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Sui’s mainnet ground to a halt for two consecutive days in late May, suspending user transactions and rattling confidence in a chain that had been riding a wave of adoption. According to the original report, the outages originated from an interaction conflict between the Address Balances feature and gas billing logic introduced in version 1.72. A temporary fix deployed earlier carried a known issue that could trigger outages with an extremely low probability—a calculated risk that backfired when epoch transition problems piled on, leaving validator nodes running yet unable to process any user transactions. The incident hits a network that just weeks ago saw institutional staking and a Paga partnership drive an 18% price surge. Now the core team must publish a post-mortem and convince builders, validators, and DeFi protocols that the chain’s upgrade pipeli
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Jessie A Ellis
May 29, 2026 18:34
Sui Network suffers two consecutive outages due to bugs in its 1.72 upgrade, disrupting block production and sparking market concerns.
The Sui blockchain, a Layer-1 network developed by Mysten Labs, encountered its second outage in as many days on Friday, May 29, 2026. According to the network’s status dashboard, block production halted for over three and a half hours before being restored. The disruption followed an earlier six-hour outage on May 28 due to a bug introduced in the 1.72 software upgrade. The Sui team attributed the outages to issues with the new release, which introduced changes to address balances and gas charging logic. “Yesterday’s implemented fix was an interim measure designed to restore functionality to the network,” the team explained, adding that a more comprehensive fix has since been deployed by most vali
AI agents on Coinbase’s Base network are now paying for services via x402, logging $43M+ in transactions and reshaping crypto commerce. AI agents are no longer just browsing the internet. They are paying for it. Coinbase’s Base network is emerging as the home of what insiders now call the “agentic economy.” Autonomous AI agents are […]
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VanEck put the XRP Ledger above big institutional rivals like JPMorgan’s Kinexys. Other corporate blockchains on the list include Base, Provenance/FIGR, Canton, and more. Unlike Kinexys, XRPL offers public blockchain access along with enterprise‑grade features. VanEck’s latest ranking of corporate blockchains places the XRP Ledger above major institutional rivals such as JPMorgan’s Kinexys. As expected, it reinforced the idea that XRP Ledger is becoming a leading enterprise blockchain in global finance. Global investment management firm VanEck put the XRP Ledger at the top of its list of corporate blockchains, based on several institutional utility metrics. Source: X The ranking reportedly looked at things like transaction speed, how well it scales for institutions, readiness for tokenization, settlement systems, developer ecosystem growth, and potential for enterprise adop
Base says AI agents are using wallets, stablecoins, and x402 to pay for internet services as agentic commerce expands.
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On May 27, decentralized finance platform Stake DAO suffered an infinite-minting exploit on its Arbitrum protocol. However, Stake DAO core contributors quickly secured the mainnet funds backing the tokens, shut down the vsdCRV bridge, and successfully contained the exploit. Infinite-Minting Loophole Triggers Exploit Decentralized finance ( DeFi), platform Stake DAO confirmed May 27 that its […]
The Sui blockchain experienced a nearly six-hour network stall, halting all onchain block production. The disruption marks the second major downtime event for the high-throughput network this year. Onchain Data Shows Block Production Halt for Sui Mainnet The Sui blockchain experienced a severe network stall, halting all block production for exactly five hours and 55 […]
DefiLlama’s $25.2B RWA market leaves just $2.81B in DeFi as BlackRock expands BUIDL and Ondo pilots XRP redemptions. See which altcoins sit closest to adoption.
