Infrastructure
Infrastructure

Inside Cardano's 'Van Rossum' hard fork, and what it means for users

The Van Rossem hard fork moved Cardano to version 11 on Saturday. And for the first time, Cardano’s community voted in the upgrade, not the…
Infrastructure

Michael Saylor Comes Out Against Bitcoin’s BIP-110, Calling the Anti-Spam Soft Fork ‘a Bad Idea’

The Strategy chairman warned that writing a spam ban into Bitcoin’s consensus rules is more dangerous than the spam itself, joining a wall of opposition…
Infrastructure

Cardano activates van Rossem hard fork

The upgrade reduces smart contract execution costs while laying the groundwork for Ouroboros Leios, a major scalability upgrade expected later this year. Read Full Story…
Infrastructure

Allbridge pauses cross-chain bridge after $1.65M exploit

The attacker allegedly used a flash loan and rapid swaps to manipulate the bridge’s stablecoin exchange rate. Read Full Story at Cointelegraph.com →
DeFi

Grayscale is setting up a quarterly cash showdown between Ethereum and Solana staking

Proposed trust changes would require no-less-than-quarterly cash distributions, creating a common cadence without fixing payout amounts or yield. The post Grayscale is setting up a…
Infrastructure

Bitcoin's biggest advocate, Michael Saylor, says new plan to clean up the blockchain is 'a bad idea'

Michael Saylor argues that a new proposal, BIP-110, to temporarily block “spam” data from the Bitcoin blockchain would undermine the network’s neutrality and create a…
Industry News

Inside Zcash’s new node that targets Visa-scale privacy at 50,000 transactions per second

The new Zakura client is the first live piece of a plan to take Zcash from roughly one private transaction per second to payment-network scale.…
Infrastructure

DOG Mode explains Bitcoin's next governance fight

Leonidas’ DOG Mode client challenges Bitcoin’s default relay policies, reopening a philosophical debate over censorship, free markets and who really governs the network. Read Full…
Infrastructure

Cardano Pumps as Network Moves to Further Decentralize Development

Input Output is handing its core infrastructure to outside teams as ADA gets a lift from an imminent protocol upgrade. Read Full Story at Decrypt.co…
Infrastructure

Ocean Mining VP Jason Hughes: BIP-110 on Track to Fail as Miner Signaling Stays Below 1%

Bitcoin Magazine Ocean Mining VP Jason Hughes: BIP-110 on Track to Fail as Miner Signaling Stays Below 1% Ocean Mining’s VP of Development and Engineering…