7+ hour, 56+ min ago   (357+ words) LDK v0.2.6 addresses small splice-related fund losses and a payment-handling flaw that could prevent saved channel state from loading. Lightning Development Kit, a toolkit for building Bitcoin Lightning applications, released v0.2.6 on Sept. 9 with fixes for bugs that could divert small amounts…...

1+ week, 1+ 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, 2+ day ago   (401+ words) Mainnet activation is still pending, but incompatible indexers, streams and sponsors must update before the first v1 transaction arrives. Solana’s v1 transaction format promises more than three times as much room per transaction, but RPC clients, indexers, relayers and fee sponsors that…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (406+ words) The Mina Mesa upgrade stopped transaction processing for about eight hours on September 3 as the layer-1 blockchain shifted mainnet to its Mesa release. Exchanges suspended MINA transfers, while deployed zkApps now need new verification keys before they can resume proof-authorized…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (888+ words) The better.codes contest puts Ethereum’s abstract security target against live certificates, but its score covers only koalaIRS12. Ethereum’s better.codes contest now measures a cryptographic proof gap that researchers can attack from both sides. At 15:44:47 UTC on Aug. 21, the live…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (1095+ words) Ethereum's shortcut to smart wallet behavior arrived with a new trust problem: a wallet can make a regular address programmable without moving the user's assets, while the delegated code gains power to act with that account's authority. A peer-reviewed study…...