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The Owner's Cut Goes to the Lab
Bittensor's NOVA subnet moved eight points of its emission split from miners to its owner to fund wet-lab drug-discovery data.
Burn 1 SOL to Knock: Firedancer's Bug Bounty Now Charges at the Door
After a $1M contest drew 809 mostly AI-made reports but only 127 unique findings, Firedancer now requires a non-refundable 1 SOL burn per…
The Money Is Licensed. The Ticker Isn't.
Anchorpoint, the Standard Chartered, HKT and Animoca Brands stablecoin issuer, plans to bring its HKMA-licensed Hong Kong dollar…
Treeverse Sets Its Release Date. It's a Secret.
Endless Clouds says Treeverse's official launch deadline is finalized, monetization included, but won't reveal it until it gets there.
The Whole Jar. One Fixed Price.
Uniswap opened TJAR, its Token Jar fee converter, to any app, with Robinhood as the first partner taking its fees in USDC and USDG.
The Bitcoin Was Fine: b14g Says 97 Million CORE Drained
Bitcoin staking protocol b14g says about 97 million staked CORE was withdrawn without authorization, while BTC time-locked on Bitcoin was…
The market caught up to our price
Eigen Labs' Darkbloom, a network that pays Mac owners to run AI inference, warned providers that earnings are low and unlikely to recover…
The Public Chain Gets a Guest List
Scroll plans to turn its public Ethereum L2 into a permissioned AI network and move SCR and USX to Ethereum mainnet, leaving most other…
Meta Racing's garage closes Nov. 15
Solana racing game Meta Racing is shutting down, and players have until Nov. 15 to withdraw their NFTs and staking rewards.
Priority Boarding. Now Taxed.
Aero switched on a SlipstreamV3 MEV tax pilot on select OP Mainnet pools, charging swaps with high priority fees and routing the take to…
21 Million TPS. One Core.
Celestia's Voyager payments chain benchmarked 21 million transactions per second, on a single node that doesn't yet replicate data or…
The Button Has a Basement: Uphold's RLUSD Earn
Uphold's new RLUSD Earn routes customer stablecoins through an Upshift vault into Sentora-curated Morpho lending markets, behind a single…
The Pause Guarded the Front Door
zkLink Nova's bridge was drained via a forged batch root, then a copycat hit four more chains whose wind-down pause only stopped deposits.
Mount Sold Separately: Calamity's MMO Ships Features by Mint Count
Calamity is rebuilding as an open-world MMO on Ronin, funded by a Factory NFT sale where unmet mint goals mean features don't ship.
Listed Before It Walks
Machine.fun opened a Solana launchpad where robotics and hardware projects can raise capital in public and trade from day one, with no…
Seven Took the Max
A week after Bittensor let subnet owners set their own emissions cut, seven took the 33% cap, while the chain's rules changed five times…
Miden's Privacy Chain Goes Live. Private, Mostly.
Miden opened an invite-only partner mainnet with phone-proved private transactions, but validators can still see encrypted inputs and…
Paid. Allegedly.
An Avalanche private-credit TranchePool booked a scheduled repayment as received at the UTC midnight rollover, letting an attacker draw…
7,779 Lords Banished
RaidLords drew 15,000+ players on Robinhood Chain in its first day, and has banned 7,779 accounts as bots and farms since launch.
Five Blocks a Second: Base's Denim Upgrade Hands Indexers 10x the Work
Base's Denim upgrade moves the L2 from two-second blocks to five blocks per second, retiring Flashblocks and pushing roughly 10x the RPC…
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