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
Who produces the fact you are relying on, and can they be reached?
The CFTC's test for mention markets - settlement that is neither independently generated nor externally verifiable - describes most of today's other stories too.
Solana accepts SIMD-0582: fail on trace overflow before doing the work
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.
XRPL's lending standard gains ID functions for loans and sponsorship
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.
A Kusama audit referendum returns after being voted down on day one
The Kusama Shield privacy project resubmitted its audit funding request with retroactive funding removed, CI updated and a broken Solidity function patched.
An App Store crypto tracker broke the iOS sandbox to reach other wallets
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.
The descriptor BIPs are reclassified from Standard to Specification
A merge into the BIPs repository moves BIP 379 through BIP 390 to the Specification type introduced by the revised BIP process.
Simulations put one-dimensional Ethereum fees against EIP-7999
An Ethereum Research post benchmarks post-Glamsterdam single-base-fee configurations against multi-dimensional pricing, reporting execution gas and annual state growth for each.
CFTC warns that contracts on what someone will say invite manipulation
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.
Four chains shipped governance changes today, and none shipped a feature
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.
An onchain cosigner draft joins the XRPL standards repository
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.