This Week in Custody #28
This Week in Custody is a newsletter covering technical and narrative developments in digital asset custody written for wallet engineers, digital asset operators, and security engineers.
News
Ledger promotes its developer platform allowing third-parties to ship applications to the device. [Link, Link]
Trust Wallet removed from the Apple’s App Store. [Link]
Bitcoin
Bitcoin’s Dark Forest? Blog post details finding bots in Bitcoin’s public mempool. [Link]
CoinPool FAQ. [Link]
Unified QRs for Bitcoin. [Link]
Block continues to reveal more details about its hardware wallet project. [Link]
Tether (and other colored coins) on the Lightning Network. [Link]
Building and Syncing Bitcoin 0.5.0 in 2022. [Link]
devrandom writes about the downside of blind signing. [Link]
Silent payments. [Link]
Kraken adds support for the Lightning Network. [Link]
Ethereum
EIP-4844 [Link]
Team Lead for Go Ethereum writes a thread on software complexity. [Link]
Gnosis Safe introduces a drag-and-drop transaction builder. [Link]
Ethereum Foundation launches a public disclosures repository. [Link]
Flashbots Protect Fast mode. [Link]
Other Chains
Avalanche Bridge adds native Bitcoin support. [Link]
Mysten Labs announces Sui. [Link]
StarkNet development guide. [Link]
Kimchi: The latest update to Mina's proof system. [Link]
CashioApp Attack on Solana. [Link]
The Genesis of Aptos. [Link]
Crypto
IRTF’s Two-Round Threshold Schnorr Signatures with FROST gets to the 4th version of its draft. [Link]
Security
HubSpot has a security incident that affects ~30 crypto companies. [Link]
Linux’s RNG gets an upgrade. [Link]
Towards Practical Security Optimizations for Binaries. [Link]
Google Chrome’s critical vulnerability. [Link]
High Assurance Rust book. [Link]
Releases
Osmosis v7.1.0 [Link]
Cosmos Gaia v7.0.0 [Link]
Solana Mainnet Beta - v1.9.14 [Link]
Go Ethereum Ploitari (v1.10.17) [Link]
Flow v0.25.4 [Link]
LND v0.14.3-beta.rc1 [Link]
Thanks for reading!