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.
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Erigon 3.7 turns on parallel state roots and keeps receipts by default
The release schedules Glamsterdam on Sepolia for 6 October, requires x86-64-v2 CPUs, drops Polygon support flags and makes null JSON-RPC arguments an error, matching geth.
SIMD-0670 proposes a leaner CPI syscall, cutting setup cost by up to 55%
Programs would pass each account as a 4-byte index and flags instead of 90 bytes of metadata. The proposal from Anza's febo follows a discussion that settled on index-based accounts.
On XRPL, confidential tokens can never charge a percentage transfer fee
A Devnet test of XLS-96 shows both directions rejected, and the confidentiality flag cannot be cleared. The author asks whether flat fees, or fees at the conversion boundary, could work.
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.
Robonomics wants ESP32 sensors to sign Polkadot transactions on their own
The parachain's design turns runtime metadata into generated C code at build time and fingerprints each firmware's calls, so a runtime upgrade shows which devices still work. Most of it is not yet written.
xrpld 3.4.1 emergency release: old servers block on 9 October
The release adds fixBatchV1_2, which rejects Batch inner transactions carried by the wrong wrapper, plus payment-engine hardening. Source code is withheld until a retrospective.