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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.
The draft lowers MIN_EPOCHS_FOR_BLOCK_REQUESTS from 33,024 epochs to 8,192, arguing the existing figure comes from a worst-case weak-subjectivity calculation nobody actually uses.
ripple-binary-codec 2.12.0-smartescrow.0 ships support for XLS-0096 Confidential MPT and XLS-68 sponsorship, on a branch named for a feature that is not the headline.
A proposal merged into the improvement documents repository on 16 September moves detection of instruction trace overflow earlier, so a transaction that cannot succeed is rejected before the runtime spends on it.
A three-line addition to XLS-102 defines how to derive ledger entry IDs for sponsorship, `loan_broker` and loan objects, merged the day after the cosigner draft.
A merge into the BIPs repository moves BIP 379 through BIP 390 to the Specification type introduced by the revised BIP process.
An Ethereum Research post benchmarks post-Glamsterdam single-base-fee configurations against multi-dimensional pricing, reporting execution gas and annual state growth for each.
Galaxy Digital research says 52.37 BTC tied to July's Coldcard exploit went to an address carrying an OP_RETURN pointer to a newly formed recovery trust.
BIP-138, merged into the BIPs repository, specifies a compact encryption scheme for non-seed wallet data such as descriptors.
An update merged into the EIPs repository extends the proposal with per-topic-value event views under TXDIFF parameters 0x0B and 0x0C.
The 18 September changelog records Transaction V1, a rent cut to 5,080 lamports per byte and a slot-time reduction to 250ms as notable mainnet feature gates, with SIMD debate on removing block compute limits.