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XRP Ledger Nears Oct. 23 Upgrade as Lending Votes Fall Short
The XRP Ledger is heading toward an Oct. 23 software upgrade that fixes a peculiar security flaw, one that could let certain authorized accounts create tokens instead of destroying them. Meanwhile, its long-awaited native lending system…
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Ontology Halts L1 Blockchain for 41 Hours Over an Unknown Threat
Ontology pulled the emergency brake on its blockchain for nearly two days, freezing block production after a security warning involving an unnamed ecosystem project. By Monday, Oct. 12, the network was running again, with operators…
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Chinese Communist Party Calls for a National Blockchain Network
The Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has called for the creation of a national blockchain network to foster a deeper integration of the country’s real and digital economies. The proposal follows earlier programs…
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‘Bunker Mode’? Crypto Experts Argue Over AI Threat to Bitcoin, Ethereum
Blockchain researcher Justin Drake is urging cryptocurrency holders to prepare for “bunker mode,” warning that artificial intelligence (AI)-driven mathematical discoveries could threaten the cryptography protecting Bitcoin and…
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JPMorgan Lends Its Expertise to Solana’s Atomic Settlement Program
On Tuesday, the Solana Foundation revealed an open-source escrow program called Solana DvP, calling it an “atomic settlement program built for financial institutions.” The foundation explained that the largest bank in the United States,…
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Zano Says Over $200M in Illicit Tokens Led to 30-Day Blockchain Rewind
Zano has disclosed the bug that forced its extraordinary 30-day blockchain rewind in a recent postmortem. An attacker exploited a missing verification in Gateway Addresses to mint roughly 18.4 million ZANO in a single transaction, then…
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Brazilian State Energy Giant Petrobras Taps Cardano for Tracing Fuel
Brazilian state-owned energy firm Petrobras is testing Cardano’s blockchain to track the environmental benefits of renewable fuels, expanding an experiment aimed at making emissions claims easier to verify. Putting Energy Evidence on…
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Goldman Sachs Just Put a $100B Treasury Fund on Avalanche Rails
Goldman Sachs is making its $100 billion Financial Square Treasury Instruments Fund available through Lynq, a private Avalanche Layer 1 network used by more than 30 institutional digital-asset firms. Avalanche Lands Goldman Sachs Treasury…
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How Settlemint and Utila Are Securing Institutional Tokenized Assets
Settlemint and Utila have partnered to address a critical operational bottleneck for financial institutions moving tokenized assets from pilot phases into production environments. Bridging the Gap to Production Enterprise blockchain…
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Stablecoin Cross-Border Flows Surge 78% to $220,300,000,000 Amid Crypto Bear Market
Cross-border stablecoin transfers are surging nearly 78 percent over the past year even as the broader crypto market experiences a sharp decline.
Transfers of the dollar-pegged tokens across borders climbed from $124.2 billion to $220.3…
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