Infrastructure
Every Infrastructure read CryptoBloggers has picked: 354 so far, 298 in the last 30 days, strongest first under “Start here” and newest first below.
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Solana’s Alpenglow, its biggest network overhaul since 2020, goes live Wednesday
Solana's Alpenglow consensus overhaul goes live Wednesday, targeting about 150ms finality after a failed migration and rollback during testing.
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A company that vouches for websites had secret keys so weak that 8 of them were cracked
Eight secret keys at eMudhra, an Indian certificate authority, were cracked because they were weak, forcing browser and software makers to rush fixes.
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Qubic restarts blockchain, opens recovery claims after $1.4M hack
Qubic validators approved a recovery plan after a $1.4M hack, restarting the chain and opening claims until May 1, 2027. Useful for affected holders, though the snippet gives few details.
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NEAR Opens Vote to Cut Token Issuance to 1.6%
NEAR governance proposal HSP-029 would cut token issuance to 1.6% over 24 months, pending validator upgrade adoption.
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Extended Plans Oct. 22 Settlement Move From Starknet to Arc
Extended is moving its settlement from Starknet to Arc, and its notices give conflicting deadlines for converting or withdrawing USDT and wBTC in sub-accounts.
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Onchain Inference Markets Post Record Token Usage
Onchain inference usage hit a record 312.6B tokens on Oct 18, with surplus usage up about 2.3x in under a month.
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Project Eleven Teams With Crypto Insurer Relm to Study Quantum Risk in Underwriting
Project Eleven and insurer Relm announced an exploratory deal to study quantum risk in underwriting for the Strongpoint custody product. Neither company has changed pricing yet.
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Optimum Says Block Propagation Layer Is Live on Ethereum Mainnet
Optimum's mump2p block propagation layer is live on Ethereum mainnet with 16 operators and about 1.4M ETH, with ether.fi adopting it.
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ERC-8452: Agent Default Registry
Draft ERC-8452 proposes a shared registry where lenders record defaults by agent identity and owner address.
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ERC-8451: Agent Repay-First Payees
Draft ERC-8451 proposes agent revenue addresses that repay creditors before owners can spend agent income.
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ERC-8450: Agent Credit Lines
Draft ERC-8450 proposes one lender-neutral interface for revolving credit to ERC-8004 agent identities.
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ERC-TBA: Credit history for ERC-8004 agents
Draft ERC proposal for lenders to record loan repayment history for ERC-8004 agent identities, creating agent credit records.
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Celestia Activates Fibre, Opening Direct Validator Uploads for Rollups
Celestia activated Fibre, letting validators accept direct rollup blob uploads at 128 MiB per blob in its initial release.
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Microsoft, Alphabet Bar Their Tokenized Shares From OKX-ICE Venue as Objections Hit 16
Microsoft and Alphabet have refused to let their tokenized shares trade on the ICE-OKX 24/7 venue, bringing objections to 16 companies.
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Alpenglow: What We Learned Running Solana's Biggest Consensus Change
Galaxy Research shares lessons from running Solana's largest consensus change, Alpenglow, in production.
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Tx launches USTX stablecoin to pull RWA liquidity onto its chain
Tx launched the USTX stablecoin, minted from USDC on eight networks, to bring real-world asset liquidity onto its chain.
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Almost half the AI tool vendors I checked forbid benchmarking
A reader-built grading site found almost half of 674 AI tool vendors restrict benchmarking, many via copied Oracle-style clauses, including Coinbase and LangSmith.
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Sophon sets Nov. 25 withdrawal deadline ahead of mainnet shutdown
Sophon has set a November 25 withdrawal deadline before its standalone chain shuts down, shifting focus to consumer finance and AI apps on Base.
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Ramp Seeks OCC Trust Bank Charter for Digital Asset Custody
Ramp is applying for an OCC trust bank charter to offer digital asset custody without deposits or commercial loans.
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XRP Ledger Repairs Its Lending Protocol Before It Goes Live
XRP Ledger developers published a second amendment to fix the uncollateralized lending feature before it goes live.
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JPMorgan Picks Ethereum for JPM Coin, Citing the Network’s Liquidity and Client Use
JPMorgan chose Ethereum as the chain for its JPM Coin deposit token, aimed at large crypto firms and institutions, after first debuting it on Base.
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AnchorWatch Trust Company launches bitcoin custody service with up to $370 million in insurance per client
AnchorWatch launched Nevada-chartered bitcoin custody with a $10,000 monthly fee cap and optional insurance up to $370 million per client.
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Lessons from trying to buy from ~1,900 x402 APIs in one day (1,255 delivered)
A Reddit builder had an agent buy from about 1,900 x402 endpoints on Base for $12.19; 1,255 delivered, and the failures led to new pre-payment checks.
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Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson is building a new programming language for the network
Charles Hoskinson says he is building a new Cardano programming language that bundles transactions with cryptographic proofs, with no name, specs or date yet.
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Sam Altman's World Takes Proof-of-Human IDs to Banks, Citing $40B AI Fraud Risk
World is selling proof-of-human IDs to banks, with design partners including Bain Capital, VanEck and Pantera, and delegation to AI agents.
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Bitcoin mining offshoot Nscale loses Microsoft AI deal as power delay stretches into 2030s
Nscale lost a Microsoft AI deal because its UK grid connection may not be ready until the 2030s, showing power constraints for bitcoin-miner-turned-AI hosts.
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XRP Ledger is set to fix its lending code before anyone can use it
XRP Ledger validators have a patch to fix a lending code bug going live Friday, but the lending system it repairs is still 10 votes short of approval.
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Cysic suspends bridge after attacker mints tokens and moves $727,000 to Ethereum
Cysic suspended its bridge after an attacker minted 10 million CYS and bridged about $727,000 to Ethereum via Mayan, deBridge and SWFT's Bridgers.
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Cysic Halts Bridge After Unauthorized Mint of 10 Million CYS
Cysic halted its bridge after an unauthorized mint of 10 million CYS; about 2.8 million remain frozen, but some were sold before the blacklist took effect.
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Cysic crypto bridge halted after unauthorized mint of 10M CYS
Cysic halted its crypto bridge after an unauthorized mint of 10M CYS; the company says mainnet and other systems were unaffected.