5+ day, 4+ hour ago   (861+ words) Hegotá is becoming the first major test as developers weigh faster post-quantum protections against upgrades including mandatory execution proofs. Ethereum is beginning to constrain what it can add to upcoming upgrades as developers race to make the network quantum-resistant by…...

5+ day, 21+ 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....

6+ day, 1+ 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, 2+ 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, 4+ day ago   (910+ words) The 813-logical-qubit record is not a Q-day clock, but it shows why host chains, wallets, custodians, bridges and users must move with Circle. Circle issued a warning that the quantum circuits needed to attack widely used blockchain signatures are becoming…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (644+ words) New postmortems estimate about 700 agents joined the intrusion, while OpenAI’s largest planned frontier RL run remains on hold. OpenAI's postmortem on the Hugging Face incident says chain-of-thought monitoring it now deploys would have paged security more than a day before…...

2+ week, 4+ 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, 6+ day ago   (463+ words) The first slot-time gates were still pending, while the 90% rent cut and 4,096-byte transactions lacked confirmed starts. The Aug. 17 target date for starting Agave 4.2 mainnet feature activations arrived without a confirmed delivery update. Agave is Anza’s validator client for the…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (519+ words) The queue mixes feature proposals, bugs and release administration, so the count alone does not identify what could delay October. Bitcoin Core, the top software client for running a Bitcoin node, is scheduled to enter its v32 feature freeze on Thursday,…...