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Humanity Protocol Reveals Cause of $31M Exploit
Humanity Protocol has confirmed that the June 8 attack resulted from a compromised developer machine infected with m…
Live updates: bitcoin drifts back to $62,500, putting damper on hope for two straight up days
Crypto prices rose on Monday following last week's crash, but the bears still appear to be in control.
Humanity's $36 million exploit tied to compromised laptop hosting a 'multisig' wallet
The compromised laptop held enough multisig keys to take over the project's bridges on two chains, a basic security f…
Humanity Protocol token crashes more than 80% after a $32 million private-key hack
The decentralized identity project said attackers compromised the keys of a foundation member and are dumping the sto…
Crypto has ‘limited utility’ in solving AI’s trust and payment issues, IC3 researchers say
The academic researchers attempt to debunk idea that giving AI agents access to crypto wallets has the ability to mak…
Aave chief defends protocol's 'resilience' after $8.45 billion bank run
The founder of the largest DeFi platform blamed "third-party” entities for decentralized finance’s vulnerabilitie…
MetaMask launches AI agent wallet with built-in security for crypto trades
The launch comes as AI agents increasingly emerge as participants in crypto markets, executing trades and managing ca…
Major cryptocurrencies under pressure as oil jumps 3%
BTC, ETH, XRP and others pulled back from their overnight highs as Iran-Israel tensions and oil rally triggered risk …
Syscoin Pauses Bridge After Exploit Creates 5B Unauthorized SYS
Syscoin has paused its Bridge after a security incident that resulted in the creation of approximately 5 billion una…
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…
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.
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…
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.
Supra Labs CEO’s X Account Hacked in Fake Token Promotion Scheme
The X account of Supra Labs CEO Josh Tobkin was compromised on June 5, with attackers using the profile to promote f…
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…
Arthur Hayes Exits Zcash After Orchard Exploit
Crypto investor Arthur Hayes said he sold his entire Zcash position following disclosure of the Orchard Pool vulnera…
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.
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.
Apparent Zcash outage was a block explorer problem, infrastructure providers say
One expert said the issue was mainly with block explorers tracking the onchain activity.
Trezor says your crypto is safe after Ledger audit exposes a hardware flaw
The flaw affects only one of the wallet's multiple security layers and would require physical access, specialized equ…
Big tech is 'terrified' of AI agents wiping out ad revenue, says Billions Network CEO
Evin McMullen’s view on AI agents disrupting Google’s and Facebook’s business model was previously shared by Ca…
Bitcoin’s compute power dwarfs top 100 supercomputers by 600k times, says Bittensor co-founder
Ala Shaabana explains how using Bitcoin network’s coordinate-and-reward playbook can bust open corporate monopolies…
Here's how one decentralized cloud provider says private citizens can make money from AI
Titan Network says its crowdsourced computing network has signed tech giants like Tencent and Alibaba as clients, sav…
Movement pivots to stablecoin payments as the layer-2 boom loses momentum
The team behind Movement said it plans to leverage licensed payment partners alongside blockchain settlement rails to…
Kelp DAO Hackers Launder Nearly All Recoverable Funds
Hackers linked to North Korean cyber group TraderTraitor have laundered nearly all of the roughly $220 million in un…
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…
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 …
Wall Street’s trillion-dollar dilemma: Why AI-powered hackers are keeping big banks off the blockchain
CertiK CEO and co-founder Ronghui Gu says April was the worst month for DeFi in four years with exploits on 27 out of…