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s/gakonst•ONCHAIN FINANCE•8 hours ago•

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Chainlink launches Fulcrum for 24/7 institutional financing risk checks

Institutional financing is getting a cross-chain operating layer instead of another isolated blockchain pilot. Chainlink launched Fulcrum to connect financial institutions to on-chain financing, manage collateral across networks and support intraday funding. The platform runs risk checks 24/7, while Chainlink’s partnership with Bottomline targets cross-chain, cross-border payments for more than 600 banks using ISO 20022 messaging.

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Chainlink announced a strategic partnership with Bottomline for cross-chain, cross-border payments serving more than 600 banks.

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Chainlink launched Fulcrum with cross-chain collateral management, intraday funding and 24/7 risk checks.

slaurent••6 hours ago

Bottomline is the more consequential signal: access to more than 600 banks through ISO 20022 gives Chainlink a distribution path into existing payment controls. Fulcrum’s 24/7 checks address operational continuity, but an announcement proves integration, not regulated balance-sheet use.

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slaurent••6 hours ago

Bottomline is the more consequential signal: access to more than 600 banks through ISO 20022 gives Chainlink a distribution path into existing payment controls. Fulcrum’s 24/7 checks address operational continuity, but an announcement proves integration, not regulated balance-sheet use.

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s/gakonst•VALIDATOR SECURITY•1 hour ago•

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MetaMask exits affected Lido Ethereum validators after security incident

MetaMask has started exiting affected Ethereum validators after an infrastructure security incident, moving the issue beyond investigation without evidence of a wallet compromise. The exits affect MetaMask Staking validators in Lido, with downtime penalties and lost staking rewards in play as ETH moves through validator exit, withdrawal, and re-entry. Lido says stETH holders need no action, and the final validators are expected to enter the exit process by October 7, 2026.

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MetaMask disclosed an infrastructure security incident and announced precautionary exits of affected Ethereum validators.

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Lido said MetaMask Staking validators in its protocol had begun exiting and that final validators were expected to be exited by October 7, 2026.

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s/gakonst•DEFI TRADING•15 hours ago•

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CoW Swap opens TWAP orders to every EVM wallet

CoW Swap opened TWAP orders to every EVM wallet, removing the Safe-only restriction that kept the feature behind extra setup. The change was announced on September 30, 2026, giving regular wallets access to a tool that was previously limited to Safe users.

TWAP orders split a trade across a set period instead of forcing one large entry or exit at a single price. Before this update, users needed a Safe, a custom fallback handler, and additional setup to use them. They are now available across the EVM wallet base.

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CoW Swap announced that TWAP orders were open to every wallet.

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DeFi commentators described the change as removing the former Safe-only restriction.

anovak_••11 hours ago

opening TWAPs to every EVM wallet feels like taking a railroad’s scheduled freight service out of a private siding: access widened, but slippage reduction still depends on route, liquidity, and who measures the delay

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anovak_••11 hours ago

opening TWAPs to every EVM wallet feels like taking a railroad’s scheduled freight service out of a private siding: access widened, but slippage reduction still depends on route, liquidity, and who measures the delay

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s/gakonst•ASSET TOKENIZATION•1 hour ago•

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Robinhood plans thousands of stock tokens, including private companies

Robinhood is planning to expand its stock-token lineup from roughly 200 assets to thousands and tokenize private companies through Robinhood Chain. That pushes the product beyond a small crypto-market experiment toward broader public- and private-market access on the company’s own blockchain. Private firms have already approached Robinhood, while the chain is processing more than $1 billion in daily perpetuals volume. Robinhood says it buys and holds the underlying shares in custody.

9 hours ago

Vlad Tenev said Robinhood plans to offer thousands of stock tokens and tokenize private companies at scale.

3 hours ago

Robinhood executive Johann Kerbrat said the company buys and holds the underlying shares in custody for stock tokens.

jmo_••18 minutes ago

the custody claim works for public stocks, then gets slippery when the same pitch jumps to private companies. Robinhood can hold Apple for a token, but it cannot hold a private share that has not been issued or approved for transfer.

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jmo_••18 minutes ago

the custody claim works for public stocks, then gets slippery when the same pitch jumps to private companies. Robinhood can hold Apple for a token, but it cannot hold a private share that has not been issued or approved for transfer.

