Téměř veškerý oběh LUNC vznikl během jediného týdne v květnu 2022, kdy nabídka vyskočila z méně než 400 milionů na více než 6,5 bilionu během 72 hodin. UST tehdy spadl z 1 USD na 0,01 USD.
Terra Classic's circulating supply sits near 5.5 trillion tokens today. Almost none of it existed before a single week in May 2022.
How the Death Spiral Minted Trillions Terra's protocol allowed anyone to redeem 1 UST, its dollar-pegged algorithmic stablecoin, for $1 worth of LUNA at any price. The mechanics were straightforward in calm markets but lethal under stress: as LUNA's price fell, each dollar redeemed minted an ever-larger number of new tokens.
The run began on May 7, 2022, when two addresses pulled 375 million UST out of Anchor, the lending protocol that was paying around 20% annual yield on roughly three-quarters of UST's entire supply, according to research published by the National Bureau of Economic Research. Once a few large holders of UST adjusted their positions on May 7, 2022, other large traders followed. Blockchain technology allowed investors to monitor each other's actions and amplified the speed of the run.
The math became brutal quickly. With LUNA at $0.10, each redeemed dollar produced ten new tokens. At $0.01, it produced a hundred. When all was said and done, $LUNC's circulating supply increased from less than 400 million to over 6.5 trillion in a matter of 72 hours. UST fell from $1 to $0.01, taking the LUNA token from $80 to essentially zero. The supply had grown roughly 20,000-fold.
During extreme market volatility, the system created a death spiral. When UST lost its peg, arbitrageurs burned UST to mint LUNA, increasing LUNA's supply and decreasing its price. This created negative feedback loops that destroyed both tokens' values simultaneously.
What the Burn Tax Is Working Against The original chain was preserved but rebranded as Terra Luna Classic, with its original token renamed to LUNC. Those trillions of tokens are what the community's burn tax works against today.
The community passed Governance Proposal #12223, raising the on-chain transaction burn tax to 1.5%, effective August 2, 2026. This splits as 1.2% permanently burned, 0.15% to the Community Pool, and 0.15% to the Oracle Pool.
This led to the burn of over 2.04 billion LUNC in August alone, bringing the historical cumulative burn above 455 billion tokens. Progress, but the scale of the problem is stark: with a circulating supply of 5.52 trillion, the current burn rate reduces supply by only about 0.6% annually, meaning sustained high transaction volume is critical for meaningful impact.
This burn velocity would require decades to achieve the supply levels that some community members target, often cited as 10 billion tokens or less, highlighting the long-term nature of the deflationary strategy.
Sources:
NBER: Anatomy of a Run: The Terra Luna Crash
CoinMarketCap: Terra Classic Latest Updates and Burn Data
CryptoNews: Luna Classic Burn Tracker and Supply History
CZ přiznal, že podcenil růst tokenizovaných aktiv RWA, protože on-chain tokenizovaná aktiva podle RWA.xyz dosáhla 38,35 miliardy USD. Za 30 dní vzrostla o 1,54 % a počet držitelů vzrostl o 104 % na téměř 3 miliony.
TLDR: RWA.xyz tracked $38.35B in distributed assets on-chain, up 1.54% in 30 days as holders neared 3 million. Ethereum led distributed RWAs with $17.3B, ahead of BNB Chain at $5.8B and Solana at roughly $4.1B on-chain. Tokenized stock transfer volume jumped over 415% to $29.5B in 30 days, while distributed value hit $2.54B. Ondo Finance offers 440+ tokenized stocks and ETFs, showing how RWAs are expanding beyond Treasury products. Binance co-founder Changpeng Zhao has acknowledged that he underestimated real-world asset tokenization as on-chain assets approach a $39 billion market value. Speaking during a Binance Clubhouse Bali 2026 community Q&A published August 23, Zhao said he paid little attention to RWAs 18 months earlier.
CZ: I Definitely Underestimated the Growth of RWA
Binance founder Changpeng Zhao (CZ) @cz_binance said during the Binance Clubhouse Bali 2026 Community Q&A on August 23 that until about a year and a half ago, he did not expect RWA to grow to such a large scale, but now he is… pic.twitter.com/jPnJ9tV3ms
— Wu Blockchain (@WuBlockchain) August 30, 2026
That view has changed as traditional financial instruments increasingly move onto blockchain networks. Zhao said 24/7 trading, transparency, lower fees, and global access now give tokenization clear advantages over traditional market structures. He also noted that earlier crypto trends, including NFTs and memecoins, grew far beyond his initial expectations.
CZ Reassesses RWA Growth as On-chain Value Nears $39B The market data now helps explain CZ’s shift in perspective. RWA.xyz recorded $38.35 billion in distributed real-world assets on-chain as of August 28, excluding stablecoins. That total increased 1.54% over 30 days, while the number of asset holders more than doubled during the same period.
Nearly 3 million wallets now hold distributed RWAs, reflecting a 104% monthly increase. Separately, RWA.xyz tracked $380.88 billion in represented asset value across the broader tokenization market.
Source: RWA.xyz
Ethereum remained the largest blockchain for distributed RWAs, holding about $17.2 billion. BNB Chain followed with $5.7 billion, while Solana accounted for approximately $4.1 billion. Within that market, tokenized Treasury products remain among the sector’s largest individual assets.
Circle’s USYC stood near $2.88 billion, while BlackRock’s BUIDL reached roughly $2.76 billion. Ondo Finance’s USDY followed at about $2.19 billion. However, tokenized equities are becoming a faster-growing segment.
Monthly transfer volume for tokenized stocks surged more than 415% to $29.5 billion during the latest 30-day period. Their distributed value reached $2.54 billion, representing growth of about 637% from one year earlier.
Ondo Finance has also expanded the practical reach of tokenized equities. The platform now offers more than 440 tokenized stocks and exchange-traded funds to eligible non-U.S. investors across several blockchains.
Tokenized Stocks Surge as Regulation Moves Closer The expansion of Tokenized Assets is also unfolding alongside clearer regulatory discussion in the United States. The Securities and Exchange Commission issued January guidance explaining how federal securities laws apply to tokenized securities.
The guidance distinguished issuer-sponsored tokens from third-party tokenized products, giving the market a clearer framework for understanding different token structures. SEC Chair Paul Atkins later said the agency’s 2026 agenda includes clearer rules covering custody and trading of tokenized securities on-chain .
Meanwhile, CZ did not describe RWA growth as crypto’s next guaranteed dominant trend. Instead, he grouped RWAs with perpetual decentralized exchanges and AI agents as emerging sectors that could shape the industry’s next phase.
His reassessment nevertheless reflects a measurable shift in the market. Tokenized Assets now span government debt, equities, commodities, credit, and other traditional instruments, while distributed value has moved close to $39 billion.
For CZ, the change is less about predicting the next crypto narrative and more about recognizing an existing market transformation. RWAs have moved from a niche concept toward financial infrastructure with rapidly growing users, assets, and transaction activity.
AVICI po exploitu starého smart kontraktu na Solaně spadl o 49 % z denního maxima na historické minimum 0,217 USD. Avici uvedl ztrátu 500 800 USD a slíbil plnou náhradu klientům.
TLDR An exploited security flaw in a legacy Rain card smart contract resulted in approximately $1.1 million drained from various Solana-based platforms Avici suffered $500,800 in damages impacting 1,685 cardholders; Tria experienced losses exceeding $430,000 affecting 636 users AVICI token plummeted 49% from its daily peak, reaching an all-time low of $0.217 The stolen stablecoin funds were converted to SOL, transferred to Ethereum, and laundered via Tornado Cash Avici and Tria have both committed to fully reimbursing impacted customers; Avici submitted a complaint to federal authorities A security weakness in a deprecated smart contract has resulted in a $1.1 million theft targeting several Solana-based crypto card platforms, with neobanks Avici and Tria bearing the brunt of customer losses.
⚠️ALERT: Crypto neobank Avici is being drained in an apparent ongoing attack.
More than $1 MILLION has left card collateral accounts on the Solana-based platform, per on-chain data, with the attacker's wallet funded through the deBridge cross-chain bridge.
Avici says it is… pic.twitter.com/n2pul5Bkrs
— Coin Bureau (@coinbureau) August 28, 2026
Rain, the infrastructure provider offering stablecoin card services as a Visa principal member, confirmed that its security monitoring identified the weakness in a legacy contract version. All platforms operating on the compromised version received immediate upgrades, with Rain confirming no subsequent malicious activity has been detected.
The perpetrator leveraged the security gap by continuously submitting signed authorizations, inserting themselves as administrators on individual card-collateral wallets, and extracting the funds.
Following the theft, the stablecoins were converted to Solana, transferred across the bridge to Ethereum, and subsequently routed through the Tornado Cash mixing service.
Avici Suffers Largest Losses Avici, a self-custody neobank enabling users to spend cryptocurrency through a Visa-linked credit card, disclosed losses of $500,800 impacting 1,685 cardholders.
According to the platform, the breach was confined to a specific Solana smart contract housing funds deposited when customers loaded their card balances. User-controlled wallets on Solana and Ethereum-compatible chains remained secure and unaffected.
Avici committed to fully compensating all impacted card balances. Additionally, the firm submitted an official complaint to the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center. Details regarding reimbursement timing and the capital source remain undisclosed.
Following the breach, the AVICI token collapsed 49% from its 24-hour peak of $0.43 to an unprecedented low of $0.217, later stabilizing around $0.378.
Avici Price Tria Confirms Breach, Commits to Complete Restitution Tria, another neobank utilizing Rain’s infrastructure, disclosed that 636 users were compromised, with aggregate losses surpassing $430,000.
Tria guaranteed complete reimbursement for affected customers. The platform’s native token also experienced volatility, declining over 10% temporarily after the incident became public.
Both companies have refrained from identifying additional affected platforms, and the comprehensive loss figure across all compromised services remains unclear.
The discrepancy between the $1.1 million tracked through blockchain analysis and Avici’s disclosed losses indicates that additional Rain-integrated platforms likely suffered breaches as well.
Industry Context This security incident occurs amid rapid expansion in crypto card adoption. Monitored crypto-card transaction volume surged more than threefold to $1.04 billion in July, with stablecoins accounting for 70% of over 10 million transactions.
The exploit underscores a critical custody distinction for consumers. Assets stored in Avici’s self-custodial wallets remained protected, but funds transferred to card balances entered a third-party contract infrastructure where the vulnerability existed.
According to Avici’s service agreements, Third National functions as the official card issuer, with Rain supplying the underlying technological framework.
Solana token Trump Digital Gold (GOLD) spadl z tržní kapitalizace 66 milionů USD o 99 % poté, co insider peněženky prodaly 824,54 milionu tokenů, tedy 82,45 % celkové nabídky. Propagoval ho ověřený účet spojený s Trumpovým merchem, ale autorizace rodiny Trumpových potvrzena nebyla.
Key Takeaways A Solana-based token called Trump Digital Gold (GOLD) reached a $66 million valuation before plummeting 99% within approximately 30 seconds Insider wallets controlling 82.45% of total supply liquidated their positions, netting around $1.01 million worth of Solana The token received promotion from a verified X account associated with Trump merchandise, though no Trump family authorization was established Just seven days prior, Eric Trump publicly dismissed rumors of any new coin launch, labeling such claims fraudulent The incident follows a pattern of politically themed token scams on the Solana network A cryptocurrency token branded as Trump Digital Gold emerged on the Solana network Saturday morning, only to shed virtually all its value in a matter of hours. Blockchain data analysts attributed the dramatic collapse to coordinated selling by a handful of wallets holding the majority of tokens.
⚠️ ALERT: Trump-linked account appears to have been HACKED to promote a “Trump Digital Gold” rug pull.
A post promoting $GOLD appeared on ‘realtrumpcoins1,’ an account followed by the official Trump account and linked as a merchandise partner to the Trump Organization.$Gold… pic.twitter.com/pt8XhkdgJz
— Coin Bureau (@coinbureau) August 29, 2026
The digital asset was deployed at 7:38 a.m. and rapidly gained traction following promotion from the X account @realtrumpcoins1, which shared the token’s contract address. The account features a verification checkmark and commands over 42,000 followers. Its profile claims official partnership status with the Trump Organization, and Donald Trump himself follows this account.
This perceived connection sparked immediate buying interest. Solana’s rapid deployment capabilities enabled market participants to acquire tokens within moments of the promotional announcement.
Market Cap Peaks at $66 Million Before Catastrophic Drop Heavy trading activity propelled the token’s valuation to $66 million around 9 a.m. Price fluctuations persisted for multiple hours until the promotional content vanished at 11:48 a.m.
According to blockchain investigator EmberCN, addresses associated with the token’s creation offloaded 824.54 million tokens—representing 82.45% of the entire supply—in exchange for 9,784.6 SOL tokens valued at approximately $1.01 million. This massive liquidation caused the market capitalization to crater from $55 million to $1 million in roughly 30 seconds.
Analytics platform Lookonchain identified 15 interconnected wallets that accumulated positions prior to the promotional post’s appearance. These addresses subsequently exited their positions for combined profits near $330,000, based on Lookonchain’s analysis.
By early afternoon hours, the market cap had deteriorated to roughly $700,000, marking a nearly 99% decline from its zenith.
Trump Family Authorization Remains Unverified Donald Trump and his family members issued no public statements endorsing or acknowledging the token. Eric Trump had specifically addressed comparable speculation exactly one week before, on August 22.
“What a joke… This is absolutely not true. No one is launching any kind of coin. If anyone is suggesting otherwise, it’s a fraud,” he wrote.
The promotional account subsequently removed its content. The associated website, realtrumpcoins.com, operates on a domain distinct from the Trump Organization’s legitimate retail platform.
Scheme Resembles Previous Solana Token Scams This collapse follows an established blueprint. Concentrated token ownership combined with social media hype and swift liquidation has characterized multiple Solana token schemes.
A token designated BARRON, similarly referencing a Trump family member, executed an identical pattern in January 2025. An insider address converted a modest initial investment into profits exceeding $1 million following the token’s surge.
The Securities and Exchange Commission has issued warnings about fraudsters exploiting social media to artificially inflate token valuations before dumping positions. Staff guidance issued in February 2025 indicated that meme coins typically fall outside federal securities regulations, providing purchasers with minimal legal recourse.
At publication time, no law enforcement entity had publicly disclosed the identities of the wallet controllers.
Solana Foundation Vice President of Technology Jacob Creech outlined several upcoming Solana upgrades on Aug. 30. Transaction V1 is scheduled for Sept. 9, while the first stage of a network rent reduction is expected during the week beginning Aug. 31.
Summary
Solana plans to activate Transaction V1 on September 9, increasing transaction size to 4,096 bytes. The first rent reduction stage begins next week, starting a five-step path toward 90% savings. Solana already cut target slots to 350 milliseconds, with 300, 250 and 200 planned later. Alpenglow remains targeted for October, with Solana aiming for approximately 150-millisecond finality after mainnet activation. Legacy and version-zero transactions remain compatible because developers must opt into the larger V1 format. Creech also said developers plan to shorten slot times further and target October for Alpenglow. However, these changes follow separate activation processes. Transaction V1 will not automatically reduce slot times or activate Alpenglow.
There are a lot of major changes happening soon
– Next week: First step down in rent reduction
– Sept 9: Transaction V1 goes live
– Dropping slot time even further
– October: Alpenglow
Then we all meetup at Scale or Die in November
Solana development will never be the same
— Jacob Creech (@jacobvcreech) August 29, 2026 Transaction V1 raises Solana’s limit to 4,096 bytes Transaction V1 will raise Solana’s maximum serialized transaction size from 1,232 bytes to 4,096 bytes. The increase is about 3.3 times the existing limit, according to Solana’s official upgrade roadmap.
The larger format could support transactions containing zero-knowledge proofs, complex multisignature instructions and other data-heavy operations. The associated SIMD-0296 proposal also identifies BLS signatures and cross-chain operations as possible uses.
Developers must opt into the V1 format. Existing legacy and version-zero transactions will remain valid. Transaction V1 will not support address lookup tables, meaning applications must decide which format suits each transaction.
The change also requires wallets, application programming interfaces and other infrastructure to handle larger data payloads. The proposal acknowledges possible bandwidth and network fragmentation risks, which makes coordinated testing important before wider adoption.
Solana rent reduction begins with one of five steps The first rent reduction does not deliver the full 90% target immediately. Solana plans five stages that would eventually lower the rent calculation from 6,960 lamports per byte to 696 lamports per byte.
Solana uses rent-exempt balances to limit uncontrolled state growth. Applications lock SOL when creating accounts that store data. That SOL is generally recoverable when the account closes, meaning rent functions more like a refundable deposit than a recurring network fee.
Lower requirements would reduce the amount of SOL that developers must lock when creating token accounts, program accounts and other onchain state. This could lower entry costs for applications that manage many user accounts.
Agave 4.2 included the necessary code, but Solana placed the changes behind independent feature gates. As crypto.news previously reported, validators can activate the rent, transaction-size and slot-time upgrades separately after testing.
Faster Solana slots follow a separate schedule Solana has already reduced its target slot time to 350 milliseconds, down from the previous 400-millisecond target. The network plans additional stages at 300, 250 and eventually 200 milliseconds.
Creech did not provide dates for those remaining stages. Each reduction requires a separate feature activation. Network developers can therefore monitor validator performance before proceeding to the next target.
Shorter slots can improve transaction confirmation speed and increase the frequency at which validators produce blocks. They also place greater timing and networking demands on validators. Solana plans to adjust resource limits proportionally during the rollout.
Transaction V1 and reduced slot times are related to Solana’s broader performance roadmap, but they remain technically distinct. Reports describing Sept. 9 as the date for both changes would overstate Creech’s announcement.
Alpenglow remains an October target Alpenglow is Solana’s proposed consensus redesign. Solana says it aims to reduce transaction finality to approximately 150 milliseconds, compared with the longer confirmation process used by the current consensus system.
The official roadmap lists Alpenglow as “in development,” while Agave 4.3 is expected in October. Creech’s post supports October as the current target, but neither statement confirms a guaranteed mainnet activation date.
Before then, Solana is expected to begin the first rent-reduction stage and activate Transaction V1 on Sept. 9. Further slot reductions will depend on separate validator activations. Alpenglow must also complete testing and secure the required network support.
No verified market movement was directly attributed to Creech’s announcement at publication time.
Spotové Solana ETF přilákaly za 10 dní čisté přílivy ve výši 138 milionů USD, včetně denního maxima 47 milionů USD. BSOL od Bitwise drží 9,3 milionu SOL a spravuje více než 1 miliardu USD.
Glassnode reported on Aug. 28 that Solana spot ETFs recorded $138 million in net inflows over 10 days, including a single-day high of $47 million. Bitwise’s BSOL was reported to hold 9.3 million SOL and exceed $1 billion in assets under management. The original data post is available on X.
