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Bitcoin’s post-retarget relief for miners was real, but narrow.Using a BTC price of $84,751, the completed difficulty increase and the latest gross hashprice is about $40.31 per petahash per second per day. That is roughly 2.65% above the prior modeled baseline.However, the next difficulty estimate is pointing 2.48% lower. The estimate came after only 14.43% of the new epoch, making it an early signal from slower blocks rather than a result or proof that miners were switching off.The two readings are compatible. Price had restored a modest amount of gross revenue per unit of computing power after the Sept. 19…
ZetaChain’s on-chain governance has approved retiring the network’s standalone blockchain and moving ZETA to Solana as the project pivots toward private AI.Proposal 68 passed after voting ended Sept. 20, with about 99.44% of ballots supporting the plan. The on-chain tally showed 263.65 million ZETA voting in favor, 744,658 voting against, and 752,300 abstaining, giving core contributors a mandate to prepare the migration.The vote does not immediately move tokens or shut down the network.ZetaChain says its own L1 no longer fitsThe planned shutdown marks a sharp strategic shift for a project founded in 2021 to connect otherwise separate blockchains.ZetaChain spent years…
Bitcoin surged above $85,000 as a wave of short liquidations accelerated the cryptocurrency’s strongest advance since January.Data from CryptoSlate showed BTC gained more than 5% over the past 24 hours to reach $85,193, extending its advance over the past 35 days to about 29%. The asset had eased to $84,545 as of press time after breaking through levels that had constrained its recovery for much of the year.The rally caught bearish traders heavily exposed. CoinGlass data showed about $750.5 million of leveraged crypto positions were liquidated over the past 24 hours, with more than $648 million, or roughly 86%, coming…
A flaw in Bitcoin Lightning software Eclair could let malicious peers wipe out a node’s local channel balance through fees.ACINQ released Eclair 0.14.3 on Sept. 14 to patch three peer-triggered vulnerabilities that could cause operators to lose or lock funds during channel closures, splicing, and on-the-fly funding.The Bitcoin technology company, a contributor to Lightning Network development and maker of Eclair and Phoenix Wallet, strongly recommended operators upgrade because malicious nodes could exploit these issues.Eclair’s patched vulnerabilitiesThe most direct attack involved cooperative channel closures. When Eclair was responsible for the closing fee, an adversarial peer could propose a charge larger than…
ZetaChain holders voted 99.4% in favour of moving ZETA to Solana and winding down its Layer 1. ZETA would become a native Solana SPL token with the same ticker and total supply. The move is tied to ZetaChain’s focus on Anuma, its private AI app with more than 300,000 reported users. ZETA gained 81% over the week following the vote, trading at around US$0.065 at the time of writing. It’s been decided: ZETA will move to Solana. An overwhelming majority of 99.4% voted for a proposal to shut down the Layer-1 blockchain and move it to Solana. The proposal would…
Bitcoin climbed above $80,000 after a $148 billion US Treasury cash build failed to destabilize overnight funding markets.The Treasury General Account rose by $148.003 billion through Sept. 16 to $991.708 billion, Federal Reserve data showed, as tax payments shifted cash into the government’s account at the central bank.Deposits held by commercial banks at the Fed fell by $114.971 billion over the same period to $2.922 trillion, tightening the pool of reserves available to the financial system. The gap between the two moves shows the Treasury increase did not translate into a one-for-one reserve drain because other balance-sheet flows were also…
The Zcash ETF (ZCSH) announced a 3-for-1 forward share split on 18 September, applying to shareholders of record at the market close on 28 September. Holders receive two additional shares after the 29 September close, with split-adjusted trading set to begin before the 30 September open under the same ZCSH ticker. Zcash traded near US$1,527 (AU$2,138) on Monday, up about 2,900% over the past year per CoinGecko, weeks after the fund’s late-August conversion from trust to spot ETF. Grayscale’s Zcash ETF (ZCSH) will carry out a 3-for-1 forward share split at the end of September, its sponsor announced, giving shareholders…
US spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded US$6.1 million in net inflows for the week after a strong finish on Thursday and Friday. BlackRock’s IBIT and Fidelity’s FBTC accounted for most of the individual fund activity. Bitcoin gained 5.77% over the week, while Solana and Zcash posted particularly strong gains. Grayscale’s Zcash ETF will undergo a 3-for-1 share split as Zcash’s value has surged nearly 2,900% over the past year. US spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) saw over half a billion USD flow in towards the end of the week: US$159.5 million (AU$223.8 million) on Thursday and US$433 million (AU$607.6 million) on…
Key takeaways AVAX surged nearly 50% in one week, reaching an eight-month high of $10.82 on Sunday. Institutional tokenization developments involving ICE, New York Life Investment Management, Aave and Janus Henderson have boosted sentiment. Avalanche’s Helicon upgrade is scheduled for Sept. 22 and will reduce the minimum staking period from 14 days to 48 hours. Avalanche’s AVAX token has climbed nearly 50% over the past week, reaching an eight-month high of $10.82 on Sunday as institutional tokenization developments renewed demand for the cryptocurrency. One of the rally’s leading catalysts involves Intercontinental Exchange, the parent company of the New York Stock…
Fraudsters attempted to steal at least US$10 million (AU$14 million) from Polymarket’s US platform from February using stolen debit cards, the Wall Street Journal reported 20 September. Payment processor Checkout.com at one point rejected more than 80% of the platform’s US deposits as fraudulent, against an industry norm of roughly 1%, per the report. CEO Shayne Coplan told staff to keep growing and pay a fine if regulators found out, people cited by the Journal said, while a law firm review concluded Polymarket complied with regulations. Polymarket faced an attempted theft of at least US$10 million (AU$14 million) early this…