🟢 BCH Weekly Recap | September 20, 2026 This week brought several notable updates to the BCH community: increased public support for 1-minute blocks, Paytaca launching a BCH-paid AI service, privacy payments fully operational on Chipnet, a new native DEX going live, and ParyonUSD releasing its first phase report. ⏱️ Greater Community Support for 1-Minute Blocks Discussions around BCH’s 1-minute blocks continue to gain momentum. The BCH Podcast, BCH-1, Luke Pryor, 2qx, https://t.co/lYBuxh8mEK, and Jonathan_Silverblood have publicly endorsed CHIP-2025-03 Faster Blocks. Jason Dreyzehner has also expressed support, though he notes he is still conducting his own technical review and will make a formal endorsement only after completion. He specifically highlighted improved UX from faster confirmations and the potential security benefit of more evenly distributing confirmed transaction throughput across the network. The current proposed timeline is: November 15, 2026: Lock-in → May 15, 2027: Activation This means BCH has not yet decided to switch to one-minute blocks—it is now in a critical phase of community review and consensus-building. 🤖 Paytaca AI Launches: Buy AI Time with BCH Paytaca has launched Paytaca AI. It offers open-source and open-weight AI models with a key feature: no account registration or subscription required. Users can directly purchase 15, 30, or 60 minutes of AI usage time using BCH, paying only for what they use. In addition to direct use within the Paytaca app, it supports CLI and MCP, enabling programmatic agents to invoke the service. This model aligns well with BCH principles: no credit card binding, no account registration, no automatic monthly charges—just pay in BCH for exactly what you need and use it immediately. 🔐 BCH Privacy Payments Advance Another Step 0zkBrewer demonstrated a highly significant development: A complete BCH private payment flow has been successfully tested on Chipnet. This prototype combines post-quantum (PQ) security with stealth transfers, aiming to hide: the sender, receiver, and transaction amount. Meanwhile, transactions remain verifiable on the BCH chain. Crucially, the proofs are now compact enough to be generated directly on devices, with nodes capable of verifying them in milliseconds. 0zkBrewer used an intriguing phrase: “BCH will have its XMR moment soon.” Of course, this remains a development and test result on Chipnet—it does not mean BCH mainnet currently supports this privacy functionality. But from months of steadily reducing proof sizes and inputs to now achieving a fully functional payment flow, this technical path is becoming increasingly clear. 💵 ParyonUSD Releases First “State of PUSD” Report The BCH stablecoin project ParyonUSD (PUSD) released its first “State of PUSD” report. The report summarizes progress since its launch in April, including key metrics, features deployed, and upcoming development directions. The team plans to issue such reports regularly, establishing a consistent public update channel for the community on PUSD’s evolution. 📺 CashStamps Begins Sponsoring Shows to Promote BCH CashStamps has become a sponsor of The Sal & Mark Show. Each episode now includes approximately two minutes of BCH promotional content, and during live streams, five Edge Wallet CashStamps are given away. Some individual episodes of the show have surpassed 150,000 views. A noteworthy aspect of this collaboration is that BCH promotion is beginning to enter content channels not traditionally focused on cryptocurrency—expanding beyond the internal BCH ecosystem. ⚠️ Suspected Security Incident on https://t.co/bUbr6mGYb8 A BCH community member reported that funds in their https://t.co/bUbr6mGYb8 account were transferred without login access, suspecting possible exposure of private keys from older accounts. Reported losses across affected users totaled approximately $500. However, the exact cause remains unconfirmed, and https://t.co/bUbr6mGYb8 has not publicly responded to these claims. Therefore, it is premature to conclude this was a vulnerability in https://t.co/bUbr6mGYb8 itself. 🗳️ https://t.co/xtStNFWDQX Features Expand Further https://t.co/xtStNFWDQX has added new pages: Projects, Priorities, Time Capsules, and Stakeholders. The Stakeholder page is particularly interesting—it allows users to review how different stakeholders have voted in past BCH upgrades. The Projects page now includes comments, contributor details, and improved filtering and visualization tools. As BCH protocol upgrades increasingly emphasize open discussion and stakeholder endorsement, this toolset is gradually becoming a window into how community consensus forms. 🔄 Native BCH DEX Guanaco Launches Antar Labs has launched Guanaco, a new native L1 decentralized exchange on BCH. It combines a liquidity aggregator with proprietary liquidity pools, allowing users to trade directly from their wallets: no cross-chain bridges, no L2s, no centralized custody required. The initial release includes liquidity pools with varying fee tiers, cross-DEX liquidity migration, and the GUA token. This marks one of the most notable new developments in BCH DeFi this week. 🌱 MINTY Launches on CashMint MINTY launched fairly via CashMint’s **bonding curve**, completing graduation in roughly four hours and now verified by Cauldron. This token attempts to transform a community account into a collectively owned asset: holders can participate in content direction and share a portion of sponsorship revenue. No presale—public launch exclusively through bonding curve. 🛠️ Cashonize v0.14.1 Released Cashonize released v0.14.1 to fix identity resolution issues and improve AuthKey integration with CashTokens Studio. After the update, identity information now correctly displays names instead of showing “unnamed.”