The Data Point The report gives a narrow snapshot rather than a promise about future prices. Its figures describe the wallets, products or market segment identified in the post, and the timing matters because crypto activity can change quickly. For the Aster move, the reported return was unrealized. For the GOLD sale, the wallet attribution came from on-chain tracking. For the SOL withdrawals, the transactions show movement from named exchanges but do not reveal the owners’ plans. For the ETF, exchange-balance and volume items, the figures are measurements from the named data providers, not official statements from every market participant.
Why It Matters These developments matter because they show how trading activity, custody decisions and liquidity can affect digital-asset markets. A new perpetual listing can attract leverage as well as attention. A coordinated-looking token sale can raise questions about concentration and disclosure. Large withdrawals may reduce immediately visible exchange balances, but they do not automatically indicate accumulation. ETF inflows can broaden regulated access, while exchange outflows can reflect many motives, including self-custody, staking or transfers between venues. Volume dominance likewise measures participation, not the quality or durability of the assets being traded.
What the Report Does Not Show The posts do not establish that any reported move will continue. They also do not, by themselves, prove intent, ownership or a completed change in market structure. Readers should distinguish realized gains from unrealized positions, observed transfers from wallet labels and data-provider estimates from audited financial disclosures. Those limits are especially important in fast-moving token markets, where thin liquidity can amplify both gains and losses.
Next Indicators Follow-up evidence will include whether the activity persists after the initial move, whether additional wallets or filings clarify attribution, and whether liquidity remains available across venues. In the ETF and exchange-balance cases, subsequent daily flows will show whether the reported direction was temporary or part of a longer trend. Until that evidence arrives, the developments remain dated market observations. BlockchainReporter will continue to separate sourced on-chain data from interpretation and avoid turning a single reading into a forecast. Context is available in earlier market coverage.
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THORChain 3.20 přidává nativní směny Monero (XMR) a Zcash (ZEC) za Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH) a stablecoiny bez wrapped verzí. Uživatelé tak mohou obchodovat přímo, bez centralizované burzy a bez předání úschovy.
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THORChain, a decentralized exchange, announced the launch of THORChain 3.20, an upgrade introducing native support for Monero (XMR) and Zcash (ZEC) swaps.
Until now, moving between privacy coins such as XMR or ZEC and the crypto market has required users to rely on centralized exchanges, custodial services, or additional intermediary steps. With THORChain 3.20, users can natively swap XMR and ZEC against assets including Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), and stablecoins directly through THORChain.
No wrapped versions of XMR or ZEC are required. Users do not need to create an account or hand custody of their assets to a centralized entity. This is a significantly more direct route between privacy-focused cryptocurrencies and the most widely used assets in crypto.
For Monero holders, access to the broader crypto market has become an increasingly important issue as XMR continues to be removed or restricted by centralized exchanges. THORChain’s integration provides an alternative based on native assets and self-custody rather than requiring users to deposit their coins with an exchange.
The release is one of THORChain’s most significant upgrades to date. In addition to Monero and Zcash integration, version 3.20 introduces several broader changes to the protocol, including Protocol-Owned Liquidity (POL) and the new Stable Reserve, alongside renewed support for Solana, Base, and BNB. The Stable Reserve introduces stablecoin-to-stablecoin swaps with no liquidity fees, and Protocol-Owned Liquidity gives THORChain additional mechanisms for deploying protocol capital across the network.
The move builds on THORChain’s core proposition of allowing users to exchange native cryptocurrencies across otherwise disconnected blockchain networks without handing control of their assets to an intermediary.
THORChain already enables native cross-chain swaps across assets including Bitcoin and Ethereum. The addition of privacy-focused networks expands that model into an area of the crypto market where decentralized access has been far more limited until today.
About THORChain
THORChain is a decentralized exchange that enables users to swap native digital assets across different blockchain networks without relying on wrapped assets or centralized custodians. It allows users to exchange assets including Bitcoin, Ethereum, and other supported cryptocurrencies while maintaining a self-custodial experience.
RUNE za posledních 24 hodin vyskočil o více než 26 % po spuštění upgradu THORChain v3.20, který umožňuje swap Monero a Zcash za BTC, ETH a stablecoiny. Býci zároveň testovali rezistenci na úrovni 0,65 USD.
THORChain [RUNE] surged by more than 26% in the past 24 hours, ranking first among all gainers in the top 200 cryptos by market cap.
The hype around a network upgrade alongside a broader, stronger crypto market drove the token’s price. As a result, RUNE’s daily trading volume matched the uptick in price, recording a 3x increase, but remained fairly low, in excess of $20 million.
Here is how the THORChain v3.20 upgrade fueled the sudden surge:
THORChain v3.20 upgrade goes live as short liquidations spike The network announced that the THORChain v3.20 upgrade went live on the 26th of August. This upgrade allows swapping Monero [XMR] and Zcash [ZEC] for Bitcoin [BTC], Ethereum [ETH], and stablecoins.
The upgrade has expanded THORChain’s addressable market as it brings privacy users to a direct connection to crypto. The upgrade comes three months after an attacker exploited THORChain for over $10 million across BTC, ETH, and BSC.
That could increase the chain’s swap volume, with Ethereum and Bitcoin consistently dominating as per data from DefiLlama. The chain averaged $7 million in daily BTC swaps and $10 million in daily ETH swaps.
Source: DeFiLlama Thus, it is safe to say the rally was driven by a surge in sentiment following the upgrade and increased user base.
The surge in daily buying volume triggered liquidation of perpetual short orders. As per CoinGlass data, RUNE short positions worth 10x those of longs were wiped out.
Source: CoinGlass With a stronger crypto market and altcoins gaining ground, RUNE could truly shift its market structure. Let’s find…
Can RUNE bulls flip $0.65 into support? The 200-day EMA shows that RUNE price action has turned bullish on a long-term daily scale. The altcoin was still bearish looking at the horizontal structural levels.
RUNE was still trading below the $0.65 zone, which was the last lower high of the bearish trend. The market structure has shifted from the EMA perspective, but it is yet to confirm by flipping the $0.65 resistance into support.
Bulls tested the $0.65 supply zone but met instant rejection. It is still unclear if they got the zeal to breach the resistance.
Source: RUNE/USDT on TradingView However, the CVD showed bulls were positioning with 1.78 million RUNE bought on Binance as of the time of press. Moreover, the Sentiment was at 80, indicating the crowd was convinced the altcoin rally may be sustainable.
Still, it is worth noting that the rally may be short-lived since it is sentiment-driven. Otherwise, if the market structure is shifting, then RUNE may be positioning for more gains.
Final Summary RUNE rallies by more than 26% in 24 hours after the THORChain v3.20 upgrade, leading all of the top 200 cryptos by market cap. RUNE bulls tested the $0.65 resistance level, which, if flipped into support, would shift the market structure to bullish.
THORChain po verzi v3.20 a chystaném hotfixu v3.20.1 na jeden až dva týdny pozastavil nová spuštění kvůli stabilitě. Zcash, $XMR, test rev-share ve SwapKitu i protokolově vlastněná likvidita jsou jen odloženy, ne zrušeny.
THORSday Community Podcast #229 ft. CBarraford, KentonC137 & patriotsounds | August 27, 2026 | Watch the full episode on YouTube
By Raynalytics
TL;DRTHORChain has put new launches on an initial one-to-two-week pause to prioritize stability after v3.20 and the pending v3.20.1 hotfix. Zcash, $XMR, protocol-owned liquidity deployment and the SwapKit rev-share test are all delayed, not cancelled.The team traced the immediate instability to app-layer calls through non-deterministic API endpoints. A temporary app-layer pause remains technically possible, but no decision to use it was made during the episode.ADR30 was at 38% approval when recorded. It would let node operators delegate selected administrative commands without handing over control of funds.THORChain is considering what an AI-native protocol interface should look like. An unpublicized MCP server already exists in GitLab, while a command-line wallet for agents is only a possible direction.Memoless registrations were paused after a spam attempt. The team is weighing pricing, rate limits and registration-design changes, while stressing that a user must still follow the correct inbound flow.1. Stability Comes Before the Next LaunchTHORChain had just shipped v3.20, but the episode opened with the harder follow-up: the network needed a v3.20.1 hotfix and a period of focused stability work before the roadmap could advance again.
Chad Barraford said the immediate issue came from the Rujira app layer sometimes querying API endpoints whose results could vary between requests. That variation can change gas consumption. In a consensus system, even a tiny difference in execution is unacceptable, so the team chose to pause new work while it fixed the current failure mode and watched the chain closely.
"We've had too much instability recently to just kind of keep on slogging forward." (Chad)The current patch was expected within roughly 24 hours, contingent on testing and node adoption. But the broader pause is not merely a hotfix window. The team wants at least one or two weeks to assess stability, then decide whether it can resume the roadmap or needs more time.
That means Zcash and Monero are waiting, alongside new feature rollouts, protocol-owned liquidity deployment and rev-share. The message is deliberately cautious: $XMR and Zcash are delayed, not abandoned. Churns should still resume during the stability period, but new chain launches are not the near-term priority.
The community also asked whether the app layer itself could be paused temporarily. Chad confirmed that it is technically possible, but said the team did not yet think it was necessary. The identified patch may be enough, though that judgment could change as more information arrives.
2. AI Strategy Is Still Taking ShapeBefore the technical updates, Denny highlighted a self-funded AI video from French Chad that had reached nearly 9,000 impressions. The anecdote led into a broader question: if agents increasingly initiate crypto activity, what should THORChain build for them?
Kenton said work on AI-engine optimization was beginning to show results in AI search. Chad took the longer view. He expects agents to account for a growing share of transactions, but he does not think the correct protocol strategy is obvious yet.
"The hard thing is figuring out what our strategy should be in that context." (Chad)Some ingredients already exist. Chad said a developer has been working on an open-source MCP server in THORChain's GitLab, though it had not been publicized. Agents can already broadcast a transaction with the necessary memo, so basic agent use does not require a new protocol feature.
The more ambitious possibility is an AI-friendly, command-line wallet with structured JSON output. Instead of asking an agent to operate a graphical wallet, it could hold assets, inspect transaction history and submit transactions through an interface designed for software. That idea is not a product commitment, and it may not be THORChain-specific. It is a direction the team is evaluating as the capabilities and economics of AI change.
Chad also clarified the role of Huginn. It is designed to operate independently, not as a chat assistant that a developer prompts directly. A GitLab issue can be assigned to Huginn, which then works through that task on its own schedule.
https://raynalytics.net/network-status/governance3. ADR30 Separates Operations From Fund ControlADR30 was at 38% approval during the show. The proposal would let a node operator delegate selected operational commands to another address without giving that address control of the node's funds or private keys.
That makes it a quality-of-life change rather than an economic redesign. An operator could split routine duties among people or systems while retaining the key material that matters for custody. The proposal was associated with Liquify, and Chad said he saw no material protocol-design risk beyond the normal need to implement and review the code correctly.
"The security, all that remains the same." (Chad)The vote was not presented as complete. Operators and bond providers still need time to review proposals, coordinate internally and vote. The conversation also returned to a possible future ADR that would require validators to participate in ADR votes, including an abstain option, so governance does not remain idle by default.
Other proposals remain in the queue, including free stablecoin swaps, per-asset minimum fee settings and Devel's limit-order idea. They can wait. The team was clear that stability outranks adding more work to the release path.
4. SwapKit Rev-Share Is Close, but Not ActiveThe planned rev-share arrangement with SwapKit is technically close on both sides. Chad said THORChain's work is ready for additional staging tests, while SwapKit's implementation was nearing completion. Under the proposed test, a portion of fees would go to a SwapKit-controlled bucket, where the partner could use it to compete for more external wallet flow.
"We'll start with 20%, we'll see how that goes." (Chad)That 20% figure is a starting point for a test, not a live setting. The team intends to judge the arrangement by the resulting data, then increase, decrease or stop it if the outcome does not justify the share.
Rev-share can be enabled through an operational Mimir vote, which ordinarily needs three agreeing nodes. But no activation should be read into that mechanism. The same stability pause affecting $XMR and Zcash also pushes the rev-share test back by at least one or two weeks.
The episode also touched on protocol-owned liquidity. v3.20 was meant to help direct system income into selected pools, but that work is now subject to the same pause. The team may later prioritize stablecoins, $XMR, Zcash or other pools, but no new allocation is expected while stability work takes precedence.
5. Memoless Swaps Are Paused While the Team Reworks DefensesThe memo registration feature used for memoless swaps was turned off after someone began repeatedly registering short memo identifiers in an attempt to capture an incorrectly sent inbound transaction. Each pool has roughly 100,000 possible identifiers, and the attacker tried to flood that space with registrations.
Chad's key distinction was important: the attempt can only succeed when someone sends funds to THORChain without including a memo and without registering the intended memo first. It is not a conventional compromise of a correctly formed THORChain Swap.
"The protocol gained money in this particular attack as of now." (Chad)The attacker pays to keep registrations active and, at the time of the episode, was operating at a loss. That does not make the design question irrelevant. The team is deciding whether to restart the feature as it is, make registrations more expensive as space fills, cap registrations per block, bind a registration more closely to the sending address, or include the expected amount in the registration. Each option creates different wallet and user-experience edge cases.
For now, the status is a pause and an active design discussion, not a finalized fix. The practical guidance remains the same: use an interface that constructs the transaction correctly, read its warnings and send a small test transaction before committing a meaningful amount. Self-custody gives users control, but it also makes transaction discipline non-optional.
What to Watchv3.20.1 and uptime: whether the hotfix is adopted cleanly and the team sees the stable operation it wants before reopening the roadmap.New-chain timing: when Zcash and $XMR return to the launch queue after the initial one-to-two-week stability review.ADR30: whether the delegation proposal clears its node vote and how quickly the remaining governance queue moves afterward.AI interfaces: whether the MCP server is publicized, and whether the agent-friendly command-line wallet concept becomes a concrete build.Memoless redesign: which registration defense the team chooses and when THORChain Swap can safely re-enable the flow.More THORChain data, check out raynalytics.net
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Helium (HNT) vyskočil téměř o 100 % poté, co město Celina v Texasu proměnilo vlastní Wi‑Fi v automatické mobilní pokrytí bez nových věží. Za 30 dní je HNT výše o 97,4 %.
Helium (HNT) jumped almost 100% on Saturday. Behind the surge is a Texas town that stopped waiting for cell towers and switched on Wi-Fi it already owned.
Celina sits north of Dallas. It added 12,710 residents in a year and grew 24.6%, the fastest of any US city with more than 20,000 residents.
How Helium Turned Wi-Fi Into Cell ServiceHelium announced the deployment on Friday. It covers the Celina Public Library, the Ralph O’Dell Senior Center, and some downtown shops.
The city built nothing new, since it already had Wi-Fi. Helium added a layer that lets phones treat those hotspots as cell coverage.
Phones sign in using credentials already stored on the SIM card. No app or password. Most people never notice the handoff.
The idea is not new either. AT&T signed on to the same Helium system in April 2025. That deal is what makes the automatic connection work.
“Helium let us turn Wi-Fi we already own into coverage our residents’ phones use automatically, without spending a dollar on new towers,” said Amy Alexander, director of information technology for the City of Celina.
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Why Helium Jumped Nearly 100%The news broke Friday, yet HNT ran overnight and added roughly $37 million in market value. Those Celina sites carry about 100 GB a day. That is one library, one senior center, and a few shops.
Celina, TX grew 25% in 1 year. You can’t build cell towers fast enough to keep up with that kind of growth.
Celina turned its own city-wide Wi-Fi networks into carrier coverage on the Helium Network.
100 GB/day, automatic on residents’ phones. No towers necessary. pic.twitter.com/hH70a8CZbk
— Helium🎈 (@helium) August 28, 2026 So traders bought the idea, not the income. HNT gained 97.4% over 30 days, and almost all of it arrived in the final 24 hours.
Turnover says the same thing because close to $44 million changed hands in a day, more than half the token’s $79 million market value.
Helium (HNT) Price Performance. Source: CoingeckoHowever, with HNT trading near $0.42, it remains down 85.6% over 12 months and far below its 2021 Helium price peak of $54.88.
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아이오에스티(IOST) 보유 회원 대상 아이오에스티(IOST) 에어드랍 지급 안내 (17회차)
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17회차 아이오에스티(IOST) 에어드랍 지급이 시작되었습니다.
에어드랍 지급은 본 공지 게시 후 24시간 이내에 완료될 예정이며, 에어드랍과 관련한 자세한 사항은 아래 내용을 확인 바랍니다.
IOST 에어드랍 지원관련 공지는 아래 링크를 통해 확인 가능합니다.
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스냅샷 시점 : 2025-03-15 (토) 09:00:00 KST
스냅샷 대상 : 스냅샷 시점 당시 업비트 내 IOST를 보유한 회원
*스냅샷 시점 및 대상에 대한 자세한 내용은 재단 측 공지에서 확인할 수 있습니다.
*입금 대기 및 출금 대기 수량의 경우 스냅샷 대상에 포함되지 않으니 참고 바랍니다.
*스냅샷 시점에 IOST를 매매하여 체결된 경우, 해당 체결의 매수자는 에어드랍 지급 대상에 포함되며 매도자는 에어드랍 지급 대상에 포함되지 않습니다.
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지급 수량 산정 방식 : 852,800,000 IOST * (업비트 보유 IOST 물량) / (대상 거래소 보유 전체 IOST 물량) * (개인 보유 IOST 물량) / (업비트 보유 IOST 물량)
해당 에어드랍은 특정 거래소들에 대해 총 48회에 나누어 지급됩니다. 각 회차 별로 에어드랍 수량의 1/48이 지급되며 각 회차는 1개월 간격으로 진행됩니다. 자세한 사항은 재단 측 공지를 참고 부탁드립니다.
Stacks [STX] vzrostl o více než 23 % a vede denní zisky mezi 100 největšími kryptoměnami. Růst podpořil širší odraz kryptotrhu, snadnější Bitcoin staking a vyšší aktivita sítě po spuštění Genesis Bond. Bitcoin navíc překonal hranici 80 000 USD, což podpořilo sílu napříč trhem.
Stacks [STX] is up more than 23%, leading all top 100 cryptos by market cap in terms of daily gains. The altcoin broke from a descending channel last week, thanks to a broader crypto market rebound.
Stacks, a Bitcoin [BTC] Layer 2 solution, is benefiting from the surge in prices of BTC. Bitcoin broke the $80,000 wall, prompting market-wide strength.
The continuous expansion of Bitcoin’s utility, especially the staking feature, has driven Stacks’ prices. In fact, the social mentions of STX increased by 31.7% this week, as per LunarCrush. Here is why:
Decoding Stacks’ network usage Recently, Stacks announced that self-custodial Bitcoin staking would go live with the Genesis Bond on the 10th of September. The upgrade allows holders to earn BTC-denominated yield while their coins stay in Bitcoin’s base layer under their own keys.
Thus, Bitcoin holders will finally get productive capital without giving up custody or leaving BTC’s security models.
