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View More NewsIn brief EIP-8141’s Frame transactions would split a transaction into validation, payment and execution steps, each an ordinary contract call. Existing wallets would gain sponsored gas, token-paid fees and batched actions without migrating to a smart account. The proposal is still a draft and has not been scheduled for any network upgrade. A proposal that would let Ethereum users pay transaction fees in tokens, or have someone else pay them entirely, has been quietly advancing for months, Vitalik Buterin said on Sunday.EIP-8141 replaces the fixed shape of an Ethereum transaction with a sequence of up to 64 “frames,” each an…
Stuart Reges, a University of Washington (UW) computer science professor who in 2022 was reprimanded and investigated for mocking a “land acknowledgment,” last week received $600,000 as part of an agreement that settles the ensuing First Amendment lawsuit. But Reges did not get an apology or an admission of wrongdoing from the Seattle university, whose spokesman still insists that “we acted appropriately.” The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit disagreed last December, when a divided three-judge panel ruled that UW administrators violated Reges’ First Amendment rights by subjecting him to an inquisition that lasted nearly a year, during…
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The scale of the global learning crisis is difficult to exaggerate. A recent analysis of international and regional assessments estimated that at least two-thirds of the world’s young people fail to acquire the basic skills needed to participate effectively in a modern economy. In affluent countries, roughly one child in four falls short. In low-income regions, the proportion is far higher. Published calculations estimate that broad improvements in children’s academic development could add more than US$700 trillion to the world economy by 2100. The standard response is to demand better schools: more competent teachers, stronger curricula, greater accountability, higher standards, and…
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In brief Bottomline, a top-three SWIFT services provider that processes more than $16 trillion in payments annually, announced a deal with Chainlink to connect…
New York, September 7, 2026 —Tunisian authorities must immediately release journalist Mohamed Yousfi, a well-known critic of President Kais Saied’s government, and end its…
Industry leaders debate whether digital dollar wallets will dismantle traditional bank accounts or simply modernize the underlying infrastructure. Read the full article here
The Frame Transactions feature was locked into the Hegotá upgrade last month, and Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin says the work has moved quickly since.…
All wallet cohorts have shifted into net distribution for the first time since early June, but a potential golden cross offers bulls some hope.…
Galaxy said 82% of Bitcoin stolen across all Coldcard attacks remains in the original addresses, with 18% moved in apparent laundering. Read the full…
BTC fell on Friday and Treasury yields rose, but the hawkish market reaction looks overdone when compared to the largely steady Fed rate hike…
The Committee to Protect Journalists was joined Monday by 16 civil society organizations in calling on the Sudanese paramilitary group Rapid Support Forces (RSF)…
Fomo generated $1.76 million on Friday, beating Pump.fun’s $1.1 million, though the memecoin launchpad remains ahead over 30 days. Read the full article here
A brand new ZCAT token charges a 3% tax whenever the token moves and uses the proceeds to distribute ZEC to holders, creating an…
Ethereum-compatible layer-1 network Harmony proposed sunsetting its blockchain and migrating its native ONE token to Ethereum, seven years after launching its mainnet. On Sunday, Harmony…
Bitcoin sidechain Liquid paused operations after actors claiming to be white-hat hackers withdrew about 4,000 Bitcoin worth $320 million from its federation wallet. On Sunday,…