Firedancer devs’ new proposal aims to make Solana even faster
    29 Sep 2025
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    Web3 infrastructure company Jump Crypto has proposed removing Solana’s fixed compute block limit to strengthen network performance and incentivize validators with suboptimal hardware to upgrade. Jump, which is building a high-performance Firedancer validator client for Solana, is pushing for the SIMD-0370 proposal to be implemented sometime after the Alpenglow upgrade, Solana research company Anza said on Saturday. Alpenglow passed…

    Singapore, UAE are the ‘most crypto-obsessed’ countries: Report
    29 Sep 2025
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    Singapore and the United Arab Emirates rank globally as the most “crypto-obsessed” nations, according to a recent report by ApeX Protocol. Singapore claimed the number one spot with a composite score of 100, driven by 24.4% of its population owning crypto and leading the world in search activity, with 2,000 crypto-related queries per 100,000 people….

    Retail, quants drive DEX adoption as institutions stick with CEXs: Bitget
    28 Sep 2025
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    Decentralized exchanges (DEXs) are rapidly gaining traction among retail traders and quants, while institutions continue to favor centralized platforms, according to Bitget Wallet’s chief marketing officer Jamie Elkaleh. Elkaleh told Cointelegraph that the strongest adoption of platforms like Hyperliquid is “coming from retail traders and semi-professional quants.” Retail users are drawn in by airdrop cultures…

    Vitalik slams EU’s Chat Control: ‘We all deserve privacy and security’
    28 Sep 2025
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    Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has criticized the European Union’s proposed “Chat Control” legislation, warning that it threatens the right to privacy in digital communications. In a Saturday post shared on X, Buterin voiced opposition to mandatory surveillance measures that would require tech platforms to scan private messages for illegal content. “We all deserve privacy and security… for…

    What really drives altcoin seasons? A closer look
    27 Sep 2025
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    What really is altcoin season? Altcoin season, often called “altseason,” occurs when a significant portion of altcoins, cryptocurrencies other than Bitcoin, experience rapid price increases that outpace Bitcoin’s performance. This period is characterized by a shift of investor capital from Bitcoin into assets such as Ether, Solana, Cardano and even smaller tokens like Dogecoin or…

    UK Finance pilots tokenized sterling deposits with six major banks
    27 Sep 2025
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    UK Finance, a trade association representing over 300 financial services firms in the United Kingdom, has launched a joint pilot project for tokenized sterling deposits (GBTD). The trade group began the pilot phase for the tokenized deposits project, which aims to provide a digital representation of traditional British pound commercial bank money, it announced on Friday. The…