All blockchain stories from the Blockchain Posts desk.
protocol
Coinbase, custodian of about 5% of all BTC, says Bitcoin's quantum migration must begin now. Its design brief favors BIP-360 (P2MR) and P2TRv2, plus a 1-of-2 classical/post-quantum spending path.
regulation
BSP Monetary Board Resolution 839 blocks InstaPay and PESONet inbound to DCPay Philippines, the Coins.ph wallet entity. Outbound rails and Betur Inc. crypto trading not covered.
protocol
Alpenglow switches on at Solana epoch 1064 on October 21, ~15:00 UTC. Agave 4.3.0 is mandatory, Firedancer and Frankendancer must swap clients, and vote fees drop to a flat 0.8 SOL.
infrastructure
Binance will shut Binance Pool, Pool Savings, Cloud Mining, the Transaction Accelerator and all mining-pool APIs on Nov. 10 at 07:00 UTC. Pool pages stay viewable until Nov. 24.
on-chain
A dormant wallet that received 4,582 BTC on March 3, 2020, split them across five addresses on October 12. Arkham and mempool.space data confirm the transfer; recipients have not moved coins.
protocol
The NFT marketplace will close its website and wind Blend lending down on Nov. 12; smart contracts and the BLUR fee switch stay live. BLUR fell ~20% to $0.015.
infrastructure
DRW and Marex closed a total return swap referencing S&P's iBoxx USD Liquid Investment Grade Index, tokenized by Kaiko and recorded on Canton via DRW's Derivnex platform.
infrastructure
Interactive Brokers has turned on Ethereum staking for eligible clients through its Client Portal, with Zerohash as the staking infrastructure provider announced as a launch partner in June.
exploit
Ledger's security team says a CryptoBilis implant reads the 24-word setup screen and exfiltrates via LTE through an eSIM. MediaMarktSaturn removes Ledger from every store it operates.