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Alchemy and Privy roll out technical integration to smooth pain points of ‘onchain finance’
Alchemy and Privy are rolling out a technical integration in an attempt to smooth the pain points of using crypto.
Telegram AI-powered crypto trading agents can now execute transfers, swaps and staking
Users can fund a dedicated wallet for an agent, which can then execute on-chain actions like transfers, swaps, and De…
ZetaChain halts cross-chain transactions following attack on smart contract
The attack has only impacted internal ZetaChain team wallets, and no user funds were affected, the team said.
‘Better than bailouts?’: Curve founder proposes market-based bad debt recovery model for DeFi lending amid KelpDAO fallout
Curve founder Michael Egorov proposed a new way to recover bad debt in DeFi lending markets amid industry debates on …
DeFi lost $13B this month as the KelpDAO rescue shows both the best and worst of DeFi
The official DeFi United site shows over 69,550 ETH raised from 222 wallets across 1,623 transfers, all aimed at rest…
AI scams in crypto approach breaking point – OpenAI’s new image model shows why they could get worse
A crypto founder had his laptop compromised when he joined what appeared to be a Microsoft Teams call with Pierre Kak…
Aave proposes 25,000 ETH contribution to DeFi United to plug Kelp DAO exploit hole
Protocols and individual DeFi users have collectively pledged enough to cover the Kelp DAO exploit losses.
For 93 minutes, installing Bitwarden’s ‘official’ CLI turned laptops into launchpads for hijacking GitHub accounts
On Apr. 22, a malicious version of Bitwarden's command-line interface appeared on npm under the official package name…
3F, built on Morpho, raises $4 million to offer leveraged exposure to tokenized assets
3F has raised $4 million in funding led by Maven 11, with participation from Fidelity's F-Prime, GSR, and others.
JPMorgan says DeFi exploits and stagnant TVL continue to limit institutional appeal
JPMorgan said persistent hacks appear to push investors toward Tether's USDT, as users move funds out of DeFi during …
Microsoft venture unit supports public rollout of AI builder for Base applications
Space and Time, the blockchain data solution supported by Microsoft, secures the data layer underneath Dreamspace.
Circle chief economist floats higher USDC rates on Aave amid KelpDAO fallout
Circle Chief Economist Gordon Liao proposed raising USDC borrowing rates on Aave to ease post-KelpDAO liquidity strains.
Input Output proposes scaled-back Cardano treasury plan ahead of Leios mainnet push
The Leios mainnet launch is at the center of the roadmap, but IO’s tracker shows the upgrade still mid-development.
Will new Apple CEO combat fake crypto apps littering the “walled garden” App Store?
Apple is heading into its biggest leadership transition in years, just as scrutiny is mounting over the security of i…
Onchain vault provider Upshift taps Securitize Fund Services for third-party reporting
Upshift is tapping Securitize Fund Services to provide independent reporting, auditing, and performance transparency …
a16z crypto-backed Gensyn launches Delphi, an AI-settled information markets platform
"A creator earns 1.5% of all of the volume in the market as a fee when the market successfully settles," said Gensyn'…
Sui-based Volo Protocol exploited; team pledges to absorb losses
Sui-based liquid staking platform Volo reported that it was exploited for roughly $3.5 million from its WBTC, XAUm, a…
North Korea hit crypto for $500M+ this month — and the $6.75 billion threat is not over yet
In just under three weeks, cyber operatives linked to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) have stolen …
‘Are we an industry of clowns?’: DeFi grapples with security tradeoffs after $292M Kelp DAO fallout
Aftermath conditions from Kelp DAO’s exploit has opened a broader debate over DeFi’s security model, after billio…
Kelp DAO exploiter begins moving stolen funds across chains after Arbitrum ETH freeze
Wallets tied to the approximate $292 million Kelp DAO exploit have begun moving funds across chains following Arbitru…
Arbitrum freezes $71 million worth of ETH stolen in Kelp DAO exploit
The Arbitrum Security Council said the frozen funds will only be moved by further action through Arbitrum governance.
Coinbase-incubated x402 protocol unveils app-store for AI bots
X402 creator Erik Reppel noted agentic commerce is already reshaping activation costs with bots accessing services on…
Six years after “DeFi Summer” is the sun already setting on the decentralized finance revolution?
KelpDAO's $292 million rsETH exploit landed at the wrong moment for DeFi. Roughly $10 billion left the sector over t…
Coinbase expands USDC borrowing to UK, allowing loans against bitcoin, ether
Coinbase's facility allows UK users to borrow up to $5 million in USDC against bitcoin, ether, and cbETH via Morpho o…
DeFi users pull $10 billion out of the market as $292 million exploit sparks bank-run optics
A $292 million exploit at KelpDAO set off a broad retreat across decentralized finance over the weekend, draining rou…
LayerZero says North Korea’s Lazarus likely behind Kelp DAO exploit; blames single-point setup
The entire total value locked in the DeFi sector fell 7% in the past 24 hours to $86 billion, according to DefiLlama …
Kelp DAO’s rsETH bridge apparently exploited for roughly $292 million in LayerZero-based attack
Kelp's emergency pauser multisig froze the protocol's core contracts roughly 46 minutes after the successful drain, b…
Circle hit with class action lawsuit over alleged inaction in $280 million Drift exploit
The lawsuit, filed by law firm Gibbs Mura, alleged that Circle failed to act swiftly to freeze the stolen USDC tied t…
Russia-linked Grinex exchange suspends operations after $15 million hack, blames ‘hostile states’
Liquidity and users of the sanctioned Garantex exchange have flowed into Grinex over the past year, Elliptic claims.
Tempo unveils pragmatic privacy solution called Zones, a way to run permissioned parallel blockchains
Each Zone will offer a private execution environment managed by a trusted entity, Tempo wrote in an announcement.