1+ day, 3+ hour ago   (418+ words) Qualifying commercial wallet hardware and software now face a rapid three-stage reporting process for serious security events. Commercial manufacturers whose connected hardware wallets or wallet software meet the European Union's product test must now warn cyber authorities within 24 hours of…...

6+ day, 22+ hour ago   (474+ words) The Harmony blockchain is now proposing an Ethereum migration after deciding its independent network is no longer worth preserving. Harmony is proposing to shut down the blockchain it controversially restored through a rollback less than three weeks ago. The Sept....

1+ week, 4+ hour ago   (519+ words) An open Frames change would allow extra validation work at individual nodes, while studied privacy proofs still exceed its shared 100,000-gas allowance. A Sept. 5 proposal would let some Ethereum nodes accept privacy transactions that exceed a shared validation allowance, without…...

1+ week, 2+ hour ago   (529+ words) Technical accounts describe how unbacked L-BTC allegedly passed security checks, while a reported split between nodes raises questions about federation software deployment. Researchers examining the roughly $320 million Liquid Network incident have identified an alleged failure in the software’s transaction-validation cache,…...

1+ week, 5+ hour ago   (804+ words) Vitalik Buterin sees a 60% chance that advanced cryptography becomes cheap enough to reshape Ethereum privacy. On Sept. 6, the Ethereum co-founder said there is a 60% probability that SNARKs, fully homomorphic encryption and indistinguishability obfuscation will eventually operate at less than 10 times…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (1421+ words) DAOs replaced boards and executives with token holders and software, but new research suggests the machinery protecting those systems can easily rebuild the concentrations of power they were meant to escape. Compound is a crypto lending protocol governed by holders…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (550+ words) Bitquery’s scan shows why cheap OP_RETURN repetition and fake-address text impose radically different costs on Bitcoin nodes. Blockchain data company Bitquery published a census on Sept. 2 of four ways text appears in Bitcoin, scanning 965,135 blocks and revealing that the same words…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (438+ words) The network stayed secure at the consensus level, but the emergency response jailed validators and disrupted exchange transfers. Injective, a layer-1 blockchain network, produced no new block for nearly four hours during an emergency response to an exploit that researchers…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (578+ words) The change is merged to master, but operators must rebuild the optional index to capture the space saving and plan for another rebuild after a downgrade. Bitcoin Core has merged a redesign of its optional transaction index that cut about…...

3+ week, 7+ hour ago   (525+ words) The validator-coordinated response is broader than TAC's May bridge containment, but the project has not disclosed the affected supply or a restart timetable. TAC, an EVM network connected to TON, halted validator block production after the project said an exploited…...