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Ripple says asset managers are preparing to use the rebuilt Batch feature, which bundles up to eight transactions into one all-or-nothing settlement, once a 14-day validator vote concludes on Sept. 29.
The network's clock just sped up again, but the extra speed goes to freshness, not capacity.
Block times fall from 75 seconds to 25 under an upgrade five development teams have agreed on, while a new fee mechanism aims to keep miners funded long after halvings wind down rewards.
The Shark Tank investor says seven figures is possible, but only if the industry defeats the quantum threat that keeps institutions cautious.
The NU7 proposal, backed by 98.9% of voting ZEC holders, would also divert at least 60% of transaction fees from circulation until February 2031, when they would be returned to miners as block rewards.
The advocacy group endorsed Ethlabs' EIP-8198 proposal, citing growing onchain institutional activity, as rival networks race to shrink their own block intervals.
The faster clock hands fresher data to applications and shortens each validator's turn, but per-slot limits shrink by the same proportion, keeping overall capacity flat.
A single actor spinning up fake builders could win block auctions on Sepolia and withhold payloads, freezing the very traffic developers need to rehearse against.
NU7 will cut Zcash block times to 25 seconds and preserve its halving schedule, with testnet activation planned for Oct. 6.
S&P Global agreed to acquire OpenZeppelin, adding smart contract security expertise as the financial data provider expands deeper into onchain markets.
The test network raised its limit on work per block toward 200 million gas as developers prepare for a proposed October 6 public test.
Malware instructions hidden on public blockchains rose 420% in a year, Chainalysis says, with North Korea and Iran-linked hackers behind most new activity.
The SEC debuted its long-awaited "innovation exemption," providing a roadmap for blockchain-based venues to offer tokenized securities.
The update expands support for automated payments in XRP and RLUSD, with tools that let agents pay repeatedly for services and manage wallets across blockchains.
The October update changes how nodes estimate transaction fees and process blocks, while fixing a wallet flaw that could let an authenticated user run commands on a node.
The majority of ZEC token holders voted to reduce block times to 25 seconds and to keep the Zcash halving and ZEC token issuance schedules unchanged.
Circle launched the Arc layer-1 blockchain with USDC as its native gas asset and institutional validators including BlackRock, Mastercard and Visa.
Ethereum is moving ahead with EIP-8141 while Coinbase-backed Base backs EIP-8130, leaving wallets and apps that span both networks facing different transaction systems.
Nearly 2.4 million ZEC participated, with 99.9% backing 25-second blocks and 98.9% voting to preserve the network’s existing halving schedule.
An MEV bot front-ran an attacker exploiting a custom Safe module and captured $7.7 million in rsETH before Kelp temporarily froze the receiving address.
Two software bugs allowed the attacker to create more than 2,000 times Bitcoin’s maximum supply in unbacked syBTC. Symbiosis puts preliminary losses at 9.97 BTC.
Batch V1.1 would let users bundle up to eight linked transactions into one operation, with 27 of 35 trusted validators now backing the change.
Transaction V1 raises Solana’s limit to 4,096 bytes from 1,232, giving developers more room for multi-step trades, company-wallet approvals and privacy proofs.
Balancer has proposed winding down the protocol and distributing its $9 million-plus treasury to BAL holders after its post-exploit restructuring failed to revive revenue.
The Federal Reserve's two-day policy meeting begins tomorrow, with nearly all now expecting the U.S. central bank to hike its benchmark policy rate by 25 basis points.
The EU’s Cyber Resilience Act requires early exploit notifications from wallet providers within 24 hours to avoid administrative fines of up to $17.3 million.
Symbiosis said it recovered 15 Bitcoin from its bridge hack and offered a 20% reward for useful information after the hacker refused to return the assets for the white-hat bounty.
Passports, selfies and home addresses were also handed over after the digital bank treated a fraudulent request as legitimate, but no customer funds were lost.
India’s Demat 2.0 pilot uses DLT, wholesale CBDC and smart contracts to settle and service $107 million in tokenized corporate bonds.
