Author: Jeremy Ryan

Wemade founder Park Kwan-ho signed a stock purchase agreement on June 30, 2026, selling his entire 39.33% stake Buyer is NeoPulse, a Korea-based subsidiary of Hong Kong firm Shengsong Investment, reported to have ties to Alibaba Deal value is approximately 920 billion KRW, equivalent to roughly $600 million at current exchange rates Transaction priced at approximately three times Wemade’s current market stock price, a substantial control premium Deal closes October 30, 2026, after which NeoPulse holds 40.25% and becomes Wemade’s largest shareholder Wemade operates WEMIX, a blockchain gaming platform hosting more than 100 integrated games Wemade also controls the Legend…

This week’s newsletter summarizes continued discussion about using TCP hole punching to make nodes behind home routers reachable and describes a draft BIP for standardizing the spending policies that co-signers enforce when emulating covenants. Also included are our regular sections summarizing proposals and discussion about changing Bitcoin’s consensus rules, announcing new releases and release candidates, and describing notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software. News ● Continued discussion of TCP hole punching for home nodes: Following our May summary of 0xB10C’s Delving Bitcoin thread on using hole punching to let nodes behind home routers accept connections from each other, 0xB10C…

FindingsTotal issues: 19 (13 resolved, 2 partially resolved)Critical: 0 (0 resolved) · High: 1 (1 resolved) · Medium: 2 (2 resolved) · Low: 9 (3 resolved, 2 partially resolved)Notes & Additional Information7 notes raised (7 resolved)Client Reported Issues0 reported issues (0 resolved)ScopeOpenZeppelin performed an audit of the 0xMiden/miden-usdcx repository at the c269baa63415327036c58bfac0f5679cb4907e6b commit.The audit was limited to the Miden Assembly and Rust sources of the crates/xusdc-encoding crate. In scope were the following files:crates/xusdc-encoding ├── asm │ ├── components │ │ └── faucet_extension │ │ └── faucet_extension.masm │ ├── notes │ │ └── set_attester │ │ └── set_attester.masm │ └── xreserve…

XRP Ledger developers have proposed a new lending protocol update that would correct how loan repayments are rounded, preventing small calculation differences from accumulating across scheduled payments. Summary XRP Ledger developers proposed repayment rounding changes under the planned LendingProtocolV1_2 amendment for native lending. The correction would prevent accumulated rounding differences from making final loan installments exceed scheduled amounts. Developers tested repayment calculations across Legacy, CashBasis and FixedPrecision vaults under several different amendment configurations. Existing loans carrying rounding differences may retain them unless borrowers make qualifying overpayments during repayment. LendingProtocolV1_2 remains under development, with mainnet activation requiring sustained support from trusted…

Fabula Rasa, the award-winning interactive medieval VR experience from veteran developer Arvore Immersive, comes to Quest on December 3. Arvore is best known for the Pixel Ripped trilogy and also developed bullet-hell roguelike Yuki and this year’s The Boys: Trigger Warning.Fabula Rasa’s comedic story is told through real-time conversations with AI-driven NPCs, using Large Language Models (LLMs) to dynamically respond to you as opposed to traditional pre-written branching dialogue systems that games and experiences like this have typically employed. We saw a similar experience to this in AstroBeam’s sci-fi experience Stellar Cafe. The original version of this article listed a…

Home>Hood Siege Season 2: Paragon Rising Launches with …7 November 2026·1 min readWritten with artificial intelligence.The second season of Hood Siege, titled ‘Paragon Rising,’ commenced on November 4, 2023, bringing significant changes including a reset of hero progression. Players must now start from level 1, while a new helmet gear slot and a level cap increase to 400 have been introduced.Season Overview Hood Siege’s Season 2, dubbed ‘Paragon Rising,’ began on November 4, 2023, at 16:00 UTC and will run for 30 days, concluding on December 4, 2023. In a significant update, all heroes have their progression wiped, resetting them…

Bitcoin Magazine U.S. Treasury Cuts Off MEXC From U.S. Financial System Over Alleged $16 Billion in Illicit Flows The U.S. Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network issued a final order Friday that will cut offshore exchange MEXC Global off from the American banking system over alleged links to sanctions evasion by Iran, North Korea and Russia, the department said. FinCEN’s order, published as a PDF pending Federal Register placement, finds MEXC a “primary money laundering concern in connection with Russian illicit finance” under section 9714(a) of the Combating Russian Money Laundering Act. Thirty days after that Register notice, covered U.S. financial…

Glamsterdam, the next update for Ethereum, is currently being tested on testnets. During these tests Chainsecurity has found a few projects that would be vulnerable after Glamsterdam since they rely on certain invariants. These invariants will be broken by EIP-8037 and EIP-8038 which rework how much gas is charged for certain operations and how gas is charged for state. You can learn more about the details of these potential issues on the Chainsecurity blog post or this tool. Based on these findings, ACD has decided to delay the hardfork process and not fork Hoodi until the issues are resolved. During…

Bitget users in Thailand face a December 5, 2026 access block, with the country’s Securities and Exchange Commission urging customers to consider action on assets held on the exchange before the restriction takes effect.Thailand’s SEC set out the deadline in its November 5, 2026 notice after filing a criminal complaint over alleged unlicensed exchange operations. It said the Ministry of Digital Economy and Society had been notified to block bitget.com, other Bitget domains and the exchange’s application. The scheduled restriction concerns access from Thailand. SEC announcementThe SEC identified BG Limited as Bitget’s platform provider. It alleged that the exchange charged…

PAYDAY finally got its first VR-native entry into the storied franchise. While it’s not the royal flush I was hoping for, it certainly wasn’t offsuit seven-deuces either. Developer: Fast Travel GamesPublisher: Fast Travel GamesAvailable On: Quest, SteamVR (Frame version incl.)Reviewed On: Quest 3Release Date: November 5th, 2026Price: $25 Gameplay There’s a cohesive story in here somewhere. Somebody named Jupiter is bad. Something something gotta steal stuff from bad man. It’s been forever since I played Payday 2 (never 3), so I can’t say whether this is a continuation, or what’s actually going on. That’s about as much as I think…