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Aave on Tuesday published the technical proposal that will determine whether DeFi can claw back the $292 million Kelp DAO lost to North Korean hackers ten days ago. The two-part plan re-collateralises rsETH with fresh ETH and uses a temporary oracle adjustment to liquidate seven attacker positions stranded across Aave and Compound.
A vulnerability in Litecoin's MimbleWimble Extension Block allowed attackers to forge invalid peg-out transactions and attempt double-spends, triggering the deepest chain reorganisation in the network's history. GitHub commits show developers had a fix weeks before the exploit landed.
AWS now lists Chainlink Data Feeds, Data Streams and Proof of Reserve on its marketplace, complete with reference architectures for reserve monitoring and automated trading systems built on Lambda, Fargate and DynamoDB.
Giancarlo Lelli used a variant of Shor's algorithm on publicly accessible quantum hardware to derive a private key from its public counterpart, claiming Project Eleven's Q-Day Prize and advancing the timeline for practical quantum attacks on cryptographic systems.
Brussels published a policy paper framing distributed ledger technology as the foundation of an 'internet of value' and confirmed that Pontes, the Eurosystem's DLT settlement platform, will go live in the third quarter of 2026 — making Europe the first major jurisdiction to offer central bank-settled tokenised asset trading.
The release replaces Bitcoin's decade-old transaction queuing system with a cluster-based architecture and introduces private broadcasting through Tor and I2P, marking the protocol's most significant infrastructure upgrade in years.
A security incident at web infrastructure provider Vercel, traced to a compromised Google Workspace connection through AI tool Context.ai, has sent Web3 teams scrambling to lock down credentials and audit their supply chains.
Crypto protocols have lost $606 million to exploits in the first 18 days of April, driven by two enormous bridge attacks attributed to North Korea's Lazarus Group, making it the worst month for crypto security since the Bybit breach in February 2025.
An attacker drained 116,500 rsETH from Kelp's LayerZero-powered bridge on Saturday, triggering a withdrawal stampede at Aave that wiped a quarter of the lending giant's deposits in under 24 hours.
CoinShares' Q1 report shows 15 to 20 per cent of the global mining fleet now operating below breakeven, with three consecutive difficulty reductions marking the first sustained capitulation since July 2022.
Ethereum's base layer handled 200.4 million transactions between January and March 2026, surpassing 200 million for the first time. Yet ether remains more than 50 per cent below its August 2025 peak, exposing a structural disconnect between network usage and token value.
DoubleZero Edge went live in public beta on Thursday, routing Solana block data over dedicated fibre to deliver latency improvements of up to 100 milliseconds in Asia, with 379 validators — 43 per cent of the network's stake — already publishing to the platform.
The operator of Switzerland's and Spain's national stock exchanges will stream real-time pricing for companies including Nestlé, Novartis, and Banco Santander through Chainlink's oracle network, making institutional-grade equity data programmable across 75 blockchains.
Blockstream's CEO told Paris Blockchain Week that Bitcoin should build quantum-resistant upgrades now through voluntary migration, opposing BIP-361's plan to freeze coins in vulnerable address formats on a five-year timeline.
The hardware wallet maker appointed Ian Rogers as its first 'Chief Human Agency Officer' and unveiled a phased AI security roadmap — a bet that autonomous crypto agents will need physical hardware to keep humans in the loop.
Listed bitcoin mining companies could derive as much as 70 per cent of their revenue from artificial intelligence infrastructure by December, according to Bloomberg, as production costs now exceed the price of the asset they were built to mine.
A domain name hijack on CoW Swap's website redirected users to a malicious interface that drained wallets through fake approval prompts, in the latest front-end attack to hit a major DeFi protocol.
The foundation's new subsidy programme covers up to 30 per cent of audit costs for any Ethereum mainnet team, with more than 20 firms including Certora, Quantstamp and Spearbit ready to take on the work.
The Digital Currency Group subsidiary's new pool already controls 30 per cent of Zcash's hashrate, alongside a new block explorer at Zcashinfo.com aimed at institutional miners.
HSBC's Global Payments Solutions unit has completed a pilot issuing and settling tokenised deposits on the Canton Network, marking the bank's first use of a public blockchain for the service.
