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Zcash coinholders voted to keep Bitcoin-style halvings, while NU7 targets an October 6 testnet activation and a November mainnet upgrade. Matt Huang also disclosed a ZEC investment.
Bitcoin held near $76,500 after the Fed’s first rate increase since 2023, then topped $77,000 after a Bank of Japan hike. Ether and XRP ETFs posted outflows as spot prices rose.
The US Treasury sanctioned BitBank after OFAC said the exchange routed bitcoin payments from the Hormuz Safe scheme to the IRGC. The supplied record does not include OFAC’s notice or transaction evidence.
The CFTC granted no-action relief for certain passive trading software providers. The reported relief lets them route users to regulated derivatives and prediction markets without introducing-broker registration.
S&P Global has agreed to acquire OpenZeppelin, which says its contracts have facilitated more than $37 trillion in transfers. The record does not confirm that the deal has closed.
The SEC announced temporary, conditional relief for tokenized stock venues and requested comment. Reported trading caps, transparency conditions and issuer opt-outs will shape its reach.
A merged Hydra change makes closeTx choose its redeemer using the same applied-action check as contestTx, addressing rejection of a version-behind, otherwise idle snapshot.
Hydra’s advisory-related fix appears to be on master, but the record shows no tagged release or deployment. The next meaningful receipt is a release cut.
A merged Hydra commit references a second advisory and hardens value checks, but the available record does not disclose the issue’s scope, severity, or status.
Hydra merged a fanout-routing fix intended to prevent a whole-remainder selection from leaving a head unfinalizable and unrevertable.
Hydra’s merged advisory fix changes on-chain compatibility, requiring every party in a head to coordinate an upgrade and handle existing heads before using the new scripts.
Hydra merged a breaking fix for a partial-fanout flaw that could double-pay a pre-settled output or leave a head unable to complete its final payout.
A Leios devnet prototype now reads committee, quorum and endorser settings from protocol parameters, while its regenerated Dijkstra genesis includes that set.
A Leios prototype release now selects its committee at epoch boundaries and makes BLS voting keys expire, requiring rotation and a mandatory musashi devnet respin.
Hydra released 2.4.1 to close a critical flaw that could let a malicious head participant place an invalid transaction in a confirmed snapshot.
Luke Dashjr has exited OCEAN after the pool bought out its co-founder, while the new CONVOY venture has not disclosed an operational footprint.
Bitcoin held steady after the U.S. strike on Iran, while oil rose and stocks fell; separate rate-hike commentary put September odds near 58%, below prior market fears.
Polygon says its Austin and Kyoto hard forks patched consensus and denial-of-service flaws in Bor and Heimdall, with no reported exploitation.
Chainalysis is asking a federal court to require a full, open re-competition for ICE’s reported $95 million blockchain-analytics contract with TRM Labs.
A CFTC settlement over trades made with advance access to presidential speeches highlights enforcement risk for prediction markets as commercial interest grows.
A Treasury proposal could make U.S. exchanges perform reasonable diligence on foreign stablecoin issuers or delist their tokens. Comments are open through Oct. 19.
Michael Saylor’s “We’re Back” post suggested Strategy could resume Bitcoin purchases after a two-month pause, but confirmation requires a filing or on-chain evidence.
Cronos halted its chain after a reported exploit at Tectonic involving allegedly inflated TONIC collateral; Crypto.com said its app and exchange kept operating normally.
Luke Dashjr is attempting another Bitcoin Knots fork, but activation settings, a day-one hash, and universal replay protection remain unsettled or undisclosed.
