Ethereum’s four-minute settlement plan could lower the cost of moving crypto
A new draft targets a fourfold cut in the time it takes Ethereum transactions to become final, which could free up money transfer services tie up while…
JPMorgan takes JPM Coin to Ethereum for institutional clients: Report
JPMorgan is reportedly expanding its JPM Coin deposit token to Ethereum, allowing institutional clients to make payments and settle tokenized asset…
Starknet introduces wallet privacy feature for DeFi activity
Starknet’s Shadow Accounts allow users to obscure connections between their main wallets and DeFi activity, though transactions remain visible onchain.…
Dark web drug market operator sentenced to 40 years, forfeits $101 million in bitcoin
A man from Virginia, who facilitated millions of drug transactions worth roughly $430 million, agreed to give up $100 million worth of BTC. His partner…
Crypto Long & Short: Zcash and the case for privacy in the age of AI
AI has made it cheap to link wallet addresses to the people behind them, and the permanence of the blockchain means records don’t age out. Michael Zhao of…
Zcash’s November upgrade could freeze funds in legacy Sprout pool
The proposed NU7 change would disable version 4 transactions, leaving ZEC in Zcash’s legacy Sprout shielded pool unspendable. Source：Cointelegraph
Zcash holders overwhelmingly back faster transactions and bitcoin-style halvings
Nearly 2.4 million ZEC participated, with 99.9% backing 25second blocks and 98.9% voting to preserve the network’s existing halving schedule. Source：CoinDesk
Solana transactions just got more than 3 times bigger, giving an edge over Ethereum
Transaction V1 raises Solana’s limit to 4,096 bytes from 1,232, giving developers more room for multistep trades, companywallet approvals and privacy proofs.…
Ethereum Foundation names 2 ‘must ship’ EIPs for Hegotá upgrade
Ethereum’s Hegotá upgrade will center on FOCIL and Frame Transactions as developers weigh dozens of other proposed changes for inclusion. Source：Cointelegraph
Ethereum commits to letting users pay gas fees without having to hold ETH
The Frame Transactions feature was locked into the Hegotá upgrade last month, and Ethereum cofounder Vitalik Buterin says the work has moved quickly since.…
Harmony proposes shutting down layer 1, migrating ONE to Ethereum
Harmony proposed sunsetting its layer1 blockchain and migrating ONE to Ethereum, weeks after an exploit led to plans to discard 109,000 transactions.…
Robinhood Chain beats Ethereum in daily revenue as memecoin trading takes over
The twomonthold network processed a record 5.52 million transactions on Aug. 30 as users launched 22,600 tokens and memecoin trading tools drove most of the…