Solana has completed its four-stage reduction in target slot times, activating 200-millisecond slots on mainnet-beta at epoch 1053 on October 9. The switch halved the network’s original 400ms target, but the first full post-upgrade measurement shows why a configured slot time should not be mistaken for a guaranteed block interval.Epoch 1053 averaged 218.3ms per slot
The XRP Ledger fixed a decade-old software flaw that could have allowed an attacker to create spendable XRP without funding it, bypassing one of the network’s most basic monetary rules: no more than the original 100 billion XRP are supposed to exist.The vulnerability was reported on September 22 by researcher Cayden Liao and Veria AI
Ledger owners who bought a hardware wallet through Southeast Asian reseller CryptoBilis now have something more concrete to check for.Ledger said on October 11 that one device belonging to an affected customer contained an unauthorized hardware implant, moving the investigation beyond the suspected tampering that FinanceFeeds first reported on October 9.That confirmation is important but
One year after the largest liquidation event in crypto history, Bitcoin is trading near $83,100 and leverage is beginning to build again.That does not mean the market is back where it was before October 10, 2025. Bitcoin futures open interest has risen about 4% over the past seven days, but leverage relative to Bitcoin’s market
Bitcoin hardware wallet maker Coldcard is investigating how a phishing link was published from its official X account on Sunday despite what the company describes as tightly restricted access and offline two-factor authentication in place since 2017.The unauthorized post, which has since been deleted, presented itself as an urgent security warning and directed users toward
Ledger has confirmed that a hardware wallet belonging to one affected customer contained an unauthorized hardware implant, moving its investigation into cryptocurrency losses tied to Southeast Asian reseller CryptoBilis from suspected distribution-chain tampering to a confirmed case of physical device modification.The hardware-wallet maker said it is contacting affected users and working with authorities as it
Robinhood Chain activity has fallen sharply from its September highs, with daily transactions down 42% and spot trading volumes weakening even as more than $1 billion remains deposited across applications on the network.The Ethereum Layer 2 averaged approximately 6.2 million transactions per day between October 2 and October 8, compared with 10.8 million during September
U.S. spot Bitcoin, Ether and Solana exchange-traded funds suffered approximately $1.25 billion in combined net outflows last week, reversing the broad institutional buying that had lifted all three categories only two weeks earlier.Spot Ether ETFs recorded $542.1 million in net withdrawals during the five trading days ended October 9, their worst week since January. Solana
French authorities recorded 90 cryptocurrency-related cases involving kidnapping, unlawful detention, extortion, threats and violent theft in just over seven months of 2026, exposing a physical-security problem that increasingly extends beyond protecting wallets and private keys.The Interior Ministry recorded the cases between January 1 and mid-August, equivalent to roughly one incident every two and a half
TRON founder Justin Sun says the blockchain is prepared to introduce quantum-resistant cryptography on mainnet, but the network’s own technical documentation shows several steps remain before its existing security model can be replaced.Sun said Saturday that TRON’s post-quantum cryptography was live on testnet and that the network was ready to bring quantum resistance to mainnet