William M. Peaster

William M. Peaster · 1 day ago

Anthropic Unveils FlashProve for Proving Which Model Answered You

The research prototype proves about 110 tokens per second on a 400B-parameter model, using the same family of hash-based proofs behind Ethereum's ZK rollups.

William M. Peaster · 1 day ago

CFTC Greenlights Perpetual Futures on U.S. Stocks

Kalshi, Coinbase, and Bitnomial already have filings in, though the onshore version comes with set trading hours and far less leverage than offshore perps.

William M. Peaster · 2 days ago

5 Upgrades That Can Turn Zcash Into Private Cash at Scale

From faster blocks landing this week to private RPC payments still on the whiteboard, here's the roadmap Zcash's builders laid out on Bankless.

William M. Peaster · 5 days ago

Polymarket Sends $3.9M Back to Traders After Vendor Script Drain

A hijacked page-speed script drained $2.7M from 726 wallets, and Polymarket is covering another $1.19M in losses tied to its trading pause.

William M. Peaster · 5 days ago

ZIP 1016 Author Josh Swihart Calls to End Zcash's Dev Fund Entirely

The architect of Zcash's current funding model wants both streams switched off, while Sean Bowe and Zooko float a narrower compromise.

William M. Peaster · 5 days ago

Base's Denim Upgrade Brings 200ms Blocks to Mainnet on Nov. 5th

Base's fourth solo upgrade retires Flashblocks and moves to five blocks a second, with a catch for any app that counts blocks as time.

William M. Peaster · 6 days ago

Why Apps Keep Coming Home to Ethereum

ENSv2 launched on mainnet instead of its planned L2, and it's not the only app heading home. Here's what's driving the shift.

Robinhood's New Chain Lifts Crypto Revenue Despite Q3 Profit Miss

Crypto revenue climbed 20% from Q2 on the back of Robinhood's L2, while prediction markets outearned crypto again and EPS fell short of estimates.

Succinct and the ZK Podcast Release Inaugural ZK Industry Report

The free report argues ZK proofs have cleared their speed hurdle, with adoption spreading from Ethereum blocks to bank deposit networks.

Strategy Shareholders Greenlight Daily Dividends for Its Preferreds

STRC moves to daily payouts on Nov. 1st, with STRF, STRK, and STRD following in January after common holders signed off on the change.

Zcash's Dev Fund Has a Market Success Problem

ZEC's price run has turned a fixed 8% grants stream into a big trove, and now Zcash's own builders want to turn it down.

Miden Opens Its Invite-Only Partner Mainnet, Privacy Guardrails Included

Invited users can now move real funds on the Polygon spin-off's privacy chain, though validators can still see private inputs for now.

Hyperliquid Formally Backs Kraken Parent's Push for US-Regulated Perps

Hyperliquid named Payward its intended first CFTC-regulated HIP-3* deployer, though approval, a launch date, and HIP-3* mainnet are still pending.

Keystone Breach Widens as Attacker Grabs Its Device Authentication Key

The hardware wallet maker will destroy 18,835 old devices and says it can't fully rule out fakes among units received after Oct. 20th.

Crypto's Two Answers to AI Bug Hunters

As AI makes bugs cheap to find, crypto is splitting between agility and minimalism.

Starknet Votes to Explore Going Solo as a Post-Quantum L1

93.5% of voting power backed researching a standalone post-quantum chain, though any actual switch would still need another community vote.

Ethereum Devs Postpone Glamsterdam on Hoodi Over Contract Security Risks

Research showing two of Glamsterdam’s gas changes could alter how deployed contracts behave has pulled the upgrade’s Hoodi fork, with no new date set.

Why DefiLlama’s Data Markets Are Interesting

DefiLlama’s new markets are already pricing onchain earnings, quoting hack risk, and turning its methodology into money.

Ethereum Researchers Draft a Consensus Overhaul for Faster Finality

A draft EIP would split Ethereum’s validator voting in two, chasing faster finality, sturdier fork choice, and a path to post-quantum signatures.

Zcash Sprout Holders Have Two Weeks to Move Their ZEC

NU7 retires the transaction format Sprout depends on, so old shielded ZEC needs to move before activation.

Privacy Pools v2 Goes Live With Bigger Feature Suite

The compliance-first privacy protocol now does payments, yield, and swaps.

OpenSea Mobile Drops Its Waitlist

OpenSea's app is out of its waitlist, pitching follow-the-trader social trading across perps, memecoins, cards, and art.

Why Papertrade Won't Let PAPER Trade

In a house pool exchange, the token is the house. That's why Papertrade won't let it trade.

Vitalik Pushes EIP-8288 Over New Precompiles

Vitalik says EIP-8288, and not a growing pile of precompiles, should carry Ethereum's cryptography going forward.

Kinetiq's Elysium L2 Sets Nov. 9th Mainnet Launch

Kinetiq's Hyperliquid L2 finally has a date, though its HyperCore hooks will arrive a few weeks later.

OpenAI Model Helped Itself to Testnet ETH Without Permission

An internal OpenAI model scanned public dev wallets on Sepolia and spent testnet ETH from one to finish a job.

Balaji's Network School Buys Farcaster From Neynar

Less than nine months after Neynar took over, Farcaster has a new owner.

Privacy Apps Are Having Their Moment

The app layer is where crypto privacy is heating up most right now. Here are 7 new releases you can try today.

Alpenglow Is Coming to Solana Mainnet Next Week

Solana’s Alpenglow upgrade goes live October 21st, targeting ~150ms finality.

HEX Founder Richard Heart Detained in Turkey

HEX founder Richard Heart was detained in Istanbul on a Finnish Interpol notice tied to alleged tax fraud.

Report: OpenAI Interested in Acquiring Trail of Bits

OpenAI and Trail of Bits already team up on Patch the Planet. Now the AI giant is reportedly weighing an acquisition of the crypto audit stalwart.

William M. Peaster · 3 weeks ago

The Logic Behind Starknet's L1 Question

Starknet is weighing evolving into an L1 network. Here’s what’s driving the idea and what would change.

William M. Peaster · 3 weeks ago

Bigger Blocks Are Coming to Ethereum

Sepolia's gas limit hit Glamsterdam's 200M target just 11 hours after the fork. Here's how Ethereum's next upgrade makes room for much bigger blocks.

William M. Peaster · 3 weeks ago

Bitwise Is Pitching NEAR to Wall Street as an AI Bet

Bitwise's NRR, the first U.S. spot NEAR ETF, drew $35.5M on day one. Hunter Horsley and Sal Ternullo explain the demand and NEAR's AI-first pitch.

CryptoPunks Are Heating Back Up

CryptoPunks sales are surging, and the collection's grails are selling for millions again. Here's everything you need to know.

SEC Proposes New Crypto Custody Framework for Advisers and Funds

The SEC's new proposal would let advisers and funds use state trust companies, and in limited cases self-custody, to hold crypto.

Blast L2 Winds Down, Sets Oct. 26th Withdrawal Deadline

Blast is sunsetting its Ethereum L2 after costs outran revenue.

Ethereum Foundation Launches zkAPI for Private AI Payments

The EF and Open Anonymity's new zkAPI lets you prepay for AI and other APIs on Ethereum, then spend with ZK proofs so usage isn't tied back to you.

Derive V3 Wants to Be the Engine of Onchain Options

Can Derive V3, an Ethereum-native rebuild, help the protocol take on Deribit?