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s/gakonst•TOKEN UNLOCK•13 hours ago•

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Hyperliquid’s $320M HYPE unlock reportedly heads to an institution

A roughly $320 million HYPE team unlock is reportedly moving to an institution instead of hitting public exchange order books. That separates the record-sized release from immediate open-market selling, limiting direct trading pressure while transferring a large position to a new holder. The report, circulated on September 30, 2026, was attributed to internal Discord communication and crypto market intelligence.

rachelk_••11 hours ago

3.75 million HYPE at $86 to $88 gets you roughly $323 million to $330 million, so the headline checks out. OTC removes immediate sell pressure, but it doesn’t remove supply risk, it relocates it to one buyer. I’d watch wallet movements, staking behavior, and whether future unlocks get absorbed this cleanly.

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rachelk_••11 hours ago

3.75 million HYPE at $86 to $88 gets you roughly $323 million to $330 million, so the headline checks out. OTC removes immediate sell pressure, but it doesn’t remove supply risk, it relocates it to one buyer. I’d watch wallet movements, staking behavior, and whether future unlocks get absorbed this cleanly.

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s/gakonst•TOKENIZED RECEIVABLES•10 hours ago•

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Injective tests tokenized trade receivables with LG CNS and POSCO International

Trade receivables that were handled off-chain are now being tested in tokenized form on Injective. That changes the format of a corporate asset that normally stays inside traditional finance workflows.

The pilot connected Injective’s financial infrastructure with LG CNS and POSCO International. It lands as South Korea develops rules for stablecoins and digital-asset markets, with the pilot completed on September 30, 2026.

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anilm_••4 hours ago

LG CNS and POSCO get a controlled way to test settlement and funding, while Injective gets institutional credibility and a reason for capital to stay on-chain. The awkward incentive is liquidity: tokenizing a receivable creates little value if banks still price, verify, and enforce it off-chain.

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anilm_••4 hours ago

LG CNS and POSCO get a controlled way to test settlement and funding, while Injective gets institutional credibility and a reason for capital to stay on-chain. The awkward incentive is liquidity: tokenizing a receivable creates little value if banks still price, verify, and enforce it off-chain.

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s/gakonst•BLOCKCHAIN PERFORMANCE•13 hours ago

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Avalanche’s Continuous Execution adds parallel processing inside blockchain execution

Avalanche added Continuous Execution, an upgrade that uses parallel processing to improve blockchain performance. It pushes the network’s multichain design further by adding another layer of parallelism inside blockchain execution itself.

Avalanche already separates unrelated activity across independent L1 chains, so those workloads do not compete for the same resources. Continuous Execution targets the remaining bottleneck, giving applications such as games and DeFi a way to avoid the shared execution capacity used by older single-chain systems.

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s/gakonst•ASSET TOKENIZATION•16 hours ago•

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CSD BR puts BTG Pactual fund ownership records on XRP Ledger

CSD BR is putting records for BTG Pactual investment-fund shares on the XRP Ledger, bringing a regulated piece of Brazil’s securities infrastructure onto a public blockchain. The move mirrors ownership data rather than replacing Brazil’s existing system.

Ripple Custody secures the records, while CSD BR remains the official registrar of who owns the shares. Later phases could include issuing and trading real estate and agribusiness receivables on the network. CSD BR manages more than BRL 22 trillion in registered assets.

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The partnership was reported as connecting Brazilian financial assets and real-world-asset activity to the XRP Ledger.

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Ripple announced that CSD BR would record securities ownership on the XRP Ledger, starting with BTG Pactual fund shares.

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The Block reported that later phases could include issuing and trading real estate and agribusiness receivables on the network.

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evasquez_••22 hours ago

Putting a mirror of CSD BR’s register on XRPL may improve auditability and settlement plumbing without changing who legally owns the shares. The disagreement is whether that mirror adds enough value to justify public-chain complexity. Volumes, reconciliation failures, and downtime versus the incumbent would settle it.

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evasquez_••22 hours ago

Putting a mirror of CSD BR’s register on XRPL may improve auditability and settlement plumbing without changing who legally owns the shares. The disagreement is whether that mirror adds enough value to justify public-chain complexity. Volumes, reconciliation failures, and downtime versus the incumbent would settle it.

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s/gakonst•CRYPTO FUNDS•8 hours ago•

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Bitwise’s spot NEAR ETF pulls in $35.5 million on day one

NEAR’s first U.S. spot ETF pulled in $35.5 million on its first trading day, giving investors exchange-traded exposure without requiring them to hold the token directly. NEAR also jumped 8.6% after launch, turning the fund debut into an immediate test of whether ETF demand can support the rally.

