Aptos turns on Block-STM v2 by default, aimed at 256 cores where v1 was benchmarked on 32 threads
Aptos has made Block-STM v2 the default parallel execution engine on its Layer-1, with no change required from users or developers. The only throughput figures on record come from 2022 tests of version 1, so v2's gains stay a target until someone measures them on live traffic.
Reality
- Evidence35
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+15
- Incentives
- Not scored
- Confidence55
Cosmos Labs pushed a fund-loss fix through the channel it reserves for harmless bugs
GHSA-7g4w-cg88-2cq2 was reported on April 25, judged no threat to live funds, and quietly patched on August 19. Attackers drained six chains starting the next day, and the only real fix breaks state.
Reality
- Evidence64
- Adoption30
- Hype gap+5
- Incentives
- Not scored
- Confidence62
Proposal 68 passed with 99.4% of a 58% turnout, so the votes against came to about 0.17% of eligible stake. ZetaChain's stated reason is the work of coordinating upstream Cosmos patches across dozens of validators.
Perspective Coverage
3 publishers
- Builder
- Builder 30%
- Operator
- Operator 38%
- Investor
- Investor 32%
Reality
- Evidence72
- Adoption22
- Hype gap+30
- Incentives60
- Confidence66
ZetaChain shuts its Cosmos chain to follow a 300,000-user AI app onto Solana
Proposal 68 passed with 99.4% of a 58% turnout, converting ZETA one for one into a Solana SPL token and ending the Layer 1 that Blockchain.com and Jane Street Capital backed at its January 2024 launch.
Reality
- Evidence48
- Adoption34
- Hype gap+24
- Incentives60
- Confidence45
Cosmos Labs ran incident command for forty chains it does not operate
The published post mortem shows that grading one bug report as no threat to user funds is what routed the fix into a public patch, and five days later a single security team was triaging forty independent operators under live attack.
Reality
- Evidence74
- Adoption66
- Hype gap−10
- Incentives76
- Confidence58
The Austin and Kyoto upgrades reached mainnet before Polygon described what they repaired, a sequence that is standard practice for client teams and still leaves any operator on old binaries reading a public bug report from off consensus.
Reality
- Evidence58
- Adoption65
- Hype gap+16
- Incentives70
- Confidence60
A shared Cosmos module's underflow bug emptied $3.6M from MANTRA's burn address
MANTRA says the flaw sat in cosmos/evm rather than in its own code, which works as a defence and as a warning to every chain on that module. Validators halted the network only after 94.7% of the 720.9 million tokens were already gone.
Reality
- Evidence38
- Adoption34
- Hype gap+22
- Incentives80
- Confidence44
Provenance's marker module let anyone with zero tokens claim admin over 82 live financial assets
Trail of Bits found an authorization branch that compared a caller's balance against a supply figure the chain stops updating. Zero matched zero, and the check passed for everybody.
Reality
- Evidence76
- Adoption58
- Hype gap−6
- Incentives66
- Confidence62
Cosmostation shuts every wallet platform on September 1, leaving 18 days and a key export
The second-largest Cosmos wallet said on August 14 that only recovery phrase and private key export survives after September 1. Leap Wallet went dark in May.
Reality
- Evidence34
- Adoption28
- Hype gap+22
- Incentives46
- Confidence41