Solana Sets October 21 Date for Alpenglow's 150ms Finality
Solana activates Alpenglow in epoch 1064 on October 21, replacing TowerBFT with a system targeting 150ms finality, plus what validators must do first.
Solana activates Alpenglow in epoch 1064 on October 21, replacing TowerBFT with a system targeting 150ms finality, plus what validators must do first.
Privy, acquired by Stripe, now lets developers create XRPL wallets and build agent payments.
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Ledger asked resellers in six Southeast Asian countries and Hong Kong to stop selling its wallets while it investigates tampered devices.
Coinbase's October 13 post sets out its priorities for Bitcoin's post-quantum migration, from P2MR and staged protection to the coins that cannot move.
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ENS's ENSv2 plan would move new .eth registrations to v2 while letting holders stay on v1. Migrating a name, though, is a one-way trip.
Trezor cuts much of its reseller network from Jan. 1, 2027, tightening supply-chain checks after Ledger found implants in CryptoBilis devices.
Privy's docs list embedded XRP Ledger wallets with policy controls. Here's what they sign, what they don't send, and why apps must fund the 1 XRP reserve.
The 30-day average of XRP open interest on Binance hit about $511 million, an eight-month high, while the daily reading fell to about $467 million.
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A hidden chip in CryptoBilis-sold Ledgers read recovery phrases at setup and sent them over LTE, leaving the Secure Element alone.
Aptos 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 has pulled devices from resellers in seven Asian markets and MediaMarkt Saturn has halted sales in Germany as the hardware wallet implant probe widens.
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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A UK trader says intruders forced $760,000 out of his wallets at knifepoint, police have not confirmed it, while MediaMarkt pulls Ledger devices.
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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