9 million. The network's monthly active users will reach 54.14 million, and daily active users will hit 11.54 million. BitTorrent's vast node network and efficient data distribution capabilities are becoming a key infrastructure driving the development of the next generation of artificial intelligence, providing decentralized and highly scalable underlying support for the training, inference, and data circulation of global AI models.

According to Globenewswire, Nasdaq-listed Solana treasury company Solmate Infrastructure announced the launch of SOL validation nodes in the UAE, allowing local users to stake SOL tokens and earn rewards directly from Solmate's validation nodes.

ChainCatcher message, Sonic has released an important announcement on the X platform stating: All nodes on the mainnet and testnet must upgrade to version 2.1.2 immediately to avoid disconnection. This version introduces native fee subsidies and critical security improvements, replacing the earlier v2.1 before the full upgrade of the Sonic mainnet to Pectra compatibility. It is applicable to validators, RPC providers, archive nodes, exchanges, and other node operators. After the upgrade, nodes will continue to operate on the current mainnet until the complete transition on November 3, 2025.

ChainCatcher news, according to Cryptopolitan, the privacy blockchain Monero has released an important upgrade named CLI v0.18.4.3 "Fluorine Fermi" to enhance protection against spy nodes.In the Monero community, the term "spy nodes" refers to malicious nodes, their affiliated groups, or botnets that can correlate IP addresses with transaction information, effectively undermining the privacy guarantees of the blockchain. The "Fermi" update addresses this issue by implementing an improved node selection algorithm that reduces the likelihood of users connecting to multiple nodes within the same IP subnet, a common strategy used by spy nodes.It prevents users from connecting to large clusters of suspicious IP addresses, guiding them towards safer nodes. The "Fermi" update also changes the way messages are sent and received, making it extremely difficult for spies to track the delivery path of messages. This helps Monero's messaging service avoid these suspicious delivery agents.

ChainCatcher news, staking infrastructure Kiln announced that following yesterday's Solana incident involving SwissBorg, as part of its response measures, Kiln has begun an orderly exit from all of its Ethereum (ETH) validator nodes to ensure the safety of customer assets after the incident. The exit process is expected to take between 10 to 42 days, depending on the validator, after which withdrawals will be completed according to the network schedule, taking up to 9 days.During the exit period, validators can still earn rewards. Kiln emphasized that they took immediate action upon discovering potential vulnerabilities in the infrastructure, and exiting the validator nodes is a responsible measure to protect stakers' safety. Kiln has suspended certain services on its staking platform, such as the Kiln Dashboard, Widget, and API. Additionally, Swiss cryptocurrency exchange SwissBorg CEO Cyrus Fazel denied that hackers stole $41 million from its wealth management company yesterday, instead attributing the attack to an external DeFi wallet held by its SOL staking partner Kiln.

ChainCatcher news, according to market reports, Paradigm's Chief Technology Officer Georgios Konstantopoulos revealed that the Ethereum execution layer client Reth encountered a vulnerability at block 2327426, causing interruptions for nodes relying on this client. The affected versions include Reth 1.6.0 and 1.4.8. Paradigm has published instructions for recovering nodes on its GitHub page, but the root cause of the vulnerability is still under investigation.Reth is an Ethereum execution layer client developed by Paradigm, written in Rust, aimed at improving performance and modularity. Current data shows that Reth accounts for only 5.4% of the total Ethereum execution layer clients, so the impact of this vulnerability is limited. The execution layer client is responsible for processing transactions and state updates, and calculating the state root to ensure the integrity of the global state of the blockchain. This vulnerability may prevent some nodes from validating blocks and synchronizing with the network.