As a result, network usage has spiked as participants embrace this BTC utility. The Total Value Locked (TVL) slowly increased from $83 million to $102 million in six days.
However, DEX volume more than doubled in the same period. It grew from $960K to $2.18 million, as per DefiLlama.
Source: DefiLlama To reinforce this spike in network usage, Chain Fees told a story. They increased by almost 10x, from $339 to $3,139, indicating network congestion.
On top of the fundamental upgrades, chain activity data indicates STX prices may continue rising. Is the technical outlook in agreement?
Can STX bulls print a new YTD high soon? After the trend channel breakout, the uptrend hinged on staying above $0.2260, which is the support level coinciding with the 200-day EMA. Usually, staying above it means that the market structure is bullish.
However, previous STX crypto price prediction analysis indicated that $0.26 was a crucial level for STX’s rally. It stood as a key supply zone but has been truly tested by bulls who are determined to breach it. The previous $0.17 supply zone was easily taken out.
For STX to surpass this year’s peak at $0.4019, which is 38% away from current prices, it needs to clear the $0.26-$0.30 zone. Interestingly, the momentum is present and growing, with a reading of 0.1497.
Source: STX/USDT on TradingView Otherwise, if bears at the $0.30 supply zone outweigh bulls, STX may revert to its current mean position at $0.2260. If the 200-day EMA breaks down, it may invalidate the current bullish market structure shift.
Final Summary Stacks rallied over 23%, leading daily gains among the top 100 cryptos by market cap, thanks to the expanding utility of Bitcoin. STX flipped the 200-day EMA into support, but bulls were struggling to break the $0.30 supply zone.
Stacks naznačuje, že tento týden přidá dalšího institucionálního účastníka do Bitcoin staking programu se STX. Navazuje tak na upgrade PoX-5 a prvního institucionálního stakera UTXO Management.
Stacks is teasing another institutional participant joining its Bitcoin staking program this week, building on momentum from a protocol upgrade that lets big players earn yield on BTC without ever giving up custody of their coins.
The announcement, shared on social media, follows the platform’s PoX-5 upgrade that went live on July 29, 2026, and the onboarding of UTXO Management as the inaugural institutional staker back in late May. With a Genesis Bond launch expected in late August, Stacks appears to be stacking up commitments at a deliberate pace.
How Bitcoin staking on Stacks actually works Bitcoin holders lock their BTC on Layer 1 using a timelock script, meaning the coins never leave the Bitcoin blockchain. They then pair that locked Bitcoin with a small amount of STX, Stacks’ native token, creating what the protocol calls a “protocol bond.” The Bitcoin stays under the holder’s control the entire time.
The yield target sits at roughly 3% APY in BTC, paid out over six-month periods. That return comes from miner bids through the Proof-of-Transfer mechanism, not from lending or rehypothecation. The initial institutional capacity has been capped at approximately 3,000 BTC during what Stacks calls a “managed bootstrap phase.”
The PoX-5 upgrade and institutional infrastructure The PoX-5 hard fork passed its governance vote with over 99.99% approval in July 2026. The upgrade was codified through two Stacks Improvement Proposals, SIP-044 and SIP-045, and activated on July 29 to coincide with a Bitcoin block milestone.
Stacks integrated with Fireblocks in June 2026 to handle institutional custody requirements. UTXO Management, the asset management arm of Nakamoto Inc., became the first institution to commit BTC to the program on May 28, 2026, locking a portion of its Bitcoin holdings while keeping them on Layer 1.
Why institutions care about BTC-denominated yield The Genesis Bond, expected to launch in late August 2026, will serve as the first formal institutional Bitcoin bonding event on the platform, giving institutions a clear entry point with defined terms.
The cadence of announcements — one inaugural staker in May, infrastructure integrations in June, a protocol upgrade in July, and now a second institution ahead of the Genesis Bond in August — suggests Stacks is executing a deliberately sequenced rollout designed to build confidence before scaling up.
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The Sandbox slíbila 1:1 náhradu pro oprávněné držitele SAND po bridge exploitu, který z Ethereum vaultu odčerpal asi 14,7 milionu tokenů v hodnotě zhruba 700 000 dolarů. Kompenzace půjde z treasury bez mintování nových SAND.
The Sandbox has pledged to reimburse eligible SAND holders 1:1 after an Aug. 21 bridge exploit drained about 14.7 million tokens worth roughly $700,000 from an Ethereum vault.
Summary
The Sandbox will repay eligible SAND holders 1:1 after an Aug. 21 bridge exploit drained about 14.7 million tokens worth $700,000. Compensation will come from The Sandbox treasury without minting new SAND, with claims expected to open within two weeks. The attacker exploited a configuration flaw in the Base and BNB Chain contracts to mint more than 339 trillion unbacked SAND. The compromised bridge contracts will be permanently retired, while SAND on Ethereum and Polygon was unaffected. According to The Sandbox’s Aug. 27 post-mortem, users who legitimately held bridged SAND on Base or BNB Smart Chain before the attack will receive an equivalent amount of Ethereum-based SAND. The project plans to cover the payments from its treasury without minting new tokens.
Claims are expected to open within two weeks and remain available for another two weeks. Two centralized exchanges account for more than 72% of the eligible SAND balances, and The Sandbox said the exchanges will distribute replacement tokens directly to affected customers.
The Sandbox will repay SAND holders from its treasury The repayment plan covers legitimate bridged SAND balances that existed on Base and BNB Smart Chain before the exploit. Eligible users will receive SAND issued on Ethereum, replacing the tokens affected by the compromised bridge infrastructure.
The Sandbox said its treasury already holds the tokens required for the process, meaning the compensation will not increase SAND’s circulating or maximum supply. Users who held eligible balances through the two centralized exchanges handling most of the affected tokens will not need to submit individual claims.
For other holders, the project plans to launch a claims portal once the required infrastructure is ready. The two-week submission period is expected to begin within two weeks of the post-mortem, though the project did not provide a specific opening date.
The compensation plan follows an attack that targeted the contracts responsible for moving SAND between Ethereum and Base and BNB Smart Chain. While the exploiter was able to create an enormous quantity of unbacked SAND on the destination networks, the project said the damage to assets backing legitimate bridged tokens amounted to about 14.7 million SAND.
The stolen amount represented roughly 0.5% of SAND’s maximum supply of 3 billion tokens.
Configuration flaw gave the attacker control of bridge verification The Sandbox traced the incident to a configuration problem in the SAND contracts deployed on Base and BNB Smart Chain. The flaw allowed the attacker to become the sole verifier for incoming bridge messages, giving the address the ability to approve fraudulent messages without the authorization normally required by the bridge.
With control of that verification process, the attacker could mint SAND on the destination chains even though corresponding tokens had not been legitimately locked on Ethereum.
More than 339 trillion unbacked SAND tokens were eventually minted across Base and BNB Smart Chain, according to the post-mortem. The Sandbox said the fraudulent supply has since been isolated and cannot be bridged back to Ethereum or redeemed against legitimate SAND reserves.
SAND deployed directly on Ethereum and Polygon was not affected by the configuration flaw.
The distinction between legitimate and unbacked tokens is central to the reimbursement process because bridge systems commonly depend on assets being locked on one network before a corresponding representation is issued elsewhere. A crypto.news explainer published Aug. 3 detailed how lock-and-mint and related bridge designs rely on verification mechanisms to ensure destination-chain assets remain backed by value held elsewhere.
Crypto.news previously reported that bridge exploits have resulted in more than $4 billion in losses since 2021, with failures involving validator credentials, message verification and smart contracts among the methods attackers have used to compromise cross-chain infrastructure.
Compromised SAND bridges will be permanently retired Following the Aug. 21 attack, The Sandbox decided not to restore the affected Base and BNB Smart Chain bridge contracts. Both will instead be permanently retired.
Any future bridge connecting SAND with either network would require newly deployed contracts, according to the project. The Sandbox did not provide a timetable for restoring bridge access to Base or BNB Smart Chain.
Similar decisions to isolate or replace compromised bridge infrastructure have followed several attacks this year. In June, Humanity Protocol disclosed losses exceeding $36 million after attackers obtained administrative keys and took control of bridge systems spanning Ethereum and BNB Smart Chain.
The attackers in that incident were able to drain tokens from the Ethereum bridge and mint additional H tokens on BNB Smart Chain. A subsequent forensic investigation traced the compromised keys to a malware-infected developer machine that contained backups for seven private keys.
Another bridge incident in July hit Wanchain infrastructure connecting Cardano and BNB Chain. Blockchain security firm BlockSec said roughly 515 million NIGHT tokens were removed from the Cardano-side treasury in the Wanchain bridge exploit, worth about $9 million at the time. Midnight said its core network remained secure and described the incident as isolated to the bridge infrastructure.
Bridge exploits have continued through 2026 Cross-chain infrastructure has faced a series of attacks during 2026 involving different verification and security failures.
Axelar disabled bridge connections with Secret Network in June after an exploit resulted in approximately $4.7 million in losses. The incident affected Axelar-bridged assets on Secret Network while Axelar said its core protocol remained unaffected.
A month later, AFX suffered a $24.15 million USDC loss through a bridge operated by the trading protocol. The affected infrastructure was separate from Arbitrum’s native bridge, and the attacker subsequently moved the stolen USDC to Ethereum before converting it into about 12,467.5 ETH.
AFX later prepared a goodwill plan for users after its investigation linked the attack to a social engineering campaign that compromised internal development infrastructure. The protocol said it rebuilt key infrastructure and introduced new security measures following the incident.
The Sandbox’s reimbursement process is expected to begin once its claims system is ready. Eligible balances held through the two centralized exchanges will be handled directly by those platforms, while remaining holders will have two weeks to submit claims after the portal opens.
SAND was trading near $0.04 at the time of the post-mortem, down about 10.4% over the previous seven days.
Cronos zastavil celý blockchain po údajném útoku na Tectonic, z něhož mělo zmizet asi 75 milionů USD. Crypto.com uvedla, že její aplikace ani burza zasaženy nebyly.
Cronos stopped its entire blockchain on Sunday after an attacker drained Tectonic, the biggest lending protocol on the network. Crypto.com said its own app and exchange were never touched.
Most of the money never left the chain before validators pulled the plug, likely explaining why the CRO token price remained unaffected, surging nearly 5%.
Cronos (CRO) Price Performance. Source: BeInCryptoThese are names, representing three different things. Crypto.com built Cronos, an Ethereum-style chain, and issues the CRO token securing it.
Tectonic is not Crypto.com’s code. It launched in December 2021 out of the Cronos Labs incubator and runs independently.
That makes the Crypto.com reassurance true but narrow. The exchange was never exposed. Tectonic depositors are another matter.
Tectonic was still almost the whole lending market on Cronos. It held about $121.6 million, or 46% of all DeFi value on the chain, DefiLlama data shows. The next biggest lender holds about $30,000.
What the Companies ConfirmedCronos Network said it found the exploit and halted block production. Tectonic warned depositors to stay away.
Crypto.com CEO Kris Marszalek said the app and exchange ran normally, with a postmortem to follow.
There has been a security breach on a Cronos lending protocol Tectonic. Cronos team is investigating, with assistance from https://t.co/JNeHyErmqH security team. https://t.co/JNeHyErmqH app and exchange were not affected and are operating as usual. All funds are safe.
I will…
— Kris (@kris) August 30, 2026
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Nobody has said whether Tectonic depositors will be repaid.
Why This Tectonic Exploit Could End DifferentlyResearcher Weilin Li put the drain at roughly $75 million. Only about $6 million reached Ethereum before the freeze, Li said. Some $60 million sits stranded on Cronos. That is about 91% of the haul, going nowhere.
Treat those numbers as provisional, as nothing is confirmed until the postmortem lands.
Compare the $8.7 million Moonwell exploit three days earlier. Base kept producing blocks. The money walked.
Cronos could stop because of how it is built. It runs on Tendermint with a cap of 100 validators, making a coordinated pause realistic.
We identified an exploit in Tectonic.
The Cronos Network has been halted and we'll provide updates here
— Cronos Network (@CronosNetwork) August 30, 2026
There is also precedent. A bridge exploit minted $570 million on BNB Chain in October 2022. Within five hours, 26 validators paused the network and recovered close to $470 million.
The trade-off is the one raised by the Linea chain halt debate. A chain somebody can switch off is also a chain that can claw money back. Same property, judged twice.
Validators now pick. Roll back, blacklist the attacker, or restart untouched. That decides whether the tentative $60 million comes home.
Arcus od dYdX Labs spustil na Robinhood Chain pTokeny na bitcoin, solanu a HYPE s fixní pákou. Tokeny fungují jako převoditelné ERC-20 a nabízejí long i short verze s pákou 1x a 3x.
The new tokens wrap perpetual positions into transferable ERC-20s, giving holders fixed-leverage exposure to assets like bitcoin and Robinhood stock without managing a position.
Arcus, the decentralized exchange built by dYdX Labs, launches
Posted August 25, 2026 at 11:54 am EST.
Arcus, the decentralized exchange built by dYdX Labs, has launched leveraged and inverse tokens on Robinhood Chain that turn a managed perpetual account into a single ERC-20 token, which it calls a pToken, carrying fixed-leverage exposure to one market. Arcus also lets traders use eligible tokenized stocks as collateral to back leveraged positions.
The tokens span assets including bitcoin, solana, and HYPE at fixed leverage levels, in 1x and 3x long and short versions. Examples include pBTC3x, for 3x long bitcoin exposure, and pHOOD3x, for 3x long exposure to Robinhood’s HOOD stock token. Because each is an ERC-20 token, it can be held, transferred, or traded like any other token while carrying its leverage inside the wrapper.
“Traditional markets have spent decades making sophisticated investment strategies easier to access through products like leveraged ETFs,” Arcus CEO Eddie Zhang said in a statement announcing the launch. “We believe the next step is making those strategies native to blockchain infrastructure.”
How the Tokens Work Leveraged and inverse ETFs hold roughly $200 billion in assets in traditional finance, and Arcus is trying to bring that structure onchain. Each pToken represents a pro-rata stake in an underlying Arcus perpetual futures account at a fixed market and leverage level, settled in USDG, the Paxos-issued stablecoin that serves as the platform’s primary collateral. On the spot side, Arcus recently doubled its catalogue to about 200 tokenized stock markets, while its perpetual contracts run with leverage of up to 50x.
Backed by dYdX and Robinhood dYdX Labs is the team behind the decentralized perpetuals exchange dYdX, whose founder Antonio Juliano is joining the Arcus board, while Robinhood Crypto invested as a strategic backer and supplies distribution to Robinhood’s users. Arcus is a separate product from the independent dYdX Chain, which keeps operating on its own with existing funds and positions unaffected. Arcus runs on Robinhood Chain, the EVM-compatible network that Robinhood opened to the public on July 1.
Arcus said it has processed more than $2 billion in trading volume since launch, with average daily volume above $100 million. The company said its tokenized stock products are not available in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, and other restricted jurisdictions, reflecting the uneven regulatory treatment of tokenized securities across markets.
As tokenized stocks move from buy-and-hold positions toward collateral for active trading, Arcus is betting that leveraged exposure packaged as a single token finds an audience onchain.
Related Listen: Why Robinhood Chain Saw Memecoins Take Off Before Real World Assets
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1inch zveřejnil pololetní zprávu o bug bounty s HackenProof: od ledna do června přišlo 1 055 nahlášení napříč šesti programy a 32 vedlo k odměnám. Zvlášť Aqua získala 472 nahlášení a 9 odměněných zranitelností.
In the first half of this year, over a thousand reports were submitted across six bug bounty programs, helping us to uncover vulnerabilities.
What does it take to build trust in institutional-grade DeFi? Transparency is a big part of the answer.
As traditional finance moves further on-chain, security and trust remain critical barriers to adoption. We have been working to address that challenge through initiatives including the second edition of its Risk Management Whitepaper, ISO 27001 certification and SOC 2 (Type 1) attestation.
Now, we are taking another step with the launch of a biannual bug bounty report, created in collaboration with HackenProof. The first report, released today, focuses on the 1inch Aqua bug bounty program and activity in H1 2026.
“Institutional-grade DeFi requires proactively adopting standards that go past what is prescribed,” comments Sergej Kunz, co-founder of 1inch. “The industry needs to go beyond the minimum to ensure products are secure and reliable. With Aqua, as with all our products, we put multiple layers of checks and testing in place from the start, and bug bounties are a key part of that approach.”
“Aqua’s approach to security highlights the value of making security an ongoing part of product development. Its bug bounty program provides continuous visibility into potential security risks as the product evolves, helping the team strengthen the protocol and reduce the likelihood of costly security incidents,” said Alex Horlan, CTO of HackenProof.
Across 1inch’s six core HackenProof bug bounty programs, 1,055 reports were submitted by security researchers in the January to June period. Of those reports, 32 resulted in payouts across different severity levels.
Focus on 1inch Aqua A separate in-depth report is focused on 1inch Aqua, our recently launched first-of-its-kind shared liquidity layer. Aqua has grown rapidly since being made public, surpassing $100 million in volume within a matter of weeks. However, its success and security weren’t built overnight. Its HackenProof bug bounty program saw a huge amount of interest and contributed greatly to the product's security from day one.
The Aqua bug bounty program saw high engagement from the security community, with 472 submissions received from 217 researchers, covering a range of vulnerabilities at different levels of severity.
A total of 9 vulnerabilities have been rewarded, including one high-severity vulnerability, as well as a number of medium and low-severity vulnerabilities. These included logic inconsistencies, unit mismatches, execution edge cases and tooling-related issues. As with all the vulnerabilities, these have now been resolved, adding to the stability and security of the protocol.
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XDC Network tvrdí, že AI agenti mohou změnit platby za API a služby na průběžné mikroplatby. Jeho XDC AI používá x402 a USDC pro vypořádání on-chain s limity na úrovni peněženky.
An estimated $390 billion in stablecoin payments took place in 2025, according to McKinsey and Artemis. But inside this market, AI agents are creating an interesting kind of payment activity.
Research shows that agents completed more than 176 million on-chain transactions worth over $73 million between May 2025 and April 2026. But most of them were very small transactions.
The median x402 payment was between $0.01 and $0.10, while 76% of transactions fell below the $0.30 fixed-fee threshold for card payments. USDC accounted for 98.6% of settlements.
Annual Stablecoin Payments in 2025. Source: McKinsey Although the transaction amounts are small, the frequency of AI agentic payments is staggering — 173 million.
Software can buy data, compute and other services hundreds or thousands of times without the human behaviors that define conventional commerce. For example, opening an account, entering card details, approving an invoice or waiting until the next banking day.
XDC Network believes this offers an early glimpse of how more payments could work in future.
“Money has always moved as fast as the slowest part of the process, like a bank, a clearinghouse, or normal business hours,” Atul Khekade, Co-Founder of XDC Network, told BeInCrypto. “Agents just show what happens when you get rid of those delays. Payments stop being something you wait around for and turn into a continuous process happening in the background at the speed of the underlying network.”
