Block Puts Bitcoin Lightning Into x402, the AI Agent Payment Standard
Lightning joins a payment standard where stablecoins have carried the traffic so far. Block named no date for Square, Cash App or Bitkey.
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Alpenglow Goes Live on Solana's Devnet With a 150ms Finality Target
Anza retired TowerBFT on the developer cluster on Friday evening, the second public test network to switch. Nothing published this week sets a mainnet date.
One Dip Below 80% Pushes the XRP Ledger's Batch Upgrade to 9 October
Support is back at 30 of 35 validators, but losing the majority once wiped the two-week countdown. The earliest activation is now 9 October at 14:46 UTC.
Bitcoin ETF Flows Turn Positive for 2026 After a $2.84B Six-Day Run
A six-session run to Thursday brought in $2.84 billion and closed a deficit the funds had carried since the summer. Three counts of the year's net figure do not agree.
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