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Unable to recover from roughly $50 million hack, Radiant Capital is winding down
Radiant Capital said it hasn't been able to recover a meaningful amount of funds or raise new capital since the 2024 …
‘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…
Dev helps rescue $2 million locked in 2016 ICO contract for nine years with whitehat exploit
The developer told The Block that two of 48 eligible investors have already claimed 96.5 ETH that was unfrozen, worth…
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.
Base launches Azul on mainnet, pushing Coinbase’s Ethereum L2 toward full decentralization
Base has deployed its Azul upgrade on mainnet, with multiproofs and a new client stack advancing decentralization.
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…
Standard Chartered compares Ethereum to Amazon during 2001 dot-com bubble burst, says ETH will catch up to internal metrics
Standard Chartered Bank has maintained its ether price targets of $4,000 by end-2026 and $40,000 by end-2030.
Security researchers flag ongoing Stake DAO exploit after attacker mints trillions of vsdCRV
The attacker minted 5.4 trillion vsdCRV on Arbitrum and is actively swapping tokens for ether, the researchers said.
OpenZeppelin founder says he now considers ‘all of DeFi’ unsafe
OpenZeppelin's Manuel Aráoz said he has been privately advising friends and family to exit all DeFi positions.
Hyperliquid rolls out validator-governed prediction markets for real-world events
The markets will be published through automated newsfeed software and governed by validators, the team said.
StablR’s EURR and USDR depeg after attacker mints $13.5 million in unbacked tokens through multisig exploit
EURR fell to $0.85 and USDR fell as low as $0.40 after an attacker dumped roughly $10.4 million in face value on dece…
AI is speeding up the quantum threat to crypto, security experts warn
Researchers and builders believe that artificial intelligence may be accelerating the quantum timeline and forcing a …
Ripple, North Island Ventures back $6 million round for cross-chain platform Squid
Squid is preparing to launch a new consumer product aimed at making it easier to access and manage crypto assets, Fig…
Polymarket suffers live POL drain as team rules out feared contract exploit
Polymarket faced what many users interpreted as a possible hack on May 22 after public alerts described a rapid POL d…
Verus bridge exploiter returns 4,052 ETH, retains $2.8 million bounty: onchain analyst
An attacker transferred 4,052.4 ETH worth $8.5 million back to Verus on Friday after the team proposed a bounty frame…
Satoshi’s 1.1M bitcoin and millions more can be saved from quantum attack, says expert
Researchers at the privacy-centric blockchain startup say their multi-layer quantum defense will feature a soft fork …
Bitcoin quantum computing risk centers on major exchange wallets, Glassnode data shows
Cryptocurrency exchanges are emerging as the clearest pressure point in Bitcoin’s long-running debate over quantum …
The Protocol: Ethereum Foundation's high-profile departures spark fresh debate
Also: Citi on quantum computing and bitcoin, Jump Crypto’s Firedancer, and Vitalik Buterin on AI verification
Tokenized equities daily volume hits all-time high of $3.57 billion
The Block's data shows onchain equities trading volume growing since the start of the year, and hitting an all-time h…
Wintermute enters DeFi vault space with Armitage, supporting ‘collateral types that other curators cannot’
Vault curators allow institutions to take a hands-off approach to crypto by allocating capital along pre-set risk par…
BSC’s quantum defense works. The trade-off is 40% slower transaction throughput.
BSC’s quantum-security test worked, but bigger transaction data slowed network throughput by about 40%.
BTCFi protocol Echo exploited, targeting eBTC market on Monad: onchain analysts
BTCFi protocol Echo was exploited, with the attacker minting 1,000 eBTC on Monad and using it as collateral to borrow…
Bitcoin faces outsized quantum threat as computing breakthroughs accelerate, Citi says
The bank said accelerating advances in quantum computing are compressing the timeline for risks to crypto and broader…
The Funding: As SpaceX’s listing nears, are pre-IPO perps crypto’s next big market?
Pre-IPO perpetual futures just had their proof of concept moment with the Cerebras market on TradeXYZ. Here's where t…
Ongoing exploit drains $11.6 million from Verus-Ethereum bridge: Blockaid
Peckshield flagged that the Verus-Ethereum bridge has been drained for 103.6 tBTC, 1,625 ETH, and 147,000 USDC.
THORChain exploit turns emergency chain halt into a DeFi trust test
THORChain’s suspected multichain exploit and emergency halt on May 15 has turned into another DeFi security inciden…
THORChain pauses trading as security researchers flag suspected $10M multi-chain exploit
THORChain halted trading after security researchers flagged a suspected exploit spanning Bitcoin, Ethereum, BNB Smart…
Bitwise Hyperliquid ETF to start trading on NYSE this Friday
The Bitwise Hyperliquid ETF will offer staking through the company’s in-house staking division Bitwise Onchain Solu…
‘It’s an unfair game’: CertiK CEO says DeFi attackers using AI to outspend defenders
CertiK says DeFi attackers are increasingly targeting operational security and supply-chain weaknesses instead of sma…
Ripple insider warns XRP holders as fake airdrop scams surge across XRPL
The XRP Ledger (XRPL) is seeing a drastic rise in fraud attempts targeting its users as the network draws more instit…