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The technical realities of Solana's Transaction V1 wire format take center stage today, forcing developers to update RPC tooling following the mainnet activation. We're also unpacking a new microVM ar…

Today on The Candy Toybox: Following weekend delays, Solana's expanded Transaction V1 envelopes are finally live on mainnet. Further down the stack, Ant International is pushing traditional mobile wal…

Google's AP2 extension bridges enterprise agents to the x402 micropayment standard, while massive 744B parameter MoE models achieve pure-C local execution via disk-streaming architectures.

Agent execution frameworks are shifting away from blind model trust today, with new local runtimes demanding cryptographic proof of task completion. Meanwhile, the x402 micropayment standard we've bee…

A reversal on Solana's Transaction V1 mainnet activation timeline takes the lead today, alongside the rollout of hardware-gated authentication for AI agent micropayments and a 27% baseline rent reduct…

We're watching a software-defined preconfirmation layer rapidly capture a third of Solana's validator stake today. Further down the stack, DeepSeek is slashing the active memory footprint required for…

High-throughput blockchains are pushing past foundational bottlenecks today, with Solana scaling up transaction payloads and slot speeds, just as machine-payment rails graduate from boutique tools int…

The mainnet activation of Solana's 4,096-byte transaction envelope concludes a month of testnet preparation, opening the door for single-step zero-knowledge proofs. On the agent side, developers are a…

Solana is officially rolling out its 4,096-byte Transaction v1 formatting to mainnet this Wednesday, a structural expansion designed to natively support dense cryptographic proofs. In the agent ecosys…

Solana’s bonding curves are opening up to arbitrary asset pairs, fundamentally altering how new tokens price against commodities and equities. Meanwhile, AI developers are locking down their runtimes,…