Aptos Turns On Encrypted Mempool, Doubling the Minimum Gas Price
Aptos put encrypted transactions on mainnet on October 12. The feature hides your order from frontrunners, and it doubles the minimum gas price.
APTAptos put encrypted transactions on mainnet on October 12. The feature hides your order from frontrunners, and it doubles the minimum gas price.
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Solana plans to retire durable nonces for an onchain signer program. Both designs roll back a failed transaction's nonce, so a signature can be resubmitted.
OneKey cut off CryptoBilis as a reseller and is offering free hardware wallet replacements to anyone who bought a device there since March 1, 2026.
Ledger confirmed that a device linked to recent losses carried an unauthorized hardware implant, and all confirmed cases trace back to reseller CryptoBilis.
Bitquery counted 4.5 million Solana wallets dusted by lookalike addresses over 11 months. Here's how the trick works and what to check before you send.
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Tron's post-quantum signatures are live on the Nile testnet with Falcon-512 and ML-DSA-44. Mainnet still needs governance approval and security testing.
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Ledger asked reseller CryptoBilis to halt sales while it investigates reports of lost funds.
Starknet says it is considering becoming a Layer 1 to hit full quantum resistance by 2027. Nothing is proposed or voted on, and governance would decide it.
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Solana's SIMD-0525 sets a final cut to 200-millisecond slots at epoch 1053, doubling validator vote fees and shortening epochs to about one day.
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Chainlink says CCIP Vault Adapters are live, letting one network's DeFi vault take single-click deposits from 80+ blockchains.
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Samsung Wallet and Samsung Pay will support USDC on Solana, with US users able to send cross-border payments from the last week of October 2026.
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Ethereum Foundation researcher Justin Drake wants holders to move funds to fresh addresses before AI can crack ECDSA keys. Here is what bunker mode means.
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Gate unveiled an all-in-one money app in Singapore, a day after OKX launched OKX Money. Both are chasing non-traders, and both meet the same rulebook.
Europol's two new reports say quantum machines threaten the wallet keys that control crypto, not blockchain hashes, and urge the industry to prepare now.
Pudgy Penguins-backed Abstract will shut down on December 15 after Igloo lost tens of millions of dollars funding the consumer-focused Ethereum Layer 2.
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XRPScan shows fixBatchV1_2 at 100% consensus on the XRP Ledger, with October 9, 2026 as the earliest activation. Here's what the Batch fix changes.
BitGo is moving beyond custody fees. The CEO says the goal is for prime brokerage to become the entire revenue base. What that means for clients.
EEZ has tested an atomic transaction between Ethereum mainnet and an L2. Here is what changes for fees, capital efficiency, and what remains unconfirmed.
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OKX Money is a new app for saving, earning up to 10% APY on USDG, and spending stablecoins with a card. Here is what is confirmed and what is not.
S&P Global's new framework grades risks across six areas of a crypto lending vault, but no vault has been assessed yet.
Stripe plans to bring stablecoin cards to more than 100 countries, with card spending and its existing payments network behind the push.
Payward has integrated SGB Net for 24/7 settlement, starting with US dollar transactions for a select group of institutional clients.
Arbitrum paused new Stylus contract activations on Arbitrum One and Nova after AI-assisted attacks targeted hand-crafted WASM programs.
NEAR Intents says roughly $3.8 million lost in an exploit was returned. The protocol had already promised to cover affected users.
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