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StarkWare researcher Avihu Levy says he has successfully completed what the company describes as the first quantum-resistant Bitcoin transaction on the mainnet—an onchain test of Levy’s Quant
StarkWare says it has mined the first quantum-safe Bitcoin transaction on mainnet, a milestone the company frames as proof that post-quantum security can work in a live environment, though sk
The next test for Hong Kong’s push to remain a credible Web3 venue now has a fixed window. Organizers have scheduled the Hong Kong Web3 Festival 2027 for April 19 to 21, 2027, at the Hong Kon
Solana validators and delegators are voting on two economic proposals that could accelerate SOL disinflation and sharply increase transaction-fee burns. Summary SIMD-0550 would double Solana’
Turning arbitrage pressure into an auction In most automated market maker designs, a price gap between the pool and external markets is a gift to arbitrage traders. They pocket the difference
How Chain Signatures Work @NEARProtocol's Chain Signatures feature allows a single NEAR account, including smart contracts, to sign and execute transactions on external blockchains without re
A different approach to sharding Most blockchains that support sharding fix the number of shards in advance. The Open Network (@ton_blockchain) takes a different path. TON dynamically splits
How Overledger Routes Your Request Every API call made through @quantnetwork's Overledger passes through a Connector, one per blockchain family. That Connector checks node health and routes t
StarkWare researcher Avihu Levy has successfully executed an experimental quantum-resistant transaction on the Bitcoin blockchain, marking what the company described as a first-of-its-kind ac
How Stellar Path Payments Work A path payment on @StellarOrg lets a sender dispatch one asset and have an entirely different asset arrive at the destination, all within a single on-chain oper
The XRP Ledger Foundation (@XRPLF) has updated its two primary developer libraries, xrpl.js and xrpl-py, to support XRPL version 3.3.0, according to developer @JulianBerridi. A Java library u
Bitcoin has historically sat idle in wallets, earning nothing. @Coredao_Org is trying to change that. Through its self-custodial staking mechanism, $BTC holders can put their coins to work on
