Author: Jeremy Ryan

GUN, the in-game currency for Off The Grid, went live on Solana as of July 10, 2026 Gunzilla Games used LayerZero, a cross-chain interoperability protocol, to bridge GUN from its native GUNZ gaming chain and Avalanche Existing holders on GUNZ and Avalanche are not required to bridge; their tokens remain fully valid where they are Solana was selected for its low transaction fees and high throughput, which align with gaming use cases A limited edition Solana-themed NFT skin pack is available to early supporters of the expansion The move is part of Gunzilla’s stated goal of making GUNZ-ecosystem items accessible…

This week’s newsletter summarizes the disclosure of two denial-of-service vulnerabilities in older versions of Eclair and describes a proposed scheme for running complex multi-round contracts inside Lightning channels. Also included are our regular sections announcing new releases and release candidates and describing notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software. News ● Disclosure of two DoS vulnerabilities fixed in Eclair v0.14.1: Erick Cestari posted to Delving Bitcoin the responsible disclosure of two denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerabilities in the channel opening process of Eclair v0.14.0 and earlier. Both were fixed in Eclair #3324 and released in v0.14.1 in July, and users running an…

I expected something a bit different when I first booted up Convrgence for the first time; for a game selling itself as an extraction shooter, with vibes bringing to mind S.T.A.L.K.E.R, I expected a game with open-ended exploration and an immediate level of friction. I didn’t get that, but I did get a fun if flawed game with plenty of room to grow, even following its 1.0 release.What Convrgence actually is in practice is a roguelike shooter with extraction elements. Pick a location, build your loadout, then embark on an excursion through your zone in question – following your wristwatch’s…

Following its activation on Sepolia on October 6, the Glamsterdam network upgrade is now scheduled for the Hoodi testnet. Glamsterdam advances Ethereum’s L1 scaling roadmap with enshrined proposer-builder separation, block-level access lists, and changes to gas pricing that better reflect the cost of execution and state growth. The Glamsterdam network upgrade is scheduled to activate on Hoodi at epoch 132,352, slot 4,235,264 (October 26, 2026, 17:42:48 UTC). At the same epoch, Hoodi’s gas limit will be raised to 200M. See the activation table below for the deployment schedule. The mainnet activation date has not yet been decided. Hoodi-compatible client versions…

The firm reported about 99.99% fidelity, a measure of how closely the finished states matched what researchers were aiming for.That number applies only to the states that passed inspection. Willow kept about 8% of its attempts after the checks during preparation and measurement. For every 100 tries, about eight made it through.The next steps include running the process at a much larger scale and keeping those states useful as they feed into longer calculations. The researchers say more work is needed on real-time operations and moving the states into stronger error-correcting setups.How it fits with earlier researchIn March, Google estimated…

In contrast, BTW, TIA, and LIT are among the few gainers today. Bitcoin continued to be volatile at the end of the business week, dipping below $80,000 for the first time in a month, before rebounding by roughly $2,000. Most altcoins have turned red once again, with XRP sliding back to $1.30, and ZEC plunging by over 5% after it was rejected at $1,200. BTC Calms at $81.5K After the price calamity on October 9, which drove BTC to just over $80,000, the asset managed to regain some traction and returned to $83,000 during the weekend. It climbed to $84,000…

AFK Heroes Season 4 Overview AFK Heroes has officially launched its fourth season, boasting the largest prize pool in the game’s history at 100 million AFKHERO, equivalent to about $18,100. This move aims to attract more players by offering substantial token incentives. Prize Distribution The prize pool is allocated in the following manner: 60 million AFKHERO for gameplay rewards 20 million AFKHERO for staking rewards 20 million AFKHERO designated for additional prizes Players’ earnings from the main pool are contingent on the Power Levels of their heroes, meaning that those with stronger heroes will benefit more. Growth in Reward Value…

Bitcoin Magazine Poetic Justice: Scammer Lost $5M in Bitcoin After Being Targeted by Ledger Thieves Call it poetic justice: one of the biggest victims of last week’s Ledger theft happened to be a scammer themself, according to blockchain analysts, and lost nearly $5 million in bitcoin.  In a post Thursday, Chainalysis wrote that a crook lost 60 bitcoins worth about $4.8 million they’d stolen via a so-called task scam.  According to Chainalysis, the address was linked with a con where people were paid to fake sales and reviews of real items. They were told to add their own money in order…

The mass retail investor has temporarily cooled toward XRP, shifting into a deep wait-and-see mode. According to Google Trends, by mid-October 2026 global search interest in the coin had corrected by more than 90% on an annual scale compared with the historical peak of July 2025, when the price was storming the $3.65 mark. The global popularity index for the query slid to 13 points out of 100, marking the sharpest shift in market sentiment.Global search interest for XRP hits multi-year lows after a 90% decline from its 2025 peak, Source: Google TrendsThe published charts clearly illustrate this dynamic. If the…

Claude goes diggingUntil Claude entered the picture. This month, an Anthropic employee asked an internal research model to investigate, without sharing the old theory that the seeds came from a forgotten phrase.It took the model less than half an hour to trace five NIST curve seeds to lrand48, a random-number generator found in older C software libraries.Claude reproduced the sequence behind P-256, a widely used curve, and found an exact match for its published seed at the 1,842nd candidate.“This is astonishing: it solves the 25-year-old mystery,” the model wrote in its recorded reasoning, after briefly questioning whether it was working…