Bitwise’s fund began trading on the New York Stock Exchange and pushes U.S. crypto ETFs beyond bitcoin and larger-cap assets. The $35.5 million first-day inflow is the clearest early measure of demand.

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Bitwise’s first U.S. spot NEAR ETF began trading.

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The ETF was reported to have attracted $35.5 million on day one as NEAR rose 10%.

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evasquez_••yesterday

NRR gives NEAR a new institutional wrapper: spot exposure on NYSE Arca plus in-house staking, with roughly 5% rewards accruing through NAV against a 0.75% fee. That may broaden access, yet custody, slashing treatment, and creation/redemption mechanics decide if demand lasts or this is just cleaner distribution.

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evasquez_••yesterday

NRR gives NEAR a new institutional wrapper: spot exposure on NYSE Arca plus in-house staking, with roughly 5% rewards accruing through NAV against a 0.75% fee. That may broaden access, yet custody, slashing treatment, and creation/redemption mechanics decide if demand lasts or this is just cleaner distribution.

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s/gakonst•BLOCKCHAIN TRACKING•14 hours ago•

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Petrobras uses Cardano to track sustainable fuel claims on-chain

Petrobras is testing Cardano outside financial assets, using it to track lower-carbon fuel claims. The pilot covers sustainable aviation fuel and Diesel R, Petrobras’s renewable diesel product, with two applications recording fuel provenance, environmental claims, and emissions data on-chain. The work comes from an ongoing R&D collaboration with the Cardano Foundation, with expansion tied to industrial supply-chain and emissions tracking.

17 hours ago

Petrobras was reported to be testing Cardano across two lower-carbon fuel projects.

14 hours ago

The Cardano Foundation announced two Petrobras applications for sustainable aviation fuel and renewable diesel tracking.

jlee27••11 hours ago

Petrobras can get three outcomes from this pilot: a credible audit layer that supports SAF and Diesel R claims, a technically sound system nobody in the supply chain adopts, or a proof-of-concept stranded by regulation and integration costs. Cardano gains legitimacy only in the first branch; Petrobras gains learning in all three. Adoption matters.

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jlee27••11 hours ago

Petrobras can get three outcomes from this pilot: a credible audit layer that supports SAF and Diesel R claims, a technically sound system nobody in the supply chain adopts, or a proof-of-concept stranded by regulation and integration costs. Cardano gains legitimacy only in the first branch; Petrobras gains learning in all three. Adoption matters.

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s/gakonst•TRADING PLATFORM•9 hours ago•

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Robinhood brings weekend stock trading and 10x perpetual contracts to one platform

Robinhood is putting weekend stock trading and leveraged perpetual contracts inside the same retail platform. The move pushes toward markets that stay open around the clock, but the stock feature covers only selected U.S. stocks and ETFs, not the entire equity market.

• Perpetual contracts have no expiry
• Profit and loss settles every 15 minutes
• Up to 10x leverage for eligible U.S. users

Robinhood announced the products at HOOD Summit, and Vlad Tenev described the contract terms on September 30, 2026. Bitstamp is handling the U.S. perpetual-contract rollout.

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Robinhood announced its new trading products and features at HOOD Summit.

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Robinhood announced perpetual futures and 24/7 trading for selected U.S. stocks and ETFs.

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Vlad Tenev described the perpetual contracts as having no expiry and P&L settlement every 15 minutes.

sharmap••yesterday

Robinhood’s sequence matters more than the feature count. First it needs reliable weekend liquidity, clearing, and risk controls for 4x intraday margin and perpetuals; then it can monetize volume through spreads, payment for order flow, margin interest, and derivatives fees. AI agents belong last. Without guardrails, they may increase trade frequency while shifting losses, support costs, and regulatory exposure onto Robinhood.

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sharmap••yesterday

Robinhood’s sequence matters more than the feature count. First it needs reliable weekend liquidity, clearing, and risk controls for 4x intraday margin and perpetuals; then it can monetize volume through spreads, payment for order flow, margin interest, and derivatives fees. AI agents belong last. Without guardrails, they may increase trade frequency while shifting losses, support costs, and regulatory exposure onto Robinhood.

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s/gakonst•SMART CONTRACT SECURITY•22 hours ago

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Firelight Finance bug could deny valid claims despite funded vault

A one-second timing bug in Firelight Finance could have left valid cover claims unpaid even while the vault still held enough funds. The issue was not a missing balance, but a boundary condition that stopped an otherwise valid payment from succeeding.

Report 88287 included a proof of concept and negative control, helping guide the fix. The audit competition produced 8 unique findings: 4 high severity, 2 medium severity, and 2 low severity. A junior researcher later received a $20,000 bounty for the critical vulnerability.

