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A five-person team of former Ethereum Foundation researchers stood up EthLabs on Wednesday, backed by roughly $11.3 billion in ETH held by Bitmine Immersion Technologies and SharpLink Gaming. The new nonprofit will compete with the Foundation for talent and research direction — and the funders have said so publicly.
Aave saw its strongest single day of Ethereum wallet creation in nearly five years on Tuesday, adding 1,806 addresses even as bitcoin closed under $60,000 and the fear-and-greed index sat at 13. The trigger is a mix of the V4 rollout, Smart Value Recapture revenue, and a Standard Chartered price note that circulated for a week.
Consensys is trying to turn MetaMask from a swap interface into a full self-custodial current account, routing stablecoin balances into Morpho for yield while letting users spend at any Mastercard merchant.
Kraken launched in-app on-chain trading for more than 2,500 Solana tokens on June 18, using Privy wallets and Jupiter quotes. The FAQ explicitly states none of these tokens are listed, custodied, or reviewed by Kraken for investment merit, quality, or suitability.
Kleros founder Clément Lesaege posted a 'Validator Redirected Revenue' proposal to ethresear.ch on June 21 that would let validators redirect 0-10% of staking rewards to public goods. If a majority signals support, the redirect becomes mandatory for the entire validator set.
Consensys's Agent Wallet runs through a CLI, lets an AI agent trade across ten EVM chains plus Hyperliquid, and routes any flagged transaction back to the user for 2FA approval. Early Access opens to 200 traders.
Every cirBTC is backed 1:1 by native BTC at a regulated Circle entity, with Chainlink Proof of Reserve verifying the float on chain. The launch is calibrated to siphon institutional flow away from WBTC and Coinbase's cbBTC.
Bumosarang, the country's seventh-largest prepaid funeral provider, has disclosed a $33 million unrealised loss on a $43 million position in the T-REX 2X Long BMNR Daily Target ETF — held inside the customer prepayment pool.
HYPE crossed $56 on May 21 and Hyperliquid's fully diluted valuation overtook Solana's, while Bitwise and 21Shares ETFs combined for a record $25.5 million in net inflows the day before.
The biggest consensus overhaul in Solana's history is now running on validator infrastructure outside mainnet, with Anatoly Yakovenko targeting Q3 for mainnet activation. The change replaces Proof-of-History and TowerBFT outright.
SPCX-USDC launched on Hyperliquid at 5:16 AM UTC with a $150 reference price and a $1.78 trillion implied valuation. By the close it was trading at $202.89, implying a valuation well above any private-market mark SpaceX has cleared.
THORChain confirmed on May 15 that one of its six Asgard vaults was compromised for roughly $10.7 million via a GG20 threshold-signature key-leak; on May 18, Blockaid flagged an $11.58 million drain on the Verus-Ethereum bridge caused by the same class of source-destination value-binding gap that broke Wormhole and Nomad in 2022.
Ethereum's co-founder published a long essay on Sunday arguing that machine-checkable mathematical proofs, generated and verified by AI, could become the foundational security layer for blockchains, cryptography and critical internet infrastructure — even as the same AI capabilities accelerate vulnerability discovery on the offence side.
WETH borrowing parameters on Aave V3 returned to pre-incident values across Ethereum Core, Ethereum Prime, Arbitrum, Base, Mantle and Linea on Monday, after more than 95 per cent of the unbacked rsETH from April's exploit was clawed back through liquidations.
A compromised admin key let an attacker mint 1,000 unbacked eBTC on Monad before Echo Protocol regained control and burnt the remaining 955 tokens. The nominal exposure was $76.7 million; the realised loss, laundered through Tornado Cash, came to about $821,700.
NUVA, co-developed by Animoca Brands and Nuva Labs, has linked $19 billion of Figure Technologies' tokenised assets — including a $18.4 billion HELOC portfolio — to Ethereum DeFi through two new products: nvYLDS and nvPRIME.
An attacker minted roughly 1,000 unbacked eBTC worth $76.7 million on Echo Protocol's Monad deployment by compromising a single admin key, though the realised loss was around $816,000 after the team regained control and burned the remaining tokens.
TrustedVolumes, a market maker resolving orders for 1inch Fusion, was drained across 85 transactions on May 7 after an attacker added themselves to the contract's signer allowlist — a function any wallet could call.
A class action filed in April alleges Circle had both the technical capability and a recent track record of freezing wallets, then declined to act for eight hours while $230 million in stolen USDC moved out of Solana through its own bridge.
Aave's 29-page filing argues that briefly-stolen ETH cannot be treated as North Korean property, even when Lazarus Group was the thief — and warns the SDNY restraining order could chill every future DeFi hack recovery.
