Solana’s 300ms speed boost to outrun trading bots might come with a hidden cost

Solana’s shorter trading intervals could let liquidity providers keep more of the value that trading bots extract from outdated pool prices. Fee-charging pools whose prices lag external markets have the clearest modeled benefit. Solana’s mainnet has reached the reported 300-millisecond slot target, shortening the intervals allocated for block production. Validator software developer Anza also issued…

How Tether’s $45 million crackdown drove Southeast Asian scam compounds into an ‘unfreezable’ decentralized stablecoin

Tether is pursuing Xinbi Guarantee across its USDT payment network, freezing operational wallets as the sanctioned marketplace tries to keep transacting. Blockchain analytics firm Bitrace said on Sept. 9 that more than $45 million in USDT had been frozen across at least 22 operational addresses linked to Xinbi, including wallets used to receive, route, and…