Bitcoin
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.
Coin Brief — Crypto news, read from the protocol's own record
Paying someone else's reserve means you cannot always walk away
An XRPL disclosure on sponsored reserves names a trilemma: free exit, always-backed objects and zero-XRP users cannot all hold. Stellar reached the same answer years ago.
Buterin: after Hegota, Ethereum stops being just a blockchain
In a new essay he argues that verification, consensus and block construction are all changing, and that Hegota, the fork planned for next year, is likely Ethereum's last normal one.
Eclair 0.14 fixes two bugs that let any peer knock a node offline
One came from parsing feature bits one at a time, the other from zlib channel queries BOLT 7 retired four years ago. A fuzzer found the first, AI-assisted variant analysis the second.
Geth 1.17.6 schedules Amsterdam on Sepolia for 6 October
Sepolia operators must upgrade before the fork. The release also removes Holesky, drops Go 1.24, and adds parallel block execution driven by block-level access lists.
Allfunds and Solana open Project Harmonia to tokenized funds until 24 October
The programme links Allfunds' distribution network of more than 3,300 managers with funds on Solana. Track A takes live funds, Track B funds in development, and there are no admission fees.
Firedancer v26.09.4 cuts the mainnet validator's memory from 307 GB to 182 GB
The mainnet-ready release adds a kernel-bypass driver for Mellanox NICs and Solana 4.3 features, and renames snapshot settings - operators must re-run configure after upgrading.
Stolen Bitget XRP keeps moving because nobody can freeze XRP itself
XRPL freezes apply only to tokens issuers create, not to the native asset. About 54 million of 103 million stolen XRP had left the attacker's first wallets by Saturday midday.
Sui mainnet 1.80.1 brings protocol 137 and a pull-based consensus pool
Cheaper range proofs, a gas change for constant-heavy Move code, earlier rejection of malformed transactions, and an opt-in pool that lets consensus pull transactions by gas price.
CFTC sues Cash FX and four others over an alleged $950 million pool scheme
The complaint says a multilevel marketing operation promised up to 15% a week from AI-driven forex trading, traded little, and paid earlier participants with later money. Losses are put at $406 million.
At which point a blockchain actually checks its rules
A private-transfer design checked off-chain, a quantum-safe spend that must bypass the mempool, XRP no one can freeze, and a geth change that trusts only on-chain outcomes. Each moves or relies on the enforcement point.