AI's reliance on synthetic data is growing, but experts warn of risks like bias, and manipulation.
Developer "Calle" has warned of a vulnerability in the Lightning Network that allows hackers to remotely manipulate the payment status of Lightning invoices and steal funds by using nodes that are lower than the LND 0.18.5 or LITD 0.14.1. Satoshi Labs co-founder Pavol Rusnak also issued a similar warning, reminding Lightning Network users to update the node software as soon as possible. LND 0.18.5 and LITD 0.14.1 versions have fixed the vulnerability, but since the LND 0.18.5 was released only l...
Hybrid execution network developer Fluent Labs completed a $8 million funding round, led by Polychain Capital, with participation from Primitive, dao5, Symbolic Capital, Builder Capital, Nomad Capital, and Public Works, as well as angel investors Balaji and Dingaling. Fluent is the first hybrid execution network that mixes Wasm, EVM, and SVM applications into a unified execution environment, allowing programs written for different VMs to work together in a unified execution environment.
Bitwise donated $100,000 to support Ethereum open source developers. When the Bitwise Ethereum ETF ($ETHW) was launched in July 2024, Bitwise promised to give back 10% of ETHW gross profit to the Ethereum ecosystem every year. It is reported that this is Bitwise's first annual donation for 2024. The funds will be used for two non-profit projects, Protocol Guild and the PBS Foundation. Previously, Bitwise also announced that it has donated $150,000 to support Bitcoin open source developers.
Ethereum core developer Justin Drake released a statement revealing that the first community meeting of Beam Chain has made important progress, but the project name needs to be changed due to trademark issues. The conference revealed that there are currently 14 consensus layer teams participating, covering all continents except Antarctica, and the development languages include Zig, C, C++, C.# Etc. The meeting introduced the addition of 8 new teams, the support of 6 mainnet consensus layer teams...
On February 16, Solayer developer Chaofan Shou released a diagram of the parties involved in the LIBRA token issuance event and said, "I have referred to the on-chain data. If there are any errors, the community is welcome to correct them." According to its relationship chart, the cabal behind the scenes issued LIBRA tokens through the issuance advisor Hayden Mark Davis (Kelsier Ventures) and outsourced the market maker to the Indian company. Kelsier Ventures and the market maker are also inside...
Solayer developer Chaofan Shou clarified again: "I joined Solayer as part of the Fuzzland acquisition, not as a founder of Solayer, but as a core developer. The loss of LIBRA tokens is personal money. Over the past few years, I have accumulated wealth by actively investing in ETH and multiple projects. I also trade meme tokens, and losing $1 million is nothing to me. But I am very sad about the impact of the LIBRA token incident on Solana, which is being destroyed by these cabal groups." Chaofan...
The board of directors of ChatGPT developer OpenAI unanimously rejected Elon Musk's $97.40 billion offer to acquire the company's assets.
According to Christine Kim's summary of the 205th Ethereum Execution Layer Core Developer Conference (ACDE), this meeting mainly discussed: Pectra upgrade time planning (Holesky and Sepolia testnets are scheduled to be upgraded on February 24 and March 5, respectively, and if the testnet goes well, it will be upgraded on the main network on April 8), Fusaka upgrade plan (to start discussions to speed up the Ethereum upgrade, TimBeiko finally determined to lock the Fusaka scope on April 10), EOF ...
According to CoinTelegraph, Ethereum core developers reached a consensus on speeding up the deployment of future protocol upgrades at the "All Core Devs" conference on February 13. Nixo Rokish, a member of the Ethereum Foundation protocol support team, said that according to the Pectra review report, the community strongly supports speeding up the fork pace, which means there will be less delays in the scope of upgrades and more active input. The Pectra upgrade, scheduled to launch in April, wil...
According to on-chain analyst ai_9684xtpa monitoring, Meme coin Broccoli developers earn 6.70 million dollars in 30 minutes, including: 1, three minutes to pull 400 million attract investors to enter the market; 2. Buy 11.5% of the chips for only $707. 3. Sell the tokens in 12 installments to empty the liquidity. The peak market value 418 million dollars, currently 47.20 million dollars, half an hour flash crash 90%.
Ethereum ecosystem developer Nethermind client side update, World's blockchain World Chain is now supported by Nethermind. After rigorous testing, debugging and fine-tuning, optimal performance is ensured. The upcoming version will provide full support.
Bitcoin Core developer Luke Dashjr has raised concerns about the finality of Bitcoin transactions, stating that the widely accepted six-block confirmation rule no longer applies. According to him, it now takes more than a week for transactions to finalize, raising questions about Bitcoin's censorship resistance. Dashjr believes that due to the increasing centralization of Bitcoin mining pools, traditional standards no longer apply. He explained that he tried to update the six-block confirmation ...
DarkFi, a privacy-conscious crypto project started by early Bitcoin developer Amir Taaki, has released an alpha version of its app. This marks the latest iteration of this community of coders, artists, and technologists who have been quietly tinkering in the shadows for years. Last fall, Taaki released a pre-development version of the app, which is basically a completely anonymous IRC (Interactive Rating Control System).