Machine Payments Software can transact continuously. An AI service may need a weather feed for one calculation, a market-price API several seconds later, and compute resources immediately afterward.
Each interaction can carry its own price, turning what might once have been a monthly subscription or invoice into thousands of individual transactions.
That helps explain why Keyrock found activity spread across such a large population of AI agents and service directories. The report found more than 104,000 agents registered across at least 15 directories by the end of the first quarter of 2026.
The economics favor systems that can handle payments measured in cents or fractions of a cent. The payments industry is already preparing:
Stripe launched the Machine Payments Protocol, or MPP, in March. The open standard allows agents and services to coordinate micropayments and recurring payments programmatically, with Stripe supporting stablecoins as well as traditional payment methods; Google’s Agent Payments Protocol, or AP2, concentrates on proving user authorization and establishing an auditable record of what an agent was permitted to buy. Google transferred the protocol to the FIDO Alliance in April and added support for autonomous “Human Not Present” transactions; Cloudflare entered the market in August with Cloudflare Wallets and cloudflare.pay, giving agents identities and programmable spending controls. Its payment tools support both x402 and MPP; Mastercard’s Agent Pay for Machines service, announced in June, is designed for continuous, high-frequency and low-value payments, with settlement across cards, accounts and stablecoins. More than 30 companies, including Stripe, Coinbase, Cloudflare and Tempo, were named among its initial supporters. 2️⃣ Secure agentic purchases on Google
✅ We designed Agent Payments Protocol (AP2) to help agents make secure payments on your behalf — with boundaries and accountability to give you peace of mind.
✅ AP2 lets you set strict guardrails for agentic payment transactions. Just…
— Google (@Google) May 27, 2026 Invisible Settlement XDC’s contribution to this market is XDCAI.tech, which uses the open x402 protocol originally introduced by Coinbase.
x402 turns the HTTP ‘402 Payment Required’ response into a payment mechanism. An agent requests a resource, receives its price, authorizes the payment, and repeats the request with proof of payment. The process allows software to purchase an API call or another digital service within the same interaction.
Coinbase introduced the protocol in May 2025, and its use has since expanded through integrations with companies including AWS.
XDC AI applies x402 to USDC settlement on XDC Network. Users fund a smart wallet with USDC and establish an on-chain spending limit. An agent can then pay an x402-enabled service per request. EIP-3009 allows the payment to be signed off-chain while a relayer covers the network fee, leaving the agent itself to hold and spend USDC.
For years, AI agents could reason, plan, and execute tasks.
But they couldn't pay.
APIs, subscriptions, checkout pages, and payment flows were built for humans — not autonomous software.
So we built XDC AI.
A platform that gives AI agents a wallet, lets them discover…
— Rushabh Parmar (@rushabh96975767) July 11, 2026 The system can also connect to AI applications through MCP or a command-line interface, allowing agents running through products including ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, and Codex to discover and pay for services.
XDC already had much of the underlying settlement infrastructure in place. Native USDC and Circle’s CCTP went live on XDC in September 2025.
XDC lists two-second block times, six-second finality, and transaction costs around $0.00001, characteristics aimed at high-volume financial applications.
Invoices Could Disappear Invoices package several functions together. They communicate what is owed, set payment terms, and provide records for reconciliation and accounting. Many businesses then wait days or weeks for the actual transfer to arrive.
Software dealing with software can compress part of that cycle. A service can state its price in a machine-readable format, an authorized agent can evaluate the request, and payment can be settled immediately. Transaction records can then feed directly into treasury and accounting systems.
Next wave of payments = AI + Agentic Commerce.
XDC is building the infrastructure:
• x402 micropayments
• Gasless USDC settlement
• Real-time, sub-cent autonomous payments for AI agents
Tonight in NYC, @atulkhekade shares how we’re making this a reality. The future of… https://t.co/FokrYWhAbw
— XDC Network (@XDCNetwork) July 9, 2026 This comes as agents are taking on increasing responsibility for procurement, cloud spending, portfolio management, and recurring commercial obligations. A company could eventually give an agent a budget and a set of rules, then allow it to buy compute when demand rises, renew services, pay suppliers or rebalance liquidity within those boundaries.
XDC therefore sees today’s one-cent API payment as the smallest version of something much larger.
The card networks see it too. Visa’s stablecoin settlement program reached a $7 billion annualized run rate in April after growing 50% quarter-over-quarter and expanding to nine blockchains. Mastercard announced stablecoin settlement across networks including Ethereum, Solana, Base, Polygon, Tempo and XRPL in June.
The competition is consequently broader than blockchain networks attempting to replace card companies. Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, Google, Coinbase, Cloudflare and blockchain developers are increasingly building interoperable pieces of the same machine-commerce market.
The Other Half of the Problem Greater autonomy raises questions about permission and accountability.
An agent paying 3 cents per API request incurs limited financial exposure. However, an agent managing a corporate treasury or procurement budget needs controls around authorization, counterparties, limits, and auditability, which is why the major platforms are converging on different pieces of the same problem. This explains why:
Google has concentrated on cryptographic mandates that record what a user authorized; Cloudflare lets owners impose spending caps and approved merchant lists; Mastercard’s system combines agent credentials with permissioning rules; XDC AI places spending limits at the wallet level Those controls determine how quickly agentic payments graduate from micropayments into larger financial relationships.
They also temper the idea that cards and invoices disappear on a fixed timetable. Card networks are already adapting their products for autonomous software, while invoices serve legal, tax, credit and accounting functions that extend beyond transferring funds.
XDC believes that payment and service delivery can happen almost simultaneously: APIs, data, compute, digital services and other machine-to-machine transactions. Success there could establish the habits and technical standards that would later be used for larger transactions.
Khekade expects the terminology itself to disappear as the technology becomes commonplace.
“In 5 years nobody will describe this as agentic payments, the same way nobody today calls a wire transfer an internet payment,” he said. “It will just be how value moves. The interesting question is not whether that happens, it is which networks were actually built for it versus which ones bolted it on afterward.”
SBI XDC Network APAC, TOPPAN a Ginco spustily v Ósace, Japonsko, pilotní projekt trade finance na XDC Network. Zaměřuje se na exportní factoring a ověřování firemní identity, aby urychlil přeshraniční obchody.
Osaka Pilot Puts Blockchain at the Centre of Export FactoringSBI XDC Network APAC, printing and digital services group TOPPAN, and crypto infrastructure firm Ginco are jointly running a trade finance demonstration in Osaka, Japan. The project has received backing through Osaka Prefecture's FY2026 financial market formation subsidy, a government programme designed to encourage fintech and blockchain innovation within the region.
The demonstration focuses on export factoring, a financing method that allows businesses to unlock cash from outstanding trade receivables before a buyer pays. The pilot examines how recording trade transaction data and corporate identity information on the XDC Network can reduce friction in this process for local businesses, cutting down the document-heavy manual steps that slow cross-border deals.
SBI XDC Network APAC is a joint venture between SBI Holdings and TradeFinex Tech Ltd., the UAE-based company that operates the XDC Network. TOPPAN plays a particularly relevant role in the pilot given that its group company, TOPPAN Edge, became Japan's first Qualified vLEI Issuer (QVI) in the verifiable Legal Entity Identifier (vLEI) ecosystem in September 2025, giving it a key function in issuing verifiable digital corporate identity certificates for participants in the demonstration.
In international transactions and finance, it has previously been difficult to verify that a company actually exists and who its representatives are. The Osaka demonstration aims to address exactly that gap by anchoring corporate identity data to the blockchain.
Government Backing Reflects Osaka's Fintech PushBeyond export factoring, the project also targets improvements to Know Your Business (KYB) verification, customer inquiry handling, and payment collection, three processes that remain largely manual for many smaller Japanese exporters.
The subsidy underpinning the project fits into a wider regional strategy. Osaka promotes financial innovation by providing subsidies and other assistance for the demonstration of pioneering financial services, in order to foster the formation of innovative financial products and markets. In March 2025, new goals were set for Phase 2, covering FY2026 to FY2030, including targets to attract 50 foreign financial companies, create 1,200 startups, and raise 160 billion yen. The SBI XDC and TOPPAN collaboration sits squarely within that agenda.
For the $XDC ecosystem, the Osaka pilot represents a concrete step toward institutional adoption in Japan, one of Asia's most significant trade finance markets.
Sources
TOPPAN Holdings: SBI XDC Network APAC and TOPPAN Conduct a PoC of Online Factoring Workflow
Osaka Prefectural Government: Advancing Its Challenge to Become a Global Financial City
GLEIF: TOPPAN Edge Confirmed as First Japanese Qualified vLEI Issuer
Coinbase is cutting off trading for two tokens that have had a rough stretch. Badger DAO (BADGER) and Storj (STORJ) will both lose trading access on Coinbase starting September 28, 2026, at approximately 2 PM ET.
The announcement came on August 28, giving holders exactly one month to figure out their next move.
What the suspension actually means This is a trading suspension, not a full delisting. You can still reach your holdings and withdraw them. You just cannot place new trades. Coinbase transitioned both order books to limit-only mode immediately upon announcing the suspension, meaning market orders were shut off right away while limit orders and order matches remained temporarily active.
The suspension applies across Coinbase’s full product stack: coinbase.com’s Simple and Advanced Trade interfaces, Coinbase Exchange, and Coinbase Prime.
Coinbase frames these actions as routine housekeeping. The exchange periodically evaluates its listed assets against internal benchmarks covering liquidity and trading performance. This is not the first time Coinbase has done a sweep like this. Recent suspensions hit IOTX, IDEX, and LRC, sketching out a clear pattern: the exchange is tightening its roster, with lower-liquidity projects bearing the brunt.
Two different stories, one shared fate Badger DAO is a DeFi protocol that built its identity around Bitcoin yield products. Binance and Crypto.com both reduced support for BADGER in 2025, and those moves appear to have accelerated a slide in both liquidity and market attention.
Storj is a decentralized cloud storage network that distributes user data across a global network of independent operators rather than relying on centralized data centers. Storj Labs, the company behind the project, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in July 2026, citing legacy liabilities. Chapter 11 is the reorganization variant of bankruptcy, not outright liquidation, and Storj Labs has indicated its decentralized storage network remains operational through the process.
The Coinbase suspension landing just two months after the bankruptcy filing is probably not a coincidence, though Coinbase has not cited the bankruptcy explicitly as a factor.
What holders should be thinking about The practical read for anyone holding BADGER or STORJ on Coinbase is straightforward: trading access ends September 28. Withdrawals remain available, so assets are not at risk of being locked. But the limit-only mode already in effect means price discovery is becoming thinner.
For STORJ, the backdrop of Storj Labs’ bankruptcy adds another layer of complexity. Equity holders in Storj Labs and STORJ token holders are technically different categories of stakeholder, but market psychology rarely draws that line carefully.
The broader pattern here is worth watching beyond just these two tokens. Coinbase’s recent string of suspensions points to an exchange actively curating its listing quality rather than chasing volume at all costs.
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Injective je nově dostupný na DexScreener, což traderům a analytikům přináší jedno rozhraní pro sledování aktivity $INJ, likvidity a dat v reálném čase.
Injective lands on DexScreenerThe @Injective ecosystem is now accessible on @dexscreener, marking another step in the network's ongoing push to broaden its market infrastructure. The integration gives traders and analysts a single terminal for tracking $INJ activity, surfacing real-time token data and liquidity metrics across the Injective network.
DexScreener is a widely used DEX analytics platform that provides pricing, volume, and liquidity data for assets traded on decentralized exchanges. That includes tokens traded on platforms already active within the ecosystem, extending the reach of on-chain discovery tools to Injective's growing user base.
What it means for the Injective ecosystemInjective is Its architecture is built around an order book model rather than an automated market maker, which
The DexScreener integration builds on that foundation by aggregating token activity and liquidity data in one place. For a network that has been steadily expanding its roster of supported applications and cross-chain connections, improved data visibility is a practical step toward broader accessibility.
Injective's interoperability also plays into the integration's utility. meaning assets from across the wider crypto market can flow into and out of the ecosystem. As that cross-chain activity grows, real-time analytics tools become more important for users trying to track emerging opportunities.
The listing on DexScreener reflects a pattern common to expanding Layer 1 networks: pairing technical development with the data infrastructure traders rely on when evaluating new markets.
Injective se stal klíčovým členem x402 Foundation a protokol x402 je na jeho síti už spuštěn pro platby v USDC v jednom bloku. Finalita trvá zhruba 650 milisekund.
Injective has joined the x402 Foundation as a core member, bringing its sub-second transaction finality to a payment protocol that counts AWS, Google, Visa, and Mastercard among its premier backers. The x402 protocol is now live on Injective’s network, enabling USDC payments that settle in a single block.
That block takes roughly 650 milliseconds to finalize.
What x402 actually does The x402 protocol started life as a Coinbase project built around a piece of internet plumbing that’s been gathering dust for decades. HTTP 402 is a status code that was reserved for “Payment Required” when the web’s foundational protocols were designed, but it was never formally implemented.
The x402 Foundation launched operations on July 14, 2025, under the governance of the Linux Foundation, with approximately 40 member organizations. The roster includes AWS and Google on the cloud side, Visa and Mastercard on the payments side, and crypto-native organizations like NEAR Foundation and Polygon Labs.
The protocol’s core purpose is to standardize programmatic, internet-native payments, particularly for artificial intelligence applications. Instead of requiring accounts, API keys, or subscription plans, x402 lets machines pay for services on a per-request basis using USDC.
Why Injective’s architecture matters here Injective’s network has processed more than 2.9 billion on-chain transactions, with median fees hovering around $0.0001. At that price point, a million transactions would cost about $100, which makes per-request micropayments economically viable rather than theoretical.
The blockchain’s EVM-compatible environment means developers building on Ethereum’s tooling can port their work to Injective without starting from scratch. For x402 integration specifically, Injective has released middleware libraries, including @injectivelabs/x402, that let developers wire up pay-per-request services with relatively minimal overhead. INJ, the network’s native token, handles gas fees for these transactions.
The single-block finality with deterministic confirmation is the technical feature that makes this work for machine-to-machine commerce. Deterministic finality at 650 milliseconds means the payment is confirmed, full stop, almost instantly, eliminating the latency introduced by waiting for multiple block confirmations.
Disclosure: This article was edited by Editorial Team. For more information on how we create and review content, see our Editorial Policy.
Injective ve spolupráci s Circle a ekosystémem Cosmos přesouvá starší verze USDC na nativní standard, přičemž širší migrace míří na září.
Cílem je sjednotit rozdrobenou likviditu napříč řetězci Cosmos.
@injective has announced it is working with @circle and teams across the @cosmos ecosystem to move legacy $USDC versions onto the native issuance that Circle launched on Injective in May, with the broader migration now targeting September.
The legacy versions in scope include Noble-issued USDC and bridged variants that have circulated across Cosmos chains. The goal is to consolidate them onto a single, natively issued standard backed directly by Circle, removing the fragmentation that has long complicated stablecoin use across interchain applications.
How the native issuance works The foundation for this shift was laid on May 7, 2026, when native USDC and Circle's Cross-Chain Transfer Protocol (CCTP) went live on the Injective mainnet. CCTP allows USDC to move natively across blockchains, meaning tokens are burned on the source chain and minted on the destination chain rather than locked in a bridge contract. It was also Circle's first MultiVM issuance of the token.
The integration was intended to ensure continued USDC availability across Cosmos chains after Noble announced its migration plans to a dedicated EVM Layer 1 and positioned its Cosmos SDK chain into maintenance mode. By taking over that position, Injective is expected to absorb more than $100 million in stablecoin issuance connected to the ecosystem.
Cosmos Hub commitment and rollout Four days after launch, the Cosmos Hub adopted the Injective issuance as the ecosystem's reference USDC under a minimum four-year commitment, with Skip:Go set to treat it as the default USDC denomination. Cosmos Hub, Cosmos Labs, and Skip Protocol confirmed that Injective-issued USDC will route through the Inter-Blockchain Communication (IBC) protocol.
The migration rolls out over the coming months, with dYdX going first, and Cosmos Labs coordinating the rollout for additional chains and applications across the ecosystem. Migration tools are also being prepared for chains and DeFi platforms transitioning from previous USDC liquidity providers. For users, the frontend experience is expected to remain mostly unchanged.
A portion of fees generated from Injective USDC activity will also be allocated to programmatically buy back ATOM, the native token of the Cosmos Hub.
Sources
Injective: USDC Adopted by Cosmos and dYdX as Canonical Stablecoin Standard
Crypto Times: Cosmos Hub Adopts Injective USDC as Primary Stablecoin
Crypto Briefing: Injective Initiates Migration of Exchange dApps to USDC Standard
Injective se integroval s LI.FI Protocol a Jumper App, takže uživatelé mohou přemosťovat, swapovat a vkládat INJ i USDC napříč více než 60 blockchainy.
Injective just plugged into one of crypto’s largest cross-chain plumbing networks. The Layer-1 blockchain has integrated with LI.FI Protocol, a cross-chain routing and liquidity aggregation layer that spans more than 60 blockchain networks and connects to over 1,000 applications and wallets.
The integration, which went live on August 4, means users can now bridge, swap, and deposit INJ and USDC into Injective’s ecosystem without stitching together multiple tools or hopping through intermediate chains. An integration with JumperApp, LI.FI’s consumer-facing bridge interface, is set to follow shortly after launch.
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What LI.FI actually does here From day one, Injective users get access to LI.FI’s full product suite: API, SDK, Widget, and Intents. That’s not just a front-end button. It means any developer building on Injective can embed cross-chain bridging directly into their application, reducing the friction that typically causes users to abandon multi-step onboarding flows.
The supported actions at launch include bridging assets in and out of Injective, plus direct deposits of INJ and USDC.
Injective’s architecture plays a specific role in making this work smoothly. The chain is built as a Layer-1 optimized for financial applications, featuring high throughput and sub-second finality. Fast finality matters enormously for bridging because it determines how quickly a cross-chain transaction can be confirmed on the destination side.
The MultiVM angle One detail worth unpacking is Injective’s MultiVM environment. The chain supports both native modules and Ethereum Virtual Machine compatible applications, which means developers can deploy Solidity-based smart contracts alongside Injective’s native CosmWasm contracts.
For context, the Cosmos ecosystem, where Injective lives architecturally, has historically relied on IBC (Inter-Blockchain Communication) for cross-chain transfers. IBC works well within the Cosmos family, but connecting to EVM chains, Solana, or other non-Cosmos networks has always required third-party bridges. LI.FI’s aggregation layer essentially fills that gap by routing through whatever bridge or DEX offers the best execution for a given path.
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Na síti Tron přišlo 15 držitelů kryptoměn za poslední čtyři týdny o 9,4 milionu USD kvůli jedinému podvodníkovi s address poisoning. Dva největší poškození přišli každý o 2,5 milionu USD.
