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East Texas A&M Unveils PQLN Post-Quantum Security for Bitcoin (BTC) Lightning, Passing 12 Node Tests
East Texas A&M researchers unveiled PQLN, a post-quantum layer for the Bitcoin Lightning Network, passing 12 compatibility tests on rust-lightning.
BTCXRPL Commons Opens XRP Ledger Lending Tools to 400 Builders Ahead of Validator Vote
XRPL Commons opens the XRP Ledger's proposed XLS-65 and XLS-66 lending tools to more than 400 builders at its New York hackathon, while validator voting on activation continues.
XRPPi Network's Node Deadline Passes Before Protocol 28 Activation on October 16
Pi Network's Protocol 28 release notes put a hard date on operator preparation: every Mainnet node was told to install the version 28 software by October 13, 2026, before the Mainnet activation scheduled for October 16.
NODEAnza Sets October 21 for Solana (SOL) Alpenglow Launch With 150-Millisecond Finality
Anza, the development firm behind Solana's validator client, announced on Tuesday, October 13 that Alpenglow, its rebuilt consensus protocol, is scheduled to activate on the Solana mainnet in beta at roughly 14:50 UTC on October 21, which is 23:50 Japan time.
SOLStellar Network Handles 12 Million Transactions With Fees at $0.00012
Stellar (XLM) recorded its heaviest and cheapest day of the past week at the same time.
XLMMysten Labs Processes First Quantum-Resistant Sui Transaction Under Protocol Version 139
Until this change, an account on Sui could commit a transaction only under classical signatures, the Ed25519 scheme that secures most addresses today and the kind of public-key cryptography that protects much of web3 and that a sufficiently advanced quantum computer could eventually break.
SUIAptos Ships Encrypted Mempool on Mainnet With 20ms Latency Cost
Aptos shipped its opt-in Encrypted Mempool to mainnet on October 12, hiding pending transactions until validators finalize block ordering, with 20ms added latency per block.
APTSei Completes v6.7 Mainnet Upgrade, Halving WebSocket Limit to 5MiB
Sei's mandatory v6.7 upgrade is live on mainnet, cutting IBC and feegrant, capping WebSocket payloads at 5MiB and paving the way to FlatKV.
SEISolana Foundation Reviews Two Signing Programs to Replace Durable Nonce
The Solana Foundation is reviewing Programmatic Signer and Vector, two signing programs to replace durable nonce offline approvals. No timeline is set.
SOLJustin Sun's TRON (TRX) Runs FN-DSA-512 Post-Quantum Signatures on Nile Testnet
TRON (TRX) has activated quantum-resistant FN-DSA-512 signatures on its Nile testnet under committee proposal 20628, with founder Justin Sun confirming the rollout and no mainnet migration date disclosed yet.
TRXEthereum (ETH) Glamsterdam Upgrade Activates on Sepolia With 200M Gas Limit
Ethereum's Glamsterdam upgrade activated on the Sepolia testnet on October 6, raising the gas limit from 60M to 200M ahead of the October 26 Hoodi test.
ETHXRP Ledger Validators Poised to Lift PaymentBurn Delegation Ban by October 23
XRP holders are days away from regaining a capability the XRP Ledger currently blocks: handing the PaymentBurn granular permission to another account.
XRPUniswap Labs Shifts Unichain, an Ethereum (ETH) Layer-2, to Optimism Operations on October 29
Uniswap Labs will hand day-to-day operation of its layer-2 network Unichain to Optimism, with the testnet moving on October 13 and the mainnet on October 29, the company's official announcement confirms. The October 9 notice describes the shift as a conversion into Optimism's OP Enterprise program.
UNIETHRobinhood Chain Weighs Pay-to-Prioritize Trading on Arbitrum (ARB) After September 24 Switch
Robinhood Chain, the Layer-2 network built specifically for tokenized real-world financial assets, is evaluating a transaction-ordering system that would let users pay a fee to have specific trades processed ahead of everyone else, according to a person briefed on the matter.
ARBAnza's Final SIMD-0525 Stage Cuts Solana (SOL) Block Times to 200 Milliseconds
SIMD-0525, the governance proposal that has driven the network's slot-time cuts since August, reaches its final stage on Friday, Oct. 9, when Solana (SOL) drops its target block time from 250 milliseconds to 200.
SOLDogeOS Launches Dogecoin (DOGE) Smart Contract Testnet on September 30
DogeOS launched a September 30 testnet to bring smart contracts to Dogecoin (DOGE), though Shibarium's weak usage shows upgrades alone rarely lift demand.
DOGEZakura Targets January 2027 for Post-Quantum Signatures on Zcash (ZEC)
Zakura, an independent full node implementation for privacy coin Zcash (ZEC) built by Valar Group and Project Tachyon, plans to land post-quantum signature opcodes on the network in January 2027.
ZECCardano (ADA)-Linked Midnight Records 9,117% Weekly Surge After Permissionless Contract Launch
Midnight's mainnet opened to permissionless smart contracts on September 28, lifting daily transactions from 284 to 26,178 in a week, a 9,117% rise.
ADAXRP Ledger Activates Permission Delegation for XRP Accounts on Oct. 8
Until this week, a business moving payments across the XRP Ledger, the blockchain behind XRP, faced a blunt choice: keep the keys that control its main holdings on an internet-connected machine, or pull staff away from compliance work whenever a signature was needed.
XRPBitcoin Core Merges Bitcoin (BTC) Private Broadcast Fix Into 32.x Branch
Bitcoin Core merged its private broadcast fix into the 32.x branch on October 1, while the 31.x backport awaits merge and no 31.2 date is set.
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