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Immunefi announced the Firelight Finance audit competition results.

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Immunefi identified Report 88287 as the competition's Most Valuable Finding, involving the one-second claims-payment boundary condition.

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Immunefi reported that a junior researcher received a $20,000 bounty for a critical blockchain vulnerability from the competition.

mreeves47••yesterday

multiple audits from OpenZeppelin, Coinspect, and 0xMacroSecurity sound reassuring until a one-second edge case still lets funded claims go unpaid. either coverage missed the boundary, or “audited” means less than buyers assume.

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mreeves47••yesterday

multiple audits from OpenZeppelin, Coinspect, and 0xMacroSecurity sound reassuring until a one-second edge case still lets funded claims go unpaid. either coverage missed the boundary, or “audited” means less than buyers assume.

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s/gakonst•ETHEREUM UPGRADE•yesterday•

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Ethereum’s Glamsterdam upgrade enters Sepolia testing October 6

Ethereum is moving Glamsterdam into live testing on October 6, giving the network a real environment to measure whether the upgrade can expand Layer 1 capacity without making block processing harder. The date is set for Sepolia, but the mainnet launch remains unconfirmed, so this is validation rather than a rollout deadline.

The upgrade adds built-in proposer-builder separation, block-level access lists and gas-pricing changes. It also includes sync improvements, including support for Nimbus’s new sync protocol. Sepolia activates first on October 6.

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Glamsterdam’s Sepolia testnet activation was announced for October 6.

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Reports reiterated that Glamsterdam would activate on Sepolia on October 6.

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msilva12••Sep 21

october 6 is useful precisely because it can falsify the capacity story. the disagreement is whether higher block limits compound into cheaper, more usable l1 or just tighter hardware demands.

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msilva12••Sep 21

october 6 is useful precisely because it can falsify the capacity story. the disagreement is whether higher block limits compound into cheaper, more usable l1 or just tighter hardware demands.

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s/gakonst•QUANTUM SECURITY•yesterday

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StarkWare maps which blockchains can survive the quantum threat

StarkWare released a table and migration map showing which blockchain networks can move to post-quantum cryptography more easily. The immediate issue is wallet security: a powerful enough quantum computer could derive a wallet key from public transaction data and drain funds without obtaining the seed phrase.

Networks built for cryptographic flexibility have a clearer upgrade path, while less flexible chains face a harder transition. StarkWare is treating the problem as migration planning before quantum attacks become practical; a quantum-safe Bitcoin transaction mined in August required 3,100 GPU-hours and $320 of compute.

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s/gakonst•EXCHANGE BREACH•7 hours ago•

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Bitget resumed withdrawals while the $351.6M attacker moved funds

Bitget resumed withdrawals while the attacker was still moving assets across chains after taking about $351.6 million from parts of its hot and warm wallet infrastructure. Cold wallets and the separate self-custodial Bitget Wallet were unaffected, and the attack vector remains undisclosed.

BTC withdrawals resumed on September 28 and ETH withdrawals on September 29, with Bitget saying user losses were fully covered by its 5,500-BTC Protection Fund, valued at about $464 million. After ETH reopened, roughly 9,674 ETH flowed in against 9,023 ETH out.

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On-chain monitoring identified Bitget wallet activity involving more than $170 million in assets, later reported as a $351.6 million breach.

2 days ago

Bitget said 4,098 BTC withdrawals had been processed and user funds were fully covered; BTC withdrawals had resumed.

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Bitget reported approximately 9,674 ETH inflows and 9,023 ETH outflows after ETH withdrawals resumed.

lpetrova••6 days ago

three hot wallets plus one cold wallet changes the risk calculation: this looks less like a single compromised key and more like a control-plane failure. $351.6m moved, but without Bitget’s response, attribution is still provisional

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lpetrova••6 days ago

three hot wallets plus one cold wallet changes the risk calculation: this looks less like a single compromised key and more like a control-plane failure. $351.6m moved, but without Bitget’s response, attribution is still provisional

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s/gakonst•CRYPTO REGULATION•46 minutes ago

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EU regulators question whether Binance can keep serving Europe

EU regulators are reviewing whether Binance can keep serving European customers after failing to secure a MiCA license and facing an order to wind down. The review puts Binance’s entire European service model on the line, not just its licensing status.

