A standard would let the XRP Ledger escrow issued tokens, not just XRP
XLS-85d extends EscrowCreate, EscrowFinish and EscrowCancel to IOU and MPT assets with new ledger fields for locked balances.
Victoria Shinder
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.
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Cosmovisor 1.7.3 exists only to ship the binaries 1.7.2 forgot
The previous release fixed a Go 1.26 build failure but published no prebuilt binaries for it.
Cecabank leaves the Euribor panel and ESMA says the benchmark holds
The Spanish bank stops contributing on 30 September; ESMA and the Euribor College concluded representativeness is not at risk.
BIP-371 drops the finalizer clause from a Taproot PSBT field
The per-output description of PSBT_OUT_TAP_BIP32_DERIVATION no longer refers to what a finalizer must do.
Core devs move ten EIPs onto the inclusion lists for the next fork
EIP-8081 is updated with the decisions from ACDE246, adding proposals that remove refunds and bloom filters and reserve an opcode.
Four items today sat on the gap between claimed and tested
A combiner vector that only ran one order, a hash family with a thin literature, an architecture with no cost model, and a summary standing in for an SEC order.
Anchorage moves USAT cross-chain on LayerZero's token standard
The first live integration under the omnichain standard, with two other bank-issued stablecoins expected later - and the 170-network figure belongs to LayerZero, not the token.
The FCA says it will move without waiting for legislation
A speech on market infrastructure names AI and tokenisation, puts trading hours in question, and commits to going as far as supervisory discretion allows.
Three proposals today, all about what you are allowed to forget
Ethereum wants nodes to keep four months of beacon blocks instead of fourteen. Bitcoin wants to back up the data that is not the seed. XRPL is adding confidentiality to a token type. Retention is the common subject.
BIP-138 encrypts the part of a wallet backup that is not the seed
A new draft BIP defines a compact encryption scheme for output script descriptors, wallet policies and other metadata. The payload is forbidden from containing private key material.