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Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure The US government isn’t waiting for Congress to settle the debate over cryptocurrency regulation. Speaking at Ripple’s Swell conference in New York on October 27, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent outlined how federal regulators could move forward after the CLARITY Act failed to […]

Polymarket’s five-minute Bitcoin contract sampled on Oct. 27 uses averaged opening and closing benchmarks, following an August reform that changed the incentive to move its settlement price. The current design requires a different risk assessment from the single-snapshot rule examined in earlier research. An estimate of about $8.2 million earned by 821 wallets in earlier […]

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Electrum, one of Bitcoin’s oldest software wallets, published a security advisory on Saturday describing a weakness that attackers were already abusing. TL;DR A bug in the Electrum bitcoin wallet let malicious servers slip fake pending payments into users’ transaction history. Users who […]

Staking protocol Lido activated a new permissionless Ethereum module on Oct. 23, allowing independent operators to run validators with effective balances of up to 2,048 ETH. The new route is live, with initial capacity intended for about 32 seed deposits and larger allocations dependent on activation and later funding. The 0x02 Community Staking Module, or […]