Privacy

Neither proposal was ever finalized, so the withdrawals leave current obligations for banks and money services businesses unchanged. FinCEN said it still believes illicit actors use mixers and may return to the subject.

Nearly 2.4 million ZEC took part, about two-thirds of the eligible supply, and 98.9 percent chose bitcoin-style halvings over a smoothed issuance curve. The result is advisory: NU7 still needs code, testing and a ZIP activation.

The fund converts a nine-year-old Grayscale trust holding roughly 390,000 ZEC and charges 2.50% a year, with the fee revenue routed back into Zcash development.

The exchange answered a Kremlin investigator with the passport scan, address and phone number of a customer who had sent $700 to Ukrainian military fundraisers. He has been in a Moscow jail awaiting trial for almost two years.

Tempo's new Zones feature lets enterprises run permissioned parallel chains for confidential transactions like payroll and treasury management, but critics say the operator-controlled model amounts to a glorified database with a blockchain receipt.

A vulnerability in Litecoin's MimbleWimble Extension Block allowed attackers to forge invalid peg-out transactions and attempt double-spends, triggering the deepest chain reorganisation in the network's history. GitHub commits show developers had a fix weeks before the exploit landed.

The release replaces Bitcoin's decade-old transaction queuing system with a cluster-based architecture and introduces private broadcasting through Tor and I2P, marking the protocol's most significant infrastructure upgrade in years.

SOL Strategies, the Nasdaq-listed Solana infrastructure company, has agreed to buy zero-knowledge privacy startup Darklake Labs for $1.2 million, bringing the Zyga proof system and its research team in-house. The acquisition gives the validator operator a native defence against MEV and front-running at a moment when the Solana community is still absorbing its worst DeFi exploit.

The Monero community crowdfunded Kovri protocol development through donations raising over 7,200 XMR, advancing efforts to hide user IP addresses from cryptocurrency network observers.