Fifteen crypto holders have lost a combined $9.4 million in the past four weeks to a single address poisoning scammer operating on the Tron blockchain, according to on-chain investigator SpecterAnalyst.
How address poisoning targets usersThe attacker drained funds from fifteen victims, with the two largest individuals each suffering $2.5 million in losses. The stolen assets were quickly converted to USDD, the Tron-based stablecoin, and transferred into a single consolidation wallet.
Analyst Stacy Muur explained that address poisoning works by having the scammer send minuscule amounts of cryptocurrency—known as dust transactions—from addresses made to resemble legitimate ones the victim has recently interacted with. These fake addresses are crafted to imitate the genuine recipient’s address by matching the first and last few characters.
Since most crypto wallets display only the start and end of each address due to their length, users often recognize only these segments. This pattern makes it easy for a scammer’s dummy address to slip into a user’s transaction history, where it can be mistakenly copied and used later for a large transfer, unknowingly sending funds to the attacker instead of the intended party.
When blockchain addresses display just a few starting and ending characters in a user’s history, individuals may not notice a malicious address in the middle and can mistakenly send funds to a scam operator, especially when reusing addresses from previous transactions.
A striking example occurred on August 22, when Bofur Capital, an investment firm, lost around $2 million. The attacker had earlier sent a dust transaction of just 0.0002 USDC to Bofur from a fraudulent address, then waited until Bofur withdrew funds from Compound. By pasting the wrong address from their transaction list, Bofur inadvertently transferred the funds to the thief, who quickly swapped the USDC for DAI to avoid a freeze.
Current wallet protections and limitationsSome wallet providers have responded by introducing new safety features. MetaMask, owned by Consensys, and Trust Wallet have launched protections to help users avoid address poisoning, but their solutions focus mainly on EVM-compatible blockchains such as Ethereum, BNB Smart Chain, and Polygon. Tron users remain largely unprotected.
MetaMask now issues a warning when users attempt to send assets to an address where only the visible first and last segments match a previously saved address, but the internal characters differ.
Trust Wallet introduced Address Poisoning Protection in March. This function checks addresses against a curated database of flagged poison addresses and presents a side-by-side view if a match is found. Trust Wallet has reported intercepting over 225 million poisoning attempts and confirmed over $500 million in losses to this particular scam method. The company estimates this represents 34,000 attacks per hour.
Cryptopolitan has noted that low gas fees on Ethereum enable scammers to conduct high volumes of dusting attacks, which can artificially increase the platform’s daily transaction counts.
After a $50 million address poisoning heist in December, Binance founder Changpeng Zhao urged all crypto wallets to check and block suspected poison addresses.
Keeping funds secure amid evolving threatsWith varied adoption of anti-poisoning technologies among wallets and inconsistent coverage across blockchains, experts emphasize personal vigilance. Users are advised to verify every character in destination addresses and store trusted contacts using wallet address book features, instead of copying from transaction history.
When sending large sums, it is also prudent to first transfer a small test amount for confirmation. In a market where a single Fed decision or sudden altcoin listing can change everything within seconds, investors moving rapidly between separate apps for news, portfolio management, and price charts may expose themselves to added risk and cost. Many traders are now turning to privacy-first platforms like CryptoAppsy, which offer a unified dashboard featuring real-time charting, coin-specific news, portfolio tracking, smart price alerts, and key macroeconomic indicators—all without requiring the creation of an account.
Until security features become standard on every blockchain and wallet, user awareness and best practices remain the front line of defense against address poisoning and similar attacks.
GMX spustil perpetual markets QQQ/USD a SPY/USD na Arbitrum, dostupné 24/7 přes Ethereum, Base a BNB Chain. Uživatelé mohou obchodovat s pákou až 50x během hodin amerického trhu a až 25x mimo ně.
QQQ/USD and SPY/USD perpetual markets are live on GMX on Arbitrum, and accessible from Ethereum, Base, and BNB Chain via Multichain. Traders on GMX can now long or short the two most widely traded US equity ETFs — the Invesco QQQ Trust Series 1 and the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust — 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
QQQ tracks the 100 largest non-financial companies listed on Nasdaq, weighting it heavily toward tech. SPY tracks the S&P 500, the standard benchmark for the US market as a whole. Both appear in the market dropdown under TradFi, in a new Indices group alongside Commodities.
Both run on the same session schedule already live for SPCX/USD. Leverage is available up to 50x during US market hours and up to 25x outside them. The switchover changes which risk parameter set is active; it does not gate trading. Positions can be opened, adjusted and closed at any hour, including weekends and US market holidays, and neither market launches with a cap on open interest.
Trading fees follow GMX’s energy markets: just 1 or 2 basis points during on-hours and 4 or 6 bps during off-hours, the lower figure applying when a position improves the balance of open interest and the higher when it worsens it.
Pricing is powered by Chainlink’s perp-optimized Data Streams, the same low-latency oracle infrastructure behind GMX’s gold, silver, energy, and crypto markets.
Each market is backed by its own risk-isolated GM liquidity pool on Arbitrum:
QQQ/USD [WETH-USDC]
SPY/USD [WETH-USDC]
For these two markets, GLV [WETH-USDC] is the only supported route in; the GM tokens are not directly purchasable.
GLV is the GMX Liquidity Vault these markets share with GMX’s commodity markets; it rebalances liquidity across its constituent GM markets according to trader demand, so depositors earn from fee generation across the whole set rather than just a single market.
Index exposure outside the bell is not new; futures on both indices trade nearly around the clock on weekdays. What they do not do is trade through the weekend, and getting to them means a futures account, margin held at a broker, and a position you cannot custody.
GMX’s perps have no expiry and no roll. They mark to an oracle price and use funding to keep it near the underlying, which lets the market stay open continuously while risk parameters tighten during the hours when the underlying is illiquid. That is what the on-hours/off-hours split achieves: it prices the risk of a thin session, rather than blocking users from trading.
QQQ and SPY are wave 1 of GMX’s TradFi expansion. They extend the RWA lineup GMX has been building since gold and silver launched in April — commodities, energy, pre-IPO equity, and now broad US equity exposure — on the same infrastructure and execution stack as our crypto perps.
Trade them permissionlessly at:
> app.gmx.io
QQQ/USD and SPY/USD are synthetic perp markets. They reflect the market-implied price of the underlying ETF and confer no ownership of the fund or its holdings, no voting rights, and no entitlement to dividends or distributions.
SafePal integroval SoDEX jako mini Dapp, takže uživatelé mohou v peněžence obchodovat tokenizované akcie, zlato i krypto bez opuštění self-custody. SoDEX běží na ValueChain a používá on-chain order book.
SafePal proudly announces the integration of SoDEX into the SafePal App as a mini Dapp, bringing spot trading for tokenized US stocks, tokenized gold, crypto and specialty RWA assets into the wallet you already use to hold your assets.
Built on ValueChain, the high performance Layer 1 blockchain developed by the SoSoValue community, SoDEX is a fully on-chain order book exchange designed to deliver the speed and depth of a centralized exchange while providing equal access to assets onchain and keeping settlement transparent.
With this integration, SafePal users can move from holding to trading across crypto and real-world assets in a few taps, without transferring funds to a custodial platform. To get started, download the latest version of the SafePal App here and refer to the step-by-step guide here.
One wallet, Four asset classes Until recently, gaining exposure to equities and commodities meant leaving crypto entirely: a brokerage account, a separate app, market hours, and a settlement cycle measured in days. Tokenization has changed that, and the SoDEX mini Dapp brings the result directly into SafePal.
Inside the mini Dapp, users can access:
Tokenized stocks: spot exposure to major listed equities, priced and settled on-chain Tokenized gold: exposure to the world's oldest store of value, minimums or brokers in the form of XAUT Crypto spot markets: major pairs such as BTC, ETH, BNB, and SOL on a fully on-chain order book SSI index tokens: one-click diversified exposure to entire crypto sectors (MAG7.ssi, DEFI.ssi, MEME.ssi, and USSI) Specialty RWAs: a curated set of Asia-based top quality tech assets (coming soon) All of it sits alongside the rest of your portfolio in the SafePal App/software wallet, and all of it can be secured with a SafePal hardware wallet for enhanced security.
Why an on-chain order book matters Most decentralized exchanges rely on automated market makers, which work well for long-tail tokens but struggle with the precision traders expect from equities and majors. SoDEX takes a different approach: a central high performance order book which sits natively on ValueChain Layer-1, with 100,000+ TPS.
For users, that translates into three practical advantages:
Familiar order types: Limit and market orders, live depth, and real-time price data (the trading experience traders already know). Verifiable execution: Order matching and settlement happen on-chain and can be independently checked on the ValueChain explorer. Self-custody throughout: Your keys never leave your device. SafePal cannot access your funds, and neither can anyone else. Deposits from 16 blockchain networks Trading is only as accessible as the on-ramp. SoDEX Mini Dapp in SafePal supports deposits from 16 networks depending on the asset type, spanning EVM chains, major Layer 1s, UTXO chains, and payment networks.
This is synergistic with the 200+ blockchains supported across the SafePal wallet suite, as it means that SafePal users can fund an account with assets they already hold, without a chain of bridges in between.
Update the SafePal App to version 4.11.7 or later here Open the Explore tab and select SoDEX Connect your SafePal software or hardware wallet and approve the session Deposit from any of the 16 supported networks Choose a spot market (stocks, gold or crypto) and place your order Every signature request appears on your device before it executes.
If you are using a SafePal S1, S1 Pro or X1, transactions are confirmed with a second layer of verification with the hardware wallets.
What this means for SafePal users SafePal has spent 2026 building out access to assets that live beyond crypto's borders. The SoDEX integration continues that mission where self custodial users can hold Bitcoin, trade tokenized equities, hedge into gold, and index tokens in a transparent and decentralized manner via the SafePal wallet suite.
SafePal will also be exploring deeper collaboration and adding more features to the SoDEX Mini Dapp, so users can look forward to upgrades in future.
Frequently asked questions 1. What is SoDEX?
SoDEX is a decentralized exchange incubated by the SoSoValue community and built on ValueChain, a high-performance Layer 1 blockchain. Unlike AMM-based DEXs, it uses an on-chain central order book with matching distributed across validator nodes, offering CEX-like smooth execution with on-chain transparency.
2. Do I need to complete KYC?No, SafePal and SoDEX are decentralized platforms.3. Is SoDEX available in my country?
Tokenized equity and commodity products are subject to regional restrictions and usage of SoDEX and the terms and conditions listed here4. Does SafePal hold my funds? No. SafePal is a non-custodial wallet. Your private keys stay on your device, and SoDEX settles trades on-chain. Neither SafePal nor SoDEX takes custody of your keys.
5. Which hardware wallets are supported? The SafePal S1, S1 Pro and X1 can all be used to sign transactions in the SoDEX mini Dapp.
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Encompassing a diverse mix of crypto asset management solutions like cross-chain swapping, trading and yielding tools, centralized exchange (CEX) mini programs, a fiat gateway and Mastercard for users — SafePal serves 30 million users globally across 200+ regions and countries in 16 languages.
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About SoDEX:
SoDEX is a high-performance order book decentralized exchange (DEX). It seeks to combine the millisecond-level trading experience and deep liquidity of centralized order books (CLOB) with the non-custodial, transparent attributes of decentralized systems - providing active traders with a frictionless trading environment.
SoDEX offers a complete range of markets from spot, real-world assets (RWA), perpetuals and futures. It supports 16 blockchains, aggregating liquidity that would otherwise sit fragmented across venues.
Soud odložil nové projednání kauzy spoluzakladatele Tornado Cash Romana Storma na 26. dubna 2027. Jeho návrh na zrušení stávajícího odsouzení stále čeká na rozhodnutí.
A U.S. federal judge has pushed Tornado Cash co-founder Roman Storm’s retrial to April 26, 2027, about six months later than planned, while his motion seeking to overturn his existing conviction remains unresolved.
Summary
Roman Storm’s retrial has been moved from October 2026 to April 26, 2027. His pending acquittal motion challenges his 2025 money transmitting conviction. Storm still faces money laundering and sanctions charges carrying up to 20 years each. The first jury deadlocked on both charges after convicting Storm on one separate count. The Aug. 25 court order states that U.S. District Judge Katherine Polk Failla granted Storm’s request to postpone the proceedings, moving the retrial from an October 2026 timetable after his defense cited scheduling conflicts and the pending motion for judgment of acquittal.
Storm filed the Rule 29 motion on Sept. 30, 2025, challenging his conviction for conspiracy to operate an unlicensed money transmitting business on the grounds that prosecutors had not presented enough evidence to sustain the verdict. Failla heard oral arguments on April 9, 2026, but had not ruled on the request when she issued the latest scheduling order.
Under the revised calendar, Storm will face another jury on two charges left unresolved during his first trial: conspiracy to commit money laundering and conspiracy to violate U.S. sanctions. Each carries a maximum prison sentence of 20 years.
Roman Storm retrial has been moved to April 2027 Storm’s defense asked Failla earlier in August to schedule the retrial no sooner than April 2027, according to the court proceedings, while prosecutors opposed extending the case and preferred the earlier October timetable.
The judge ultimately adopted the defense’s requested date of April 26, 2027, and reset the other pretrial deadlines around it. Expert disclosures will now take place in early 2027, with a final pretrial conference scheduled for April 20, six days before the trial is due to begin.
The new schedule reverses the timetable prosecutors had sought several months earlier. In March, crypto.news reported on prosecutors seeking an October retrial after the first jury failed to return unanimous verdicts on the money laundering and sanctions charges.
At the time, Storm said another trial would expose him to as much as 40 years in federal prison if he were convicted on both unresolved counts. He also said his legal resources had been heavily depleted during the first four-week trial.
The pending Rule 29 motion could affect another part of the case before Storm returns to court. Under the federal rule, a judge may enter a judgment of acquittal when the evidence introduced at trial is legally insufficient to support a conviction.
If Failla grants Storm’s motion, his conviction on the unlicensed money transmitting charge could be set aside. If the motion is denied, the conviction would remain in place while prosecutors proceed with their second attempt to secure verdicts on the two charges on which the original jury deadlocked.
The first jury convicted Storm on only one count Storm went to trial in Manhattan in the summer of 2025 on three criminal charges stemming from his involvement with Tornado Cash, the Ethereum-based privacy protocol he co-founded.
After several weeks of testimony and four days of deliberations, jurors returned a split verdict on Aug. 6, 2025. They found Storm guilty of conspiring to operate an unlicensed money transmitting business but could not unanimously decide the money laundering and sanctions conspiracy counts.
Failla declared a mistrial on the two unresolved counts, leaving prosecutors with the option to try Storm again before another jury.
The charge on which Storm was convicted carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison. The two counts awaiting retrial carry substantially higher penalties, with up to 20 years available on each if a conviction is secured.
Before the first trial began, the Justice Department had already reduced part of its case. In May 2025, prosecutors narrowed the money transmission allegation by dropping the portion based on Storm’s alleged failure to comply with federal money transmitter registration requirements under 18 U.S.C. § 1960(b)(1)(B).
Prosecutors continued with the remaining money transmission theory and the money laundering and sanctions allegations, saying their decision was consistent with an April 2025 Justice Department policy memorandum that instructed federal prosecutors to avoid using criminal cases to regulate the crypto industry through technical registration violations.
Storm was originally charged in August 2023 alongside Tornado Cash co-founder Roman Semenov. U.S. prosecutors accused the pair of helping operate a service that processed more than $1 billion in criminal proceeds, including funds connected to North Korea’s Lazarus Group.
The government’s case has focused partly on whether Storm and his co-founders continued developing, promoting and financially benefiting from Tornado Cash despite knowing that criminals and sanctioned actors were using the protocol.
Storm’s lawyers have disputed that interpretation, arguing that Tornado Cash operated through decentralized smart contracts and that its developers did not control individual transactions or take custody of funds moving through the protocol.
Tornado Cash sanctions were removed before the trial Tornado Cash allows users to deposit cryptocurrency into smart contracts and later withdraw funds to a separate address, reducing the direct on-chain connection between the sending and receiving wallets.
The U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control sanctioned the protocol in August 2022, accusing it of being used to launder billions of dollars in virtual currency, including funds stolen by the Lazarus Group.
Legal challenges to those sanctions later produced an outcome separate from Storm’s criminal prosecution. In November 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled that immutable Tornado Cash smart contracts could not be treated as property under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act because they could not be owned or controlled.
Treasury subsequently removed Tornado Cash sanctions on March 21, 2025, reversing the designation imposed in 2022. The department continued to warn about North Korea’s use of digital assets for cybercrime and illicit financing after withdrawing the designation.
The sanctions decision did not terminate the criminal proceedings against Storm. Prosecutors continued arguing that his conduct before and during the period covered by the indictment could support the separate conspiracy charges.
An additional sanctions lawsuit brought by Coin Center was later closed after the government stopped defending the Tornado Cash designation following its removal.
Developer control remains disputed in Storm’s case Questions over how much control a software developer must exercise over a decentralized protocol before facing criminal liability have remained central to Storm’s defense.
Prosecutors have argued that Storm’s role went past publishing open-source software, alleging that Tornado Cash’s founders maintained parts of the project, promoted its use and profited from it while knowing illicit funds were passing through the protocol.
The defense has countered that Tornado Cash’s immutable smart contracts could continue operating without Storm and that users could interact with the contracts without the developers approving individual transfers.
Support for Storm has also come from parts of the Ethereum community. In January 2026, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin called for sentencing leniency and argued that privacy software can serve lawful purposes while open-source development should not by itself establish criminal liability. The report said Storm’s legal defense had raised more than $6.3 million with support from Buterin, the Ethereum Foundation and other donors.
The Ethereum Foundation had previously pledged up to $1 million in matching support for Storm’s legal defense following the 2025 verdict, while Storm remained free on bond as the criminal proceedings continued.
Failla has not issued a decision on Storm’s Sept. 30, 2025 Rule 29 motion. Under the new court schedule, the final pretrial conference on the unresolved money laundering and sanctions charges is set for April 20, 2027, with the retrial scheduled to start on April 26.
Circle aktivovala CCTP V2 na Aptos, čímž rozšířila standard burn-and-mint pro přesun nativního USDC mezi blockchainy. Integrace nahrazuje V1 a zapadá do širšího rozšíření na více než tuctu sítí.
@circle has activated Cross-Chain Transfer Protocol V2 (CCTP V2) on Aptos, upgrading the burn-and-mint standard that moves native $USDC between blockchains. The deployment, confirmed on Wednesday by @AptosLabs, replaces the V1 integration that was already live on the $APT network and brings Aptos in line with the broader V2 rollout across more than a dozen chains.
What CCTP V2 adds to Aptos The upgrade delivers two headline capabilities. Alongside that, Practical use cases include
The Aptos deployment retains the same developer surface as other V2 chains and includes relay support, targeting treasury management, liquidity movement, and trading applications.
