XRPL client prereleases carry Confidential MPT and Sponsorship
Two packages tagged on a named channel add XLS-0096 and XLS-68 support with updated binary-codec definitions - where a ledger amendment first becomes usable.
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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.
Ethereum research asks which hashes people have actually attacked
With Flock handling binary circuits, circuit-friendly hashes lose their reason to exist - and the comparison turns to cryptanalytic maturity rather than speed.
Solana's policy arm reads an SEC order as opening tokenised stocks
A five-year exemption is described as letting real shares trade on permissionless chains without exchange registration. The account is advocacy; the conditions live in the order.
A Polkadot forum proposal swaps re-execution for proof checking
WonderZK would move heavy execution and proving off the validator set. It is one person's design, posted with a call for collaborators, not a project roadmap.
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.
A PSBT test vector arrives because a bug got past the old ones
BIP-174 gains a combiner vector for the sighash type, plus an instruction to run the existing vectors in both orders - because Combine is not commutative and the tests were.
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.
Avalanche activated Helicon on mainnet with six proposals at once
The upgrade went live at 11 AM ET on 22 September, bringing C-Chain async execution, auto-renewed staking, a higher uptime requirement, a shorter minimum stake, a dynamic gas floor and a lower consumption rate.
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.