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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.

The tokenisation platform behind BlackRock's BUIDL fund has added TRON to its multichain distribution strategy, gaining access to a network that processed $7.9 trillion in transfers last year.

The new Spot Price Range Execution Rule creates a moving corridor around each trading pair's reference price. Orders that attempt to fill beyond the band are automatically trimmed.

Mantle Network's xStocks product — built with Bybit, BackedFi, and Flowdesk — lets traders buy ERC-20 tokens tracking Tesla, Nvidia, Apple, and seven other US equities around the clock on its Ethereum Layer 2, using Swiss DLT-compliant tracker certificates as the legal wrapper.

Tether has released QVAC, an open-source software development kit that runs and fine-tunes AI models entirely on local hardware, as part of the stablecoin issuer's increasingly expensive push to become something more than a dollar-peg factory.

The exchange has integrated PreStocks' tokenised exposure to SpaceX, OpenAI, Anthropic, Anduril, Kalshi and Polymarket into a new Markets tab in the Web3 Wallet — though holders receive no voting, dividend or information rights, and the feature is blocked to US users.

Ethereum's proof-of-stake participation rate passed 30 percent of circulating supply this week, with roughly 37 million ETH now committed to validators and the cost of attacking the network pushed beyond $120 billion in collateral alone.

Subnet operator Covenant AI exited Bittensor on Thursday, publishing a detailed indictment of co-founder Jacob Steeves that wiped up to 23 percent off the TAO token's price and triggered a whistleblower document dump alleging near-total founder control over the network's governance.

The US Treasury will share the same cyber-threat intelligence it distributes to traditional banks with qualifying crypto exchanges, custodians and wallet providers, in an admission that digital assets are now inside the perimeter of core financial infrastructure.

The Treasury Secretary and Fed Chair convened an urgent meeting this week with the chiefs of Citigroup, Morgan Stanley, Bank of America, Wells Fargo and Goldman Sachs to warn that Anthropic's new Mythos model can identify and exploit software vulnerabilities at a speed and cost the current defensive stack was never designed to resist. For crypto, the implications are sharper still.

A New York Times investigation led by Pulitzer winner John Carreyrou has named Adam Back, the Blockstream CEO who invented Hashcash in 1997, as its best candidate for the identity of Satoshi Nakamoto. Back denies the claim, and the evidence falls short of proof while still clearing a higher bar than any previous unmasking attempt.

SOL Strategies, the Nasdaq-listed Solana infrastructure company, has agreed to buy zero-knowledge privacy startup Darklake Labs for $1.2 million, bringing the Zyga proof system and its research team in-house. The acquisition gives the validator operator a native defence against MEV and front-running at a moment when the Solana community is still absorbing its worst DeFi exploit.

The new Ethereum execution client processes 1.7 billion gas units per second on a disk footprint of just 240 gigabytes, delivering a 20-fold improvement in block persistence and removing the execution layer as a bottleneck for the network's scaling roadmap.

Olaoluwa Osuntokun's prototype lets users prove wallet ownership without a digital signature, solving the collateral damage problem in Bitcoin's most likely response to quantum computing threats.

A paper published by BTQ Technologies calculates that using quantum computers to mine bitcoin at current difficulty would demand roughly 10 to the power of 25 watts — approaching stellar energy output — and argues the real quantum threat lies in cryptographic signatures, not mining.

The USDC issuer's Layer-1 blockchain will ship post-quantum signature support at mainnet, making it one of the first production chains to offer opt-in protection against the threat that keeps cryptographers awake at night.