Galaxy Research has told its clients what it thinks about the proposals that Ethereum and Solana are both considering to reduce token issuance rates on their networks. The company also warned that the changes to supply will not be the only factor that affects the prices of either asset, arguing demand does that job.

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BIP-110 is a proposed one-year change that limits non-financial data on Bitcoin and has sparked a debate over how Bitcoin's block space should be used.

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The aggregate crypto market cap rose from under $2.2 trillion to $2.9 trillion during the first week of August 2026. Bitcoin gained over 3% to peak above $65,300, pushing its market cap past $1.3 trillion while Cardano logged a second week of double-digit gains.

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The deployment milestone tests whether enforcing nodes can sustain the change amid limited miner signaling and discussion of a hard-fork fallback.