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Solana-focused infrastructure company providing RPC nodes, APIs, webhooks and developer tools, plus a staking validator; also publishes Solana research.
Helius CEO Mert Mumtaz has joined the NEAR Foundation Council, putting a Solana infrastructure founder on a rival network's oversight body. NEAR has promised to repay about $3.8 million lost to an October 1 deposit bug, Bankless reported.
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France's Assembly finance committee adopted a rule making holders of €100,000 or more in self-custody crypto report it or face fines up to €10,000. The same committee then voted 31 to 3 against the budget's revenue section, and the government's original text contains none of its crypto amendments.
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Solana's validators voted to slow token issuance by cutting their own reward stream. The margin was thin enough that one custodian's late change of mind settled six years of the network's monetary schedule.
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Helius's Rings demo runs on devnet and can hide the transaction graph; the Token-2022 extension has been live on mainnet since June and hides only the amount. Which one you can use is settled by the token issuer.
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The September 9 format change is optional for senders and mandatory for anyone parsing blocks, and the Jito bundle data Anza used to size it says a 4,096-byte ceiling absorbs between half and two thirds of the workloads that needed a workaround.
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SIMD-0437 walks the per-byte deposit from 6,960 lamports to 696 in five gated steps. It is not retroactive, so pre-activation accounts refund ten times what their replacements will.
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Bitwise and Superstate would leave BSOL's rights and purchase channels untouched and change only who keeps the ownership record. That is the version of a tokenized fund that can plausibly clear compliance.
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