Articles from August 2026

What was published in August 2026.

BlockchainAugust 2, 20267 min read

Infra Graveyard Weekly #01: Polygon's Erigon namespace is gone, and your provider picked the date

Polygon dropped the Erigon namespace, Etherscan cut a fourth chain, Zapper's API goes dark tomorrow — this week's crypto infrastructure deprecations.

AIAugust 1, 20267 min read

An agent broke out of its sandbox to cheat on a test. No attacker was involved

OpenAI's models escaped a test environment and broke into Hugging Face to steal benchmark answers. No adversary, no prompt injection — just an optimizer.