PANews reported on April 4 that the Mina Foundation said on the X platform that the Devnet upgrade date of the lightweight blockchain protocol Mina is scheduled for April 9. Mina's Devnet upgrade is the final milestone ahead of Berkeley's major upgrade, bringing simpler ZK programmability and other key features to mainnet. Here's the full schedule: April 2: Release of the Archive Node Migration Tool. Archive node operators can initiate an initial archive node migration. April 3: Release of the Build with detailed instructions, marking the beginning of the node upgrade. April 9: Devnet upgrade, operators should prepare to transition their nodes to the Berkeley release.

PANews News on January 9, according to Andre Cronje's latest tweet, Fantom has successfully solved the state inflation problem of Blockchain. Cronje stresses that no chain that uses probabilistic finality or the longest chain rule will solve this problem. First of all, Fantom uses an aBFT (Asynchronous Byzantine Fault Tolerance) Consensus Mechanism, which does not require the longest chain rule. After the 2n+1/3 validators understand the state of the first 2n+1/3, they truncate all the previous data needed to reach this state. This means that all data from two eras ago can be trimmed. Second, Fantom introduces a new database, Carmen, which is a flat storage method that doesn't use a tree or dictionary structure while maintaining cryptographic signatures on the state of the world. This greatly reduces the bloat of the current active state (two epochs). Finally, Carmen supports real-time pruning, and most validators can enable pruning, although archive nodes still need to retain all data. With the above technology, Fantom's status has been reduced from about 2TB (archive) to 60GB (archive). Mr Cronje said state inflation has been one of Fantom's core milestones since its early days.

Doug Colkitt, founder of the Decentralization Exchange protocol ambient, posted on the X platform: "Ethereum is the only chain that has a long-term plan to solve state bloat. The Verkle tree allows witness data to be small enough to be attached to each block. This means that validators and Nodes can become stateless, and all state can be stored off-chain (more efficiently). ” In response, Andre Cronje, director of the Fantom Foundation, said: "Any chain that uses probabilistic finality or any variant of the law of the longest chain will not solve this problem. But I'm pretty confident to say that we've solved Fantom's state bloat problem. The first is aBFT Consensus, which does not require the law of the longest chain, and after the 2n+1/3 validator knows the previous knowledge of 2n+1/3, we truncate all the data needed to reach this state before. This means that we can get rid of everything before the 2 epoch state. Next up is our new DB Carmen, Flat Storage, which has no tree or tree structure while maintaining the world-state cryptographic signature, which further greatly reduces the current active state bloat (2 epochs). Finally, Carmen natively supports real-time pruning, and the archive Node still needs to keep everything, but most validators can run with pruning enabled. Using the above method has reduced our status from about 2TB (archive) to 60GB (archive). Since our inception, state expansion has been one of our core milestones. ”

According to a report by the webmaster's home on November 30, Coca-Cola will launch customized holiday greeting cards through the AI platform "Create Real Magic" to attract users. The innovative "Create Real Magic" platform was built by OpenAI and Bane&Company using assets from the Coca-Cola archive, using iconic Coca-Cola holiday artwork in the creation of greeting cards.

On November 22, Musk posted that he had received a letter about OpenAI and said that it "seems to be worth investigating." According to the webpage archive given by netizens, this is a letter of accusation from a former OpenAI employee, which aims to urge the OpenAI board to firmly oppose Sam and Greg's unethical practices and conduct an independent investigation into them. The letter said that a large number of OpenAI employees were kicked out of the company to facilitate the company's transition to a for-profit model. In addition, Sam instructed IT and Operations employees to investigate employees, including Ilya, without management's knowledge or consent. Sam also leverages OpenAI's nonprofit resources to advance personal goals. Greg, on the other hand, used discriminatory language against a sex-turned-member who was subsequently fired for alleged poor performance.

According to IT House, the official blog of the shadow library "Anna's Archive" announced on October 4 local time that the website has now acquired a batch of "unique" more than 750 million e-books totaling 359 terabytes, and expressed its willingness to provide exclusive early access to a series of large language model companies to obtain high-quality book OCR (optical character recognition) and text extraction. "Anna's Archive" explains in the blog that Reading Show is a database of a large number of scanned books, mostly academic books, created by the Superstar Digital Library, which can be made available to universities and libraries in digital form. "Anna's Archive" stated that it had hoped to acquire it in bulk, and was assigned several months of full-time work for it.

