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XRP Ledger is one vote away from starting its next big payments upgrade
Batch V1.1 would let users bundle up to eight linked transactions into one operation, with 27 of 35 trusted validators now backing the change.

Solana transactions just got more than 3 times bigger, narrowing the gap with Ethereum
Transaction V1 raises Solana’s limit to 4,096 bytes from 1,232, giving developers more room for multi-step trades, company-wallet approvals and privacy proofs.

Dogecoin ETFs struggled for buyers while rival XRP and Solana funds pulled in $3 billion
Bitwise's BWOW dogecoin ETF will close after 10 months, adding to weak demand across DOGE funds and raising a harder question for altcoin ETFs: What problem are they actually solving?

Bitcoin activity, passports exposed after Revolut falls for fake government request
Passports, selfies and home addresses were also handed over after the digital bank treated a fraudulent request as legitimate, but no customer funds were lost.

Live updates: Bitcoin gives up early gains, with markets moving to price in multiple rate hikes
Core CPI rose a faster-than-forecast 0.3% in August, but the yearly pace of 2.4% was in line and the slowest rate since early 2021.

Kalshi wants 24/7 Tesla and Nvidia perps as Wall Street fights over who regulates them
The prediction-market operator plans to seek U.S. approval for about 60 stock and ETF perps, taking one of crypto's biggest trading products into equities.

India starts tokenizing $620 billion corporate bond market with digital rupee settlement
SEBI’s Demat 2.0 pilot turns corporate bonds into digital tokens and settles payment through the RBI’s wholesale digital rupee, with secondary trading and retail access expected in later phases.

Bitcoin below $77,000, Zcash leads losses as traders bet on a Fed rate hike
Ninety-five of the CoinDesk 100 fell over the past 24 hours, and bitcoin has shed more than 5% on the week.

Ripple puts AI agents inside its $1 billion corporate treasury bet
The software can monitor cash, risk and forecasts and suggest financial moves, but humans still have to approve every action.

Crypto researchers cut Bitcoin and Ethereum quantum attack estimate by 50%
A paper shared with CoinDesk shows humans and AI agents beating Google’s March result on a core calculation used by Shor’s algorithm, adding another variable to crypto’s quantum clock.

