NVIDIA Sets the Safety Standard for Robots Entering Factory Floors
NVIDIA launches Halos for Robotics, the first ANAB-accredited safety system for autonomous robots, immediately adopted by Agility across Amazon and major logistics operations.
Foundation ships Passport Prime, opens KeyOS to developers with $6.4M round
Foundation closed $6.4M led by Fulgur Ventures, launched Passport Prime hardware wallet with KeyOS OS to general availability, and opened developer platform to outside builders including Cake Wallet's 1M users.
Malmi Ships Nostr VPN v4.0.42, Kills the Server
Martti Malmi released Nostr VPN v4.0.42 today across five platforms, shipping the first production VPN that requires no email, account, or corporate server, a structural shift in how mesh networks authenticate.
Sparrow Wallet ships Silent Payments with hardware signer support
Sparrow Wallet 2.5.0 adds Silent Payments receiving for desktop users with airgapped hardware wallet signing, ending the privacy-vs-security tradeoff.
Atomic rethinks version control for AI agents writing code at machine speed
Atomic Software raised $2.5M to build version control designed for AI coding agents, replacing Git's human-centric model with patch theory and provenance tracking.
XBOW closes $35M Series C extension, customers now investors
Autonomous penetration-testing startup XBOW raised $35M from six strategic investors who are also customers, pushing total funding above $270M and signaling a shift in how enterprises adopt AI-driven security.
Fedi ships direct payments from Stable Balance, sidestepping regulatory walls
Fedi v26.1.0 eliminates a friction point for non-technical users: direct payments from ecash without converting to Bitcoin first, positioning federated custody as the post-MiCA alternative to vanishing custodial wallets.
Core Lightning Hotfix Patches Protocol Bug Days After Release
Core Lightning v26.04.1 shipped April 25 to fix protocol correctness bugs in negative routing fees discovered within days of v26.04, forcing node operators to upgrade immediately to restore correct network behavior.
LND v0.21 Forces Lightning Wallet Developers to Rewrite Payment Code
Lightning Labs released LND v0.21.0-beta.rc1, a major version that removes four legacy RPC endpoints and completes a SQL database migration — breaking any wallet still using deprecated payment APIs.
Fedimint v0.11.0 Ships Gateway Recovery via Mnemonic
Fedimint released v0.11.0 on April 17, 2026, with gateway recovery from seed phrases and NAT-transparent networking — removing the last major operational barrier to running community Bitcoin banking infrastructure.
HRF Distributes 1.5B Satoshis Across 26 Freedom Tech Projects
Human Rights Foundation's largest Bitcoin Development Fund round ever — 1.5 billion satoshis to 26 grantees — funds privacy infrastructure, remittance bridges, and activist networks across Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
Bitcoin Core v31.0rc4 ships: legacy fee APIs gone for good
Bitcoin Core released v31.0rc4 on April 8, completing the removal of deprecated fee-setting commands that affected every wallet and node operator worldwide. The break is intentional, clean, and final.
D-Robotics raises $270M Series B as chip layer consolidates
D-Robotics closed a $150M Series B2 round in 20 days, bringing total Series B to $270M. The speed and investor composition signal capital is securing foundational robotics silicon before the market consolidates.
Core Lightning v26.04 RC2 Ships Message Padding, Closes Privacy Gap
Core Lightning v26.04 RC2 (April 2, 2026) adds peer message padding to resist traffic analysis — the first Lightning implementation to ship uniform-length padding by default — plus user-facing splice commands and 20% smaller binaries.
HRF Deploys 1.5B Satoshis Across 26 Freedom Tech Projects
Human Rights Foundation's Q1 2026 Bitcoin Development Fund grants support 26 projects across Bitcoin Core privacy, Lightning payments, and grassroots education in authoritarian regimes — the largest single cohort to date.
Anvil Robotics Closes $5.5M Seed as Physical AI Hits the Assembly Line
Anvil Robotics, an eight-month-old startup selling modular robot dev-kits, closed a $5.5M seed round with Nvidia's GEAR lab as a paying customer and seven-figure revenue already in the bank—signaling that physical AI infrastructure, not just models, is now the competitive moat.
Core Lightning v26.04 RC2: Splicing Graduates to Production
Core Lightning v26.04 RC2 promotes splicing from experimental to stable user-facing commands, enabling channel resizing without downtime. This moves Lightning toward true 'one-balance' wallets and cuts transaction costs in half.
HRF Grants 1.5B Satoshis to 26 Freedom Tech Projects
Human Rights Foundation's Bitcoin Development Fund awarded 1.5 billion satoshis across 26 projects in Q1 2026—a 50% scale-up from the prior quarter—funding Bitcoin Core privacy, Lightning payments, and grassroots adoption in authoritarian regimes.
Bitcoin Core v31.0rc2 Tagged as P2P Privacy Fix Targets Final Release
Bitcoin Core v31.0rc2 was tagged on March 25, 2026, with a final release targeting early April — and an OpenSats grant is driving a live fingerprinting-attack mitigation into the same codebase.
Core Lightning v26.04rc1 Ships splicein, spliceout, and BIP-39 Recovery
Core Lightning v26.04rc1, tagged March 26 2026, delivers purpose-built splice commands and BIP-39 seed phrases — closing the operational gaps that have kept self-sovereign Lightning node operation cumbersome.