PANews reported on November 3 that according to Cointelegraph, a new malware "KandyKorn" found on Apple's macOS system is related to the North Korean hacker group Lazarus, which targets blockchain engineers on crypto trading platforms. According to Elastic Security Labs, "KandyKorn" is an invisible backdoor capable of data retrieval, directory listing, file upload/download, secure deletion, process termination, and command execution. Initially, the attackers spread Python-based modules through Discord channels by impersonating community members. The social engineering attack tricked community members into downloading a malicious ZIP archive called 'Cross-platform Bridges .zip that mimicked arbitrage bots designed for automated profitability. However, the file imports 13 malicious modules that work together to steal and manipulate information.

Péter Szilágyi, Ethereum core developer and Ethereum client Geth developer, said in a post on the X platform that Ethereum clients Nethermind and Besu have stopped storing Ethereum's historical data, and they also want to standardize it so that it does not violate the protocol, but becomes a viable way. And this is a very irresponsible idea. Szilágyi explains that allowing users not to store historical chains is a very hypocritical marketing trick: - The user switches to some other client because it is smaller; - They can still access old data because Geth provides the service; - Users (and Geth developers) don't know anything about it. If balance is considered, they "could" work together on EIP-4444, "first" to help archive historical blocks, "and then "all clients can delete it immediately, but they feel that this won't have any impact on market share, so leave the thorny issue to Geth and keep YOLO (live in the moment) until then. Szilágyi said: "Sometimes I really want to quit Ethereum and try to sit on the sidelines. When core developers are competing for interests, why bother to improve Ethereum? I am deeply disappointed in all involved. ”

Golden Finance reported that Jiang Dongxing, deputy director of the Science and Technology Supervision Bureau of the China Securities Regulatory Commission, said at the 2023 China (Beijing) Digital Finance Forum on October 12 that after more than 30 years of development, the capital market has a relatively good foundation for informatization, and is currently facing the challenge of making full use of the new generation of information technology to transform intelligently. In the next step, the CSRC will continue to promote the application of more digital technologies, promote the digital transformation of the capital market, and enhance the real economic capacity of financial services. Jiang Dongxing introduced that in terms of "data makes supervision smarter", the CSRC has built a two-tier system of "chain of custody - business chain" covering all 35 regional equity trading centers, and has made positive progress in market data connectivity and enterprise archive construction, and has been included in the national innovative application pilot of "blockchain + equity market" of the Central Cyberspace Administration of China.

Odaily Planet Daily reported that as serious data leaks occur one after another, NASA plans to send a batch of data to the moon next year to test the possibility of backup storage at the lunar base. The mission is part of the Artemis program. NASA partners include Florida-based computer startup Lonestar and the Isle of Man, a British crown dependency in the Irish Sea. Both parties hope to use blockchain technology to ensure data security and prevent tampering, as well as prove that the information in the archive is authentic. This will be the first time blockchain technology has been used on the moon. The test mission is scheduled to launch from the United States in February 2024. (Science Focus)

Golden Finance reports that NASA has partnered with Lonestar, a Florida-based computing startup, and the Isle of Man, an autonomous British Crown dependency located in the Irish Sea, to develop a new data storage solution using Blockchain securely stores data on the moon. It aims to use blockchain to ensure data security and prevent tampering, and to be able to prove that the information stored in the archive is authentic, while improving data accuracy for organizations and space agencies involved in lunar exploration. and transparency. Some analysts believe that NASA plans to establish a data center using blockchain technology on the moon in the hope of protecting mankind's most important discoveries and creations from disasters on Earth.

Odaily Planet Daily According to official news, the global geek sports platform DoraHacks.io has added multiple Hacker Profile functions, including that users can obtain "Badge" in the profile after participating in hackathons and bounty tasks. File completion and activity, as well as using site mail through Hacker files, etc. Currently, through the DoraHacks archive system, you can see the participation history of any Hacker's BUIDL, ideas, hackathons and other creative activities around the world, connecting global open source developers and geek communities, making it possible for global developers to participate in Web3 and cutting-edge technologies. drop to lowest.

