Older stories · all sources
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…
An open Frames change would allow extra validation work at individual nodes, while studied privacy proofs still exceed its shared 100,000-gas allowance.
With the same reserve and cover rates, one modeled default leaves 90,000 tokens of vault loss; ten smaller loans leave 4,500.
Behind the million-per-second benchmark, operator failure tests who funds customer recovery and whether merchants can still collect their final bill.
A reduced RowDAS design shares reconstruction duties in 1,000-node tests, while retaining reliance on high-custody nodes.
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.…
HIP-3* adds venue-scoped controls without changing existing permissionless markets.
The 60% applies to an undated outcome for all three primitives; only at least one, probably SNARKs, is tied to decade-end.
CZ praised KGST on September 5; the separate USDKG project limits direct redemption to institutions, and its issuer has faced UK sanctions since May.
The cross-chain project says thin bridge fees cannot sustain always-on infrastructure, while a planned 303.3 million ROUTE burn remains pending.
SideSwap says bug-created L-BTC passed a valid authorization as bridge nodes paused and reserve reconciliation became the restart test.
Good Entry, Limitless and APX Finance could face separate off-chain ban votes, but the combined figure is not one repayable balance.
