Solana's daily active addresses have dropped to around 203,830

Day sixteen without a federal budget has turned America’s shutdown into a drawn‑out political marathon and a country where civil servants check their bank balances more often than the news. In the Senate, a ninth attempt to advance a Republican stopgap package failed; a tenth vote is slated for Thursday.

In response to Binance listing fee allegations, founder and ex-CEO CZ said projects can refuse to pay and use alternatives.

On October 14, 2025, at 11:00 CEST, Chiliz activates the Snake8 hard fork. The upgrade replaces equal‑share block production with a lottery‑like draw weighted by stake that enforces a minimum selection frequency to keep smaller validators in rotation. Nodes that don’t upgrade will stop producing blocks.