VeChain news today is centered on the network’s recent InterStellar hard fork and the market’s continued reaction to the protocol upgrade, while no new major VeChain announcement dated September 21–23, 2026, was identified in the available official updates. VeChainThor activated the InterStellar hard fork on September 16 at block height 25,902,540, according to a September 22 CoinMarketCap update summarizing the network’s latest developments. The upgrade represents the final phase of VeChain’s Renaissance roadmap and introduces full Ethereum Virtual Machine equivalence through the integration of 11 Ethereum Improvement Proposals.