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Key TakeawaysZODL founder Josh Swihart has opposed Sean Bowe’s plan, calling the sole shutdown of ZCG a half measure.Zcash’s $125 million ZCG treasury sparks debate over funding concentration and market uncertainty.The draft ZIP proposes crediting an 8% block subsidy to the NSM, but awaits approval ahead of NU7. Zcash Founder Proposes Redirecting ZCG Allocation Zcash Open Development Lab (ZODL) founder Josh Swihart has pushed back against fellow Zcash co-founder Sean Bowe’s proposal to disable the Zcash Community Grants (ZCG) funding stream, warning that doing so in isolation would only fuel community division and market uncertainty. Swihart argued that rather than…

Crypto staking lets investors earn new tokens by helping to secure a blockchain. Many people ask whether those rewards could replace a salary. The numbers show it is possible, but it takes a large amount of capital or a willingness to accept more risk. As of October 2026, about $250 billion is staked across the largest proof-of-stake cryptocurrencies, according to Staking Rewards. Advertised yearly rewards range from about 2% for Cardano to close to 20% for Cosmos. There is a catch. Staking rewards are paid in cryptocurrency, not in dollars, euros or pounds. If the token falls 30%, a 7%…

TLDR: Blockchain sanctions plan drew a direct rebuke from the Bank of Israel, which said cryptocurrencies cannot bypass sanctions and urged leaders to preserve trade ties. Netanyahu said he had asked advisers to prepare a proposal before the October 27 election, but gave no details about currencies, networks, or an implementation timetable. Eisenkot and more than 100 economists criticized the proposal, warning that possible sanctions could deepen isolation and hurt investment, employment, and Israel’s economic standing. Critics said crypto cannot replace bank credit or global capital markets, while traceable blockchain transactions may still be identified or blocked by authorities. Prime…

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…

More than 11 million Bitcoin have remained outside the ownership records of major blockchain research firms, with Galaxy Research estimating that 55% of the cryptocurrency’s circulating supply cannot be linked to any known individual or institution. Summary Galaxy Research found that roughly 11.1 million BTC, representing 55% of Bitcoin’s supply, could not be linked to known owners. Galaxy’s head of research Alex Thorn said the figures suggest that individual investors may still control a substantial amount of Bitcoin through personal wallets. The unidentified holdings could include lost Bitcoin, coins mined in the network’s early years and institutional wallets that researchers…

Cryptocurrency does not disappear when its owner dies. The coins stay on the blockchain. What can disappear is the ability to reach them. Unlike a bank account, crypto held in a personal wallet has no branch to call and no beneficiary form. Access depends on private keys, and heirs can only use what they can find. This article gathers the main statistics and facts from six published sources. It covers lost Bitcoin estimates, planning gaps, wills, taxes, and the tools people use to pass on crypto. Key Statistics at a Glance Figures on lost crypto are estimates, not exact counts.…

For about $51,000, a single wallet bought enough DIKO to win Arkadiko’s governance vote. It voted 58 minutes before the poll closed, faced no opposition, and within minutes of its proposal going live it had taken about $1.09 million from the protocol’s vaults.The vote was proposal 12 on Arkadiko, a lending protocol on Stacks. On paper, it ran for five days. In practice, it was decided in under an hour by a wallet that had owned almost none of its voting power the day before. Let’s go through Bitquery’s on-chain investigation to rebuild three things: what the vote cost, what…

Key highlights:Bitcoin Core has changed its security disclosure policy to accelerate fixes for vulnerabilities that AI tools can easily rediscoverThe new rules call for patches across all maintained major versions, with security advisories published alongside the fixesThe change follows a wave of AI-assisted security reports, although faster patch releases could leave less time for testingBitcoin Core developers have changed the project’s security disclosure policy as artificial intelligence (AI) tools make software vulnerabilities easier to discover and exploit. The new approach prioritizes faster patches for flaws that can be rediscovered with minimal effort, reducing the time users must wait for fixes…

Passive investing has grown from a niche strategy into a core part of global financial markets. Index mutual funds and exchange-traded funds (ETFs) now hold trillions of dollars in stocks and bonds. In the United States, passive funds hold more assets than actively managed funds. The global ETF industry is also at a record size. Worldwide ETF assets rose above $24 trillion for the first time in August 2026, after starting the year at about $19.85 trillion. Investors added nearly $2 trillion in net new money during the first eight months of the year. Not all ETFs are passive. Actively…

The headline says NEAR Intents processed $10.41 billion in Q3 and directed more than $8 million to NEAR buybacks. Only the first part is a Q3 figure. The $8 million is everything the buyback mechanism has collected since it started.The buyback itself is real, and you can watch it happen. Every hour or two, NEAR Intents’ contract sends a few hundred NEAR into a buyback account that now holds about $10.2 million. But NEAR’s own dashboard understates the balance, none of the tokens are staked, and the Q3 total still isn’t published anywhere. Let’s follow the fee data, the buyback…