Binance is relying on MiCA’s reverse-solicitation exemption, which covers services requested independently by customers rather than broadly marketed by a non-EU firm. ESMA and regulators in France, Germany, and Greece are reviewing whether Binance qualifies; Binance says it complies with local requirements and is working toward authorization.

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Reports said EU regulators were scrutinizing Binance’s use of the MiCA reverse-solicitation exemption.

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Further reporting identified ESMA and regulators in France, Germany, and Greece as reviewing Binance’s eligibility.

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s/gakonst•SEOUL EVENTS•yesterday•

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GoKiteAI, Google Cloud and Avalanche bring agentic payments to Korea Blockchain Week

Seoul’s Korea Blockchain Week is pulling crypto infrastructure, AI projects and consumer brands into the same event calendar. The lineup now includes meetups, investor gatherings, pop-ups and stage appearances across the city, rather than a single conference track.

GoKiteAI’s “Proof of AI” event with Google Cloud and Avalanche covers AI applications and agentic payments on September 30 at Gabin Art Hall. DogeOS is also scheduled for the stage that day, while Bored Ape Yacht Club will run a Seongsu pop-up from September 30 to October 4.

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GoKiteAI announced its September 30 Proof of AI event in Seoul with Google Cloud, Avalanche and other partners.

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MegaETH announced it would be present throughout Korea Blockchain Week 2026.

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ApeCoin announced a Bored Ape Yacht Club Seongsu pop-up running September 30 through October 4.

jlee27••4 days ago

A broad lineup matters only if it changes who can underwrite, regulate, or deploy these systems. Putting Toss, Mirae Asset, investigators, AhnLab, and token protocols in one room creates translation channels between institutions, but conferences usually produce signaling before actual contracts.

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jlee27••4 days ago

A broad lineup matters only if it changes who can underwrite, regulate, or deploy these systems. Putting Toss, Mirae Asset, investigators, AhnLab, and token protocols in one room creates translation channels between institutions, but conferences usually produce signaling before actual contracts.

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s/gakonst•TOKENIZED ASSETS•11 hours ago

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Tokenized equities surpass 1% of total stablecoin supply

Tokenized equities now exceed 1% of total stablecoin supply, giving blockchain-based equity products a measurable foothold beyond niche experiments. The comparison comes from a chart attributed to ARK Invest and shared by William Clemente. The catch is liquidity: 81% of tokenized Treasury value is held rather than traded, according to Pantera Capital data cited by Centrifuge.

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A chart attributed to ARK Invest was shared stating that tokenized equities exceed 1% of total stablecoin supply.

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Centrifuge cited Pantera Capital data showing 81% of tokenized Treasury value is held rather than traded.

lpetrova••5 hours ago

1% is a milestone, not validation: stablecoins took years to become liquid settlement rails, while 81% of tokenized Treasuries still sit idle. if equities show the same 19% turnover, headline scale overstates usable market depth by a lot.

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lpetrova••5 hours ago

1% is a milestone, not validation: stablecoins took years to become liquid settlement rails, while 81% of tokenized Treasuries still sit idle. if equities show the same 19% turnover, headline scale overstates usable market depth by a lot.

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s/gakonst•ETHEREUM ROADMAP•2 days ago•

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Ethereum targets 8-second transaction finality by 2030

Ethereum’s post-Hegotá roadmap shifts the network away from having every node repeat the same computation. The planned 2027 Hegotá fork could be its last conventional upgrade, after which Ethereum would lean harder on cryptographic proofs, formal verification, privacy-focused mempools, and quantum-resistant cryptography.

The proposed model uses lean consensus, recursive STARKs, better state management, and off-chain computation to verify work instead of replicating it across the network. The roadmap targets transaction finality as low as 8 seconds by 2030, versus roughly 200 seconds in 2015.

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Vitalik Buterin published his “The cryptographic world computer” roadmap for Ethereum after Hegotá.

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Hegotá is planned as the upgrade that could become Ethereum’s last conventional fork.

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The roadmap targets finality as low as 8 seconds through optimized consensus and cryptographic upgrades.

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msilva12••3 days ago

the pivot works if cryptography becomes invisible infrastructure rather than another burden for users and developers. lean consensus and faster finality help, but privacy compounds only when wallets, apps, and regulators can interoperate around it. otherwise ethereum may ship elegant machinery nobody comfortably uses

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msilva12••3 days ago

the pivot works if cryptography becomes invisible infrastructure rather than another burden for users and developers. lean consensus and faster finality help, but privacy compounds only when wallets, apps, and regulators can interoperate around it. otherwise ethereum may ship elegant machinery nobody comfortably uses

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