Author: Jeremy Ryan

The matter of the dispute between states’ legal rights and federal preemption (with Kalshi and other prediction market firms firmly on the latter side) has grown increasingly complicated due to conflicting rulings from various courts. Three federal appellate courts have issued two decisions that sided with the states and one that went Kalshi’s way. In Utah, a U.S. district court judge sided with the state in a case that’s also under appeal.”Anyone offering gambling to Utahns is on notice that it is illegal in Utah and that no Utah law authorizes it,” Attorney General Derek Brown said in a statement…

Polymarket has faced renewed CFTC scrutiny over whether it honored the U.S. access restrictions tied to its $1.4 million settlement in 2022, according to Reuters. Summary Regulators are examining whether Polymarket sufficiently restricted American access to its offshore prediction market. The reported review includes advertising, location controls and safeguards on the separate U.S. platform. Federal authorities closed earlier investigations without charges in 2025, without publicly explaining their decisions. The 2022 order required noncompliant markets to close and customers to receive access to redemptions. Reuters reported on Oct. 27, citing two people familiar with the matter, that the review covers the…

Asset manager Janus Henderson and tokenization platform Centrifuge have launched a blockchain-based fund tracking the Nasdaq-100 Index on Stellar, offering eligible investors outside the United States exposure to the benchmark.Called JQQQ, the fund uses Centrifuge’s tokenization infrastructure and seeks to track the Nasdaq-100 under a licensing agreement with the exchange, according to a Tuesday announcement.The launch expands Janus Henderson’s onchain investment offerings beyond US Treasurys and structured credit into equity-index exposure. The asset manager said its institutional onchain strategies now exceed $1 billion.JQQQ is structured as a segregated portfolio of a British Virgin Islands investment company and provides indirect exposure…

Overview of The Horde Trial AFK Heroes, a free-to-play idle RPG on the Solana blockchain, has launched The Horde Trial, a new game mode available from October 25, 2026, to November 15, 2026. This event features a total prize pool exceeding 2,000,000 AFKHERO, divided between two distinct gameplay modes, each with its own leaderboard. The top three players in each mode will share the respective prize pools after the event concludes. How to Participate To enter The Horde Trial, players should visit the Horde Trial section on the official AFK Heroes website. Each player is granted one free run per…

Bitcoin Magazine Cold Storage Goes South: bitcoin++ Announces Antarctica Edition Bitcoin developers have gathered all around the world in places like Austin, Berlin, and Florianópolis, to name a few. In early 2028, a group of them plans to meet at the bottom of the world. bitcoin++ has announced Antarctica: Cold Storage Edition, scheduled for January 24 to February 5, 2028. There are only 22 spots available. The event pairs a technical conference with an expedition ship that departs from Ushuaia, Argentina, crosses the Drake Passage, explores the Antarctic Peninsula, and returns to Ushuaia. The event plays on bitcoin’s cold storage, the…

better.codes, an open autoresearch challenge built by the Ethereum Foundation Formal Verification team in collaboration with Yukon and zkSecurity, is now live. better.codes takes a self-contained problem from the Proximity Prize research, formalized in Lean, and puts its soundness bound on a public leaderboard that anyone can push forward. Solvers point their own AI agents at raising the machine-checked soundness bound of koalaIRS12, a Reed–Solomon proximity problem to advance modern succinct non-interactive proof systems (SNARKs). The Lean kernel checks every submission and each promoted proof raises the bound toward the fixed 128-bit target. Each promoted proof’s new lemmas, proof techniques,…

“AI has made finding bugs cheap, but judging them is still expensive,” Jump’s Ishan Bhatt wrote in an Oct. 16 review.Engineers still had to reproduce reported problems and check whether the proposed attacks could work. Some submissions flagged apparent weaknesses while missing protections elsewhere in the software.The backlog peaked at 299 open reports. As reviews slowed, other researchers rediscovered bugs that had already been submitted but remained unfixed or undisclosed. About 80% of duplicates arrived more than three days after the original report.The competition had already charged $100 per submission and limited researchers to one report a day. Jump says…

Blockchain data company Bitquery’s latest analysis, with figures verified Oct. 26, found that similar shares of new Pump.fun coins received an outside buy within roughly 1.3 seconds across Solana’s earlier block-time cuts. Detected sandwich patterns also persisted in the sampled trading.The share was about 53% in the earlier sample, compared with 52% later. An outside wallet means any wallet other than the coin’s first buyer. The comparison used Aug. 5, 12, and 19 against Sept. 23 and 30 and Oct. 7.Both comparisons end Oct. 7. Solana’s rollout record places the final reduction to a 200-millisecond slot target on Oct. 9,…

Ripple’s banking ambitions XRP doesn’t moveRipple has made a massive regulatory breakthrough in the US market, gaining the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency’s (OCC) final approval to build its own federally supervised national trust bank.According to Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse’s update on X, this development is a major one for the company and its institutional goals, especially leading up to their highly anticipated Swell conference in NYC.The approved initiative enables Ripple National Trust Bank (RNTB) to handle reserves for its RLUSD stablecoin, act as a collateral trustee for stablecoin holders, and provide digital asset custody services to institutional customers.…

Avsetsin, who is listed as a member of Lido’s GitHub organization, looked at how Lido, Origin and Rocket Pool could be affected, in what the researcher called “quick AI research.” The findings depended on how each protocol handles deposits.“These are conditional code findings, not confirmed live exploits,” avsetsin wrote, adding that existing checks rejecting an earlier builder deposit could stop the attack. No losses have been reported.Turned down, then mergedDevelopers closed the proposed fix on Oct. 19. “There was not enough support from clients to make this change at this time,” wrote Justin Traglia, who maintains Ethereum’s consensus specifications. Clients…