Daily Summary2026-08-10
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BIP-110's Fork Freezes at Two Blocks as Even Its Signallers Decline to Mine It
A day after splitting from Bitcoin's main chain, the BIP-110 fork remained frozen at two blocks as miners declined to extend it. Michael Saylor, the proposal's most prominent opponent, put enforcing hashrate at roughly 0.15% — against 2.53% that had signaled support — and estimated a first difficulty adjustment could take decades at that pace. Foundry's customer vote had separately resolved No.
BlackRock Puts Tokenised Share Classes on Its $311B European Cash Range — Minted on Ethereum via JPMorgan
BlackRock launched its first tokenised fund access in Europe on August 4: twelve Ethereum-based share classes across six Institutional Cash Series money-market funds holding a combined $311 billion, built with Kinexys by JPMorgan, per The Block. Each token represents a fund share and transfers 24/7 between approved wallets, while the official shareholder register remains with the traditional transfer agent; the on-chain portion is expected to start small. The classes are limited to professional and qualified investors across 15 markets.