Author: Jeremy Ryan

Carnage-fueled racer FlatOut 4: Total Insanity VR has gone to its 1.0 full release, adding multiple new features and a price increase to $29.99.Version 1.0 adds multiple new features and content, including one that Flat2VR Studios’ Elliott Tate teased to me in our interview earlier this year: first-person vehicle ejections. Anyone willing to test their VR sea legs in Stunt mode or crashes in races (like me) is free to do so with a first-person camera instead of the Early Access method that shifted to third person view in such cases.Here’s a list of the new additions:An overhaul to the…

Gameplay Update Overview On October 22, Maxion implemented a gameplay update for Ragnarok Online Landverse America. This update introduces a card recycling system, a new MVP event in Geffen, and a sixth tier for the NOVA Landstone instance. Additionally, two SSR items have been added to the NOVA Treasure 5 reward pool. Card Ascension Details Players can now convert cards into Card Fragments through the Card Master located at Izlude (82, 215). These fragments can be used for upgrades, random card fusion, or purchases from a dedicated shop. The system allows disassembly of 12 cards and offers nine X Card…

Key TakeawaysFinance Minister Enoch Godongwana has suggested that South Africa will revise draft crypto rules.Platforms like Luno and VALR warned restrictive rules would drive users into 100% opaque channels.Regulators will align future drafts with Financial Stability Board standards and open consultations. Regulatory Pivot Following Public Pushback South African financial regulators are rethinking controversial draft proposals to regulate cryptocurrencies following a wave of public pushback, Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana said Wednesday, Oct. 21. Delivering a budget policy statement, Godongwana acknowledged that the National Treasury and the South African Reserve Bank received thousands of public comments regarding their proposed framework for managing…

Today we’re announcing that we’re expanding the scope of our new fund beyond crypto startups to the broader category of frontier startups: companies building new technologies and creating markets that may take years to develop. To reflect this, we’re renaming a16z Crypto to a16z Frontier. This is an expansion: we will continue to invest in crypto and related ventures and advocate for sensible crypto regulation. When we started investing in crypto, it was a world of its own. But as blockchains have become more widely used, the lines have blurred and the infrastructure has gradually receded into the background. Wall…

Every user gets a personal deposit address, a unique string of characters to send crypto to. The exchange then regularly “sweeps” those deposits, meaning it moves them into its own main wallets so everything sits in one place it controls. Some of that money goes to a hot wallet, an internet-connected place used for everyday withdrawals. The rest goes to cold wallets, which are kept offline.All of it was sent to a single Tron address, Darcy said, with the largest transaction at 15,819,002 USDT. That address then split the money across several different wallets.Darcy’s post flagged the outflow as a…

Some contracts are designed to catch a failed operation and continue processing. They may record that an attempt failed, disable further attempts or move to another step. Developers sometimes rely on the remaining gas being too low for those actions to finish, causing the entire transaction to reverse instead.Glamsterdam changes that calculation. Under the proposed rules, gas used to create certain records can be restored when those changes are undone. That can leave enough gas for a contract to complete a failure-handling operation that previously would have reversed.There is also a risk in the opposite direction. ChainSecurity calculated that creating…

Leading decentralized betting platform Polymarket has fired its chief marketing officer, Matthew Modabber, who is also a close friend of the company’s CEO Shayne Coplan, according to the New York Post.The termination happened after an internal probe into several embarrassing episodes, including a reported scheme built on fake trades, that worried investors, the Post said, citing unnamed sources. Per one source, the firm is finalizing a separation agreement. Modabber had been chief marketing officer since January 2024.CoinDesk has reached out to Polymarket for comment.Polymarket is a prediction market platform where users bet on the outcome of real-world events, from elections…

Owlchemy Labs, the Google-owned XR studio behind smash hit VR games Job Simulator and Vacation Simulator, today revealed Hyper Visor, a new arcade blaster arriving as a launch title for XREAL AURA. As Google’s official AR hardware partner, Xreal Aura is the first pair of see-through AR glasses to run Android XR. Those are priced at $1,279 for the 256GB version with 12GB RAM, and $1,499 for the 512GB version with 16GB RAM. Owlchemy Labs, which was acquired by Google in 2017, has also pledged to bring a number of its previous XR games to Xreal Aura at launch, including…

Gustavo Flores Echaiz is joined by Clara Shikhelman and Elias Rohrer to discuss Newsletter #426. The Bitcoin Optech Podcast and transcription content is licensed Creative Commons CC BY-SA 2.0 Download audio News ● Dynamic one-byte message type IDs for BIP324 (45:0245:02) ● Discussion of conventions for tagged hash tags in BIPs (49:0449:04) ● Proposal for onchain, private bitcoin transfers with no consensus changes (1:151:15) Releases and release candidates Notable code and documentation changes Transcription transcription coming soon

Today we are announcing a strategic partnership with Chainlink, the industry-standard oracle platform, to unite OpenZeppelin with the foundation of onchain finance.The world’s largest financial institutions are moving assets and operations onchain, and they are standardizing on infrastructure proven in production at scale. Applications created with OpenZeppelin standards, including 9 of the top 10 stablecoins, 10 of the top 10 tokenized money market funds, and leading DeFi protocols such as Aave, Lido, Ethena, and Uniswap. Chainlink is the only all-in-one oracle platform for advanced blockchain applications that interoperate across blockchains and existing systems while embedding critical data, compliance, and privacy…