Ethereum Foundation protocol researchers have put December 2029 on the calendar as the target for full post-quantum readiness across Ethereum’s execution, consensus, and data layers, using a conservative planning assumption that a realistic "Q-day" could arrive as early as 2030. The first major checkpoint is not a post-quantum fork itself, but Hegotá, a precursor upgrade that will determine whether the later roadmap can stay on schedule. Under the current baseline, Glamsterdam is aimed at mainnet in December 2026, followed by Hegotá and then I*, J*, K*, and L* over a compressed three-year stretch. Of Hegotá’s 62 candidate proposals, only two are ranked S-tier: EIP-7805 FOCIL, which adds validator-enforced inclusion constraints for eligible transactions, and EIP-8141 Frame Transactions, which introduces more programmable transaction validation, execution, and gas payment at the protocol level. A set of A-tier proposals would also shape account security, migration away from older cryptographic assumptions, execution proofs, and resource pricing. The broader point is timing: Hegotá is being treated as the first engineering exam in Ethereum’s race to prepare for a quantum threat that may still be years away, but cannot be addressed at the last minute.

LeBron James said on X that he has visited Polymarket’s headquarters and is set to partner with the prediction market platform, posting 「Coming Soon」 alongside the announcement. A video shared by James showed categories including crypto, sports, economy, culture, weather, and esports, with James selecting sports, pointing to a likely sports-focused collaboration. The day’s market roundup also highlighted comments from Bitmine chairman Tom Lee, who said roughly 20% of the top-performing Russell 1000 stocks since the start of the third quarter are crypto-related. He cited BMNR, MSTR, CRCL, and BLSH among the names near the top of the index leaderboard. Elsewhere, Washington state regulators moved against Coinflip and CEO Benjamin Weiss, seeking to revoke the company’s money transmitter license, bar future industry activity, and impose a $1.0296 million fine. Other developments included Donald Trump saying his administration is pushing Hyperliquid into the U.S. market in a fully compliant and lawful manner, Bithumb launching its new Bithumb AI service, and Offchain Labs co-founder Steven Goldfeder clarifying that remaining locked ARB will account for about 7.7% of total supply once investor and team unlocks are completed next March.

Washington State’s Department of Financial Institutions has accused Coinflip and its CEO, Benjamin Weiss, of violating the Uniform Money Services Act, and is seeking to revoke the company’s money transmitter license. The proposed action also includes barring the company and related individuals from continuing in the industry and imposing a $1.0296 million fine. According to the agency, a 2025 examination found shortcomings in Coinflip’s anti-money laundering controls, weak transaction monitoring, failure to enforce transaction limits, inaccurate regulatory reporting, and unclear fee disclosures. DFI also alleged that Coinflip failed to return funds to at least 15 customers on time as required. Under the proposed order, Coinflip would be required to issue refunds to eligible Washington state customers, while customers aged 60 and older could receive refunds covering transaction fees and markups. Coinflip and Benjamin Weiss may request an administrative hearing to challenge the allegations, the refund requirements, the license revocation, the financial penalty, and the proposed industry ban. The report was cited from Bitcoin.com News.

Washington State’s Department of Financial Institutions has accused Coinflip and its CEO, Benjamin Weiss, of violating the Uniform Money Services Act. The agency is seeking to revoke Coinflip’s money transmitter license, bar the company and related individuals from continuing in the industry, and impose a $1.0296 million fine. According to the DFI, a 2025 examination found deficiencies in the company’s anti-money laundering controls, transaction monitoring, enforcement of transaction limits, accuracy of regulatory reporting, and clarity of fee disclosures. The regulator also said Coinflip failed to return funds to at least 15 customers within the required timeframe. Under a proposed order, Coinflip would be required to issue refunds to eligible Washington customers, while customers aged 60 and older could receive refunds for transaction fees and markups. Coinflip and Benjamin Weiss may request an administrative hearing to challenge the allegations, refund requirements, license revocation, monetary penalty, and proposed industry ban.

ChainFeeds Research’s latest PRO issue brings together a wide set of protocol and research updates across Ethereum and Bitcoin. The edition highlights Ethereum’s planned introduction of enshrined proposer-builder separation, or ePBS, through EIP-7732 in the Glamsterdam upgrade, arguing that the change could reduce protocol reliance on relays while leaving core MEV market concentration issues unresolved. It also examines two wallet entropy-generation methods designed to reduce dependence on opaque software random number generators, alongside a Bitcoin Optech roundup covering a Core Lightning security release, an opt-in replay protection proposal for potential Bitcoin forks, and the gradual wind-down of Hardware Wallet Interface. On the Ethereum research side, the issue reviews a proposal that combines EIP-8304 with UTXO Proof Tables to let wallets verify UTXO discovery without fully trusting RPC providers, and a RISC-V execution study showing that identical instruction counts can still produce large timing differences across workloads and hardware. The report also notes a post-quantum migration idea for ecrecover, a set of MEV research summaries from Flashbots, and a paper on migration paths to post-quantum cryptography for Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana.

The United Nations Development Programme, or UNDP, has entered a formal partnership with the DFINITY Foundation to develop AI and cloud systems designed for government use. According to an official announcement cited in the report, the cooperation will run for one year. During that period, the United Nations will test the effectiveness and security of the AI and cloud technologies involved. The report also identifies the DFINITY Foundation as the nonprofit organization behind Internet Computer, or ICP. The item was carried by Techub and cited CoinPedia.

Polygon has completed acquisitions of Coinme and Sequence for over $250 million, adding cash-to-crypto rails, wallet infrastructure, and a broader push into payments, tokenization, and POL token economics.

Upbit has confirmed listings for MPLX and NEX, giving both tokens access to South Korea's active retail crypto market. MPLX brings Solana asset infrastructure, while NEX targets verifiable finance through a zero-knowledge Layer 1 design.