Lighter has launched an EVM development network with one-second blocks that lets smart contracts manage trading orders, while its developer documentation lists mocked proofs and an unfinished asset-recovery mechanism among the test environment’s limits. Axiom, which built the network with…
Lighter launches EVM devnet with 1-second blocks and contract trading
On Friday, at block height 971712, bitcoin mining grew considerably more demanding as the network’s latest difficulty adjustment climbed 5.92% to 140.58 trillion, marking its highest reading since March 5. Bitcoin Mining Difficulty Hits Seven-Month High After 5.92% Increase The network’s difficulty, basically how hard miners must work to find the next Bitcoin block, increased […]
Bitcoin Mining Difficulty Jumps 5.92% in Third-Largest Hike of 2026
LayerZero Labs has introduced Aerie, a research system that its developers say can aggregate 32,768 quantum-resistant Falcon signatures in 0.65 seconds on an Apple laptop without GPU acceleration. LayerZero’s Oct. 16 announcement identifies researchers from its own team, a16z crypto…
LayerZero unveils Aerie with 0.65-second quantum-safe signature benchmark
OpenAI says Stack Overflow for Agents was built in weeks with Codex and saw up to 10x growth in agent creation from its ChatGPT plugin. (Read More)
Stack Overflow says ChatGPT plugin lifted agent signups
Binance says programmable real-world assets are evolving from tokenized holdings into assets with on-chain functionality and automation. (Read More)
Programmable RWAs Move From Tokenization to On-Chain Utility
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has developed a privacy-focused setup for artificial intelligence agents that combines anonymous payments, encrypted network routing, and locally processed prompts, offering a glimpse of how AI services could operate without exposing users’ identities and personal information. Buterin Goes ‘Paranoid Mode’ With Private AI Setup In an X post Friday
Ethereum Founder Vitalik Buterin Details His ‘Paranoid Mode’ AI Agent Setup
UNCX’s Vesting V2 exploit has exposed a share-accounting flaw that let attackers inflate their claims on pooled tokens, Immunefi’s security chief has explained following reports of roughly $1.5 million drained across four chains. Gonçalo Magalhães, head of security at Immunefi,…
UNCX exploit exposes share-accounting flaw behind reported $1.5M loss
AMD said its Instinct MI350X and MI355X GPUs support Meta's Muse Spark Open on ROCm and vLLM, with BF16, MXFP4 and FP8 variants. (Read More)
AMD adds day-0 support for Meta's Muse Spark Open
NVIDIA says RTX Spark combines local coding agents, AI frameworks and Windows-on-Arm tools for development on a single machine. (Read More)
NVIDIA says RTX Spark can localize AI coding workflows on one PC
Anthropic says Claude identified the timestamp-based generation of NIST ECDSA curve seeds and partially explained several base points. (Read More)
Claude traces the origins of NIST ECDSA curve seeds
Tokenized equities have reached $3.8 billion in market value as weekly decentralized exchange trading has climbed 55-fold since January, according to DWF Labs. As per a report shared with crypto.news by DWF Labs, titled The Bright Side: Tokenized Equities, weekly…
Tokenized equities hit $3.8B as weekly DEX trading climbs 55-fold
Anthropic said Claude improved eight quantum circuit designs, including reductions in qubits and gates, with some gains reaching an order of magnitude. (Read More)
Claude designs more efficient quantum circuits in Anthropic study
Taiwan has blocked the websites of Coinbase and Kalshi under a court order sought by police investigating election betting, six weeks before the island’s Nov. 28 local elections. Kalshi’s own member agreement already bars Taiwanese users, yet it lists markets on the races. A Criminal Court Order Six Weeks Before the Vote Coinbase’s website has […]
Taiwan Blocks Coinbase and Kalshi Over Bets on Its November Elections
Stablecoin remittances have shown a cost gap of roughly 84% against traditional transfers in a comparison attributed to Borderless.xyz, with a $200 payment costing $2 through stablecoin-funded routes versus $12.72 using an older World Bank benchmark. According to a new…