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Ethereum validators rely on independently built consensus clients to agree on the chain, and that diversity is a safety feature. If a defect affects a client used by too much of the network, Ethereum can stop finalizing blocks or, under more extreme conditions, finalize the wrong chain.Yet a Sept. 16 snapshot of one client-diversity dashboard offered three incompatible answers about which client had the largest share. Clientdiversity.org showed Blockprint estimating Teku at 99.83%, Miga Labs estimating Lighthouse at 51.32%, and Rated estimating Teku at 53.86%.Those are readings coming from different proxies, and one is attached to a tool its developer…

Circle has scheduled the public launch of Arc for Sept. 16, giving USDC a network where the same dollar balance can fund both payments and transaction fees. That could remove a common obstacle to using stablecoins, giving Circle a possible way to attract additional USDC demand as it competes with Tether.The public-mainnet rollout follows a private network that Circle said had more than 100 ecosystem and institutional builders in August.Arc’s public testnet opened on Oct. 28, 2025. Today’s scheduled milestone is the move to a public production network, where its design can face a broader commercial test.One balance for payments…

The European Central Bank has opened applications for online merchants to join a controlled pilot of the digital euro, its proposed retail central bank digital currency. The move brings the 2027 test closer to online checkout, but it does not put an issued digital euro into public circulation.The Sept. 15 merchant call gives EU-established e-commerce and mobile-commerce businesses until 17:00 CET on Oct. 27 to apply. Applicants must serve customers across at least two euro-area countries included in the pilot and operate an active platform flexible enough to integrate the test payment flow.The beta will not constitute the digital euro defined…

The XRP Ledger (XRPL) validated 3,254 transactions in ledger 106,965,249 on Sept. 13, giving the network a high-count mainnet result with a highly concentrated workload.The ledger closed at 20:51:50 UTC, with 20 submitting accounts supplying 2,000 successful one-drop XRP payments, with each account submitting exactly 100 payments. The batch delivered 0.002 XRP.Vet, an XRPL community figure posting as @Vet_X0, described the ledger as a new record and said the pattern probably reflected throughput testing.The immediate result is that XRPL reached consensus on an unusually large set of included transactions. The composition of that set limits conclusions about sustained throughput, adoption,…

Bitcoin miners have signed more than $100 billion in AI contracts while generating barely $1.1 billion in annualized revenue.More than 4 gigawatts of artificial intelligence and high-performance computing capacity are under contract across publicly traded miners tracked by CoinShares, but only about 550 megawatts are currently billing.Still, investors are assigning a steep premium to companies making the AI transition. Miners with contracted AI or HPC capacity trade at an average of 12.9 times enterprise value to next-12-month sales, compared with 3.7 times for miners without such agreements.However, this premium is increasingly tied to an asset miners accumulated for Bitcoin but AI…

XRP fell more than 8% after the Senate blocked a key crypto bill, even as the token’s existing US regulatory treatment remained intact.CryptoSlate data showed XRP falling as low as $1.27 before recovering to about $1.29 as of press time, extending a decline from roughly $1.42 on Sept. 14. The selloff coincided with broader weakness across major cryptocurrencies and a wave of leveraged long liquidations.The price action followed US lawmakers’ rejection of an effort to advance the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act. The 49-50 vote failed to invoke cloture on a motion to proceed to H.R. 3633, denying one of…

Solana is rolling out some of its most significant performance upgrades as network activity reaches record levels.The blockchain is increasing how much data applications can pack into individual transactions while also shortening the interval between successive slots, expanding both transaction capability and network responsiveness.The upgrades come as activity across Solana accelerates, raising the operational baseline developers and validators must support as the network moves deeper into its scaling roadmap.V1 goes live as Solana closes in on 200ms slotsOn Sept. 15, Solana’s new V1 transaction format went live, increasing the amount of data a single transaction can carry by more than…

Bitcoin faces a compressed volatility test as the Federal Reserve’s rate decision lands two days before a major IBIT options expiry.The Fed will release its policy statement at 2 p.m. ET Wednesday, followed by Chair Jerome Powell’s press conference and a fresh Summary of Economic Projections. Any move in Bitcoin will then run into Friday’s expiry of about 1.47 million options contracts tied to BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF.That sequencing gives traders a clear test of whether a macro-driven move can survive one of the largest visible concentrations of positioning in the US-listed Bitcoin ETF options market.A sustained move outside…

Two Robinhood engineers were charged with using confidential token-listing information to place profitable crypto derivatives trades on Hyperliquid.On Sept. 15, the Federal prosecutors accused Hefu Chai and Huaisong “Jerry” Xiang of trading perpetual futures tied to tokens they allegedly knew Robinhood Crypto planned to list, earning more than $50,000 each.These charges extend insider-information enforcement into a part of crypto markets where confidential information held at one company can be monetized through derivatives traded on a separate decentralized platform.Both men face one count of commodities fraud and one count of wire fraud. The charges carry statutory maximum sentences of 10 years…

Solana treasury company DeFi Development Corp. has opened an at-the-market program for up to 30 million CHAD preferred shares, creating an optional financing channel that could support further SOL purchases alongside other corporate uses. Related ReadingSolana treasury company shutters its SOL accelerator as a $27 million quarterly reversal forces deep cuts CHAD is variable-rate perpetual preferred stock. Its $10 stated amount is the base used to calculate dividends; the security’s market price and eventual sale prices can differ. Multiplying that stated amount by the program’s 30 million-share limit gives $300 million of aggregate stated amount. Cash proceeds will depend on…