One of the issues inherent in many kinds of consensus architectures is that although they can be made to be robust against attackers or collusions up to a certain size, if an attacker gets large enough they are still, fundamentally, exploitable. If attackers in a proof of work system have less than 25% of mining
Wall Street and bitcoin markets have been swapping scripts this week. The S&P 500 has fallen for three consecutive sessions since Thursday’s record close, pressured by a 30-year Treasury yield at 5.31 percent, its highest level since 2007, and by Brent crude near $91 as the United States and Iran allow their negotiating window to
Strategy has restated its objective for STRC to trade between $99 and $100 over time after disclosing $193.1 million in preferred-share repurchases and a $3 billion buyback authorization. Summary Strategy reiterated its $99–$100 STRC target after repurchasing $193.1 million of the preferred shares. The company raised its preferred-security buyback authorization to $3 billion, leaving $1.16
I was woken by Vitalik’s call at 5:55 this morning; pitch black outside, nighttime was still upon us. Nonetheless, it was time to leave and this week had best start on the right foot. The 25-minute walk in darkness from the Zug-based headquarters to the train station was wet. Streetlights reflecting off the puddles on
The biggest Ethereum news of the day comes from Wall Street, not from a developer call. JPMorgan is taking JPM Coin (JPMD), its tokenized dollar deposit, from Base to Ethereum mainnet. Kinexys, the bank’s blockchain unit, said in a statement on Monday that JPMD now supports transfers across Ethereum Virtual Machine networks, including Base and
Solana has reported 8.92 billion successful non-vote transactions for the third quarter of 2026, more than double its Q4 2025 total, while SOL has remained near $104. Summary 8.92 billion successful non-vote transactions were recorded in Q3, according to Solana’s Allium-sourced chart. 104% growth compares Q3 2026 with Q4 2025; quarter-over-quarter growth was approximately 24%.
I’m Vinay Gupta, the newly minted release coordinator for Ethereum. I’ve been working with the comms team on strategy, and have now come aboard to help smooth the release process (some of the content in this blog is out of date, please see this link for the most up to date information on Ethereum). I’ll be
Tether’s CEO also spoke remotely at a Washington event, DC Fintech Week, and addressed the senator’s report there, as well, last Tuesday. He criticized how it was released to the media before his company could review it. “I believe it’s important for the public also to hear our side of the story,” he said. “Our
Circle has cited more than 175 financial institutions helping build Circle Payments Network after the stablecoin payments service won bronze in the Payments category at the Money20/20 Money Awards. Summary Circle cited 175+ financial institutions supporting CPN after winning bronze at the Money20/20 Money Awards. Earlier disclosures listed 175 enrolled institutions, without establishing how many
So I’m not sure if this kind of development methodology has ever been applied to such an extreme before so I figured I’d document it. In a nutshell, it’s sort of like test-driven triplet-programming development. While speed-developing our alpha codebase, four of us sat around a table in the office in Berlin. Three people (Vitalik,
