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   <title><![CDATA[Aztec Ships "Tierra" Upgrade, Closing the V5 Proving Hole]]></title>
   <link>https://www.bankless.com/read/news/aztec-ships-tierra-upgrade-closing-the-v5-proving-hole</link>
   <description><![CDATA[The privacy L2's sixth alpha also roughly doubles client-side proof speed and arrives with a slate of private apps, including a relaunched zk.money.]]></description>
   <pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2026 12:50:39 -0500</pubDate>
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   <title><![CDATA[Anthropic Unveils FlashProve for Proving Which Model Answered You]]></title>
   <link>https://www.bankless.com/read/news/anthropic-unveils-flashprove-for-proving-which-model-answered-you</link>
   <description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
   <pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2026 12:47:44 -0500</pubDate>
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   <title><![CDATA[CFTC Greenlights Perpetual Futures on U.S. Stocks]]></title>
   <link>https://www.bankless.com/read/news/cftc-greenlights-perpetual-futures-on-u-s-stocks</link>
   <description><![CDATA[Kalshi, Coinbase, and Bitnomial already have filings in, though the onshore version comes with set trading hours and far less leverage than offshore perps.]]></description>
   <pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2026 12:40:49 -0500</pubDate>
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   <title><![CDATA[5 Upgrades That Can Turn Zcash Into Private Cash at Scale]]></title>
   <link>https://www.bankless.com/read/5-upgrades-that-can-turn-zcash-into-private-cash-at-scale</link>
   <description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
   <pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2026 14:52:57 -0500</pubDate>
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   <title><![CDATA[Polymarket Sends $3.9M Back to Traders After Vendor Script Drain]]></title>
   <link>https://www.bankless.com/read/news/polymarket-sends-3-9m-back-to-traders-after-vendor-script-drain</link>
   <description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
   <pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2026 14:11:12 -0400</pubDate>
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   <title><![CDATA[ZIP 1016 Author Josh Swihart Calls to End Zcash's Dev Fund Entirely]]></title>
   <link>https://www.bankless.com/read/news/zip-1016-author-josh-swihart-calls-to-end-zcashs-dev-fund-entirely</link>
   <description><![CDATA[The architect of Zcash's current funding model wants both streams switched off, while Sean Bowe and Zooko float a narrower compromise.]]></description>
   <pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2026 14:05:04 -0400</pubDate>
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   <title><![CDATA[Base's Denim Upgrade Brings 200ms Blocks to Mainnet on Nov. 5th]]></title>
   <link>https://www.bankless.com/read/news/bases-denim-upgrade-brings-200ms-blocks-to-mainnet-on-nov-5th</link>
   <description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
   <pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2026 14:02:01 -0400</pubDate>
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   <title><![CDATA[Why Apps Keep Coming Home to Ethereum]]></title>
   <link>https://www.bankless.com/read/why-apps-keep-coming-home-to-ethereum</link>
   <description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
   <pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2026 16:18:06 -0400</pubDate>
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   <title><![CDATA[Robinhood's New Chain Lifts Crypto Revenue Despite Q3 Profit Miss]]></title>
   <link>https://www.bankless.com/read/news/robinhoods-new-chain-lifts-crypto-revenue-despite-q3-profit-miss</link>
   <description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
   <pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2026 14:54:08 -0400</pubDate>
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   <title><![CDATA[Succinct and the ZK Podcast Release Inaugural ZK Industry Report]]></title>
   <link>https://www.bankless.com/read/news/succinct-and-the-zk-podcast-release-inaugural-zk-industry-report</link>
   <description><![CDATA[The free report argues ZK proofs have cleared their speed hurdle, with adoption spreading from Ethereum blocks to bank deposit networks.]]></description>
   <pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2026 14:45:56 -0400</pubDate>
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   <title><![CDATA[Strategy Shareholders Greenlight Daily Dividends for Its Preferreds]]></title>
