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.
An Ethereum Research post benchmarks post-Glamsterdam single-base-fee configurations against multi-dimensional pricing, reporting execution gas and annual state growth for each.
A Division of Market Oversight advisory sets out the limited circumstances in which mention market contracts can be listed, and reminds exchanges of Core Principle 3.
Robonomics retiring Sudo, Solana debating who sets block limits, an XRPL cosigner draft, a Bitcoin BIP for backup format. The week's substance is about who decides, not what the software does.
The XRPL-Standards repository merged an Onchain Cosigner draft on 16 September, 1,203 lines in a single file, carrying a transaction_proposal RPC designed around per-account signing status.
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.
The Polkadot parachain would replace a developer multisig with pallet-referenda and conviction voting on just two tracks, then remove Sudo through the first real referendum.
A proposed annual EMIR reporting framework would require clearing members and clients to report activity at recognised third-country CCPs; responses are due 12 October 2026.
