New BasicSwap DEX Releases (v0.17.8 & v0.17.9) --- Two releases in one blog update. Update is mandatory for Bitcoin Cash and Litecoin users. ✅ BCH swap hardening, plus a fix for swaps that could get stuck on a non-default fee rate ✅ LTC core bumped to v0.21.5.6 (MWEB security update from Core, upgrade ASAP) ✅ Swap lock-tx timeout now defaults to 20 min ✅ Fairer timeouts, automation + transient-error fixes 👉 https…

Channel
Particl News
@particlnews
On this record: Growth · Engagement · Reactions · Posts · Cite this entry
99subscribers
-1 since we began measuring on 6 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of Under 1,000.
Register entry
| Telegram ID | -1001259229598 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @particlnews |
| Created | Between 1 March 2018 and 31 August 2021 — estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated. |
| First recorded | 9 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 6 September 2026 |
| Measurements held | 3 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 3 times, most recently 6 September 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/particlnews |
Growth
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 23 Aug 2026, 04:13 | 99 | -1 |
| 9 Aug 2026, 10:45 | 100 | no change |
| 6 Aug 2026, 12:33 | 100 | first reading |
Engagement
20 posts held, back to 17 October 2025 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 1 page of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
Nothing published in the last 30 days. ERR and ER are rolling 30-day measures, so there is nothing to compute — we hold 20 posts for this entry, the most recent from 3 August 2026. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
Reaction mix
45 reactions across 13 posts, in 5 distinct kinds. The most used accounts for 42.2% of them.
| Reaction | Count | Share | Share, drawn |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🔥 | 19 | 42.2% | |
| 👍 | 10 | 22.2% | |
| 🤩 | 8 | 17.8% | |
| ❤ | 7 | 15.6% | |
| 😱 | 1 | 2.22% |
No sentiment is inferred, and none should be read in. This table is ordered by count and by nothing else. Emoji do not carry stable meaning across languages or communities — 🙏 is thanks in one channel and mourning in another — so we publish which ones were pressed and how often, and pass no judgement on what an audience meant by them.
Precision. Telegram publishes reaction counts per emoji and short-forms each one — 4.34K, 1.2M — so any single kind at or above 1,000 reaches us at three significant figures, and only counts below 1,000 are exact. The shares above are ratios of those figures and carry the same error. This is also why the total here can differ slightly from a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page: both are sums of the same rounded parts, taken over samples with different edges.
Coverage. Reactions were read on 14 of the 20 sampled posts in this sample. Summed by Telegram’s own count on each post — not by adding up the per-emoji breakdown above — those same posts carry 45 reactions in total: the kind of figure the paragraph above means by “a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page”.
Measured over the 20 most recent posts we hold, published 17 October 2025 to 3 August 2026, using the newest reading held for each. Telegram Stars are excluded: they are a payment, not a reaction, and they have their own section.
