Chainstack Blog

Every year someone publishes another “Top 50 Blockchain Leaders” list. This isn’t that list — 20 Web3 builders who wrote the code you use every day.

Ethereum’s biggest protocol change since the Merge lands in H2 2026. ePBS moves block building into the protocol, BALs enable parallel execution. What to do about it.

B20 is Base’s native token standard, shipped with Beryl in June 2026. ERC-20 superset with roles, transfer policies, freeze-and-seize built into the chain. How to use it.

A tokenization platform converts real-world assets into blockchain tokens. Learn how tokenization works in 2026: six leaders, token standards, and compliance models.

Vitalik Buterin proposed replacing the EVM with RISC-V to scale Ethereum with zk-proofs. Here’s how it works, what zkVMs already prove, and what could delay it.

Compare Chainstack, Quicknode, Alchemy, Dwellir, and Ankr on gRPC, archive, pricing, and SLAs for gaming, DeFi, and enterprise Sui workloads ahead of July 2026.