Ethereum’s Hegotá upgrade will not include EIP-8363, a proposal to burn part of validators’ staking rewards, after its authors withdrew it on Thursday. Jérôme de Tychey, president of Ethereum France and one of the proposal’s six authors, announced the withdrawal on the Ethereum Magicians forum. He wrote that industry players and core protocol and client…
North Dakota’s banks and credit unions are getting a dollar settlement route on Solana as banking technology provider Fiserv brings its digital asset platform into production. In its Oct. 1 announcement, the company identified Roughrider Coin, an interbank payment token overseen by the Bank of North Dakota (BND), as the platform’s first live use case. Participating…
[PRESS RELEASE – Las Vegas, NV, October 1st, 2026] Lowest Fee Bitcoin ATMs announced the launch of more than 400 cryptocurrency ATMs across the United States. The machines allow customers to purchase Bitcoin, Ethereum, USDT and USDC with cash at a stated flat 5% fee. Customers can also pre-register online before visiting an ATM. Lowest…
A custom FlashLoopAdapter used to manage leveraged Aave V3 positions was exploited in a hack on Ethereum, leaving two Safe wallets with an estimated net loss of 114.09 ETH, or about $305,000. The attacker spoofed a Safe authentication check, then used a Morpho WETH flash loan to repay debt and unlock collateral. The roughly 1,306…
Armada Acquisition Corp. II shareholders approved the proposed business combination with Evernorth at a September 30, 2026, extraordinary meeting, clearing a major hurdle for the planned public listing. The news is awaiting a deal expected to close on October 7, with Nasdaq trading under XRPN expected to begin on October 8; Evernorth expects to hold…
Bitcoin opened October with the familiar “Uptober” trade, and seasonal strength could drive its price prediction. BTC trades at $86,000, up by more than 2% over 24 hours. The immediate question is whether buyers can turn that rebound into a sustained reclaim of resistance, or whether yields and macro risk cap the move. Early October…
Electrum’s latest security update fixes a Lightning backup defect, but some Bitcoin wallet users still need to replace saved backups. Older backups from wallets with non-deterministic Lightning keys lack information needed to reclaim funds from anchor channels, a Lightning channel type, after a remote close. Version 4.8.2, dated Sept. 11, remains the latest release listed…
Data from CryptoQuant shows that daily XRP outflows from exchange transactions of 1 million tokens or more have spiked above 320 million. What makes this information particularly noteworthy, as mentioned by analyst Xaif Crypto, is that the last jump of that size, which came in August, saw the price of XRP climb more than 42%.…
A trader can get a better Solana (SOL) swap price while a passive pool depositor remains exposed to traders picking off stale quotes, and a Sept. 29 preprint measures that divide. For quiet-market SOL/USDC fills, propAMMs, pools controlled by professional operators, had a reference-relative execution cost proxy of 0.26 basis points versus 2.59 for public…
Bitget said on Sept. 30 that it had restored its Protection Fund to more than $300 million after absorbing the Sept. 24 security breach’s financial impact. The exchange describes the fund as an additional safeguard for customers, separate from reserves backing their account balances. In its announcement, Bitget says the fund absorbed approximately $388 million…