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Alpenglow Is Coming to Solana Mainnet Next Week
Solana's Alpenglow upgrade goes live October 21, targeting about 150ms finality.
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StarkWare launches OffMarket to let Polymarket users trade more privately
StarkWare opened OffMarket to the public, letting Polymarket users trade without publicly linking positions to their accounts.
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EasyA hits $1.1 billion valuation, targets 2027 public listing and tokenized shares
EasyA reached a $1.1 billion valuation and targets a 2027 public listing with onchain tokenized shares.
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BNY, Citadel Securities complete Treasury repo in first use of tokenized assets on major triparty platform
BNY and Citadel Securities completed the first tokenized US Treasury repo workflow on a major triparty platform.
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L2 Capital Signs On To Tokenize $500 Million Of Pre-IPO AI Shares With Newton
L2 Capital will tokenize $500 million of pre-IPO AI shares on Newton's platform, with compliance rules checked on every transfer. The platform is still being built.
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Privy Wallets Are Coming to the XRP Ledger, Aimed at Stablecoin Payments and AI Agents
Privy and Ripple will bring embedded wallets to XRPL, with AI agent payments on the roadmap; a product announcement.
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Anza Puts Solana’s Alpenglow Consensus Switch on the Mainnet Calendar for Oct. 21
Anza schedules Solana's Alpenglow consensus switch on mainnet for Oct. 21, cutting finality to about 150ms in a single-slot change after testnet and devnet runs.
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Kraken Owner Payward to Buy Lithuania's Saldo Bank in EU Push
Kraken owner Payward is buying Lithuania's Saldo Bank to build a combined cash, crypto, tokenized stock and credit offering in the EU.
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Built a free tool to find unclaimed funds on Ethereum bridges
A builder launched a free tool to recover funds stuck after bridging to L2s, citing about $105.5M in stuck funds across official bridges.
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Ripple adds Stripe-owned wallets to XRP Ledger as AI payments pass 14 million
Ripple adds Stripe-owned wallets to XRP Ledger for software payments in XRP and RLUSD, with open questions about how much real economic activity this represents.
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Solana sets Oct. 21 for Alpenglow upgrade targeting 150-millisecond finality
Solana has set Oct. 21 for the Alpenglow upgrade, which targets 150ms finality and removes vote transactions from blocks. Transaction counts will shift even if user activity stays flat, so read those metrics with care.
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Coinbase lays out flexible designs as key priority for Bitcoin’s post-quantum migration
Coinbase published priorities for Bitcoin's post-quantum transition, arguing for early preparation of signature upgrades and flexible designs for fund migration.
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BNY, Citadel Securities test tokenized U.S. Treasuries to speed up Wall Street financing
BNY and Citadel Securities tested tokenized U.S. Treasuries as collateral to speed up settlement and financing between trading firms and Wall Street.
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BNY and Citadel Securities Use Tokenized Treasury in Overnight Repo
BNY and Citadel Securities settled a tokenized Treasury repo on BNY's private digital ledger in minutes, a concrete institutional tokenization milestone.
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Draft ERC: Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD) Onchain — an address-rooted value registry whose records are ARD entries
Draft ERC proposing an onchain registry for agent-discoverable resources, rooted in Google's ARD spec.
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The Logic Behind Starknet's L1 Question
Bankless explains why Starknet is considering evolving into an L1 network and what would change if it did.
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Avalanche Highlights KSD Links Ahead of Korea’s 2027 Tokenization Rollout
Korea's KSD is building its tokenization platform to connect with Avalanche and Hyperledger, with Samsung SDS targeting completion in February 2027.
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Anza Sets Oct. 21 for Solana’s Alpenglow Mainnet Upgrade
Solana's Alpenglow mainnet upgrade is set for Oct. 21, targeting 150ms finality, with validators needing software changes first.
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DRW and Marex complete OTC swap referencing tokenized S&P iBoxx Index
DRW and Marex completed the first OTC swap referencing a fully tokenized index, settled via Canton Network with Kaiko data.
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Dshackle Archive 0.9 – dump raw Ethereum data for indexing
Open-source Dshackle Archive 0.9 adds Kafka output and backpressure for dumping raw Ethereum blocks, traces and receipts for indexing.
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DRW and Marex Execute Bond-Index Swap on Canton
DRW and Marex executed a bond-index swap on Canton linked to licensed S&P benchmark data, with cash and collateral integration planned next.
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Mysten Reports Sui's First Native Quantum-Safe Devnet Transaction
Sui's devnet processed a native quantum-safe transaction using ML-DSA-65 signatures, with mainnet support targeted for Q1 2027 pending audits.
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Federated Hermes joins Wall Street's tokenization push with plans for first onchain fund shares
Federated Hermes, a $911B asset manager, is partnering with Prometheum to offer blockchain-based share classes in traditional brokerage accounts, a meaningful tokenization milestone.
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Binance to shut down crypto mining pool services in November
Binance will shut its mining pool services on Nov. 10 and is urging miners to move to other pools.
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Aptos rolls out Encrypted Mempool to curb frontrunning, sandwich attacks
Aptos has launched an optional encrypted mempool that hides transaction details until ordering is final, targeting frontrunning and sandwich attacks.
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Canton Records Over $155 Million in Q3 Fees, CertiK Says
CertiK reports Canton recorded over $155M in Q3 fees, with daily fee pace below an earlier Converge snapshot.
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The key to getting more institutions onchain: Rethinking KYC
a16z argues institutions need to avoid redundant KYC rather than KYC itself, a useful framing for onchain onboarding.
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XRPL branded ‘cheap’ for paying infinite XRP exploiter just $250K
ZachXBT criticizes the XRPL for paying an infinite-mint exploiter only $250K, raising questions about bug bounty economics and security.
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Ontology Restarts Mainnet After Nearly 43-Hour Security Halt
Ontology restarted its mainnet after a nearly 43-hour security halt; losses at an unnamed ecosystem project remain unresolved.
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Ethereum Name Service Team Asks DAO to Switch On ENSv2 and Freeze New .eth Sign-Ups on v1
ENS Labs asks the DAO to freeze new .eth sign-ups on v1 for a few hours while switching on ENSv2; existing names keep working.