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TLDR: Switchboard halted Move-based oracle operations on Aptos, Sui, IOTA and Movement after a potential compromise. An IOTA oracle incident allegedly pushed a price feed to $10M, enabling ab
If you have funds sitting in the DeFi lending protocol Ajna v2, withdraw them now. The development team itself called for exactly that on August 29, 2026 at 04:58 UTC: withdraw all quote toke
Switchboard has halted operations across Aptos, Sui, IOTA and Movement after flagging a potential compromise, taking the oracle network offline on all four chains at once while the incident i
Key Takeaways Six Cosmos EVM networks were exploited. Attackers converted about $5.72 million in assets. Cosmos Labs underestimated the reported vulnerability. Operators must upgrade or halt
Polkadot price trades near $0.84 after falling below its 50-day EMA. DOT now has a hard supply cap of 2.1 billion tokens. More than 900 million DOT has moved into staking. The Polkadot price
Chainlink (LINK) is displaying renewed bullish momentum after rebounding from major support levels, with technical analysts highlighting the presence of optimistic chart patterns and elevated
One week after the European Blockchain Convention, Barcelona returns to the technology scene. The AI Summit Barcelona takes place on September 22 and 23, 2026 at the World Trade Center, on th
Tokenized stock transactions saw a pronounced acceleration over the last 30 days, with monthly transfer volume rising 415% to $29.5 billion, according to platform data from RWA.xyz. The secto
Ethereum Smart Contracts: A Major Network Update Ethereum smart contracts just went through one of the biggest infrastructure updates in the network's history. The Fusaka upgrade activated on
Financial institutions are increasingly interested in blockchain, DeFi, and digital assets. UNI is a token for the DeFi infrastructure, while SPX, PEPE, GIGA, and TURBO are mainly meme tokens
Moonwell’s post-mortem dated August 28 put the remaining borrower obligations from the MAMO market incident on Base at approximately $9.131 million. The protocol said liquidations began 32 se
Ajna Protocol, a decentralized lending platform that operates without external price oracles or governance controls, has suffered a major security breach resulting in the loss of approximatel
