Contributing writer
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.
Referendum #498 made Kusama an experiment-focused peer of Polkadot. The open questions are where it runs, who secures it, and whether the Vision Programme should be capped at two years.
Bitget's approvals trusted their own request generator. Solana's consensus trusted a library. XRPL trusted a duplicated spec. And 21 CFD firms sold a licence they barely used.
BIP-138 redefines which keys enter its backup derivation, EIP-8298 removes a runtime-only restriction, and five XRPL standards are being synced to their reference implementations.
Open pull requests sync XLS-86, XLS-78 and XLS-65 with their reference implementations, align an XLS-85 error code from tecFROZEN to tecLOCKED, and pin byte order in XLS-102.
The avalanchego release schedules Helicon activation for 11 AM ET on 22 September and states that all mainnet nodes must upgrade before it; the same release line carries Granite on Fuji.
The proposal now states that a published analysis puts a collision below 2^128 queries, and that the colliding sets would need more accounts than a valid ledger state can contain.
The merged change redefines the keys used by the wallet-account backup scheme: distinct public keys across all descriptor and policy sets and all content items, rather than one descriptor's keys.
The instruction sets the calling account's code hash to that of a source account with existing deployed code; the update removes the wording that confined it to runtime.
The proposals build the supervisory framework for Board-supervised payment stablecoin issuers under the GENIUS Act; permissible reserves are named as short-term Treasury bills and other high-quality liquid assets.
Rachel Conlan becomes Chief Strategy Officer and Jamal Raees General Manager of Payments, as the foundation points at $5 trillion of 2026 stablecoin volume.