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
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Clearstar's XRP yield vault lifts its deposit cap again
Vault grows more than sixfold from launch cap The @ClearstarLabs earnXRP vault on @FlareNetworks has raised its deposit cap for at least the second time, with holdings now standing at 33.73 m
Algorand finalizes every block the moment it lands
Bitcoin users are accustomed to waiting. Because a freshly mined block can still be orphaned when the network settles on a longer chain, the convention is to wait for several confirmations be
Internet Identity gives each app a different identifier for the same person
Connect the same crypto wallet to ten apps and all ten see the same address. That shared address is a trail anyone can piece together into a single profile, quietly eroding user privacy acros
Times of India-backed Abound to build its next products on Monad
Abound picks Monad for its next chapter Abound, the super app for Indians in the US backed by Times Internet (Times of India Group), has crossed $500 million in remittance volume, with the US
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
Analysts track ongoing exploit draining Avici user accounts as its token drops over 43%
An active exploit targeting Avici (@avici), a Solana-based neobank, is draining user card balances as on-chain researchers race to quantify the damage. One analyst put the running total at $6
Chainlink runs a separate network whose only job is checking CCIP's work
Cross-chain bridges have proven to be one of crypto's most dangerous attack surfaces. Major incidents including Ronin ($624 million), Wormhole ($326 million), and Nomad ($190 million) each ex
Russia's Largest Bank Sber Eyes Ethereum And USDT Loans
Sberbank Moves to Expand Crypto-Backed Lending Russia's largest bank, Sberbank, is preparing to accept Ethereum ($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
Bitcoin May Be Quantum-Safe If Musk-Backed 400-Qubit Theory Holds
Elon Musk endorsed a physics theory capping quantum computers near 400 qubits, and Bitcoin(BTC) traders read it as proof the 835 qubits needed to break the network are unreachable. Key Points