Contributing writer
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.
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.
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.
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.
CHAMP shields a small set of peers per quality dimension - two of them anchored to transactions that actually reach the chain - while the rest keep churning at the same rate.
PQLN adds ML-DSA and ML-KEM to Lightning's gossip, transport, invoices and onions without a consensus change. The on-chain parts stay classical, and the author names bandwidth as the real price.
A research post measured Teku traffic on mainnet: keeping Snappy's history across messages removes repeated topic strings and attestation data, with the same decoder bound.
New Corporation Finance answers classify liquid staking receipts, define what a receipt is, and draw a line between buybacks on working and unfinished crypto systems. They carry no legal force.
SIMD-0376 now specifies the cofactored equation from Taming the many EdDSAs plus explicit rejection of non-canonical encodings and small-order A and R - because ZIP-215 alone accepts the all-zero pubkey.
Attackers spoofed transaction data so that legitimate-looking transfer approvals drained hot and warm wallets. The haul includes about 103 million XRP; the CEO points at North Korea.
An ethresear.ch post reframes the question as the Trusted Computing Base: everything trusted rather than proven, which is what humans still have to check.