(*36*) Ethereum developer Kevaundray Wedderburn submitted a brand new Ethereum Improvement Proposal on August 17 through GitHub pull request #12188, calling for a discount within the consensus layer (CL) block retention window. The proposal, presently a draft pending an official EIP quantity, would reduce the required retention interval from 33,024 epochs to eight,192 epochs —…
Compound Foundation has introduced a brand new management crew and a $52 million growth program permitted by the protocol’s decentralized autonomous group (DAO), marking the most important such allocation in Compound’s historical past. The initiative is designed to reposition the DeFi lending protocol round institutional customers and produce extra conventional monetary exercise onchain. The new…
Shanmu Jin, a postdoctoral researcher and neurosurgery resident at Peking Union Medical College Hospital in Beijing, has proved Crouzeix’s Conjecture — an issue in matrix evaluation that had remained open for over 20 years. The decisive argument didn’t emerge from a arithmetic division: it surfaced throughout a 16-hour autonomous run of GPT-5.6 Sol inside ChatGPT…
Cryptocurrency trade Binance supplied Russian legislation enforcement with the non-public and transactional knowledge of a buyer in 2025, info that was subsequently used to deliver terrorism-financing costs in opposition to him. The buyer, Yuri Belenkiy, a 49-year-old Russian IT specialist with Bulgarian residency, is detained in Russia awaiting trial. Investigators requested Belenkiy’s transaction historical past…
Gate Events Market has introduced a set of platform enhancements, together with a leaderboard-based incentive construction, the debut of an esports hub, and a time-limited soccer marketing campaign. These developments are meant to broaden the vary of situations by which Event Contracts might be utilized. The first section of the Events Points Campaign is scheduled…
SafePal, a distinguished supplier of cryptocurrency {hardware} and software program pockets options, has disclosed a safety incident involving an authorization flaw in an order-tracking plugin. The vulnerability, which existed inside a plugin related to buyer order info, allowed unauthorized exterior entry to order information below sure circumstances, affecting roughly 39,798 people who positioned orders between…
Plume Network and Shinhan Asset Management have signed a memorandum of understanding to conduct a proof of idea for a South Korean won-denominated tokenized fund, marking a notable effort to introduce non-dollar institutional property into blockchain-based capital markets. The initiative will make the most of a fund linked to KRW ultra-short-term bonds as its underlying…
A Bitcoin Red Team initiative leveraging Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 mannequin has accomplished a complete safety sweep of the Bitcoin open-source ecosystem, surfacing 1000’s of potential vulnerabilities throughout the software program stack that helps the community. Over a two-week interval, researchers catalogued 7,958 findings spanning roughly 390 tasks, with 1,280 categorized as high or important…
The US Securities and Exchange Commission has postponed its anticipated tokenization “innovation exemption,” with trade sources indicating that particulars are unlikely to emerge within the close to time period. The fee additionally canceled a scheduled Friday open assembly that was anticipated to deal with parallel rulemaking for crypto-asset fundraising transactions below a proposed “Regulation Crypto…
Hardware pockets producer Trezor has disclosed a knowledge breach at its third-party logistics associate ShipMonk that uncovered the private info of roughly 13,700 clients throughout seven nations. The incident, which the corporate described as its first publicity of buyer cellphone numbers and transport addresses since its founding in 2013, impacts new customers within the United…