Bitcoin Core has merged a redesign of its non-compulsory transaction index that lower about 40 GB from the database in a single contributor’s mainnet take a look at. Operators utilizing -txindex retain their present indexes by an improve; capturing the total saving requires recreating the database. Pull request #35531, merged into Bitcoin Core’s grasp department…
The Smarter Web Company, which reported holding 2,712 BTC earlier this month, mentioned Jesse Myers, Head of Bitcoin Strategy, will depart on Sept. 1 whereas its Bitcoin Treasury Policy stays unchanged beneath board oversight. The Aug. 25 discover didn’t give a purpose for Myers’ departure, title a successor or say how his duties can be…
Bitcoin’s security-budget debate normally starts with one complete: how a lot miners gather in transaction fees as the block subsidy shrinks. A July 2026 NBER working paper by Fabian Schär, Dario Thürkauf, and David Yermack factors to a second variable. Using information from 2017 via 2025, the authors report that bigger charge variations between adjoining…
Banks defend themselves towards stablecoins by saying they’re constructing tokenized deposits to modernize funds, with programmable money and around-the-clock settlement. Falcon Finance chief RWA officer Artem Tolkachev advised CryptoSlate that the clarification covers solely half the cause: “It is the stability sheet, not the know-how.” A tokenized deposit retains the money a stablecoin would transfer…
REX-Osprey’s XRP ETF held 40.25% of its belongings within the CoinShares Physical XRP ETP on Aug. 24, routing $22.87 million of a $56.68 million portfolio by way of one other listed product. That structure means XRP ETF charges and trading costs can stack up throughout two listed merchandise. The identical holdings snapshot reported 59.74% as…
The Qwen Team has launched Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, an open-weight multimodal mixture-of-experts mannequin that serves as an early architectural preview for the upcoming Qwen4 collection. The mannequin balances substantial capability with distinctive value effectivity, that includes 125 billion whole parameters and an extra 51 billion N-gram embedding parameters whereas activating solely 6 billion parameters per token. The…
Strategy, the Bitcoin treasury firm previously generally known as MicroStrategy, raised $2.0065 billion by promoting widespread shares from Aug. 17 by means of Aug. 23 and acquired no Bitcoin. The transaction left its $1.59 billion USD Cash steadiness on the middle of a wider capital-allocation contest. The firm offered 18,261,118 shares of MSTR, its widespread…
LND, a Lightning Network node implementation, has disclosed a channel-close flaw that may put a complete channel steadiness in danger within the reproduced maximum-loss situation. Operators utilizing commonplace releases under 0.21.0 ought to deal with their nodes as missing the official fix until they have been independently patched. The Aug. 13 disclosure describes how a…
The previous week delivered one of many crypto market’s sharpest sentiment reversals in months. According to Gate Ventures’ newest weekly report, BTC and ETH surged 23.6% and 31.4% respectively, lifting complete crypto market capitalization by 22.1%. The Fear & Greed Index moved from 27 to 73 in a matter of days, whereas Bitcoin ETFs absorbed…
XRP is on the right track for its strongest month-to-month acquire in greater than a yr after recovering from under $1, even as a recent pullback and heavy whale exercise check the sturdiness of the rally. CryptoSlate’s information reveals the token buying and selling close to $1.40 as of press time, down about 5% over…