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Solana lowered its slot-time target from 400 milliseconds to 250 milliseconds in late September 2026. The change means the network is aiming for a slot-production interval that is 37.5% shorter than the previous target. In theory, dividing 400 milliseconds by 250 milliseconds produces a potential slot cadence that is up to 1.6 times faster, but that does not mean every transaction will settle in exactly 250 milliseconds.A slot is the time window assigned to a scheduled validator to produce a blo

Bitcoin Cash, or BCH, often returns to traders’ search results because its name, history, and underlying design are closely connected to Bitcoin. That connection is real. BCH emerged from a Bitcoin hard fork in 2017, uses proof-of-work, has a maximum supply of 21 million coins, and shares Bitcoin’s transaction history up to the point at which the networks split.A shared origin does not make BCH and BTC the same asset. After the hard fork, they continued as separate blockchains with different con

A rise in Indonesian government-bond yields can sound positive at first. Higher yields appear to offer a better return. For investors who already own bonds, however, the mechanism can work in the opposite direction: when the yield required by the market rises, the price of existing fixed-coupon bonds usually falls.The Financial Services Authority, or OJK, reported on October 5, 2026 that average Indonesian government-security, or SBN, yields rose by 14.12 basis points month on month in September

Indonesia’s Financial Services Authority, or OJK, recorded 113 parties that had received principal approval in the financial-derivatives sector from January 10, 2025 through September 30, 2026. The figure appeared in OJK’s October 5, 2026 release alongside September financial-derivatives trading volume of 42,718 lots and a cumulative 395,571 lots for January through September 2026.The data shows that the transfer of financial-derivatives regulation and supervision to OJK is continuing. It should

QRIS Cross-Border is now used for payments between Indonesia and Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Japan, South Korea, and China. Indonesian travellers can use participating domestic payment applications to scan partner-country QR codes, while visitors from partner countries can pay Indonesian merchants through supported QRIS connectivity.The expansion means that travellers do not always need to rely on physical cards or exchange cash before leaving Indonesia. A user can enter the transaction amoun

The OCP Global Summit opened on October 12, and the day's AI supply-chain news sat almost entirely in hardware specifications. Microsoft unveiled its third in-house accelerator, Nvidia handed its Vera Rubin rack designs to OCP, AMD published the Helion open rack blueprint, and four firms backed new data center and grid specifications. The window runs from the full day of 2026/10/12 to 2026/10/13 02:50 UTC, and the issue carries six items with $0 of countable deal value. 1.The Six Layers of the A

1. Today's Market: Three Indexes, Three Directions, and Money Rotating Out of TechnologyUnit: %, single-day change on October 12; the set spans positive and negative, so a zero line is drawn. The Dow at +0.38% was the only one up, with the S&P 500 at −0.05% nearly flat and the Nasdaq at −0.44% furthest down. Three indexes going three ways is almost entirely a difference in what they hold. The Nasdaq carries the heaviest technology weight, so it fell most when technology weakened; the Dow doe

Overview Meta shares rallied on Monday, October 12. The Motley Fool's intraday record shows the stock up as much as 4.7% before settling at roughly $742.96, a gain of 3.38% at 2:56 p.m. Eastern, for a market capitalization near $1.9 trillion and a price close to the top of a 52-week range running from $520.26 to $779.82. The catalyst was specific: Meta released Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full that morning. What repriced was not a product launch so much as a question that has hung over the stock

Overview Ethereum's next mainnet upgrade has reached public testnets. According to Crypto Briefing, the Sepolia testnet activated Glamsterdam on October 6, 2026 at 13:53:36 UTC, at epoch 353,024, opening an optional block gas limit of 200,000,000 against a previous ceiling near 60 million, more than a threefold increase in block processing budget. The qualifier matters: that figure is a testnet parameter. Mainnet gas limits have not changed, and no mainnet activation date has been set. What draw

Overview Solana completed its most closely watched parameter change of the year on October 9. According to Solana's official upgrade page, the final step of SIMD-0525 took effect on mainnet at epoch 1053, around 14:35 UTC, cutting the target slot time from 400ms to 200ms. The network now has roughly five block production opportunities per second instead of about 2.5, and produces twice as many blocks per day. The reflexive reading is that Solana just doubled its throughput. That reading is wrong