Context: V1 phase-out and wider rollout The Aptos activation marks a step toward completing that expansion.
The Aptos integration expands the network's access to that infrastructure as Circle pushes V2 toward becoming the sole standard for native USDC movement across supported chains.
Sources:
Circle: Cross-Chain Transfer Protocol overview
Circle: CCTP V1 deprecation and V2 canonical designation
CoinDesk: Circle upgrades Cross-Chain Transfer Protocol
Rozšíření prohlížeče Petra nově umožňuje držet a posílat šifrované zůstatky APT na počítači. Na blockchainu jsou skryté částky transakcí, zatímco adresy zůstávají veřejné.
From Mainnet to Mobile and Now Desktop@PetraWallet users on desktop can now hold and send encrypted $APT balances directly from the wallet's browser extension, with transaction amounts hidden on-chain while sender and receiver addresses remain publicly visible. The move extends a rollout that has been building across platforms throughout 2026.
Aptos Proposal 188 executed on April 24, enabling APT confidentiality on mainnet. Aptos announced access through Petra and its Confidential Assets web interface on June 17, followed by a broader Petra mobile rollout in July. The browser extension marks the latest step in that expansion.
Confidential APT is an opt-in feature inside Aptos's fungible-asset framework. A user moves public APT into a protocol pool, registers an encryption key, and receives an encrypted balance. Transfers within that confidential domain update encrypted claims rather than moving the underlying APT out of the pool.
How the Privacy Layer WorksThe feature uses zero-knowledge proofs and Twisted ElGamal encryption to hide wallet balances and transfer amounts while keeping addresses publicly visible on-chain. Confidential APT maintains a 1:1 peg with standard APT and functions natively on the network.
@Aptos frames the feature as opt-in and built for compliant use. Governance-controlled auditor keys enable authorized access to transaction data for compliance and investigative purposes, with the implementation targeting enterprise use cases including confidential payroll, treasury operations, and trading activities.
As of an August 16 snapshot, APT confidentiality was enabled, allowlisting was active, the emergency pause was off, and the public confidential pool held approximately 15,116 APT. The desktop extension brings the feature to a wider slice of the Aptos user base, with Petra, developed by Aptos Labs, remaining the most widely used wallet and often treated as the official entry point to the ecosystem.
Sources
CertiK: Aptos Confidential APT, Verifiable Encrypted Transfers on Mainnet
Everstake: Aptos in 2026, Latest News and DeFi Updates
MoneyCheck: Aptos Rolls Out Privacy-Enhanced Token With Compliance Framework
Switchboard zastavil provoz na sítích postavených na Move, jako jsou Aptos, Sui, IOTA a Movement, po zjištění možného bezpečnostního incidentu. Na IOTA útočník zneužil oracle klíč a dočasně nastavil cenu na 10 milionů USD.
Switchboard, the multi-chain oracle protocol that feeds price data to decentralized applications across several blockchains, shut down operations on its Move-based deployments after discovering what it described as a potential security compromise. The affected networks include Aptos, Sui, IOTA, and Movement.
The halt, communicated during the transition from August 28 to 29, represents one of the more serious oracle-level incidents in recent memory. And the damage on at least one network was anything but theoretical.
What happened on IOTA An attacker exploited a compromised oracle key to manipulate the IOTA price feed, temporarily setting the token’s price to $10 million.
With the feed showing a wildly inflated IOTA price, the attacker was able to mint approximately 4.94 million VUSD through the Virtue CDP protocol. CDP, or collateralized debt position, protocols let users lock up assets and borrow stablecoins against them. When the oracle says your collateral is worth $10 million per token, the protocol happily lets you borrow accordingly.
The fallout hit 45 users directly through liquidations. Exchange addresses were frozen in response to the chaos, and the Virtue CDP protocol itself was halted.
Scope of the shutdown Switchboard’s decision to halt all Move-based implementations suggests the vulnerability may be architectural rather than network-specific. Move is the programming language originally developed at Meta (then Facebook) for the Diem project, and it now underpins Aptos, Sui, and their derivative ecosystems including Movement and IOTA’s newer infrastructure.
The protocol said it was actively collaborating with relevant security agencies to investigate the breach.
Notably, Switchboard’s Solana deployment was not affected. The protocol’s Solana-based infrastructure runs on different code, which apparently wasn’t vulnerable to the same exploit vector. Still, Switchboard advised even Solana users to temporarily seek alternative oracle options during the investigation.
Why oracle compromises are uniquely dangerous Oracles occupy one of the most critical positions in the DeFi stack. They’re the bridge between real-world data (token prices, interest rates, asset values) and on-chain smart contracts that execute financial transactions based on that data.
The DeFi ecosystem has seen oracle-related exploits before. Mango Markets on Solana suffered a $114 million exploit in 2022 when an attacker manipulated the platform’s oracle price.
What makes the Switchboard incident particularly concerning is that the compromise appears to have occurred at the key level rather than through market manipulation. The attacker didn’t need to execute complex trading strategies to move a price. They simply gained access to a key that controlled the feed and rewrote the data directly.
What this means for affected ecosystems For Aptos, Sui, and Movement, the shutdown is disruptive even if no exploits have been confirmed on those networks. Any DeFi protocol relying on Switchboard for price feeds is effectively flying blind until service resumes, unable to process liquidations, update collateral ratios, or execute any price-dependent function.
Protocols that integrated redundant oracle sources from providers like Pyth, Chainlink, or Redstone alongside Switchboard can continue operating. Those that didn’t are learning an expensive lesson about single points of failure.
Switchboard’s initial statements suggest that user funds have remained intact beyond the IOTA incident, but that assessment could evolve as the investigation deepens.
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Na Morpho došlo k likvidacím za 36,1 milionu USD poté, co obchod s výnosovými tokeny v Pendle srazil cenu principal tokenu a spustil uzavírání pákových pozic. Žádný špatný dluh nevznikl.
A wallet bought yield tokens in a $9 million Pendle pool, pushing the principal token price down 2.8% and clearing out looped positions on a Morpho market carrying $52 million in borrows. No bad debt was incurred.
Trades in a thinly traded Pendle yield market triggered $36.1 million of liquidations on Morpho early Tuesday, closing out leveraged positions in about 14 minutes while leaving lenders whole. Pendle and vault curator Steakhouse Financial both said the price feed did what it was built to do.
The setup is the recurring failure mode in looped yield strategies: a lending market sized far larger than the pool that prices its collateral. The Pendle reUSD pool maturing Dec. 10 holds $8.97 million of liquidity, according to Pendle's API. The Morpho market that accepts its principal tokens as collateral held $67.5 million of collateral against $52.2 million of borrows at a 91.5% liquidation threshold. Borrowers who had looped up to health factors of 1.03 were carrying less than a 3% buffer against any price move.
PENDLE fell 4.3% over 24 hours to $1.74 and MORPHO fell 5% to $2.52 as of 16:01 UTC, per CoinGecko, against a 3.2% decline in total crypto market cap. Both remain up over the week, PENDLE by about 29%. Pendle's fees ran to $91,863 on Tuesday, DefiLlama data shows, after $54,640 on Monday and $15,306 on Sunday. Its total value locked is $1.18 billion, down 88.5% from $10.3 billion a year ago.
PENDLE price, past 30 daysFourteen Minutes, Thirty-Three LiquidationsMorpho's API records 33 liquidation events between 04:37:47 and 04:51:23 UTC across the two affected markets, repaying $36.14 million of debt and seizing 38.6 million principal tokens. The USDC market accounted for $35.19 million of that and the USDT market $956,000. Realized bad debt in both is zero. The three largest borrowers liquidated lost positions of $13.01 million, $11.01 million and $6.83 million. One liquidator contract handled 96% of the repayments.
Those two markets were effectively all of Morpho's liquidation activity on Tuesday. Every other market on Ethereum and Base combined totaled $731 over the same day.
Correct By Design"The oracle for this market was set up correctly and functioned as intended," Pendle said. "This was not a misconfiguration, despite the unfortunate outcome."
The feed Steakhouse configured references the lower of two prices: the principal token's own market price on Pendle as a 15-minute average, and a fixed curve rising to $1 at maturity along a 6% annual discount. When the market price fell, the 15-minute average became the reference and cut collateral values on looped positions. Positions already sitting at health factors below 1.03 crossed the liquidation threshold, Pendle said. The Pendle Ecosystem Vault on Morpho was unaffected.
Steakhouse put the move at 2.8% on high volume and said its systems withdrew liquidity from all affected markets as a precaution before restoring it. Onchain data matches: supply in the USDC market fell 25% from $82.9 million at midnight UTC to $62 million by mid-afternoon, and borrows dropped 27% from $71.1 million at 04:00 UTC.
Pendle's own integration guide calls 15 or 30 minutes the recommended window, "but it can vary depending on the market," and tells integrators to pick "a market with high trading activities & deep liquidity."
Who Bought The Yield TokensSecurity firm PeckShield said a wallet ending 690d market-bought reUSD yield tokens, pushing the implied yield to 20%, then dumped the position, triggering roughly $36.39 million in liquidations on looped principal-token positions. Buying yield tokens mechanically pushes principal tokens into the pool and lowers their price.
Onchain analyst 0scar reconstructed the sequence: the wallet bought yield tokens on a time-weighted schedule, pushing 5.4 million principal tokens into a pool holding 3.1 million, which dragged the 15-minute average price to $0.9647 and flagged a borrower sitting at 90.9% loan-to-value.
"Liquidator and YT buyer are the same entity, because the liquidator paid for the buyer's gas multiple times," 0scar wrote, putting realized gains at "at least $360k." The Defiant confirmed onchain that in one transaction at 04:38:23 UTC, an address ending 7F44 borrowed $9.94 million of USDC and supplied 11,710,808 principal tokens in the same block as the $11.01 million liquidation that seized exactly that many. 0scar's profit figure has not been independently confirmed.
Re Protocol, which issues reUSD, said it is "investigating whether the PT market price was intentionally manipulated and are working with the relevant teams on a safer oracle configuration." No protocol involved has said manipulation occurred. reUSD itself was unaffected: its net asset value stands at $1.0968 with a 6.44% APY, per Re's API, and circulating supply is $212.5 million on DefiLlama, up 27% in a month.
Flagged Eight Days EarlyThe size mismatch was documented publicly before it mattered. On Aug. 17 a user posting as SrAugust wrote on the Morpho governance forum that the market showed "55,887,325 borrowed against 7,309,040 liquid," calling the figures reproducible from Morpho's public GraphQL endpoint in a single query. The comment landed in an RFC filed by Sigma Labs in June proposing a collateral-transparency standard, one of whose four stated problems is that a passive vault depositor's capital is "silently leveraged by the looper's activity."
Steakhouse itself described the tradeoff in a June 2025 forum post: "Market-based oracles are closer to the 'true' price of the collateral but are often thinly traded and can be manipulated." Its April 2026 oracle upgrade, which moved BTC and ETH markets to Chainlink feeds with a 2% deviation threshold, did not cover Pendle principal-token markets.
Steakhouse is Morpho's largest curator with $2.16 billion in assets, though its own Smokehouse vaults held about $8.3 million of exposure to this collateral as of Tuesday afternoon, after the withdrawals it described. The four largest suppliers to the USDC market are addresses holding between $7.2 million and $17.5 million each, none of them listed vaults, meaning most of the market was supplied directly.
The episode is the inverse of the $25 million Resolv exploit in March, where a hardcoded oracle held wstUSR at $1.13 while it traded at $0.63 and left more than $10 million of bad debt at Fluid alone. Here a market oracle repriced fast, protected lenders and liquidated borrowers. That is the case curators made in April, when Steakhouse told The Defiant that its vaults had absorbed zero bad debt and kept full withdrawal liquidity through a drawdown that put about $238 million of liquidations through Morpho in late January and early February.
Neznámá adresa vybrala z OKX 280,8 miliardy SHIB, zatímco Shiba Inu se po víkendovém růstu blíží klíčové technické zóně. SHIB byl za 24 hodin výše o 1,7 %.
An unknown whale address has drawn attention in the Shiba Inu community after withdrawing more than 280 billion SHIB from cryptocurrency exchange OKX during the token’s recent rebound.
According to Arkham data, 280,826,574,058 Shiba Inu moved from an OKX hot wallet to an unlabeled address at 16:38 UTC yesterday. At the time, the tokens were worth $1.56 million.
Although Arkham labels the recipient as an unknown address, on-chain activity suggests that it is connected to Cumberland, a major digital-asset liquidity provider. The wallet initially received funding from Cumberland and has since recorded several transactions involving the firm.
However, the address has not retained the entire withdrawal. After distributing the tokens across several wallets, it now holds 14.29 billion SHIB, worth around $79,030.
SHIB Pulls Back After Strong Weekend Rally The large transfer comes as SHIB gives back part of its recent gains. Shiba Inu climbed above $0.000006 over the weekend and reached a high of $0.000006191 before retreating.
At press time, SHIB was trading around $0.000005507, up 1.7% over 24 hours and 24.73% over the past week. Meanwhile, exchange-flow data is providing another potentially bullish signal. Investors withdrew 137.60 billion SHIB from exchanges over the previous 24 hours, pushing total exchange reserves below 87 trillion tokens to 86.98 trillion SHIB.
Generally, large exchange outflows can reduce the amount of SHIB immediately available for trading and potentially ease selling pressure, with analysts considering the move a bullish signal.
SHIB Approaches Key Technical Decision Point Meanwhile, Shiba Inu is approaching an important technical area. Crypto analyst GainMuse highlighted a wedge formation on the two-hour chart, with support currently controlling the structure.
The setup features eight support levels and seven resistance levels, pointing to a closely contested market. Therefore, SHIB’s next reaction around the nearest technical level could determine its short-term direction.
A decisive breakout above resistance could strengthen the recent bullish momentum and pave the way for further gains. Conversely, a rejection at resistance followed by a breakdown below support could expose SHIB to deeper losses, with $0.000005 and $0.0000048 emerging as potential downside targets.
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Kraken dočasně omezil účty po téměř 12 000 nevyžádaných převodech krypta mezi 17. a 24. srpnem a označil je za dust attack. Později přístup obnovil, ale sporné prostředky drží odděleně od zůstatků klientů.
TLDR Kraken temporarily restricted customer accounts after nearly 12,000 unsolicited crypto transfers hit its platform between August 17 and 24. Arkham Intelligence linked the sending wallet to HTX, but the exchange denied any involvement. Kraken called the activity a dust attack meant to spread sanctioned funds across unrelated accounts. The EU added HTX’s Huobi Global entity to its transaction ban list on August 23, 2026. Kraken restored account access but kept the disputed funds separate from customer balances. Kraken temporarily restricted a group of customer accounts this week after an unusual wave of small crypto transfers reached its platform. Bloomberg first reported the story on August 25, citing data on nearly 12,000 transactions.
The transfers arrived between August 17 and August 24. Most were worth only a few cents or a few dollars each.
Kraken described the activity as a dust attack. In this case, the goal appeared to be spreading sanctioned funds across many unrelated accounts rather than tracking wallet owners, which is the usual purpose of dust attacks.
What Happened to the Affected Accounts Kraken restricted the accounts that received the transfers while it reviewed the situation. The exchange later restored access to those accounts once the reviews were complete.
However, Kraken kept the disputed funds separate from customer balances. The company said this was because the funds were tied to wallets connected to sanctioned entities.
A spokesperson for Kraken said the transfers appeared to come from wallets owned by HTX. The spokesperson added that the funds seemed linked to sanctions imposed by the UK and the EU.
Kraken did not say how many accounts were affected. The company also did not share the total value of the funds it is holding separately.
Blockchain analytics firm Arkham Intelligence labeled the sending wallet as connected to HTX. This label was based on addresses that HTX had used in past proof of reserves reports.
That label does not confirm that HTX controlled the wallet or directed the transfers. It only shows a past connection between the address and the exchange.
HTX Denies Sending the Funds HTX pushed back on the claim. A spokesperson said the exchange did not send the transfers and is now looking into what happened.
HTX said it is checking whether the mislabeling came from an error, a misunderstanding, or the actions of a third party. The exchange has not shared full wallet records to support its explanation.
Other exchanges reportedly saw similar small transfers before Kraken’s issue became public. Coinbase and Binance were both named as recipients of comparable transactions.
The timing lines up with recent sanctions activity. The UK named Huobi Global S.A., tied to HTX, as a sanctioned entity back in May.
The EU followed with its own restrictions on HTX starting August 23. That rule bans certain crypto firms from processing transactions linked to the exchange.
HTX has argued that Huobi Global S.A. is a separate legal entity from its main trading platform. The exchange says the sanctions should not apply to its full operations.
Researchers at TRM Labs said HTX changed wallets several times after the UK sanctions took effect. HTX called this normal security practice, not an attempt to avoid the rules.
Crypto exchanges generally cannot block incoming transfers before they are screened. This means unwanted funds can land in a customer account without that person doing anything.
Stablecoin issuers like Tether have more control since they can freeze tokens directly. Tether froze more than 500 million dollars across 370 addresses during one recent 30 day period.
Kraken and HTX have not announced a joint investigation. Any further update would likely need clear wallet evidence or a statement from sanctions regulators in the UK or EU.
Americká vláda přesunula malé množství bitcoinu zabaveného z účtů Alameda Research na Binance.US před třemi lety. Arkham transakci zachytil, ale nepotvrdil prodej.
The U.S. government has transferred a small amount of Bitcoin seized from Alameda Research’s Binance.US accounts three years ago, renewing attention on how federal agencies will handle the remaining assets.
Summary
The transferred Bitcoin came from Alameda-linked accounts seized from Binance.US three years ago. Arkham reported the transaction but did not identify it as a sale. Earlier Alameda-linked transfers sent nearly $2.9 million in seized crypto through government-controlled wallets. Federal rules generally restrict sales of Bitcoin placed in the U.S. Strategic Bitcoin Reserve. Arkham Intelligence reported the transaction on Aug. 26, describing the amount as small and tracing the Bitcoin to Alameda accounts on Binance.US that U.S. authorities seized three years earlier.
The blockchain analytics firm did not publish the amount in its indexed post or identify the receiving address. Arkham also did not say that officials had sold the Bitcoin, leaving the transaction’s purpose unconfirmed.
“The US Government just moved a small amount of Bitcoin that had been seized from Alameda accounts on Binance US, 3 years ago,” Arkham said.
Arkham then asked whether the government would begin liquidating the remaining Bitcoin connected to Alameda. The question was not tied to an announcement from the Department of Justice, the Treasury Department, or another federal agency.
The Bitcoin transfer does not confirm a sale Moving Bitcoin between addresses records a change in custody or location on the blockchain, but the transaction alone does not show whether the asset has been sold. A transfer to another government wallet may involve custody, accounting, or security management, while movement to an exchange can make a future sale possible without proving one occurred.
The destination is especially important because federal agencies have regularly used Coinbase Prime to store and manage seized digital assets. Coinbase’s institutional platform offers both custody and trading services, meaning a deposit there can support several purposes.
