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.
The October 8 audit covers Universal Router PRs #469–#470 and v4-periphery #516: 17 issues, 2 Medium (one resolved, one disputed), 7 Low, 8 Notes. One finding could silently disable per-hop slippage.
regulation
The FIU's October 13 action targets 27 overseas-operated sites and refers 44 unregistered operators to investigators. Blocks approved October 6 and 7 by the Korea Communications Standards Commission.