Solana switched to Alpenglow consensus on mainnet, replacing TowerBFT and cutting finality to roughly 150 milliseconds, per onchain data and Solana and Anza accounts.
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OCC's final GENIUS Act rule takes effect Jan. 18, 2027 and drops the third-party yield presumption, with temporary waivers for pending applicants.
A Bitcoin model matched Bitcoin Core across 100,000 test executions and examines what still must be done to enforce the 21 million cap through independent node validation.
France's parliament passed by one vote an amendment treating crypto-to-stablecoin swaps as taxable disposals at the 31.4% flat rate, a significant change for French holders.
ZachXBT traces over $20M from hacks and ransomware through FreedomXMR, a Monero swap service on Hyperliquid where 87% of inflows are illicit.
Galaxy Research shares lessons from running Solana's largest consensus change, Alpenglow, in production.
Argues onchain RWA lending needs fixed-rate, fixed-term loans, and estimates a 5% reserve shift in Sky and Ethena could create $1.8B of RWA demand.
Polkadot urges Fearless Wallet users to move funds and create fresh keys after a private-key leak affected a Chrome extension version with 6,000 users.
Glassnode shows Bitcoin swept to about $80K near US ETF and treasury cost basis, with bids refilling quickly and liquidation clusters mapped between $85K and $87.5K.
The OCC finalized GENIUS Act stablecoin rules effective January 2027, easing reserve limits but leaving the rewards dispute unresolved.
A key generation flaw in eMudhra certificates let anyone guess private keys and forge HTTPS certificates, prompting browser and tech giants to block them. Important security news for anyone relying on web trust.