Wallets

Months of talks to merge EIP-8141 and EIP-8130 ended without agreement, and each side is now shipping its own transaction type. Base's version is scheduled to reach a live network first.

The custodial Wallet bot has been renamed Walt and demoted to trading and yield, which leaves self-custody as the default for an audience that never went looking for it.

The SEC's Division of Trading and Markets has exempted providers of self-custodial crypto wallet interfaces from broker-dealer registration, subject to more than 20 conditions and a five-year expiry that leaves the industry reliant on temporary relief rather than permanent rules.

A new Russian bill will require residents to declare all foreign cryptocurrency wallet activity to tax authorities, linking each wallet to an identifier address for state tracking.