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Ethereum's Vitalik Buterin is rethinking how DeFi handles market crashes
In a research post published Monday, Buterin proposed creating index-tracking assets using options contracts rather t…
Failed Ethereum ICO from 2016 just unlocked 1,003 ETH by exploiting itself
A whitehat and HongCoin's original multisig used a preserved overflow bug to reopen refunds trapped since 2016. The p…
Dogecoin gains access to Paxos network used by PayPal and Venmo
House of Doge struck partnership with Paxos to integrate DOGE across the firm's enterprise-grade brokerage and custod…
Japan's ruling party supports crypto ETF trading, yen-based stablecoins
Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party said the country should create a legal framework for trading crypto ETFs in a…
Europe is actively trying to stop the dollar stablecoin takeover
Europeans conduct 38% of global stablecoin transactions, but euro-denominated tokens account for just 0.3% of the tot…
‘Gnosis will cover all user losses’ amid exploit related to Gnosis Pay, co-founder Koppelmann says
Gnosis co-founder Martin Koppelmann said all user losses will be covered as containment efforts continue following an…
Whitehat developer unlocks $2 million stuck in a 2016 Ethereum ICO contract for nine years
0xflorent, a security researcher, found an integer-overflow flaw in the HongCoin token sale contract that lets the te…
Three Sui mainnet halts in 48 hours traced to an upgrade bug by developers
The Sui Foundation's post-mortem published Sunday traces all three outages to interactions between a new address-bala…
XRP Ledger's new proposal blocks the flash loan attacks costing DeFi hundreds of millions
A draft XRPL amendment notes that flash loan attacks are "structurally impossible" on the network because of how its …
Cosmos-based Gravity Bridge drained of $5.4 million in suspected key compromise, researchers say
The attacker took USDC, ether, tether and PAYG tokens before laundering a portion through ChangeNow and Binance.
Court-ordered Circle freeze traps $12.6 million in Zama cUSDC contract amid Overnight Finance suit
Zama CEO Rand Hindi said the protocol's confidential USDC contract was "caught in a crossfire" and that his team is i…
Bitcoin’s biggest quantum risk may not be wallet keys. An early investor fears something bigger
Andrew Gault, the venture capitalist who funded the quantum hardware labs now threatening bitcoin, says the industry …
Mass deployment of AI agents is a disaster waiting to happen, says CertiK CEO
Ronghui Gu shares tips on how to isolate AI agents while testing them so they do not have access to critical personal…
Paxos wins SEC approval to clear U.S. stocks on blockchain
Paxos new license positions it alongside legacy giants such as DTCC and makes it a compelling, more efficient alterna…
‘First and only’: Paxos secures SEC registration as clearing and settlement agency
Paxos said it is the first and only blockchain-native firm to be registered as a clearing agency under the SEC.
Solana, Sui and Aptos wallet data targeted in TrapDoor package attack
The campaign targets crypto, DeFi, AI and security developers with fake tooling packages to steal wallets, SSH keys, …
Why the Ethereum Foundation is suddenly again at the center of crypto’s culture war
In this week's edition of The Protocol Newsletter, we're diving deep into the institution that has been the main stew…
Tether's U.S.-focused stablecoin grows over 500% in a month, but still lags main rivals
USAT's market cap jumped above $140 million in April, though it remains well behind Circle's USDC, PayPal's PYUSD and…
Have AI agents made the entire $148 billion DeFi sector unsafe?
A warning from one of decentralized finance’s (DeFi) early security figures has turned a difficult stretch of hacks…
Tether’s USAT supply grows 540% month-over-month, latest attestation shows
Tether’s USA₮ supply grew six-fold month-over-month to over 140 million tokens, according to Anchorage Digital's …
UniCredit warns Europe may struggle to contain crypto-bank crisis under MiCA rules
EU deposit insurance (up to €100,000) may not absorb stress from large stablecoin reserve accounts, unlike the full…
Sui blockchain suffers another network outage as transactions grind to a halt
This is the second time this year that the Sui network has suffered an outage.
Australia’s Project Acacia shows why tokenized markets still hinge on settlement money
Project Acacia has now tested how tokenized asset markets could settle in Australia. The Reserve Bank of Australia an…
Sui blockchain experiences second ‘stall’ in five months
Sui said the blockchain is experiencing a "network stall," as block explorers show the protocol has not produced a bl…
A blockchain lottery plans to turn crypto gambling fees into Ethereum developer funding
Decentralized lottery protocol Megapot is teaming up with Protocol Guild in what the firms describe as the crypto ind…
Gemini taps SpaceXAI to build a personalized prediction markets feed
The new feature integrates SpaceXAI models to deliver real-time market intelligence, personalized signals and portfol…
Stablecoins were supposed to bypass credit cards, but now Visa is winning crypto card payments
Stablecoins were built on the premise that removing intermediaries between sender and recipient would erode the relev…
Theta and XYO partner on blockchain-based verification layer for AI agents
The DePIN projects have partnered to develop a cryptographic proof infrastructure that will independently verify AI a…
Falcon Finance taps Anchorage to issue new GENIUS-compliant payments stablecoin fUSD
Falcon said fUSD is meant to act as a “regulated counterpart” to its existing overcollateralized synthetic stable…
Aztec Labs acquires ZKPassport, pledges to keep privacy protocol and iOS mobile app open-source
The Obsidion team, including co-founders Michael Elliot and Theo Madzou, will join Aztec Labs to continue developing …