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 autumn 2026 joint risk update from EBA, EIOPA and ESMA puts external dependencies, private credit and AI-enabled cyber threats at the top, while reporting the EU financial system as resilient.
The leader-info syscall proposal now documents pointer validation step by step: compute units first, then an unaligned-loader guard, then a direct rejection of input-region destinations.
The CFTC's test for mention markets - settlement that is neither independently generated nor externally verifiable - describes most of today's other stories too.
The Kusama Shield privacy project resubmitted its audit funding request with retroactive funding removed, CI updated and a broken Solidity function patched.
SlowMist and OKX researchers found modules in FomoPeek 1.1 and 1.2 unrelated to its advertised function, linked to roughly $580,000 in stolen USDT.
A Division of Market Oversight advisory sets out the limited circumstances in which mention market contracts can be listed, and reminds exchanges of Core Principle 3.
Robonomics retiring Sudo, Solana debating who sets block limits, an XRPL cosigner draft, a Bitcoin BIP for backup format. The week's substance is about who decides, not what the software does.
The XRPL-Standards repository merged an Onchain Cosigner draft on 16 September, 1,203 lines in a single file, carrying a transaction_proposal RPC designed around per-account signing status.
A proposed annual EMIR reporting framework would require clearing members and clients to report activity at recognised third-country CCPs; responses are due 12 October 2026.
Litecoin Core 0.21.5.8 adds a soft-forking consensus rule at block 3,172,640 and folds in a 0.21.5.7 security fix that was distributed privately to mining pools rather than published.