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Base Denim upgrade activates on mainnet, fourth protocol upgrade for Coinbase's Layer 2.
Crypto and AI industries' major political spending in 2024 election underperformed, with most backed candidates losing races.
Weaver: state-decoupled symbolic execution engine for parallel blockchain transaction processing using lightweight symbolic references and lazy state fetches.
Other fix(symbolic): clear return data on STOP (#18066) by @stevencartavia fix(anvil): lock Tempo history before storage when mining (#18064) by @stevencartavia fix(traces): map DTL backtrace offsets to disk sources (#17904) by @figtracer fix(symbolic): model aliasing for large…
actor: hold overflowMu while Drain pops the overflow
GRIDSHIELD: privacy-preserving peer-to-peer energy trading using zero-knowledge proofs and secure multi-party computation to prevent clearing-operator manipulation while enforcing grid constraints.
Spiko launches yield-bearing fund product and API on Base for businesses and platforms.
Anduin: reputation system using on-chain payment histories to rank AI service providers across 16 blockchains, resistant to Sybil attacks on $6.1M in agentic transactions.
Summary Binance disclosed that a DPRK fake employment scheme was behind its $6 billion hack: Attackers used a fabricated job… The post DPRK Hackers Perfected Their Fake Interview Playbook Over Dozens of Attacks Before Binance appeared first on Chainalysis.
While software is becoming abundant, networks are not. The software is no longer the moat: the network is. And you can’t vibe code USDC.
Overview of crypto and AI super PAC spending patterns and ad strategies during 2024 election cycle.
Study of miscompilation vulnerabilities in production zkVMs SP1 and Jolt: compiler bugs in rustc and LLVM can cause valid zero-knowledge proofs of incorrect computations.
Empirical study of volatility response to price trends at minute resolution across three cryptocurrencies and US equities, 2020–2026.
TxBench: verified benchmark dataset for smart-contract attack detectors, validating both malicious and legitimate transactions against execution history.
Forum request for direct messaging feature and npub contact for artist zapping on btcplaylist.com.
Base Batches 004 cohort announced: ten teams building payments, trading, finance and AI projects.
Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Elias Rohrer, Greg Sanders, Antoine Poinsot, Oleksandr Kurbatov, and Nishant Bansal to discuss Newsletter #429. The Bitcoin Optech Podcast and transcription content is licensed Creative Commons CC BY-SA…
Ethereum Foundation essay on using Ethereum as digital public infrastructure for government and humanitarian institutions.
Early this morning Mercado Bitcoin, Brazil’s largest crypto exchange, suffered a security incident that resulted in approximately $49 million in… The post Disrupting the Mercado Bitcoin Attack: How Chainalysis Led the Freeze of Nearly $10M in Stolen Funds appeared first on…
Analysis of server-side power consumption for ERC-4337 bundlers aggregating user operations on EVM networks.
Revisit of Elliptic++ Bitcoin forensics dataset reveals temporal leakage in train-test split and undocumented feature definitions; proposes corrected pipeline for 55 address-level features.
A growing class of protocols needs to persist one tiny fact per event, forever: this nullifier is spent, this nonce is used, this session share is settled. Privacy pools write a nullifier per withdrawal. Unordered nonce schemes (Permit2’s nonceBitmap, EIP-4337-style…
Blockchain-based DAO for access control in open robot swarms with dynamic join/leave, applied to agriculture and disaster response.
satd Bitcoin node adds optional full OP_RETURN value pruning with configurable size thresholds and recovery options.
GossipSub and DOG protocol vulnerability: adversary with constant nodes can prevent honest nodes from receiving messages, threatening Ethereum's P2P liveness.
tl;dr Open-bidding with random deadline (candle auctions) and few auction participants can lead to higher bidder profits than sealed-bid auctions. This is already true in a one-shot auction without explicit coordination or collusion. For the Ethereum builder-market…
Preregistered comparison of zero-shot time-series foundation models versus SARIMA/GBM baselines for 96-hour carbon-intensity forecasting in Nordic zones.
Lean 4 formal proof of soundness for BIP340 batch verification with 128-bit derived randomizers, enabling ~9% speedup in libsecp256k1.
AMLBench benchmark evaluates LLM agents on tracing illicit funds across 24 real Ethereum cases and 5.05M transfer records to automate blockchain AML investigations.
Summary Rollups scaled by moving execution off the L1, but the authentication part of every transaction still goes to the L1. That makes data the likely bottleneck for L2 scaling in the PQ era, even with more blobs. PQ signatures are far larger than ECDSA, so if every L2 user…