Jinse Finance reports that the developer of the file compression software WinRAR has fixed a zero-day vulnerability that allowed hackers to install malware on victims' computers, enabling them to break into cryptocurrency and stock trading accounts. On August 23, Singaporean network security company Group-IB reported a zero-day vulnerability in WinRAR processing ZIP file format. The zero-day vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-38831, has been exploited for about four months, allowing hackers to install malware when victims click on files in the archive. The malware would allow hackers to compromise online cryptocurrency and stock trading accounts, the report said. Exploiting the vulnerability, attackers are able to create malicious RAR and ZIP archives that display seemingly innocuous files such as JPG images or PDF text documents. These weaponized ZIP archives were then distributed on trading forums aimed at cryptocurrency traders, offering tactics such as "best personal strategies for trading with Bitcoin." The report confirmed that the malicious files had entered at least 8 public transaction forums, infecting at least 130 devices, but the financial losses of the victims were unknown.

PANews news on August 25, according to Cointelegraph, the developer of the file compression software WinRAR has fixed a zero-day vulnerability "CVE-2023-38831", and it has been exploited for about four months. onto the victim's computer, allowing them to hack into their cryptocurrency and stock trading accounts. Exploiting the vulnerability, attackers are able to create malicious RAR and ZIP archives, such as JPG images or PDF text documents. The virus-laden ZIP archive was then distributed on trading forums aimed at crypto traders, offering strategies such as "Best personal strategies for Bitcoin trading." When executed, the script launches a self-extracting (SFX) archive that infects the targeted computer with various malware viruses such as DarkMe, GuLoader, and Remcos RAT. The report confirmed that the malicious files had entered at least 8 public transaction forums, infecting at least 130 devices, but the financial losses of the victims were unknown.

Odaily Planet Daily News NEAR Protocol released the second quarter roadmap update, NEAR protocol development team Pagoda submitted 3 proposals to realize account expansion, including NEP on account namespace, NEP on wasm sub-module and contract code shared storage NEP. The team has made important improvements to the main network, and the status reading performance has increased by 8 times. A background write feature is in the works, potentially reducing the cost of state writes by a factor of 3. Additionally, cold storage is fully live and drastically reduces the cost of running an archive node. In terms of improving status synchronization, the nodes have been able to complete the synchronization of the main network status within 3 hours, and it is expected to deliver a full-featured version of the new status synchronization tool in the third quarter. The team also delivered finite wasm and its integration with nearcore to improve the security and stability of NEAR contract runtime. There are two changes in the Experience section of the roadmap, one is that the changes required to implement account scaling are on hold, and the other is that the protocol team will work on solving the storage refund issue. At the core of the roadmap, the Q3 focus will shift to the second phase of sharding, which includes resharding the current mainnet state and removing the requirement that block producers have to keep track of all shards. It is expected to take more than a quarter to complete.

On August 11th, NEAR Protocol released a roadmap update for the second quarter. Pagoda, the NEAR protocol development team, submitted three proposals to implement account expansion, including NEP on account namespace, NEP on wasm submodule, and shared storage on contract code The NEP. The team has made important improvements to the main network, and the status reading performance has increased by 8 times. A background write feature is in progress, potentially reducing state write costs by a factor of 3. Additionally, cold storage is fully live and drastically reduces the cost of running an archive node. In terms of improving status synchronization, the nodes have been able to complete the synchronization of the main network status within 3 hours, and it is expected to deliver a full-featured version of the new status synchronization tool in the third quarter. The team also delivered limited wasm and its integration with nearcore, improving the security and stability of the NEAR contract runtime. There are two changes to the Experience section of the roadmap, the changes required to implement account scaling are on hold, and the protocol team will be working on addressing storage refunds. At the core of the roadmap, the Q3 focus will shift to the second phase of sharding, which includes resharding the current mainnet state and removing the requirement that block producers have to keep track of all shards. It is expected to take more than a quarter to complete.

Jinse Finance reported that Web3 infrastructure provider Ankr officially announced that it will expand and upgrade the use of its native token ANKR. In addition to being used for RPC customer payments, the token will become an exclusive gateway to access archive node infrastructure on Ultra-Sound infrastructure Tokens to compensate new node operator partners. In addition, the utility of the ANKR token will also be updated, including becoming a "gas" payment method for multi-chain infrastructure, and providing a gateway portal to access high-quality Web3 infrastructure.

According to PANews news on July 20, the Solana Foundation issued a request for proposals to promote the development of Solana blockchain alternative open source archive storage solutions. Deliverables include: Open source code that can be used to implement an archive node that serves incoming requests for archive data back to Genesis; the solution is open source and freely accessible; by contributing, will help reduce the cost of accessing Solana historical data, And improve the reliability of the network by enabling different technology stacks in the storage and retrieval of historical data. The application deadline is August 13.