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DeFi’s old hack vectors are fading – But the new risk can hit six chains at once
Decentralized finance has gotten a lot safer over the past six years, and a new review of protocol losses from 2020 t…
Bybit follows Kraken in offering tokenized SpaceX IPO access via xStocks
The product is built on Payward's xStocks framework, the tokenized equities platform Kraken acquired through its purc…
Ethereum Foundation cuts and departures aren't a crisis, Joe Lubin says
The Consensys leader told CoinDesk the Ethereum Foundation's role should be narrower and more focused on stewarding t…
HTX to delist Trump-linked USD1 after saying World Liberty Financial froze exchange-linked addresses
The move follows World Liberty Financial's apparent freeze of HTX-linked on-chain addresses, citing UK sanctions comp…
CLARITY Act Momentum Slows As Approval Odds Fall To 60%
A July 4 target date for advancing crypto market-structure legislation through the Senate is now looking less certain…
Researcher who found Zcash's bug with AI adds Monero to his audit queue
Taylor Hornby, who uncovered the Orchard flaw that sent Zcash down 38%, says other privacy coins are on his list too.
Crypto exchanges are losing retail traders but are filling the gap with Wall Street-style bets
Crypto exchanges are seeing the weakest retail-driven activity in years, but some of the biggest platforms are findin…
AI exposed a massive flaw in top crypto network and experts warn banks could be next
After an AI model helped uncover a four-year-old flaw in Zcash, security researchers warn that similar bugs may be hi…
‘Please stop the FUD’: Zcash treasury company Cypherpunk remains committed to accumulating 5% of ZEC supply
Shares of Cypherpunk Technologies plunged more than 40% following the disclosure of a critical bug that was recently …
AI-assisted Zcash flaw exposes the supply integrity gap an emergency fork could not fully close
The exploit that nearly broke Zcash originated inside the zero-knowledge proof circuit that powers Orchard, Zcash's n…
Bearish zcash bets hit record high as privacy token's price crashes
Liquidations were small relative to the size of the decline, pointing to spot selling rather than a leverage cascade,…
Live updates: bitcoin falls below $62,000 ahead of jobs data as Zcash bug rocks crypto
Zcash plummeted 40% after Shielded Labs revealed a major bug that went undetected for 4 years.
Arthur Hayes dumps zcash holdings after Orchard Pool vulnerability revealed
Hayes said he would reconsider his stance if his assumptions that an exploit is still possible prove to be incorrect.
Zcash selloff extends past 50% amid bug disclosure as liquidations top $100 million
ZEC crashed over 50% to around $310 amid Zcash's Orchard bug disclosure and more than $116 million in 24-hour liquida…
Zcash loses over $5 billion after AI finds 4-year bug that could have created fake hidden coins
Zcash lost more than $5 billion in market value after its developers, using Anthropic's Claude AI, discovered a lon…
Bitcoin in danger of dropping to $60,000, with Zcash bulls turning their backs on ZEC
AI bets are recording rapid profit-taking as Broadcom as outlook for AI-chip sales fell short of high expectations, d…
Zcash plummets 30% as Shielded Labs reveals a major bug that went undetected for four years
Shielded Labs revealed that the bug could have helped an attacker print unlimited counterfeit tokens. That could have…
Security researcher finds Zcash vulnerability allowing ‘unlimited’ counterfeit minting; ZEC drops 31%
The vulnerability was fixed within days, and findings suggest that actual exploitation of the bug is unlikely.
Chainalysis says ‘top-tier’ gray market peptide vendors turn to bitcoin and stablecoins
“To scale, the gray-market peptide trade adopted cryptocurrency as its backbone,” Chainalysis said in a report.
Travala debuts agentic AI travel protocol with gasless USDC payments on Base
Travala launched an agentic AI travel protocol on Base supporting gasless USDC hotel bookings and AI-assisted payment…
Not all Ethereum layer 2s are dying, but many general-purpose chains no longer have a reason to exist
In this week's edition of The Protocol Newsletter, we're looking at the state of the Ethereum layer-2 ecosystem.
Visa, Brale test privacy-enabled SBC stablecoin settlement on Canton Network
Visa and Brale initiate a proof of concept testing SBC stablecoin settlement with privacy controls on the Canton Netw…
Immunefi says DeFi is ‘getting safer’ as exploit losses fall 74% from 2022 peak amid AI-driven security arms race
DeFi exploit losses fell 74% from the 2022 peak to $680 million in 2025, according to Immunefi, amid structural secur…
Cosmos Labs acquires block explorer Mintscan, forms Korea subsidiary to expand ecosystem
Cosmos Labs has acquired Cosmos block explorer Mintscan and formed a new Korea-based subsidiary, Cosmos Labs Korea.
Coinbase and Better fund first bitcoin-backed mortgage, plan nationwide rollout soon
Coinbase and Better have funded the first Fannie Mae-backed mortgage using bitcoin as collateral, with a nationwide r…
Coinbase launches pre-IPO perpetual futures, starting with SpaceX
Coinbase has entered the pre-IPO perpetual futures market, starting with a SpaceX contract, offering up to 5x leverage.
Coinbase, SpaceX, Meta join DOJ anti-scam operation that froze $3.8 million in crypto
Private-sector firms joined the DOJ's "Disruption Week," freezing $3.8 million in crypto and disrupting 1.4 million s…
Zcash was rumored to have stopped working – then it became crypto’s only winner
Zcash became the subject of a brief market scare after block explorers appeared to show that the privacy-focused bloc…
Banks pushed Congress to kill stablecoin yield with CLARITY Act – Coinbase may have found the loophole
For traditional US banks, the CLARITY Act was intended as a firewall that effectively barred crypto companies from of…
EdgeX offers refunds and launches 200,000 USDC bounty after 71% token flash crash
EdgeX says that 174 addresses flooded a PancakeSwap pool with EDGE token sell orders during a period of low liquidity.