“One of the big frustrations is that Luke would comment, like, hey, you need to fix this thing, and the author will fix it in like a few hours. But then we wouldn’t see Luke again on that PR [pull request] for another month or two. Which is really frustrating because like, well, I did … Read more
Second, there’s authentication of inputs to LLMs, which means ensuring that inputs are trustworthy for a given purpose. For example, to decide whether to refund ticket purchases, Alice’s smart contract might accept from users not raw natural-language requests, but only pointers to trustworthy weather- and airline-information websites, whose data are interpreted by the underlying LLM. … Read more
Still, the bank says that the bad news is already priced in for bitcoin and ether, and “positive structural drivers” are expected to take over again. The company reiterated its end-of-year bitcoin price target of $150,000 and its ether forecast of $8,000. Bitcoin was trading around $66,800 and ether was near $3,237 at publication time. … Read more
“While this vulnerability has existed in ibc-go since the beginning, it only became exploitable due to recent developments in the Cosmos SDK ecosystem,” Asymmetric said in a blog post published Tuesday. The vulnerability was unlocked with the advent of “IBC middleware” – third-party applications built using CosmWasm, a WebAssembly-based smart contract runtime, that allows tokens … Read more
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“Crypto.com maintains the highest Anti-money Laundering (AML) standards in the industry. We will postpone our launch and take this opportunity to make sure Korean regulators understand our thorough policies, procedures, systems and controls, which have been reviewed and approved by major jurisdictions around the world,” the exchange said in a statement shared with CoinDesk. #Crypto.com … Read more
“With the daily issuance rate declining post-halving, we estimate that the new supply added to the market (new BTC mined) would amount to approximately $40-$50 million in USD-notional terms based on issuance trends. It is expected that this could possibly drop over time to $30 million per day, including active and dormant supply as well … Read more
The SEC’s proposal asked the court to order Ripple Labs to pay $876 million in disgorgement, $198 million in prejudgment interest, and a $876 million civil penalty, amounting to a total of $1.95 billion. The court had found Ripple violated federal securities laws by making institutional sales of XRP but dismissed similar allegations by the … Read more
Called Nakamoto, honoring Bitcoin’s pseudonymous creator, the upgrade will decouple the Stacks block production schedule from Bitcoin’s. Although the layer-2 network has a higher transaction throughput than Bitcoin (which processes about 7 transactions per second), as initially designed, Stacks produced blocks at the same rate as Bitcoin, leading to congestion issues, network creator Muneeb Ali … Read more
The launch of Runes, a new protocol that enables the creation of meme coins on Bitcoin, coincided with the halving. Already hundreds of tokens have launched, contributing over $80 million in fees to bitcoin miners. This increased trading activity has also driven up the costs associated with sending a transaction on Bitcoin, with the current … Read more