In July, U.S. government-linked wallets transferred nearly $297 million in seized Bitcoin and Ether to Coinbase Prime. The transaction included about 3,940 BTC and 30,014 ETH tied to separate enforcement cases, according to earlier transaction coverage.
Bitcoin connected to Ryan Farace, an online drug dealer known as “Xanaxman,” and the closed BTC-e exchange formed part of the July transfer. Ether linked to a separate money laundering case also moved to Coinbase Prime.
No public blockchain record can show whether an exchange deposit resulted in an executed trade unless additional evidence reveals a conversion or movement of the sale proceeds. The same limitation applies to the latest Alameda-linked Bitcoin transaction.
Alameda assets have moved several times in 2026 Federal wallets have processed other seized assets tied to Alameda and FTX during 2026, providing a record of how authorities have handled smaller token holdings.
In May, Arkham said the government moved about $1.89 million in Render, Uniswap, The Sandbox, Mask Network, and Axie Infinity tokens to Coinbase Prime. The analytics firm traced the tokens to approximately $13 million in Alameda assets seized from Binance accounts more than three years earlier.
Another transaction followed in June, when government-controlled wallets transferred nearly $984,000 in FTX- and Alameda-linked cryptocurrency. At least $768,000 of the total went to Coinbase Prime, as crypto.news reported at the time.
Arkham said the June assets would go to the FTX estate to help repay creditors. The transaction included Chainlink and several smaller tokens, while the remaining amount moved through addresses connected to the same seized asset group.
Federal wallets had also moved more than $33 million in Alameda-linked cryptocurrency in December 2024. According to an Arkham report, the batch included about $18 million in Ether, $13 million in BUSD, and smaller amounts of Wrapped Bitcoin, Shiba Inu, and Axie Infinity.
Arkham said the 2024 assets moved to a newly created address and noted that no official purpose had been announced. The firm presented creditor distributions, wallet consolidation, and asset management as possible explanations rather than confirmed reasons for the transfers.
U.S. reserve rules limit some Bitcoin sales President Donald Trump’s March 2025 executive order established the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve and directed the Treasury Department to fund it with Bitcoin finally forfeited through criminal or civil proceedings.
Under the order, Bitcoin deposited into the reserve cannot be sold and must remain a U.S. reserve asset. A recent Bitcoin reserve explainer estimated that the federal government held approximately 198,000 BTC as of mid-2026, although public trackers produce different totals based on the addresses and legal categories they include.
The White House order does not place every seized coin under an absolute ban on disposal. It allows agencies to return assets to verified victims, comply with court orders, support law enforcement operations, and meet requirements under federal forfeiture laws.
Legal status, therefore, determines how a particular holding can be handled. Bitcoin that has been finally forfeited and transferred into the reserve receives different treatment from property still involved in a court case, creditor recovery process, or victim compensation plan.
The White House also created a U.S. Digital Asset Stockpile for forfeited assets other than Bitcoin. Treasury has more room to manage or sell tokens held in the stockpile, while the order gives Bitcoin placed in the reserve a general no-sale policy.
No federal agency has said whether the Bitcoin moved on Aug. 26 had entered the reserve, remained assigned to the FTX recovery process, or fell under one of the order’s exceptions.
FTX creditors remain tied to the seized assets Alameda Research operated as the trading firm associated with FTX before the exchange collapsed in November 2022. Federal prosecutors later said FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried used customer deposits to finance Alameda’s operations, investments and loan repayments.
The Justice Department said Bankman-Fried misappropriated billions of dollars deposited by FTX customers and gave Alameda access to the funds. A federal jury convicted him in November 2023 on seven counts, including wire fraud, securities fraud conspiracy, commodities fraud conspiracy, and money laundering conspiracy.
In March 2024, U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan sentenced Bankman-Fried to 25 years in prison. The Justice Department said the sentence included forfeiture of more than $11 billion, while prosecutors placed FTX customer losses at more than $8 billion.
WBT od WhiteBIT dosáhl nového historického maxima, zatímco Whitechain byl restartován jako Ethereum Layer 2 zaměřený na distribuci. Token se obchoduje poblíž 72,5 USD po zisku asi 30,88 % za týden. Dosáhl ATH 72,21 USD a 24hodinový objem činí 401,76 mil. USD.
WhiteBIT’s native token WBT has reached a new all-time high. The milestone lands during a period of genuine activity across the WhiteBIT ecosystem, including the fourth anniversary of WhiteBIT Coin and the relaunch of Whitechain as a distribution-focused Ethereum Layer 2. The combination of a token record and infrastructure development happening at the same time is worth paying attention to.
WBT’s Record Arrives as Whitechain Enters Its Next Phase Whitechain’s relaunch isn’t a minor update. Moving to an Ethereum Layer 2 model means the network is being rebuilt around scalability and broader blockchain adoption rather than staying in its original form.
Layer 2 networks have become an important part of the Ethereum ecosystem. They allow applications to process activity more efficiently while staying connected to Ethereum’s underlying infrastructure. For WhiteBIT, this transition means Whitechain can support a wider range of future applications and developers while maintaining a real connection to the broader blockchain environment.
WBT sits at the center of this. The token connects exchange activity, blockchain development, and future platform initiatives across WhiteBIT’s expanding infrastructure. As Whitechain evolves, WBT’s role within the ecosystem grows alongside it.
What WBT’s Utility Actually Covers WBT’s utility goes well beyond a simple exchange token. Holders get trading-fee discounts, which reduce the cost of active trading on the platform. Staking opportunities let users earn rewards on held tokens. The referral reward system gives users a way to generate income through network growth. Launchpad access gives WBT holders early entry into new projects listed on the platform.
WBT also functions as the native asset within Whitechain, which means its role expands directly as the Layer 2 network grows. That native asset function is the connection between the token’s exchange utility and the broader blockchain infrastructure WhiteBIT is building.
WhiteBIT Has Been Building Beyond Exchange Services WhiteBIT started as a cryptocurrency exchange. That’s still a core part of what the company does, but it’s no longer the whole picture. The company has expanded into additional areas including blockchain infrastructure, financial products, and technology initiatives.
The Whitechain development is the clearest example of that shift. By building its own blockchain infrastructure, WhiteBIT is creating a foundation for future applications rather than depending entirely on existing networks. That kind of infrastructure investment tends to have a longer payoff horizon, but it also builds something that’s genuinely harder to replicate.
The Ethereum Layer 2 direction also reflects broader industry demand. Blockchain networks that combine scalability with established security foundations are attracting developer attention. WhiteBIT is positioning Whitechain to compete in that environment.
What the All-Time High Means in Context WBT reaching a new record during a period of infrastructure expansion reflects more than just market sentiment. The token has been accumulating utility across a growing ecosystem, and Whitechain’s relaunch adds another layer to that structure.
The fourth anniversary of WhiteBIT Coin also matters here. Four years of ecosystem development don’t happen overnight. The token’s evolution from a straightforward exchange utility asset to a core component of a broader blockchain ecosystem reflects consistent work rather than a single product launch.
WhiteBIT continues building blockchain capabilities and developing products around digital asset adoption. The WBT all-time high marks where that work stands right now.
What’s Ahead for WBT Token WBT is trading near $72.5 after gaining approximately 30.88% over the week. The token broke above the $55 to $60 resistance zone with strong volume, reaching an ATH of $72.21. Current resistance sits at $72 to $75, followed by the psychological $80 level. Key support levels are located around $60 to $62, with stronger support near $54 to $56. The $401.76M 24-hour volume suggests strong market participation behind the breakout.
tZERO se strategicky propojí se sítí Sui a přidá podporu pro vydávání, transfer agency, úschovu, obchodování, compliance i vypořádání regulovaných digitálních aktiv. Partnerství má otevřít Sui institucionální tržní infrastrukturu v USA.
Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands, August 25th, 2026, FinanceWire
The integration will bring established, regulated market infrastructure to Sui that unlocks support for institutions and issuers, while also opening access for tZERO to the chain’s deep pool of builders and developers
tZERO Group, Inc., a leader in blockchain-based financial infrastructure, today announced a strategic partnership to integrate directly with the Sui blockchain, unlocking support for issuance, transfer agency, custody, trading, compliance and settlement for regulated digital assets security trading. The integration will expand Sui’s access to institutionally compliant U.S. market infrastructure aimed at building for tokenized markets, and will bring Sui’s deep pool of builders and developers into the tZERO ecosystem.
The announcement brings full integration into tZERO’s U.S.-regulated trading, custody, and issuance framework for the Sui blockchain, providing direct support for institutional-grade tokenization projects and initiatives for projects currently building on the network.
Mustafa Al Niama, Head of Capital Markets at Mysten Labs and former Americas Head of Digital Assets at Goldman Sachs, commented: “Institutional adoption of tokenized assets depends on infrastructure that bridges blockchain innovation with regulatory frameworks. tZERO’s expansion to Sui gives issuers and developers access to regulated issuance, custody, and trading capabilities designed to support that transition, while also taking advantage of Sui’s unique architecture that is built to support institutional workflows.”
Through the integration, tZERO will gain access to a vast pool of developers, builders, and DeFi projects currently being built on Sui, leveraging the extensive knowledge these teams have in building for the network’s unique object-focused architecture. These builders have years of experience creating projects that take advantage of Sui’s highly performant network with near-instant finality, positioning them well to build on infrastructure designed to service institutional needs.
“Sui’s object-centric architecture offers a unique approach to regulated digital assets by making assets and their permissions programmable,” said Alan Konevsky, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of tZERO. “Combined with Sui’s performance, that design creates a strong foundation for the development of next generation regulated financial applications onchain.“
tZERO brings more than 12 years of operational experience in U.S. market compliance and infrastructure development, and is recognized by the SEC with multiple registrations. tZERO is also an active member of FINRA, and has years of experience bridging crypto-native projects into regulated U.S. market applications.
The partnership signals strong continued momentum towards the development of shared blockchain based infrastructure, goals shared by both tZERO and Sui, and directly expands access to support for digital asset securities issued onchain.
For more information about Sui, please visit: https://www.sui.io/.
For more information about tZERO, please visit: https://www.tzero.com/.
About Sui
Sui, where money moves as freely as messages, is a next-generation Layer 1 blockchain built for scalable finance and global payments. Founded by the core team behind Meta’s stablecoin initiative and powered by an object-centric model, Sui makes assets, permissions, and user data programmable and ownable. Sui’s primitives offer builders everything they need to create high-performance payments and financial applications, including instant agentic payments. Learn more at sui.io.
About tZERO Group, Inc.
tZERO Group, Inc. (tZERO) and its broker-dealer subsidiaries provide an innovative liquidity platform for private companies and assets. We offer institutional-grade solutions for issuers looking to digitize their capital table through blockchain technology, and make such equity available for trading on an alternative trading system. tZERO, through its broker-dealer subsidiaries, democratizes access to private assets by providing a simple, automated, and efficient trading venue to broker-dealers, institutions, and investors. All technology services are offered through tZERO Technologies, LLC. For more information, please visit our website.
About tZERO Digital Asset Securities, LLC
tZERO Digital Asset Securities, LLC is a broker-dealer registered with the SEC and a member of FINRA and SIPC. It is the broker-dealer custodian of all digital asset securities offered on tZERO’s online brokerage platform. Digital asset securities may not be “securities” as defined under the Securities Investor Protection Act (SIPA)-and in particular, digital asset securities that are “investment contracts” under the Howey test but are not registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission are excluded from SIPA’s definition of “securities”-and thus the protections afforded to securities customers under SIPA may not apply. More information about tZERO Digital Asset Securities may be found on FINRA’s BrokerCheck.
About tZERO Securities, LLC
tZERO Securities, LLC is a broker-dealer registered with the SEC and a member of FINRA and SIPC. It is the operator of the tZERO Securities ATS. More information about tZERO Securities may be found on FINRA’s BrokerCheck.
About tZERO Transfer Services, LLC
tZERO Transfer Services, LLC is a transfer agent registered with the SEC. More information about tZERO Transfer Services may be found on the SEC’s Edgar: https://www.sec.gov/search-filings.
Forward-Looking Statements by tZERO
This release contains forward-looking statements. In addition, from time to time, tZERO, its subsidiaries, or its representatives may make forward-looking statements orally or in writing. These forward-looking statements are based on expectations and projections about future events, which is derived from currently available information. Such forward-looking statements relate to future events or future performance, including financial performance and projections; growth in revenue and earnings; and business prospects and opportunities. You can identify forward-looking statements by those that are not historical in nature, particularly those that use terminology such as “may,” “should,” “expects,” “anticipates,” “contemplates,” “estimates,” “believes,” “plans,” “projected,” “predicts,” “potential,” or “hopes” or the negative of these or similar terms. In evaluating these forward-looking statements, you should consider various factors, including, without limitation: the ability of tZERO and its subsidiaries to change the direction; tZERO’s ability to keep pace with new technology and changing market needs; performance of individual transactions; regulatory developments and matters; and competition. These and other factors may cause actual results to differ materially from any forward-looking statement. Forward-looking statements are only predictions. The forward-looking events discussed in this release and other statements made from time to time by tZERO, its subsidiaries or their respective representatives, may not occur, and actual events and results may differ materially and are subject to risks, uncertainties and assumptions. tZERO, its subsidiaries, and its representatives are not obligated to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of uncertainties and assumptions, the forward-looking events discussed in this release and other statements made from time to time by tZERO, its subsidiaries or its representatives might not occur. This press release is for informational purposes only and does not constitute an offer to sell, a solicitation of an offer to buy, or a recommendation to purchase any security.
Foundation Sui nakoupila 24. srpna 7 600 $SUI a letošní zpětné odkupy už přesáhly 516 800 tokenů v hodnotě přes 600 000 USD. Program běží denně a míří k milionu tokenů.
The @SuiNetwork Foundation's open-market buyback program is gathering pace, with the total number of $SUI tokens repurchased now approaching a significant milestone.
Daily Purchases Stack Up On 24 August, the foundation purchased 7,600 $SUI tokens on the open market. That single day's activity brought the week's running total to roughly 57,500 tokens, and the year-to-date figure has now surpassed 516,800 $SUI, collectively valued at over $600,000.
The program is not a one-off intervention. Purchases are made daily, with proceeds recycled back into the network rather than held as treasury reserves.
Stablecoin Yield Funds the Loop The mechanics behind the program centre on the foundation's USDsui stablecoin strategy.
The design is intended to redirect value that stablecoin issuers would otherwise retain, putting it to work within the Sui ecosystem instead.
Importantly, this is not a burn program.
The scale of the program will ultimately depend on how much yield the stablecoin reserves generate. As USDsui adoption grows, so too could the pace of daily repurchases, pushing the program's cumulative total toward and eventually beyond the one million token mark.
Sources:
Crypto Briefing: Sui turns stablecoin reserves into a token buyback machine
Bitcoinist: Sui's USDsui Model Turns Stablecoin Yield Into Ecosystem Buybacks
AMBCrypto: SUI crypto price holds support as buyback programme gathers pace
KuCoin Web3 Wallet nově podporuje aktiva na Sui mainnetu, takže uživatelé mohou přímo v peněžence držet, posílat i přijímat tokeny na síti Sui. Integrace zahrnuje také přístup k dApps a cross-chain swapům.
KuCoin’s Web3 wallet now supports Sui mainnet assets, giving users the ability to manage tokens on the Move-based layer-1 blockchain directly from the platform’s self-custodial interface.
For Sui, the partnership deepens its relationship with one of the crypto industry’s larger exchange ecosystems. KuCoin first listed SUI for spot trading back in May 2023 and enabled USDC deposits on the Sui network in October 2024. Adding full wallet support is the logical next step, one that moves beyond simple trading pairs into the kind of native asset management that DeFi-oriented users actually want.
What the integration actually does With Sui support live, KuCoin Web3 Wallet users can hold, send, receive, and interact with tokens built on the Sui network without leaving the wallet interface. That includes access to decentralized applications and cross-chain swaps, features the wallet already offers for its other supported networks.
Sui itself is a layer-1 blockchain built on the Move programming language, originally developed at Meta for the now-defunct Diem project. Its architecture uses an object-centric data model rather than the account-based model found in Ethereum. In practical terms, this means the network handles certain types of transactions, particularly those that don’t involve shared state, with notably high throughput.
The blockchain has positioned itself around the idea that “money moves as freely as messages,” a tagline aimed at the scalable finance and global payments use case.
KuCoin’s multi-chain playbook This Sui integration doesn’t exist in a vacuum. KuCoin’s Web3 wallet has been on something of a chain-collecting spree throughout 2025 and into 2026, adding support for networks including Robinhood Chain, 0G, Monad, and HyperEVM.
What this means for the Sui ecosystem That said, wallet integrations alone don’t move markets. There were no immediate signs of price fluctuations or notable trading volume changes in SUI following the announcement.
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AI agents can only create value when someone delegates real work to them, but delegation will be low without trust. Given that organizational and public trust in AI/Agents remains cautious, it’s more important than ever to tackle this issue. As agents take on consequential work like moving money, managing treasuries, and executing smart contracts, they need a platform built on absolute reliability and accountability.
To address this need, Talus has officially deployed the Talus Protocol v2.0 contracts on the Sui Network mainnet. With this release, Talus Agents and the protocol have been upgraded with a wide variety of improvements to establish the production-grade infrastructure needed to create trustworthy AI that handles real value.
Partner projects and developers building with Talus now have the opportunity to upgrade their agents and products to the mainnet in an ecosystem designed to scale. Workflows launched today are backed by protocol-level backward compatibility, meaning future network upgrades don’t break active agents or disrupt live applications as the ecosystem grows.
The Talus team has worked incredibly hard since the launch of v1.0 of Talus Protocol, and today’s upgrade delivers a continuation of the key architecture proposed in the Talus Litepaper, proving that the foundation for a transparent, agent-driven economy is possible.
CEO of Talus, @0xgmike, emphasizes the importance of this step forward:
Protocol v1.0 proved onchain agent coordination was possible and that was never the end-goal. v2.0 is what makes it real with production-grade infrastructure agents that can actually be trusted to run on, with real value on the line.What’s New in Talus Protocol v2.0?The v2.0 release brings together five foundational upgrades designed to turn fragile agent setups into trustworthy digital workers:
This transition to production-grade infrastructure is driven by a comprehensive set of protocol-level upgrades that transform how agents operate, communicate, and scale. In practice, production-grade means providing the deterministic rules, standardized capabilities, and onchain accountability required for agents to safely handle real money and authority.
By introducing the Talus Agent Package (TAP) standard, agents now have a universal format to register distinct identities, offer capabilities, and manage execution payments rather than relying on custom, mix-and-match setups.
To ensure these capabilities are backed by absolute accountability, proof verification authority has been shifted directly onchain, enabling smart contracts to verify every execution rather than trusting centralized offchain servers.
