Zcash Bug Could Have Minted Unlimited Fake Coins
Zcash founder Zooko Wilcox has disclosed a critical security flaw in the network's Orchard shielded pool that could have allowed an attacker to mint an unlimited number of counterfeit ZEC wit
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Solana Treasury Firm Forward Industries Moves $32M SOL to Coinbase Prime
Large Transfer Breaks Month of Silence Forward Industries, the NASDAQ-listed firm that bills itself as the world's largest corporate holder of Solana, has moved 455,784 $SOL, worth approximat
Polygon Adoption: How Global Brands and Institutions Are Using the Network
Polygon has already hosted some of the most notable institutional blockchain deployments to date. In November 2022, JP Morgan executed a live cross-currency DeFi transaction on Polygon PoS, m
Zcash Bug Could Have Minted Unlimited Fake Coins
Zcash founder Zooko Wilcox has disclosed a critical security flaw in the network's Orchard shielded pool that could have allowed an attacker to mint an unlimited number of counterfeit ZEC wit
USDC on Stellar: Why Circle Chose the Network for a Key Stablecoin Deployment
Circle, the company behind USD Coin (USDC), has made Stellar one of its core blockchain deployments for the world's largest regulated stablecoin. The decision comes down to three concrete fac
Venom DAO Opens Community Vote on 150K TPS Network Upgrade
Venom DAO, the decentralized governance platform of the Venom blockchain, has officially initiated a community vote. Particularly, Venom DAO’s latest vote targets VIP-003, a remarkable govern
Arthur Hayes Abandoned ZEC After Exploit Concerns
Hayes Exits ZEC Over Unresolvable Supply Uncertainty BitMEX co-founder Arthur Hayes (@CryptoHayes) has sold his entire $ZEC position after a critical vulnerability in Zcash's Orchard shielded
HBAR Tokenomics: Supply Schedule, Treasury Management and Network Fees
HBAR, the native token of the Hedera network, has a fixed total supply of 50 billion tokens, all minted at genesis in August 2018 and placed under the control of the Hedera Council's treasury
Securing Billions: What is Chainlink's CCIP?
Chainlink's Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP) is a messaging and token-transfer layer that enables different blockchains to send value and instructions to one another through a sin
Explained: FXRP & XRPFi on Flare Network
FXRP is a one-to-one wrapped version of XRP that lives as an ERC-20 token on Flare Network. It lets XRP holders use their XRP inside smart contracts, lending markets, DEXs, and yield vaults w
Stellar TVL Surged to Nearly $200M, What's Behind It?
Stellar's (@StellarOrg) DeFi total value locked (TVL) crossed $200 million for the first time in late April 2026, with the on-chain figure printing $197.41 million on April 24 per DefiLlama,
Polkadot vs Cosmos: Two Interoperability Approaches Compared
Polkadot and Cosmos both connect separate blockchains, but through fundamentally different engineering. Polkadot ties every connected chain to a central Relay Chain for shared security and co