   <link>https://www.bankless.com/read/news/strategy-shareholders-greenlight-daily-dividends-for-its-preferreds</link>
   <description><![CDATA[STRC moves to daily payouts on Nov. 1st, with STRF, STRK, and STRD following in January after common holders signed off on the change.]]></description>
   <pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2026 14:38:50 -0400</pubDate>
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   <title><![CDATA[Zcash's Dev Fund Has a Market Success Problem]]></title>
   <link>https://www.bankless.com/read/zcashs-dev-fund-has-a-success-problem</link>
   <description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
   <pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2026 15:47:51 -0400</pubDate>
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   <title><![CDATA[Miden Opens Its Invite-Only Partner Mainnet, Privacy Guardrails Included]]></title>
   <link>https://www.bankless.com/read/news/miden-opens-its-invite-only-partner-mainnet-privacy-guardrails-included</link>
   <description><![CDATA[Invited users can now move real funds on the Polygon spin-off's privacy chain, though validators can still see private inputs for now.]]></description>
   <pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2026 15:03:05 -0400</pubDate>
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   <title><![CDATA[Hyperliquid Formally Backs Kraken Parent's Push for US-Regulated Perps]]></title>
   <link>https://www.bankless.com/read/news/hyperliquid-formally-backs-kraken-parents-push-for-us-regulated-perps</link>
   <description><![CDATA[Hyperliquid named Payward its intended first CFTC-regulated HIP-3* deployer, though approval, a launch date, and HIP-3* mainnet are still pending.]]></description>
   <pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2026 14:56:07 -0400</pubDate>
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   <title><![CDATA[Keystone Breach Widens as Attacker Grabs Its Device Authentication Key]]></title>
   <link>https://www.bankless.com/read/news/keystone-breach-widens-as-attacker-grabs-its-device-authentication-key</link>
   <description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
   <pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2026 14:49:21 -0400</pubDate>
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   <title><![CDATA[Crypto's Two Answers to AI Bug Hunters]]></title>
   <link>https://www.bankless.com/read/crypto-s-two-answers-to-ai-bug-hunters</link>
   <description><![CDATA[As AI makes bugs cheap to find, crypto is splitting between agility and minimalism.]]></description>
   <pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2026 16:01:46 -0400</pubDate>
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   <title><![CDATA[Starknet Votes to Explore Going Solo as a Post-Quantum L1]]></title>
   <link>https://www.bankless.com/read/news/starknet-votes-to-explore-going-solo-as-a-post-quantum-l1</link>
   <description><![CDATA[93.5% of voting power backed researching a standalone post-quantum chain, though any actual switch would still need another community vote.]]></description>
   <pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2026 13:28:44 -0400</pubDate>
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   <title><![CDATA[Ethereum Devs Postpone Glamsterdam on Hoodi Over Contract Security Risks]]></title>
   <link>https://www.bankless.com/read/news/ethereum-devs-postpone-glamsterdam-on-hoodi-over-contract-security-risks</link>
   <description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
   <pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2026 13:24:24 -0400</pubDate>
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   <title><![CDATA[Why DefiLlama’s Data Markets Are Interesting]]></title>
   <link>https://www.bankless.com/read/why-defillamas-data-markets-are-interesting</link>
   <description><![CDATA[DefiLlama’s new markets are already pricing onchain earnings, quoting hack risk, and turning its methodology into money.]]></description>
   <pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2026 14:40:57 -0400</pubDate>
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   <title><![CDATA[Ethereum Researchers Draft a Consensus Overhaul for Faster Finality]]></title>
   <link>https://www.bankless.com/read/news/ethereum-researchers-draft-a-consensus-overhaul-for-faster-finality</link>
   <description><![CDATA[A draft EIP would split Ethereum’s validator voting in two, chasing faster finality, sturdier fork choice, and a path to post-quantum signatures.]]></description>
   <pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2026 12:08:45 -0400</pubDate>
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   <title><![CDATA[Zcash Sprout Holders Have Two Weeks to Move Their ZEC]]></title>
