Solana beats Bitcoin on one key metric, but a single software bug could still take down the network
A live reading is already 18, showing why institutions need more than one decentralization metric.
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Australia cancels registration of crypto provider GetCoins following customer scam complaints
The annual tally spans remittance and virtual asset providers, while AUSTRAC says GetCoins was allegedly exploited by investment scams.
Vitalik Buterin now confident AI won’t break crypto, betting 90% of his net worth
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has pushed back against predictions that artificial intelligence could trigger a 50% Bitcoin crash within two years. The debate began after Silicon Valley investor and AI-risk commentator Liron Shapiro said he sees a 50% probability that…
Ethereum’s privacy push hits a numbers problem: one proof needs nearly twice the proposed gas allowance
An open Frames change would allow extra validation work at individual nodes, while studied privacy proofs still exceed its shared 100,000-gas allowance.
XRP lending model leaves depositors with 90% of a bad loan’s loss despite reserves twice its size
With the same reserve and cover rates, one modeled default leaves 90,000 tokens of vault loss; ten smaller loans leave 4,500.
Solana’s “million-payments-a-second” AI system can leave sellers unpaid even after they deliver
Behind the million-per-second benchmark, operator failure tests who funds customer recovery and whether merchants can still collect their final bill.
Ethereum may have a simpler way to ease the computing burden of its growing rollup ecosystem
A reduced RowDAS design shares reconstruction duties in 1,000-node tests, while retaining reliance on high-custody nodes.
Tokens created out of thin air may explain how $320 million in Bitcoin left the Liquid sidechain
Researchers examining the roughly $320 million Liquid Network incident have identified an alleged failure in the software’s transaction-validation cache, offering a more specific explanation for how unbacked tokens could be redeemed for real Bitcoin. Accounts also raise a deployment question.…
Hyperliquid tests allowlists that let operators restrict access to their own markets
HIP-3* adds venue-scoped controls without changing existing permissionless markets.
Ethereum’s Vitalik Buterin puts 60% odds on a cryptography breakthrough that could weaken Wall Street middlemen
The 60% applies to an undated outcome for all three primitives; only at least one, probably SNARKs, is tied to decade-end.
CZ’s Kyrgyzstan visit highlights why state backing cannot guarantee a stablecoin exit
CZ praised KGST on September 5; the separate USDKG project limits direct redemption to institutions, and its issuer has faced UK sanctions since May.
A Coinbase-backed crypto bridge is shutting down after its business model stopped working
The cross-chain project says thin bridge fees cannot sustain always-on infrastructure, while a planned 303.3 million ROUTE burn remains pending.