Blockstream rejected the actors’ claimed “white-hat” status as roughly 598 BTC remained outstanding following the Liquid exploit.
Liquid Network is restarting after purported white hats returned 3,400 BTC from a $320 million withdrawal, with about 598 BTC still outstanding.
A paper shared with CoinDesk shows humans and AI agents beating Google’s March result on a core calculation used by Shor’s algorithm, adding another variable to crypto’s quantum clock.
The threat is not here yet, but fault-tolerant machines and crypto’s migration plans are starting to converge on the same 2029 window.
The expansion gives institutional and automated traders access to full-depth political prediction-market order books ahead of the U.S. midterms.
The Foundation wants the network protected before a quantum computer capable of breaking today's cryptography could plausibly arrive, and says upcoming upgrades will be judged against that clock.
Data tracked by lending platform Curve data tracked 704 soft-liquidation instances lasting a median 14.5 days, showing how some DeFi loans can survive for weeks after entering the 'danger zone.'
To recover the stolen assets, network validators took the controversial decision to void nearly 11,000 blocks of canonical chain history.
Ledger and Trezor urged researchers to report bugs privately and give vendors time to fix them as AI makes vulnerabilities easier to find and exploit.
Copper rushed to a new record high amid supply shortages colliding with rising AI-related demand.
Cronos said $9.19 million left its network during the Tectonic exploit before its rollback reversed approximately $111.2 million.
Purported white hats returned 3,400 BTC worth about $270 million to Liquid’s federation wallet as Blockstream prepares the paused network for a restart.
The Ethereum Foundation ranked 62 proposals for Hegotá, outlining which changes are expected to make the cut and which remain under consideration.
The Frame Transactions feature was locked into the Hegotá upgrade last month, and Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin says the work has moved quickly since.
A Transaction v1 feature activates Wednesday, allowing complex proofs and large multisig operations to fit in one transaction while forcing services that read Solana to update.
Liquid Network paused operations after purported white hats withdrew about 4,000 BTC and pledged to return most once a vulnerability is fixed.
Liquid Network, a settlement layer used by exchanges, halted all transactions after losing $320 million worth of bitcoin in a security exploit.
Orionx, backed by Tether in 2025, is winding down after an audit found asset gaps and the exchange filed a criminal complaint against former executives.
QuFi launched a post-quantum verification platform alongside uBTC, a Bitcoin Testnet4 proof-of-concept designed to address future quantum threats.
A KPMG audit helped Tether earn a ratings upgrade from Bluechip, but a technical security review highlights key concentration risks for $91 billion on Tron.
The company is subsidizing access to its Daybreak security platform after saying Astra can independently find previously unknown software flaws and turn them into working attacks.
Users paid nearly $6 million in a day to create and trade tokens through Pons, more than they paid to use Pump or Hyperliquid, and even more than they paid to use Robinhood Chain itself.
A Coldcard hacker started swapping stolen Bitcoin for Ether through THORChain following an exploit linked to the theft of $114.7 million worth of BTC.
Sui-based protocol Full Sail is shutting down after a suspected oracle compromise involving Switchboard and has pledged its remaining liquidity to compensate users.
Russia-based Sality watched for copied bitcoin and Ethereum addresses and quietly replaced them with the attacker’s. CrowdStrike and law enforcement have now isolated more than 15,000 infected machines.
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Coinbase and four other exchanges restricted CORE transfers after validators obtained more rewards than the protocol intended.
Multiple crypto industry figures and CoinDesk staff received unexpected password reset emails on Tuesday, though there is no evidence yet that X itself has been breached.
The company's Texas campus has two long-term leases worth $19.6 billion, more than 260 times its latest quarterly revenue, as AI companies race to secure power and data-center capacity.
The protocol aims to give fintechs and investors a faster way to recover losses from DeFi hacks, while letting XRP, bitcoin and XLM holders earn yield by backing that protection.
The price of crude oil is surging higher after overnight military strikes in Iran, with Trump once again proclaiming victory.