Solana has doubled its focused block-production frequency after activating 200-millisecond slots on mainnet, finishing a months-long effort to speed up the blockchain. The Oct. 9 upgrade reduces Solana’s original 400-millisecond slot goal by half, permitting the network to create 5 block-production alternatives per second as a substitute of two.5. It additionally shortens the time required…
Elon Musk is combating for entry into one in all the world’s greatest web markets, towards the billionaire whose Jio community connects greater than 520 million Indians. On Friday, Musk mocked Mukesh Ambani as India’s “actual boss” for preserving out Starlink, SpaceX’s satellite tv for pc web service. Meanwhile, Ambani’s Jio is constructing its personal…
Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson mentioned Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin is speaking down rival encryption to guard his personal analysis. He accused Buterin of “bag-holding an excessive amount of hash-based crypto analysis” and being unable to again out. The dispute goes past a feud between two founders. It touches how main blockchains plan to defend wallets…
President Donald Trump declared that anybody who says “synthetic intelligence” (AI) as an alternative of “tremendous intelligence” is the enemy. He didn’t elaborate, however the White House nonetheless makes use of the older time period. A September 29 govt order already instructed federal businesses to say “tremendous intelligence,” or SI. It carried no penalty and…
TL;DR: Project Eleven and Quantus plan to combine the Quantus Network with Strongpoint, Project Eleven’s institutional custody platform for post-quantum blockchain belongings. Quantus has joined as a improvement associate, with assist focused for the primary quarter of 2027. Crypto custody normally assumes the cryptography defending immediately’s non-public keys will stay the cryptography defending tomorrow’s belongings….
TL;DR: NextBlock has invested $3 million in Soda Labs, funding the corporate’s whole seed spherical. Soda is constructing privateness infrastructure based mostly on garbled circuits and multiparty computation so monetary functions can course of confidential knowledge whereas remaining linked to public blockchains. Public blockchains are superb at proving what occurred. That can also be one…
TL;DR: Chainlink has launched CCIP Vault Adapters, permitting DeFi vaults on one community to just accept deposits from customers throughout greater than 80 supported blockchains with out asking these customers to bridge property manually. Aave, Lombard, Venus, Veda and several other different platforms are already adopting the infrastructure. One of DeFi‘s most cussed issues shouldn’t…
Amazon blocking AI brokers provides startups their greatest opening since 1994, Paul Graham argues. Tesla CEO Elon Musk appeared to agree, quote-posting the declare with one phrase, “Seriously.” Graham, who co-founded startup accelerator Y Combinator, sees the ban as an indication that buyers need AI brokers. However, Amazon says unauthorized brokers put buyer information and…
Anthropic launched Claude Haiku 5.5 on October 7, pricing its latest mannequin about 75% under Haiku 4.5 on common. The firm continues to ship new fashions forward of its extremely anticipated IPO. However, New Constructs has referred to as Anthropic’s deliberate itemizing the “most ridiculous IPO of 2026.” A Cheaper Claude Model Arrives 9 Days…
President Donald Trump will award Elon Musk the National Medal of Science on Thursday. Musk is considered one of six tech leaders honored, whereas OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, the best-known AI lab chiefs, usually are not. The medals are America’s highest honors for science and know-how. Trump has by no means introduced…