A draft BIP would standardise which Bitcoin outputs expose their keys
Published estimates of quantum-exposed supply range from about 25% to over 34%. The author argues the gap is definitional and proposes four levels with a fail-closed rule.
Victoria Shinder
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Writes about the rules around crypto: what a regulator's decision says, what it does not say, and which of the two the market reacted to.
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Aptos node 1.49.1 makes Block-STM v2 the default executor
The hotfix release also bumps the gas schedule to version 49, decouples the encryption round from the consensus round and excludes retryable encrypted transactions from execution.
This week's protocol changes include choices you cannot take back
An XRPL confidentiality flag that forbids fees forever, an Erigon receipt setting fixed at node creation, and a Bitcoin draft that fails closed. Irreversibility is a design parameter.
IBM connects Digital Asset Haven to Swift's tokenised-deposit ledger
Banks can instruct tokenised deposit transfers on Swift's shared ledger with ISO 20022 messages, and run Digital Asset Haven on IBM Z or LinuxONE without the public cloud.
Sixth Circuit rules Ohio and Tennessee can apply gambling law to Kalshi
The court held Kalshi had not shown its sports-event contracts are swaps under CFTC exclusive jurisdiction, and that the Commodity Exchange Act would not preempt state law even if they were.
Paying someone else's reserve means you cannot always walk away
An XRPL disclosure on sponsored reserves names a trilemma: free exit, always-backed objects and zero-XRP users cannot all hold. Stellar reached the same answer years ago.
Buterin: after Hegota, Ethereum stops being just a blockchain
In a new essay he argues that verification, consensus and block construction are all changing, and that Hegota, the fork planned for next year, is likely Ethereum's last normal one.
Eclair 0.14 fixes two bugs that let any peer knock a node offline
One came from parsing feature bits one at a time, the other from zlib channel queries BOLT 7 retired four years ago. A fuzzer found the first, AI-assisted variant analysis the second.
Allfunds and Solana open Project Harmonia to tokenized funds until 24 October
The programme links Allfunds' distribution network of more than 3,300 managers with funds on Solana. Track A takes live funds, Track B funds in development, and there are no admission fees.
Firedancer v26.09.4 cuts the mainnet validator's memory from 307 GB to 182 GB
The mainnet-ready release adds a kernel-bypass driver for Mellanox NICs and Solana 4.3 features, and renames snapshot settings - operators must re-run configure after upgrading.