Blockchain
Protocol upgrades, security research, and developments across Bitcoin, Ethereum, and the broader blockchain ecosystem.
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peaq’s Robot Financing Model Could Get Small Shops a Cobot
What happens when a $45,000 robot can vouch for itself to a bank? Doosan just activated the first one, and small manufacturers stand to benefit most.
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S&P Global Just Bought Blockchain’s Top Security Auditor
A 160-year-old ratings giant just bet on smart contract safety. Could grading blockchain risk someday be as routine as checking a credit score?
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Ondo Just Wired Tokenized Fund Settlement Into DTCC’s Network
What if pulling cash from your retirement fund at 3 a.m. stopped being impossible? A quiet DTCC handshake just moved that a step closer.
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Zcash’s NU7 Upgrade Triples Transaction Speed
99.9% of ZEC voters backed a change most users will never manually configure, yet everyone paying privately will feel it. Here’s what’s actually different.
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Column’s Stablecoin Infrastructure Turns Wire Transfers Into Seconds
A four-day wire transfer just became a same-second bank transfer, and six major fintechs are already banking on it. Here’s what changed, and what it means for your wallet.
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Bitcoin Core 32 Fixes a Bug That Could Crash Your Node in Under a Minute
One overlooked bug could crash a Bitcoin node in under a minute using nothing but 16 open connections. Here is how close it came to shipping, and what changes for anyone running a node or waiting on lower fees.
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The LDK Security Fix That’s Quietly Protecting Your Bitcoin App
Two bugs sat inside the software running millions of Bitcoin Lightning payments. Here’s why nobody noticed, and why that’s actually good news.
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Avalanche Digital Identity Powers UAE’s 12.5M Users
What if renewing a government ID took three minutes instead of a half-day off work? For 12.5 million people in the UAE, that’s no longer hypothetical.
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XRP Ledger Batch Upgrade: Atomic Transactions Arrive
What happens when eight transactions have to succeed or fail together, no exceptions? XRP Ledger’s new Batch feature just passed a security test that almost didn’t happen in time.
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Pi Network Ships Protocol 27, Finally Opening the Chain to Developers
Pi Network’s Protocol 27 upgrade went live across the mainnet today, September 15, and for the first time outside developers can query the chain without spinning up a full node of their own. That single change targets a complaint that has followed the project for years: building on Pi meant fighting the infrastructure just to…