Recent posts
💫 New BasicSwap DEX Release (v0.17.7) 💫 --- A critical security fix for adaptor-signature swaps is live. Update now before you start or resume a swap. The issue cannot be used to steal coins, but a counter-party could trap funds. ✅ Tighter validation of signatures received from a swap counterparty 🌟 Auto-repairs any swap already affected so it can refund on its own ✅ AMM reserves fees when sizing offers ✅ Bids on …
🔥 New BasicSwap DEX Release (v0.17.6) 🔥 --- A new maintenance and hardening release is out. As usual, we recommend everyone updates. ✅ Network: offer-revoke spam protection ✅ Web UI: login sessions that follow your activity + password management ✅ Electrum: transaction history for Bitcoin and Litecoin, with swap/MWEB/Spark filters ✅ Swap reliability: stuck-swap cleanup, steadier wallet unlocking, Monero retry fixes…
💫 New BasicSwap DEX Release (v0.17.5) 💫 --- Three hardening releases (v0.17.3 to v0.17.5) rolled into one update. A coin-core refresh this cycle (Bitcoin, Dash, Monero), so run the core update step. Recommended for everyone. ✅ Web UI: Host allowlist + stricter origin and WebSocket checks ✅ Electrum: Merkle-verified confirmations, now including Litecoin ✅ Particl blind swaps brought in line with the other swap types…
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💫 New BasicSwap DEX Release (v0.17.2) 💫 --- 🚨 This one fixes the swap security issue we flagged earlier today, and updating to 0.17.2 before you resume any swaps is MANDATORY. ✅ Fund-safety fix on the adaptor-sig refund path ✅ Particl spent-index watcher hardening ✅ BCH mercy-transaction recovery fix ✅ AMM offer-revoke fixes ✅ Bid page: live WebSocket updates Read the blog post for all the details 👀 https://blog.…
💫 New BasicSwap DEX Release (v0.17.1) 💫 --- This one is mostly security hardening and fixes. No coin core upgrades this cycle, but the Electrum, key, and Simplex hardening still make it a highly recommended update. ✅ Electrum trust-boundary hardening ✅ Automatic key migration (no re-import needed) ✅ Simplex connection hardening ✅ AMM v0.5.1 template-editing fixes ✅ GUI and backend fixes Read the blog post for all …
💫 New BasicSwap DEX Release (v0.17.0) 💫 — This one updates both BasicSwap (v0.17.0) and the GUI (4.0.0). No coin core upgrades this cycle, but the web-UI, BCH, and startup hardening still make it a highly recommended update. ✅ GUI 4.0.0: redesigned Create Offer flow + live tables ✅ New offer modes: One-time, Fixed-total, Standing ✅ AMM v0.5.0 with per-offer budgets ✅ BCH integration hardening ✅ Web-UI security hard…
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✅ New BasicSwap and SMSG Releases ✅ --- Over the course of June 2026, we've shipped a series of releases (v0.16.3 through v0.16.6) to harden the platform. As such, while not a mandatory consensus update, we strongly recommend all users to update now. 👉 https://blog.basicswapdex.com/hardening-the-atomic-swap-protocol/
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⚠️ Mandatory BasicSwap Update (v0.16.4+) ⚠️ It adds a security fix that protects you against poisoned secret-hash atomic swaps where a peer running a modified client could under-fund their side of a trade. The client now detects this and aborts the swap before any funds are committed. Please update before your next swap 🙏 https://github.com/basicswap/basicswap/releases/tag/v0.16.4
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🔐 Architecture as Defense 🔐 --- Since the RetoSwap incident, a lot of you have asked whether #BasicSwap shares the same threat model. It doesn't, and the reason is architectural: no arbitrator to impersonate, no third party with any authority over your funds. Full breakdown: https://blog.basicswapdex.com/architecture-as-defense-retoswap-haveno-exploit/
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💫 New BasicSwap DEX Release (v0.16.2) 💫 --- There's a new BasicSwap update. It's a small maintenance release that contains a couple of wallet-side bug fixes, a couple of internal refactors, no coin core upgrades. ✅ WebSocket wallet balance fix ✅ PIVX and Firo swap fixes ✅ Minor refactors Read the blog post for all the details 👀 👉 https://blog.basicswapdex.com/basicswap-release-v016_2/
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🚨 New Important BasicSwap Release 🚨 --- There's a new important BasicSwap update for Litecoin users, which contains additional hardening and fixes regarding Litecoin's MWEB exploit surfaced recently. ✅ Litecoin Core v0.21.5.5 (mandatory for Litecoin users) ✅ MWEB-Change Recovery ✅ Litecoin interface clean-ups ✅ More resilient coin core downloads Read the blog post for all the details 👀 👉 https://blog.basicswapdex…
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Showing the 12 most recent of 20 posts we hold for @particlnews. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.
Cite this entry
A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 23 August 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“Particl News” (@particlnews), 99 subscribers as measured 23 August 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/particlnews.
Full measurement history, CC BY 4.0. Every reading this register holds for this entry, not just the latest one, as a dated, downloadable record: CSV · JSON. Free to use with attribution to tgregister.com. Each file carries its own generation timestamp, which is the figure to cite for exactly when the data was retrieved.