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Solana and Bitcoin ETFs diverge

Edition of August 13, 2026 at 12:02 AM UTCFull article
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Two blockchain incidents highlighted the cost of brittle infrastructure in high-value ecosystems. Solana came 86% of the way toward losing finality after a routing bug, a near-miss that would have threatened confidence in transaction settlement on one of crypto’s most watched networks. Separately, Sui Network created a $10 million security fund after the $223 million Cetus hack, an attempt to restore trust and harden its ecosystem. The contrast is telling: performance chains compete on speed and developer growth, but finality failures and nine-figure exploits can quickly force them to spend on resilience, audits and user assurance.

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