Ethereum Weighs Hegotá Reset for Post-Quantum Security
Ethereum core developers dropped quick slots proposal; FOCIL and consensus direction remain unresolved as post-quantum security work pauses.
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Ethereum core developers dropped quick slots proposal; FOCIL and consensus direction remain unresolved as post-quantum security work pauses.
US Commerce Secretary testifies on Nvidia export controls; unrelated to crypto/blockchain.
Ether ETFs recorded sixth consecutive session of net withdrawals; price fell below $1,900.
Blockstream launches Bitcoin custody system using dedicated hardware for offline transaction signing; Adam Back advocates for simpler security design.
CFTC Chair Selig reports crypto industry is adopting proposed agency rules as legislative efforts to regulate the sector continue to stall.
White House nominates bipartisan slate for SEC and CFTC leadership ahead of Senate transition.
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White House nominates candidates for SEC and CFTC vacancies; bipartisan slate includes crypto-policy veterans, per Crypto Council for Innovation.
Trump administration nominates Hester Peirce's successor and former CFTC commissioner plus two CLARITY Act veterans to SEC and CFTC.
This week’s newsletter links to draft BIPs for exfiltration-resistant signing, summarizes the disclosure of three vulnerabilities affecting older versions of Bitcoin Core, announces a plan for mining the testnet5 genesis block, and describes an investigation into degraded…
Trezor CTO discusses post-quantum signature trade-offs for Bitcoin wallet security.
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Kalshi and Polymarket, rival prediction markets, resolve advisor conflict as SEC-CFTC regulatory fight over stock perps continues.
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KPMG audit confirms $2.2B physical gold backing Tether Gold (XAUT), making it Tether's second Big Four-audited stablecoin.
SEC aligns with CFTC to defend stock perpetual approvals for Kalshi, Coinbase, and Bitnomial despite judicial skepticism.
Nvidia board considering ousting CEO Jensen Huang over personal scandal; no blockchain or crypto relevance.
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Other feat(forge): add forge equivalence for symbolic bytecode equivalence (#18065) by @0xalpharush feat(fuzz): compiler-instrumented edge coverage and CmpLog on the plain interpreter loop (#18204) by @0xalpharush feat(anvil): simulate and impersonate Tempo configurable…
Coinbase gains final OCC approval for federal trust bank to custody institutional assets; absorbs NY custody over three years.
Presents BioBind protocol binding biometric deduplication to zero-knowledge authentication for decentralized identity, securing concurrent enrollment and credential issuance.
Summary ⚠️ Lighthouse v8.3.3 is a high-priority patch release containing security fixes. All Lighthouse beacon nodes should be upgraded as soon as possible. Details of the vulnerabilities will be disclosed at a later date. There are no breaking changes in this release. If you…
Proposes quantum-resistant notary scheme for blockchain interoperability combining ML-KEM, ML-DSA, and AES-256 with dynamic trust model, handling 270 tx/sec.
This is a testnet release. https://github.com/anza-xyz/agave/blob/v4.4/CHANGELOG.md What's Changed refactor(cli): use versioned messages and transactions throughout by @apfitzge in #15524 SIMD504: Shred wire format upstream by @alexpyattaev in #15522 keygen, cli: generate…
Proposes cryptographically signed replication certificates for academic publications to enable verification of research datasets and outputs.
Other test(symbolic): run invariant depth test once (#18141) by @stevencartavia fix(symbolic): check every invariant predicate (#18144) by @mattsse perf(cheatcodes): cache whether any env override is set (#18125) by @figtracer chore(deps): ignore RUSTSEC-2026-0441 pin-utils…
This week’s newsletter summarizes continued discussion about using TCP hole punching to make nodes behind home routers reachable and describes a draft BIP for standardizing the spending policies that co-signers enforce when emulating covenants. Also included are our regular…
Glamsterdam (EIP-8037/EIP-8038) tested on Ethereum testnets; Chainsecurity identified projects vulnerable to gas-cost changes in the upgrade.
This is stable release recommended for general adoption. What's Changed v4.4: ignore RUSTSEC-2026-0418 (libz-sys) by @cfkelly18 in #16540 v4.4: ci: don't use sccache in docker run (backport of #16493) by @mergify[bot] in #16561 v4.4: ci: refine pipeline trigger condition…
TULIP proposal for decentralized identity using secp256k1 keys and Schnorr signatures, addressing key rotation challenges in Nostr.
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.
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…
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…
Lean 4 formal proof of soundness for BIP340 batch verification with 128-bit derived randomizers, enabling ~9% speedup in libsecp256k1.