Daily Summary2026-08-31
Stories clustered across sources, with day-to-day continuity and threading.
Blake2b Fork Activates Tomorrow
Luke Dashjr resigned as chairman and CTO of the OCEAN mining pool, which repurchased his equity after August's BIP-110 fight left the pool's hashrate down 96%, per coverage. He backs a hard fork of the stalled BIP-110 minority chain to the Blake2b mining algorithm, with activation targeted for Tuesday, September 1 (a rehearsal chain has run since August 30), and announced a new pool, Convoy, which had published no operating details at reporting time. Coverage flagged transaction replay risk between the chains as unresolved.
DTCC Picks BitGo, Targets October
The DTCC announced a partnership with BitGo to build infrastructure for tokenized US Treasuries and equities, with coverage reporting an October target for go-live, following the DTCC's earlier multi-institution blockchain trading trial. DTCC has said roughly $300 trillion of high-grade assets sit in the system with only about a tenth mobilised as collateral, per coverage — the efficiency case it makes for tokenisation.