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The crypto market woke up in a much better mood today. Just a day after a sharp 1.9% drop on August 26, prices turned around fast, and traders who were nursing losses yesterday are smiling ag
A Clean Break from Fragile Bridges Cross-chain crypto bridges break often. Hackers know it, and the billions stolen from compromised validator keys and bug-ridden smart contracts prove it. Po
Optimisus wrote earlier this month that ETH had built a floor at $1,600, reclaimed $1,800, and that $2,000 was the level doing the real work. The call was that ETH had proven buyers existed a
An eCash chain began producing blocks alongside Bitcoin on August 23, at block height 963,648. Bitcoin holders did not receive permanent ECX. What the alpha phase distributed was practice tok
Solana validators are considering governance changes that could sharply reduce future SOL issuance and lower staking yields over the next several years. The main proposal would accelerate Sol
Decentralized finance lending protocol Moonwell has suffered an exploit on Base with estimated losses of approximately $8.7 million, according to blockchain security researchers monitoring th
XRP’s potential role in payment settlement and tokenized finance could make traditional market capitalization calculations less useful when evaluating its network utility, according to crypto
A drastic drop from 25 million to 1 million dollars and a BlackRock that quietly converts more than 5 billion dollars of bitcoin into ETF shares. You will see, the reason given by the Wall St
A StarkWare researcher has mined what the company describes as the first quantum-safe transaction on the Bitcoin mainnet, showing that holders could move coins into storage a working quantum
Moonwell was hit by an estimated $9 million oracle manipulation attack on Base after exploiters inflated the price of thinly traded MAMO collateral and used the artificial valuation to borrow
Bitcoin(BTC) has a stronger macro case as U.S. debt tops $40 trillion, according to BlackRock digital assets chief Robert Mitchnick. Key Points: Mitchnick said debt and deficit concerns are i
Ethereum price held above $2,500 on Aug. 27 after strong US spot ETF inflows, improving global liquidity conditions, and a historic short squeeze supported its weekly breakout. Summary Ethere
