Blockchain
Consensus is the part of a blockchain that makes it a blockchain. An nChain patent that spins up a temporary proof-of-stake 'ghost chain' to settle disputes is a sharp way to see what consensus costs and why design keeps mutating.
Blockchain
A joint FinCEN–OFAC proposal would treat permitted stablecoin issuers as Bank Secrecy Act financial institutions — the single legal move that pulls every anti-money-laundering and sanctions duty onto the token's issuer.
Blockchain
A proposed FDIC rule under the GENIUS Act would impose Bank Secrecy Act and sanctions-compliance duties on permitted stablecoin issuers — connecting the dots between mixers, frozen USDC, and the new statutory regime.
Blockchain
Zero-knowledge proofs let one party convince another that something is true while revealing nothing else. An IBM grant applies that to the endorsement step of a permissioned blockchain — a good lens on what ZK is actually for.
Blockchain
Everyone quotes a proof-of-stake 'yield' as if it were a savings rate. A CoinFund grant on computing an average staking return rate is a reminder that the number is an estimate, an index, and a product — not a promise.
Blockchain
A newly granted Nasdaq patent on replicating private-key shares between data centers is a clean window into how multi-party computation custody actually works — and where its real failure points live.
Blockchain
An unglamorous OCC information-collection notice quietly reveals how the GENIUS Act will actually bite: weekly and quarterly reporting forms for stablecoin issuers, turning 'fully reserved' from a slogan into a filing.
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A CFTC policy statement — issued alongside an order permitting a bitcoin perpetual contract on a U.S. market — signals that the derivative that powered offshore crypto trading is being brought into the regulated perimeter, carefully.
