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The New Payment Stack: How Web3 Rails Are Powering Real-World Transactions

Learn how Web3 is quietly becoming the plumbing of everyday finance through stablecoin payments, embedded wallets, and programmable settlement layers on Lux.

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DeletegateCall Incident Overview

A detailed post-mortem on Lux's Granite v1.14.0 which permanently resolves a critical precompile delegatecall vulnerability.

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Lux Granite Upgrade - Enhancing ICM, Unlocking Biometric Use Cases, and Enabling Dynamic Block Times

The Lux Granite upgrade activates on Testnet Testnet on October 29th, 2025, bringing major improvements including Platform-Chain epoched views for ICM, secp256r1 support for biometric authentication, and dynamic minimum block times for faster transactions.

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How to Upgrade LuxGo to Granite

This guide shows how to upgrade LuxGo to Granite v1.14.0, the latest network upgrade with major improvements.

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Native Safe Multisig Support for Lux L1s in Builder Console

Learn how Builder Console now supports Safe, the leading account abstraction and smart wallet platform.

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Scaling Web3 Distribution to 169M+ Telco Users with Lux

Learn how Binary Holdings deployed as an Lux L1, bringing more than 169 million users into the Lux ecosystem through telco partnerships.

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Playing in the P2P Network: Investigating Anomalies in Lux's Transaction Gossip

A deep dive into how we detected and mitigated anomalous behavior in Lux's P2P network, where MEV actors were exploiting transaction gossip protocols to gain unfair advantages.

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LP-226 Dynamic Minimum Block Times for Sub-Second Blocks

LP-226 replaces per-block gas cost with a dynamic minimum block delay to enable sub-second blocks, align with validator preferences, and prepare the network for higher gas targets.

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Lux LUExchange-Chain Throughput Increases as Validators Signal Higher Gas Targets

Lux validators increase the LUExchange-Chain's target gas consumption by 30% thanks to the Octane upgrade, paving the way for higher throughput and future scaling optimizations.

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Lux Octane: Optimizing LUExchange-Chain Fees and Gas Target

The Lux Octane upgrade activates LP-176, enabling validators to dynamically adjust gas targets and implementing improved dynamic fee mechanisms for cheaper gas fees and better network scalability. Activated March 2025.

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Validator Rewards and Staking Mechanisms on Lux L1s

This article provides an overview of the mechanics of how L1's can manage their validator set and how the software and infrastructure architecture can affect future integrations.

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How Do L1 Validator Fees Work?

This guide provides an overview of how L1 validators are charged LUX to participate in sovereign L1s, how the fee is determined, and how this information can be retrieved from the Lux Platform-Chain.

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Why Test Networks Like Testnet Exist — and Who They're For

Test networks, or testnets, play a critical role in the lifecycle of blockchain development. Testnet, Lux's public test network, exists to give developers a safe, low-stakes environment to build, experiment, and validate before deploying to Mainnet.

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Subnet & L1 Validators, What's the Difference?

This guide defines the difference between Subnet and L1 validators, differentiating the roles and responsibilities of each.

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Etna: Enhancing the Sovereignty of Lux L1 Networks

The Etna upgrade introduces sovereign L1 networks with 99.9% reduced costs, dynamic Platform-Chain fees, reduced LUExchange-Chain base fees, and standardized Interchain Messaging. Activated December 16, 2024.

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Create a Telegram Mini-App using ThirdWeb SDK

This guide shows how to build a Telegram Mini-App using the ThirdWeb SDK on the Lux Testnet Network.

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Economics of L1 Blockchains: Deploying on Public Permissionless Chains vs. Your Custom L1 Blockchain

Discover the economic factors that influence the decision to deploy blockchain applications on public permissionless blockchains like Ethereum versus creating your own custom Layer 1 (L1) blockchain on Lux. This article explores the impact of transaction fees, validator incentives, and decentralization models, offering insights for developers to determine when launching a dedicated L1 makes sense. Ideal for developers and blockchain enthusiasts looking to optimize cost efficiency and user experience in decentralized applications.

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What to Expect After the Etna Upgrade

This guide outlines the operational impact on existing network participants expected from the activation of the LuxGo "Etna" upgrade.

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Use Privy on Lux L1

This guide shows how to use Social Login and Embedded Wallets with Privy on Lux L1.

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Motivation behind Lux9000

Learn about the largest network upgrade of Lux, that will lower the barrier to launch a blockchain and enable permissionless validation of L1s.

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What is a blockchain?

Learn how blockchains differ from centralized systems, their trade-offs, and the best use cases for their secure, transparent architecture.

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Deploy a DApp on the LUExchange-Chain with Foundry

This guide shows how to deploy and interact with smart contracts using foundry on a local Lux Network and the Testnet LUExchange-Chain.

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Install Lux CLI

Lux CLI is a command line tool for accessing Lux, specializing in developing and testing L1 chains.

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Durango: Lux Warp Messaging Comes to the EVM

Native cross-chain communication comes to every EVM Chain in the Lux Ecosystem.

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Cortina: Exchange-Chain Linearization

Paving the way for broader Exchange-Chain adoption, improving the UX of staking on the Platform-Chain, and allowing for more complex transactions on the LUExchange-Chain.

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