Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin highlighted Bitcoin developers' work on Utreexo while outlining Ethereum's proposed hybrid scaling strategy combining UTXO-style state and dynamic state models. Ethereum researcher Toni Wahrstätter proposed native UTXOs to reduce payment state usage by about 99.8%, keeping accounts but moving simple payments to a lighter UTXO model. The approach aims to scale Ethereum activity without compromising decentralization or node operation ease. These ideas remain research proposals, with key upgrades like EIP-8141 still under consideration for the 2027 Hegotá upgrade, signaling ongoing development rather than immediate protocol changes.
The Bitcoin BLAKE2b fork, which split from Bitcoin in August 2026, is introducing a new rule requiring miners to wait 45 days before spending newly mined coins to prevent network exploitation. This comes after the fork's token, BTCB2, dropped 84% fro...
SAGA Metals Corp. reported significant progress on its two 100%-owned Labrador projects: the Radar Titanium-Vanadium-Iron Project and the Wolverine Heavy Rare Earth Element Project. The Northern Miner, a respected mining publication, conducted site v...
Gold Strike Resources Corp. has joined the Yukon Mining Alliance, a group promoting Yukon as a top mining jurisdiction. This membership will help Gold Strike showcase its Florin Gold Project and other assets in the promising Tombstone Gold Belt, whic...
Hayasa Metals announced a non-binding term sheet for a Strategic Exploration Alliance with a major mining company to explore copper and critical metals in southern Armenia's Tethyan Belt. The alliance, funded by the major miner, aims to identify econ...
Beyond Minerals Inc. completed a private placement of a $50,000 unsecured convertible debenture with 10% interest, convertible into shares at $0.05 each, to fund general working capital. The company also elected to adopt semi-annual financial reporti...
