Cronos says $9.2 million remains unrecovered after Tectonic exploit, chain rollback
A subsequent rollback reversed roughly $111.2 million, but $9.19 million had already left the chain and remains unrecovered, Cronos says.
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Ethereum aims for quantum-safe L1 by 2029 as Hegotá upgrade takes form
Ethereum is targeting full post-quantum security by 2029, starting with account abstraction and censorship resistance upgrades for Hegotá.
Bitcoin holds near $80,000 despite renewed Fed rate hike fears as CPI test looms
The odds of a September Fed rate hike returned to around 60% following Friday's jobs report, with U.S. inflation data due later this week.
DBS, Citi say they completed first weekend USD payment between Singapore and US via tokenized deposits
DBS and Citi completed the first weekend cross-border USD settlement between Singapore and the U.S. using tokenized deposits.
Liquid Network attacker returns 3,400 BTC after bug fix, retains nearly 600 BTC
The Liquid Network attacker returned 3,400 BTC after Blockstream said its bridge nodes had been patched, leaving about 598.5 BTC behind.
Capital B buys $29 million in bitcoin after raises, its largest BTC purchase in a year
This brought its total holdings to 3,521 BTC and marked the company's largest bitcoin purchase since September 2025.
Coldcard exploiter moves 45% of funds stolen from ‘Wave 3’ attacks, Galaxy says
As of mid-August, Galaxy said it had identified roughly 1,779 BTC stolen from 190 victims and more than 8,600 addresses.
South Korea’s Hanwha develops tokenized securities platform on Avalanche as local regulation takes shape: report
South Korea passed amendments that integrate tokenized securities into the existing financial system, coming into effect next February.
Harmony to fully sunset Layer 1, proposes token migration to Ethereum for AI video initiative
Harmony said it would help validators transition to its proposed new initiative, a 'remix economy' with AI video creators.
Spot bitcoin ETFs pull in $987 million last week as institutional demand recovers
Spot bitcoin ETFs drew in $3.52 billion in net inflows in August, their largest monthly positive flows since September 2025.
Liquid Network pauses after purported ‘white-hat’ hackers withdraw $320 million in bitcoin
The Bitcoin sidechain has been paused, with exchanges suspending LBTC deposits and withdrawals as Blockstream works to contact those responsible.
STONK surges 250% to $140 million market cap as stock-paired Solana launchpad StonkFun pulls volume to Raydium and Jupiter
The platform integrated with Raydium's LaunchLab on Saturday as RAY also saw gains of more than 40%.