Erigon 3.7 turns on parallel state roots and keeps receipts by default
The release schedules Glamsterdam on Sepolia for 6 October, requires x86-64-v2 CPUs, drops Polygon support flags and makes null JSON-RPC arguments an error, matching geth.
Serguey Asael Shinder
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Software engineer, BSc First Class Honours in Computing and Information Systems. Reads release notes, improvement proposals and client code, and writes down what a protocol change actually does to the people running a node.
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SIMD-0670 proposes a leaner CPI syscall, cutting setup cost by up to 55%
Programs would pass each account as a 4-byte index and flags instead of 90 bytes of metadata. The proposal from Anza's febo follows a discussion that settled on index-based accounts.
On XRPL, confidential tokens can never charge a percentage transfer fee
A Devnet test of XLS-96 shows both directions rejected, and the confidentiality flag cannot be cleared. The author asks whether flat fees, or fees at the conversion boundary, could work.
Robonomics wants ESP32 sensors to sign Polkadot transactions on their own
The parachain's design turns runtime metadata into generated C code at build time and fingerprints each firmware's calls, so a runtime upgrade shows which devices still work. Most of it is not yet written.
xrpld 3.4.1 emergency release: old servers block on 9 October
The release adds fixBatchV1_2, which rejects Batch inner transactions carried by the wrong wrapper, plus payment-engine hardening. Source code is withheld until a retrospective.
CFTC staff allow onchain records and tokenized customer-fund investments
Updated FAQs say FCMs and clearing houses may invest customer funds in tokenized forms of permitted assets, and that recordkeeping rules are technology neutral - with conditions for public chains.
Geth 1.17.6 schedules Amsterdam on Sepolia for 6 October
Sepolia operators must upgrade before the fork. The release also removes Holesky, drops Go 1.24, and adds parallel block execution driven by block-level access lists.
CFTC sues Cash FX and four others over an alleged $950 million pool scheme
The complaint says a multilevel marketing operation promised up to 15% a week from AI-driven forex trading, traded little, and paid earlier participants with later money. Losses are put at $406 million.
Shielded Bitcoin paper proposes Zcash-style private transfers without a fork
Encrypted notes, nullifiers and zero-knowledge proofs would be published on Bitcoin and checked by off-chain replay. How real BTC gets in and out is left to a separate paper.
Open challenge cuts GPU cost of a quantum-safe bitcoin spend to about $67
One week of public optimisation took the QSB construction from roughly $320 to an estimated $67 in compute. StarkWare still calls a soft fork the better long-term answer.