Cronos Halts Chain After $75M Tectonic Exploit
Key Takeaways Cronos halted the network after Tectonic’s exploit. Researchers place the affected amount near $75M. Most suspected funds remain trapped on-chain. Crypto.com’s centralized app a
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Cronos halts blockchain after $75M Tectonic exploit
Cronos halted block production on Aug. 30 after detecting an exploit involving Tectonic, a decentralized lending protocol operating on the blockchain. Summary Cronos validators halted block p
Why Is Mantle (MNT) Price Surging Today?
Mantle (MNT) is trading at $0.571592, up 10.34% over the past 24 hours, as a double-digit intraday rally lifts the token well off the multi-month floor it carved out earlier this month, even
Crypto Market Brief: Key Trends Connecting Today's News | Afternoon, August 31, 2026
The crypto market brief for the afternoon of August 31, 2026 centers on a single macro signal still moving through digital asset trading desks: Federal Reserve official Kevin Warsh's Jackson
Cronos Halts Network After Tectonic Exploit Hits $75M
The Cronos blockchain was brought to a halt on August 30 after an attacker exploited Tectonic, the chain's largest decentralized lending protocol, in a price-manipulation attack that on-chain
Avalanche validators poll a random handful of peers instead of the whole network
Why classical consensus does not scale Traditional consensus protocols require every validator to hear from every other validator before a decision is made. That works fine for small networks
BNB Chain hosts the majority of AI agent registrations tracked by 8004scan
@BNBCHAIN has emerged as the dominant network for on-chain AI agent registrations, accounting for roughly 62% of all agents tracked by @8004_scan, the multichain explorer dedicated to the ERC
Hedera tokens enforce their rules through keys assigned at creation
On Ethereum, a token is a smart contract. Every rule it enforces is code that someone wrote, audited, and deployed. @hedera takes a fundamentally different approach. Tokens as Native Ledger E
Lighter expands Chainlink integration to more than 100 new markets
Perpetuals exchange @Lighter_xyz has extended its use of @chainlink price feeds to more than 100 additional markets, the project announced on August 28. The expansion adds to the 25 markets a
Russia's Largest Bank Sber Eyes Ethereum And USDT Loans
Sberbank Moves to Expand Crypto-Backed Lending Russia's largest bank, Sberbank, is preparing to accept Ethereum ($ETH) and Tether's USDT as collateral for loans, adding to a Bitcoin ($BTC) le
What Is Meme Coin? Culture, Risks & the 2026 Market
What Is Meme Coin and How Does It Work in the 2026 Crypto Market? Walk into any crypto Telegram group or X thread these days, and someone is almost certainly talking about the newest dog-them
Russia crypto trading could reach $46B in year one
Russia’s regulated crypto trading market could process between 3.5 trillion and 4 trillion rubles during its first year, according to an Aug. 29 forecast from SberCIB Investment Research. Sum