A release candidate is not news, and a forum thread is not a decision
Crypto desks are fed by repositories and forums, which produce a great deal of motion and very little event. Four tests for telling one from the other.
Serguey Asael Shinder
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.
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The Eurosystem starts settling tokenised assets in central bank money
Pontes went live on 21 September with a first group of participants already onboarded; the ECB will also put a slice of its own funds into tokenised securities, settled through it.
BIP-374 now reduces its challenge modulo the curve order
The discrete log equality proof spec went to version 0.3.0: the challenge is reduced mod n on generation, a verifier must reject e above the order, and test vectors cover both cases.