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Key Takeaways Live on Ethereum mainnet since September 30. Protocol default: 1,000 payments per hash chain. Front-running flaw found and fixed on October 21. The founder, who posts as Hadamar
Zcash price has rebounded approximately 2.6% to $1,184 on October 25, recovering from recent losses as traders prepare for the network’s November upgrade despite continued liquidations and we
A reported loss of $721.14K on the Base network has drawn attention from blockchain security monitors, with on-chain alert service PeckShieldAlert flagging the incident. The mechanics of the
Of four stories moving through the feeds this morning, only South Korea's tax postponement carries a scheduled deadline that forces anyone to act before the US open. Of four stories moving th
Electrum 4.8.3 has shipped a fix for an exploited bug tied to Bitcoin fee bumping, a transaction workflow that lets users raise a pending transaction's fee to improve its confirmation prospec
Keystone confirmed exposure of customer contact and order information. The company says private keys and recovery phrases were unaffected. Order-specific phishing messages are the main immedi
Initia stopped producing blocks at 15:41:30 UTC on October 23, roughly forty-two minutes after an attacker minted 2,000,000 AUSD out of nothing and fourteen minutes after pseudonymous researc
Attackers reportedly exploited a fee-increase feature to drain funds from Electrum users before a fix was issued. Electrum Wallet developers have shipped a patch addressing a security flaw th
An account on Polymarket has taken a $360,000 position on the Federal Reserve holding interest rates unchanged in October, a trade size large enough to register as a notable signal in the pre
Malicious Electrum servers replaced users’ just-broadcast bitcoin payments with fake zero-fee transactions paying lookalike addresses. Servers apparently bet victims would raise the fee and s
Electrum has released version 4.8.3 to fix a high-severity Bitcoin wallet vulnerability that malicious servers have exploited to redirect user payments, with developers confirming at least on
