Infrastructure
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DAGKnight, Kaspa’s adaptive consensus upgrade, expected to reach a stable and secure testnet this year.
Kaspa's DAGKnight adaptive consensus upgrade is expected to reach a stable, secure testnet this year.
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Injective Activates Fixed Gas Costs for Exchange Transactions
Injective now lets traders and developers use published fixed gas budgets for orders, cancellations, deposits and withdrawals instead of simulating each transaction.
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Goldman, Wells Fargo, Morgan Stanley see tokenization as a growth play, not a threat
Goldman, Wells Fargo and Morgan Stanley are treating tokenization as a growth opportunity covering trading, faster payments and advisory roles.
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DTCC Outlines 25-Security Tokenization Rollout on Canton and Besu
DTCC outlines a 25-security tokenization rollout backed 1:1 by DTC-held securities on Canton and Besu, with Stellar and Circle's Arc expected in 2027.
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🏴 Pearl’s AI Twist on Mining
Pearl ties Bitcoin mining work to paying AI customers, which the piece frames as a change to mining economics. It also covers the risks of the model.
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Glamsterdam Hoodi Testnet Announcement | Ethereum Foundation Blog
Ethereum Foundation announces the Glamsterdam upgrade's Hoodi testnet, a concrete step in the protocol roadmap.
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Paul Sztorc SAVAGE TAKEDOWN of Lightning Network
Paul Sztorc criticizes the Lightning Network as mostly custodial with poor user experience, a debate worth knowing about.
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Deutsche Bank To Debut Bitcoin Custody Within Weeks: Report
Deutsche Bank plans to launch Bitcoin custody within weeks, per a report.
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Network School Takes Over Farcaster With New Posting Rules
Farcaster moved under Network School with a social smart contract letting the core team update conduct rules; humans and AI review posts.
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Filecoin Plans to Shift Block Rewards Toward Paid Storage
Filecoin FIP-0118 would shift block rewards from 95% consensus toward a 50% floor, burning unearned service share.
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When your bridge transfer says "pending", what do you actually want to see?
A builder asks how bridge explorers should present 'pending' transfers, which can mean in transit, landed on an unsupported chain, or stuck. Useful practical UX and infrastructure question.
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Deutsche Bank prepares German crypto custody launch, eyes Asia: Report
Deutsche Bank reportedly plans German crypto custody and an expansion of digital asset custody to Asia.
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How Ethereum Works
A general explainer on how Ethereum tracks state, processes transactions, prices gas and supports smart contracts, with comparisons to other Layer 1 chains. Useful primer, but not news.
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Ethereal news weekly #43 | ZKsync Airbender Prime: real time proving on single GPU, Barnabé Monnot: faster finality coming, Ethereum Community Foundation: Swapboard v2
Weekly Ethereum roundup covering ZKsync real-time proving on a single GPU and faster finality plans.
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LayerTree: a non-custodial scaling solution on bitcoin that connects to Lightning. A single UTXO can hold the balance of millions of users as an off-chain Merkle-sum tree.
LayerTree proposes a non-custodial bitcoin scaling design where one UTXO holds balances for millions of users via covenants and a Merkle-sum tree.
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Eclair DoS, LN-GAP - Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #427
Optech covers Eclair denial-of-service vulnerabilities in older versions and a proposed scheme for multi-round contracts inside Lightning channels.
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Balaji’s ‘Singapore of social media’ begins with a wave of bans
Balaji Srinivasan is pruning users from Farcaster to build a civil, techno-optimist community, a governance story about the platform's direction.
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Glamsterdam Hoodi Testnet Announcement
Glamsterdam is scheduled for the Hoodi testnet after Sepolia activation, bringing proposer-builder separation and gas pricing changes.
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Farcaster acquired by Balaji’s Network School, with new ‘social smart contract’ for users
Balaji Srinivasan's Network School acquired Farcaster, and users must sign a new 'social smart contract' or fall back to read-only access.
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Schwab Completes Retail Bitcoin and Ether Rollout, Begins Crypto Transfers
Schwab completed its retail bitcoin and ether rollout and will begin crypto transfers, with Solana, Avalanche and Chainlink planned by year-end.
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Multiliquid, a settlement platform for tokenized assets, raises $8 million
Multiliquid, a settlement platform for tokenized assets, raised $8 million across pre-seed and seed rounds led in seed by Polychain.
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Tokenization Is About Much More Than Bringing Assets Onchain
Argues tokenization's value lies in instant settlement, automated coupons and re-pledgeable collateral, not just onchain representation.
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Fireblocks Opens Stablecoin Marketplace for Payments Firms, Says It Takes No Spread
Fireblocks launched a Liquidity Market where payments firms collect quotes from several stablecoin trading desks and settle with the one they choose, with no spread taken by Fireblocks.
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Morning Minute: Solana Is About To Get Faster
Solana's Alpenglow upgrade is due next week, cutting finality from 12.8 seconds to a target of about 150 milliseconds.
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The worst agent mistakes I've seen were my tool's fault, not the model's
A builder of a blockchain-data MCP server found that agent errors traced to his own tool's outputs, with concrete examples of misleading answers and hidden instructions.
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Bitget is letting users transfer existing US stocks and ETFs directly into crypto rTokens without selling first... Will This Bring more Liquidity to crypto?
Bitget lets users move US stocks and ETFs into crypto rTokens via brokerage transfer, taking about 10 business days.
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Bitcoin mining pool once handling 2.3% of network shuts after hashrate falls 65%
Binance Pool, once about 2.3% of Bitcoin hashrate, is shutting down after its hashrate fell from 26 EH/s to about 9 EH/s; remaining miners must switch providers by Nov. 10.
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The State of Core Solidity | Solidity Programming Language
A state-of-the-language overview of Solidity development, of interest to Ethereum developers.
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Solana Sets a Date for Its Next Major Upgrade
Solana's Alpenglow upgrade replaces TowerBFT on October 21, cutting finality from 12.8 seconds to a target of 150ms.
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Standard Chartered Opens Bitcoin and Ethereum Trading to Wealthy UAE Clients
Standard Chartered gets Dubai approval to let affluent UAE clients buy BTC and ETH from bank accounts, with in-house custody.