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Key Highlights NEAR Intents’ postmortem attributes the $3.8 million exploit to a smart contract bug, not its Omni infrastructure. The attacker used 23 failed deposit transactions between September 29 and…
Key Highlights BitGo Research highlighted two hardware wallet incidents involving weak seed entropy and an alleged hardware implant, reinforcing the risks of relying on a single device and recovery phrase.…
Key Highlights a16z crypto researcher Justin Thaler and co-authors have introduced Aerie, a system designed to aggregate post-quantum Falcon signatures. The authors report aggregating 32,768 Falcon-512 signatures in 0.65 seconds…
Key Highlights Galaxy Research identifies decision and impact markets as emerging categories beyond conventional prediction markets. Twenty-two DAOs use decision markets, with $50.5 million in assets under management, according to…
Key Highlights The Wall Street Journal reported that Tether paid $6.3 million to Nxum, a consulting firm co-founded by former White House crypto adviser Bo Hines. Hines reportedly retained a…
Key Highlights Blockaid reported that approximately $86,000 was drained from UNCX’s shared vesting pool on Ethereum on October 14. ExVul estimated that five ERC-20 tokens worth about $87,700 were affected,…
Key Highlights BingX EU secured authorization under the EU’s Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA) from Austria’s Financial Market Authority. The company plans to offer crypto services in 29 European Economic…
Key Highlights Coinbase said Bitcoin’s post-quantum transition requires more than a new signature scheme, including compatibility with block-space limits, full-node validation, wallets, and institutional custody. The company advocated beginning preparations…
Key Highlights Starknet announced Shadow Accounts on October 13, introducing a privacy feature that separates application activity from users’ main wallet addresses. Each application can provide a persistent pseudonymous identity,…
Key Highlights KuCoin Nigeria Limited is seeking regulatory admission through Nigeria’s SEC Accelerated Regulatory Incubation Programme. The company demonstrated its proposed products, customer onboarding procedures, fiat gateways, technology infrastructure, and…