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Ripple expanded its institutional reach Monday as Aviva added another tokenized fund share class to the XRP Ledger (XRPL).The British asset manager invested £50 million ($66 million) in a blockchain-based share class of its Sterling Liquidity Fund, bringing its combined investments across two XRP Ledger offerings to more than £86 million ($116 million).The announcement coincided with Ripple’s expansion into round-the-clock corporate cash management, extending its presence across two areas of institutional finance that could increase activity within its digital asset ecosystem.The developments also raise a question about XRP’s role in Ripple’s growing financial infrastructure business, particularly how increased institutional adoption…

This is a weekly newsletter on the latest Solana engineering news this week. If you want to stay updated on Solana tech every week, follow Solana Changelog at @solana_devs and @readylayerone and turn on notifications. PSA npm install @solana/web3.js@3 The new web3.js package is now ready for general use. To migrate to the new version, add the dependency to your project using the command above. For now, you will have to call the version explicitly, and there will be moves to have it be the default version you install without the version tag. See the advisory here. Releases Notable feature…

Reason to trust Strict editorial policy that focuses on accuracy, relevance, and impartiality Created by industry experts and meticulously reviewed The highest standards in reporting and publishing Strict editorial policy that focuses on accuracy, relevance, and impartiality Morbi pretium leo et nisl aliquam mollis. Quisque arcu lorem, ultricies quis pellentesque nec, ullamcorper eu odio. TL;DR: Research into a geo-aware leader schedule suggests quicker validator handovers, but also warns that grouping leaders by location introduces security trade-offs. Solana’s push for lower latency is moving beyond shorter slots. A new study of SIMD-0675 considers rearranging its validator leader schedule so that consecutive…

The deals arrive as the prediction markets face a nationwide legal battle with several state governments that contend such betting belongs more appropriately under the power of their gambling laws. Three major federal court decisions have landed on both sides of the issue, with two of them favoring the states’ argument. The U.S. Supreme Court has been asked to step in and resolve the dispute, including by the NFL, which sided with the states in a filing with the high court.The NFL argued that the CFTC’s federal oversight has been lax and understaffed, and it said the growing industry’s platforms…

The comparison follows weeks of pressure on AI-related stocks amid concerns about spending on data centers and the returns those investments might bring. Lee pointed to crypto’s smaller decline as a sign of strength, though it doesn’t rule out further losses.Bitmine keeps buying ETH, but slowingAlongside the share buybacks, Bitmine picked up another 10,452 ETH worth roughly $24.5 million, slowing from 12,535 ETH the previous week.That brought its holdings to 6,051,933 ETH, or about 4.95% of Ethereum’s 122.2 million token supply. The company is now roughly 58,000 ETH short of its goal of owning 5% of all ether.The two purchases…

Rustmourne’s Steam Next Fest demo was a terrific taste of the upcoming sci-fi horror shooter. I’ve played several of these Dead Space-like VR adventures in the past like Memoreum and By Grit Alone, both of which were ambitious efforts that came up short in one way or another. Rustmourne, due out in early 2027, nails one crucial element of Visceral Games’ classic formula: a single enemy is enough to unnerve you. The FactsWhat is it?: A sci-fi horror survival shooterPlatforms: Steam (played using Virtual Desktop with a Quest 3)Release Date: early 2027Developer: Rustmourne TeamPrice: the demo was free; full game…

Elon Musk warns that over 200 specialist AI cloud providers could fail or consolidate as lenders tighten up their purse strings. Musk said Sunday on X that lenders had largely stopped providing financing to companies without substantial revenue streams outside AI data centers. He said SpaceX had secured $40 billion in debt financing for GPUs because of its investment-grade status and revenue from its Starlink satellite internet and rocket businesses.  “That means the 200+ neoclouds are going to see guppy-level death and consolidation. Some will make it through, but not many,” he said. A neocloud is a specialist cloud company that rents…

Enjoyed this article? Share it with your friends! Protect Progress, a national group that backs cryptocurrency policy, plans to spend $1.5 million against Texas Representative Al Green in the upcoming Democratic primary. The group, linked to the Fairshake network, argued that Green has taken positions that limit the crypto industry’s growth.Protect Progress, an affiliate of the crypto PAC Fairshake, told The Hill on February 12, “As a member of the Financial Services Committee, Representative Al Green has decided to try and stop American innovation in its tracks”. Did you know? Want to get smarter & wealthier with crypto? Subscribe -…

LND’s October 22 release candidate brings attention to a quiet source of wallet risk: outside fee estimates that software treats too generously. The 0.21.5 development notes describe a ceiling for values received through an external fee API, alongside fixes to other node operations. TL;DR The published build is v0.21.5-beta.rc1, a pre-release. The fee change limits extreme estimates supplied by an external service. Release verification and application testing answer different questions. A remote estimate needs limits before it reaches the wallet The release notes say external estimates previously had a lower bound without the corresponding upper bound. The documented repair limits…

“This wallet belongs to our old operational wallet infrastructure, which was compromised during the security incident we reported on July 19, 2025, and was deprecated as a result,” CoinDCX said.The post explained that some users mistakenly continued to deposit funds into the deprecated, or retired, addresses even after the exchange deprecated them following the 2025 hack. CoinDCX credited those users’ portfolios the moment the funds reached the deprecated wallet. A secondary service, which the exchange calls sweeping, was meant to then move the funds from the deprecated address into the primary CoinDCX wallet. However, that process failed for a particular…