Crypto

Solana’s Alpenglow upgrade is now active on its devnet and testnet, advancing a goal of roughly 150 milliseconds for transaction finality.

Researchers have proposed Shielded Bitcoin, a privacy layer that could hide payment amounts, senders and recipients without altering Bitcoin’s consensus rules.

Bitcoin steadied just above $84,000 on Friday, changing little over 24 hours after slipping below that threshold earlier in the week, according to CoinDesk data.

The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission has issued updated guidance for registered crypto-related entities, clarifying when firms may hold customer funds in tokenized assets and use blockchain to maintain records.

spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds recorded approximately $191 million in net inflows on Thursday, extending their positive streak to six consecutive trading sessions.