An ethresear.ch post using an open-source tool over ~115,000 blocks finds swaps in the first 10% of block gas pay many times the priority fee of mid-block swaps, and the ratio held even as fee levels fell.
The autumn 2026 joint risk update from EBA, EIOPA and ESMA puts external dependencies, private credit and AI-enabled cyber threats at the top, while reporting the EU financial system as resilient.
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.
The leader-info syscall proposal now documents pointer validation step by step: compute units first, then an unaligned-loader guard, then a direct rejection of input-region destinations.
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.
The CFTC's test for mention markets - settlement that is neither independently generated nor externally verifiable - describes most of today's other stories too.
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.
The Kusama Shield privacy project resubmitted its audit funding request with retroactive funding removed, CI updated and a broken Solidity function patched.
SlowMist and OKX researchers found modules in FomoPeek 1.1 and 1.2 unrelated to its advertised function, linked to roughly $580,000 in stolen USDT.
A merge into the BIPs repository moves BIP 379 through BIP 390 to the Specification type introduced by the revised BIP process.