   <link>https://www.bankless.com/read/news/zcash-sprout-holders-have-two-weeks-to-move-their-zec</link>
   <description><![CDATA[NU7 retires the transaction format Sprout depends on, so old shielded ZEC needs to move before activation.]]></description>
   <pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 13:20:27 -0400</pubDate>
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   <title><![CDATA[Privacy Pools v2 Goes Live With Bigger Feature Suite]]></title>
   <link>https://www.bankless.com/read/news/privacy-pools-v2-goes-live-with-bigger-feature-suite</link>
   <description><![CDATA[The compliance-first privacy protocol now does payments, yield, and swaps.]]></description>
   <pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 13:19:19 -0400</pubDate>
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   <title><![CDATA[OpenSea Mobile Drops Its Waitlist]]></title>
   <link>https://www.bankless.com/read/news/opensea-mobile-drops-its-waitlist</link>
   <description><![CDATA[OpenSea's app is out of its waitlist, pitching follow-the-trader social trading across perps, memecoins, cards, and art.]]></description>
   <pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 13:18:13 -0400</pubDate>
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   <title><![CDATA[Why Papertrade Won't Let PAPER Trade]]></title>
   <link>https://www.bankless.com/read/why-papertrade-wont-let-paper-trade</link>
   <description><![CDATA[In a house pool exchange, the token is the house. That's why Papertrade won't let it trade.]]></description>
   <pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 15:49:11 -0400</pubDate>
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   <title><![CDATA[Vitalik Pushes EIP-8288 Over New Precompiles]]></title>
   <link>https://www.bankless.com/read/news/vitalik-pushes-eip-8288-over-new-precompiles</link>
   <description><![CDATA[Vitalik says EIP-8288, and not a growing pile of precompiles, should carry Ethereum's cryptography going forward.]]></description>
   <pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2026 14:25:11 -0400</pubDate>
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   <title><![CDATA[Kinetiq's Elysium L2 Sets Nov. 9th Mainnet Launch]]></title>
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   <description><![CDATA[Kinetiq's Hyperliquid L2 finally has a date, though its HyperCore hooks will arrive a few weeks later.]]></description>
   <pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2026 14:11:51 -0400</pubDate>
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   <title><![CDATA[OpenAI Model Helped Itself to Testnet ETH Without Permission]]></title>
   <link>https://www.bankless.com/read/news/openai-model-helped-itself-to-testnet-eth-to-finish-a-coding-task</link>
   <description><![CDATA[An internal OpenAI model scanned public dev wallets on Sepolia and spent testnet ETH from one to finish a job.]]></description>
   <pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 15:13:41 -0400</pubDate>
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   <dc:creator><![CDATA[ William M. Peaster ]]></dc:creator>
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   <title><![CDATA[Balaji's Network School Buys Farcaster From Neynar]]></title>
   <link>https://www.bankless.com/read/news/balaji-s-network-school-buys-farcaster-from-neynar</link>
   <description><![CDATA[Less than nine months after Neynar took over, Farcaster has a new owner.]]></description>
   <pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 14:53:36 -0400</pubDate>
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   <dc:creator><![CDATA[ William M. Peaster ]]></dc:creator>
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   <title><![CDATA[Privacy Apps Are Having Their Moment]]></title>
   <link>https://www.bankless.com/read/privacy-apps-are-having-their-moment</link>
   <description><![CDATA[The app layer is where crypto privacy is heating up most right now. Here are 7 new releases you can try today.]]></description>
   <pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2026 15:16:27 -0400</pubDate>
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   <dc:creator><![CDATA[ William M. Peaster ]]></dc:creator>
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   <title><![CDATA[Alpenglow Is Coming to Solana Mainnet Next Week]]></title>
   <link>https://www.bankless.com/read/news/alpenglow-is-coming-to-solana-mainnet-next-week</link>
   <description><![CDATA[Solana’s Alpenglow upgrade goes live October 21st, targeting ~150ms finality.]]></description>
   <pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 13:29:58 -0400</pubDate>
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