If automations run into roadblocks or a step in the workflow fails, the newly added protocol-wide error handling ensures offchain disruptions no longer leave execution without a clear resolution, instead recording an auditable onchain record so the network always knows how to respond.
Meanwhile, zero-downtime versioning introduces backward compatibility and multi-stage rollouts, allowing underlying data structures and contract logic to evolve continuously without interrupting active workflows or forcing hard-breaking resets.
Finally, a priority fee system introduces a market-driven queuing system, allowing high-stakes or important tasks to jump to the front of the line for execution when real value is on the line, while regular queued tasks continue as normal.
Together, these upgrades establish a trustworthy and resilient environment where autonomous agents can operate safely at scale.
The Foundation for What Comes NextWith Talus Protocol v2.0 live on Mainnet, we have set the rules of engagement: verifiable execution, standardized agent capabilities, and backwards-compatible infrastructure.
This foundation is already powering active workflows for a growing cohort of ecosystem partners and applications who are now starting to deploy their autonomous products directly onto Mainnet.
As we look beyond v2.0, this foundation will allow us to continuously roll out enhancements to Talus Protocol, opening the doors to permissionless node operators, automated slashing for faulty behavior, and deeper crypto-economic incentives.
The agent economy cannot scale without a reliable platform. Today, that platform is live.
Welcome to Talus Protocol v2.0
🌐 Explore the Mainnet Release: https://github.com/Talus-Network/nexus-sdk
DEX Activity Surges Across the Sui EcosystemDecentralized exchanges on @SuiNetwork have recorded a sharp spike in activity, with weekly trading volume reaching $540.77 million, a 258% increase week over week. Perpetuals trading added further weight to the numbers,
The jump is notable given where $SUI has been trading in recent months. The token had drifted as low as $0.66 in June before recovering. At the time of writing, the native token is near $0.78, with chain DeFi TVL sitting at approximately $465 million.
Broader Market Rally Provides a TailwindThe surge in on-chain volume does not exist in isolation. That broader lift has pulled capital and trading activity back toward layer-1 networks including Sui.
That level of fee growth points to genuine user activity rather than bot-driven volume inflation.
Sui has been building its DeFi stack steadily. Those institutional-grade additions give the ecosystem a broader base from which to absorb increased trading demand.
Still, context matters. Whether the volume spike on Sui proves durable or fades once broader risk appetite cools remains to be seen.
Sources:
Sui Chain Data, DefiLlama
AMBCrypto: How High Can Sui Rally After 250% Activity Surge?
Cryptonomist: Sui Crypto Analysis, August 2026
U U.S. spotového SUI ETF trvá 12 týdnů bez čistých odlivů a tři fondy za tu dobu nakoupily 9,3 milionu SUI. Analytici sledují $0,80 jako klíčovou resistance.
Sui, a Layer 1 blockchain project focused on fast smart contract execution and scalable infrastructure, is drawing renewed attention from analysts and investors after a series of bullish technical developments and consistent accumulation via U.S. spot SUI ETFs.
Key support and resistance levelsSUI’s recent price action has centered on the $0.73-$0.76 range, which is supported by a cluster of short- and medium-term moving averages. Resistance is building at $0.80, with analysts highlighting this area as pivotal for the next directional move.
Technical analyst InvestorJordan pointed to a breakout on SUI’s four-hour chart, where the price moved above a descending trendline after testing its 100-period moving average. The analyst noted entry around $0.72 and is eyeing $0.80 as the next decisive confirmation area. Finsends, another analyst, considers the $0.75 region a potential accumulation zone, with a longer-term breakout target set near $1.15.
Sustained trading above $0.80 would mark a more significant technical shift than the initial trendline breakout, as it would clear a prominent horizontal resistance.
On the daily time frame, SUI remains below several longer-term averages. The 100-period simple moving average stands near $0.755, and the 100-period exponential moving average is close to $0.784. As of the latest trading, SUI hovers close to $0.745, directly intersecting this major moving average cluster.
Further resistance persists at the 200-period SMA near $0.859 and the 200-period EMA around $0.986. These levels could come into play if the current recovery gathers momentum toward the $1 mark.
SUI ETF inflows signal institutional interestGlassnode, a blockchain analytics firm, reports that U.S. spot SUI ETFs have not seen net outflows for 12 consecutive weeks. Over this period, three ETFs have accumulated a combined 9.3 million SUI tokens, indicating sustained institutional demand through regulated channels.
Three U.S. spot SUI ETFs have accumulated 9.3 million tokens over 12 weeks without net outflows, highlighting persistent institutional interest despite recent price fluctuations.
While consistent ETF flows do not guarantee higher prices in the future, they have provided a notable tailwind in support of SUI’s investment case.
In parallel, the Sui ecosystem has expanded its institutional profile. Integration of Sui with tZERO brings new infrastructure for regulated digital asset securities, covering issuance, custody, trading, and settlement. The Sui Foundation has also partnered with Securitize and Neuberger on a tokenized high-income fund, aiming to expand Sui’s reach in the institutional digital asset market.
Mini dictionary: tZERO, a regulated digital asset trading platform, provides infrastructure for issuing, trading, and settling blockchain-based securities, aiming to bridge traditional financial markets and blockchain technology.
Technical outlook: mixed momentumSUI’s technical scenario remains at a crossroads, with short-term momentum showing signs of improvement while longer-term bearish pressures persist. The daily relative strength index (RSI) is near 50.93, signaling balanced buying and selling activity. The Stochastic oscillator remains neutral, and the Stochastic RSI sits in oversold territory.
Momentum indicators are divided. The MACD stands at approximately 0.0204, just above its signal line at 0.0166, while the Average Directional Index (ADX) at 27.86 suggests strengthening trend development. Daily Bollinger Bands cover a range between $0.609 and $0.849, and the average true range (ATR) represents about 6.5% of the token’s price, pointing to continued volatility.
Bullish and bearish scenariosFor the bullish outlook to play out, analysts stress the importance of holding the $0.73-$0.76 support zone and breaking through the $0.80 resistance. CoinLore’s technical levels place $0.774-$0.795 and $0.823-$0.849 as the next resistance bands, followed by $0.95 and the key psychological $1 mark. Finsends projects that a breakout could eventually target $1.15 or even $1.40 under favorable conditions.
Conversely, a loss of the $0.73 support may result in a decline toward $0.712 and $0.699. A further breakdown would direct attention to the $0.64-$0.67 historical support region. The weekly chart and Ichimoku Cloud remain cautious, and analysts urge traders to await confirmation before expecting a sustained trend reversal.
Key LevelTypePrice RangeImmediate supportMoving average cluster$0.73-$0.76Next support levelsHorizontal support$0.712, $0.699Major resistanceHorizontal resistance$0.80Additional resistance zonesFibonacci/technical$0.774-$0.795, $0.823-$0.849High-target scenarioBreakout targets$0.95, $1, $1.15, $1.40Institutional inflows reinforce trendMarket participants continue to monitor ETF inflows as an indicator of broader investor sentiment. The 12-week period of uninterrupted demand, combined with SUI’s increasing integration into regulated asset infrastructure, has positioned the token as one to watch, particularly if the $0.80 resistance is cleared and sustained.
Despite these tailwinds, analysts maintain caution due to persistent long-term resistance and mixed technical signals. Volatility remains high, and traders are encouraged to use tight risk controls as price action tests key levels.
Clearstar zvýšil limit svého earnXRP vaultu na 33,73 milionu FXRP, tedy asi 46,5 milionu USD. Je to už více než šestinásobek původního limitu 5 milionů tokenů.
Vault grows more than sixfold from launch capThe @ClearstarLabs earnXRP vault on @FlareNetworks has raised its deposit cap for at least the second time, with holdings now standing at 33.73 million FXRP, worth around $46.5 million. That figure is more than six times the 5 million token ceiling the vault carried at its December 2025 launch. Flare confirmed the latest cap increase without specifying the new limit.
earnXRP is the first fully on-chain yield product denominated in $XRP, allowing users to deposit FXRP, XRP represented one-to-one on Flare, into a single vault that deploys capital across a diversified set of yield strategies. The Clearstar vault takes a fully on-chain approach, deploying FXRP across lending and liquidity protocols on Flare, including Avant and Euler. The vault targets a 3% annual yield and charges a 0.75% management fee plus a 10% performance fee.
Flare Smart Accounts lower the barrier for XRP holdersDeposits route through Flare Smart Accounts, which remove much of the technical friction traditionally associated with cross-chain DeFi. They combine what would normally require multiple steps, such as minting FXRP, navigating decentralised applications, and managing activity across different interfaces, into a single unified flow, while self-custody is retained throughout. In practice, that means XRP Ledger wallet holders can participate without separately minting FXRP or managing a standalone EVM wallet.
Flare launched Smart Accounts v1.3 to simplify how XRP holders access DeFi by reducing a process that previously required multiple steps to a single wallet signature. More than 40 million XRP is currently earning yield through Flare Smart Accounts, while nearly 24,000 Smart Accounts have already been created. The repeated lifting of the Clearstar vault cap suggests sustained demand, underscoring the broader push to bring $XRP holders into on-chain yield strategies that were largely inaccessible before the FAssets system launched.
Only 0.1% of XRP supply is utilised in DeFi despite the token being among the largest cryptocurrencies by market capitalisation. Products like earnXRP are designed to chip away at that gap by offering a straightforward, non-custodial entry point into XRPFi.
Core Lightning potvrdil několik bezpečnostních chyb ve svém softwaru Lightning Network a vyzval provozovatele uzlů k instalaci aktualizace. Do té doby mohou uzly dočasně spustit v režimu offline.
Core Lightning has confirmed multiple security vulnerabilities in its Bitcoin Lightning Network software and has urged node operators to install an upcoming security update or temporarily run their nodes offline.
Summary
Core Lightning confirmed several vulnerabilities after reviewing a large number of AI generated CVE reports. Node operators were urged to install the security update, with offline mode offered as a temporary option for those awaiting an upgrade. Running a node offline stops Lightning payments and routing while allowing the daemon to continue monitoring the Bitcoin blockchain. Core Lightning has not disclosed the flaws’ severity, CVE identifiers or any evidence of exploitation or related losses. Core Lightning said Thursday that its developers had been reviewing a large number of AI-generated Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures reports and confirmed that several submissions identified real problems requiring fixes.
The project advised operators to upgrade as its main recommendation. Operators who have not installed the security release can restart Core Lightning with the –offline option, which prevents the node from connecting to peers and stops payments from entering, leaving or routing through it.
Core Lightning initially described the offline setting as a protective measure while fixes were being prepared, but later clarified that operators should prioritize upgrading once the patched software is available.
Technical details about the newly confirmed vulnerabilities have not been made public. Core Lightning has not disclosed their severity, assigned public CVE identifiers or reported evidence that attackers have exploited the flaws.
Core Lightning nodes can remain active without routing payments Using the –offline setting allows the Core Lightning daemon to remain active while disconnecting the node from the Lightning Network.
Under the configuration, a node does not accept incoming peer connections or attempt to reconnect with existing peers. Payments therefore cannot move through the affected node while the operator waits to install the security update.
Core Lightning said operators should not simply stop the software because an active daemon can continue following the Bitcoin blockchain and respond if another party force-closes a Lightning channel.
A fully stopped node cannot perform the same monitoring while it remains offline. Channel counterparties can publish transactions to Bitcoin when channels are closed, making continued blockchain monitoring part of normal Lightning node operations.
Once operators have installed the patched version, Core Lightning said they should remove the –offline option before restarting normally. Leaving the setting enabled after the upgrade would keep the node disconnected from its peers and prevent it from sending, receiving or routing Lightning payments.
The recommendation applies while developers address vulnerabilities found during their review of AI-generated security submissions. Core Lightning has not publicly described which components are affected or what conditions would be needed to exploit the confirmed flaws.
The project also has not disclosed whether all supported software versions are affected, leaving operators dependent on the upgrade instructions accompanying the security release.
New Core Lightning vulnerabilities follow earlier DoS fixes The newly confirmed problems are separate from denial-of-service vulnerabilities disclosed earlier this year that could remotely crash Core Lightning nodes.
Two related flaws involved memory exhaustion inside separate Core Lightning daemons. One affected connectd, the component handling peer connections, while another affected gossipd, which processes network information used by Lightning nodes.
In the connectd case, a remote peer could trigger unbounded memory use and eventually cause an out-of-memory crash. The issue was patched before the latest vulnerability warning.
Another flaw allowed a remote peer to flood gossipd with channel update messages, causing an internal map used for unknown short channel IDs to continue consuming memory until the machine became unresponsive or crashed.
Both problems relied on resource exhaustion, while Core Lightning has not said whether the newly confirmed vulnerabilities involve similar components or attack methods.
Security fixes requiring node operators to install updated software have also appeared elsewhere in Bitcoin infrastructure this year. In May, crypto.news previously reported that Bitcoin Core disclosed a bug that could allow miners to remotely crash vulnerable nodes.
Tracked as CVE-2024-52911, the issue affected Bitcoin Core releases after version 0.14.0 and before version 29.0. Developers had already fixed it in Bitcoin Core 29.0, released in April 2025, before publicly disclosing the vulnerability in May 2026.
The bug involved Bitcoin Core’s script interpreter during block validation. A specially constructed invalid block could cause a node to access data after the relevant memory had been freed, potentially crashing the software. Bitcoin Core said remote code execution was possible but unlikely because of restrictions on block data.
Bitcoin software projects have continued patching node risks A separate Bitcoin Core privacy flaw was addressed in June through the 31.1rc1 release candidate, alongside changes covering blockchain validation, wallets, networking and MuSig2 security.
The privacy problem affected PrivateBroadcast, a feature designed to reduce the information exposed when transactions are first transmitted. Developers released the fix before the next stable Bitcoin Core version and asked users to test the release candidate before production deployment.
Lightning implementations have faced software-specific problems before as well. In June 2023, operators of Lightning Labs’ LND implementation were warned against upgrading to version 0.16.3 because of a memory leak.
The problem caused the software’s memory use to increase over time and could eventually crash a node. Operators who had already installed LND 0.16.3 were advised at the time to downgrade to version 0.16.2 while developers addressed the issue.
Another Lightning security issue emerged later in 2023 when developer Antoine Riard described replacement cycling attacks that could be used against Lightning payment channels. Riard subsequently stepped back from Lightning Network development after arguing that the problem required changes beyond short-term mitigations.
Riard said at the time that no replacement cycling attacks had been observed or reported in the wild during the preceding 10 months, while a functional test existed for exercising an affected Lightning channel against the Bitcoin Core mempool.
The vulnerability involved replacing an unconfirmed transaction under specific conditions, potentially interfering with the transaction sequence used to protect funds in Lightning channels. Riard said existing mitigations could make attacks harder but did not consider them a permanent solution.
Core Lightning has withheld details of the latest flaws For the current Core Lightning vulnerabilities, operators have received protective instructions before technical disclosure of the underlying bugs.
The project has said several AI-generated CVE submissions were valid, but it has not published the affected functions, attack paths or conditions needed to reproduce the issues.
No losses or successful attacks have been reported in connection with the newly confirmed flaws based on Core Lightning’s disclosure so far.
Operators who have not yet upgraded were instead instructed to use –offline while keeping the daemon running, allowing the software to continue tracking Bitcoin for channel-related transactions without participating in Lightning payments.
After installing the security update, Core Lightning said operators using the temporary configuration must remove –offline to reconnect their nodes to peers and resume normal payment and routing activity.
Core Lightning vyzval provozovatele uzlů, aby přepnuli do režimu –offline, pokud nemají aktualizaci s dosud nezveřejněnou opravou. Detaily zranitelností zůstanou dva týdny pod embargem.
Core Lightning’s maintainers told node operators to run –offline unless they upgrade to a release that has not been published, with the vulnerability details held back for two weeks.
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Core Lightning’s maintainers told node operators Sunday on Discord to restart with the –offline flag unless they upgrade to a release that has not been published. The instruction surfaced Wednesday through a repost on stacker.news. What the fix addresses will stay under embargo for two weeks.
The Discord message said the team has been validating AI-generated CVE reports arriving from multiple sources, and that it would publish binaries carrying fixes for many of the reported vulnerabilities before releasing the source code. Those binaries will carry maintainer signatures confirming reproducibility. Support for previous releases, including 26.04, has been withdrawn, while the scheduled 26.09 release remains planned for late September.
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The Core Lightning team later confirmed the development in a post on X.
Nodes started with the –offline flag drop peer connections, so no payment routes in, out or through them, while the daemon keeps watching the chain and can still respond if a counterparty force-closes a channel. That is why the project told operators not to power down: a switched-off node cannot defend its channels.
Calle, the pseudonymous developer behind the Cashu ecash protocol, drew wider attention to the warning on X with sharper framing, telling users to shut nodes down immediately and calling the issue a critical vulnerability, language the project’s own message does not use.
The Core Lightning scare is the fourth Bitcoin infrastructure alarm in as many weeks. A 2021 Coldcard firmware bug that routed seed generation to a weak software randomizer has drained roughly $114 million in BTC since July 30. Swap bridge Boltz halted service indefinitely on Aug. 3, citing AI-assisted attacks. BTCPay Server told merchants on Aug. 7 to update or shut down over an actively exploited flaw. The common thread is AI-accelerated bug discovery, the so-called Bitcoin Red Team led by Calle earlier in the month reported 85 critical vulnerabilities across 390 projects.
Related Listen: The Chopping Block: ColdCard’s $100M RNG Hack, AI-Powered Security & Ethereum’s Staking Yield Taper
AI-assisted content: This article was produced with the assistance of AI tools and was reviewed, edited, and fact-checked by a member of the Unchained editorial team before publication.
Moonwell při exploitu podle PeckShield přišel o 8,7 milionu USD poté, co útočník uměle navýšil cenu MAMO a přes falešné kolaterální zajištění si půjčil cbBTC a USDC. Protokol zastavil nové půjčky na Base nastavením borrow capů na 1 wei.
Lending protocol Moonwell lost an estimated $8.7 million to an exploit on Thursday. No smart contract was broken. An attacker simply made MAMO, a small Base token, look far more valuable than it is.
The inflated price let the attacker borrow real assets, including Coinbase Wrapped Bitcoin (cbBTC) and USD Coin (USDC). Security firm Blockaid caught the activity, and Moonwell froze new borrowing within hours.
How the Moonwell Exploit WorkedThe trick was price, not code. Blockaid reported that the attacker manipulated MAMO collateral pricing to drain cbBTC from Moonwell’s mCBTC market. Its first estimate showed 50.6 cbBTC gone, worth more than $4 million.
Blockaid’s Exploit Detection identified suspicious activity against @MoonwellDeFi on Base.
An attacker manipulated MAMO collateral pricing to borrow cbBTC from the mCBTC market.
Observed impact so far: 50.6 cbBTC ($4.0M+) drained
More details to follow. 🧵
— Blockaid (@blockaid_) August 27, 2026
MAMO is the token of Mamo, a yield tool built on Base. Every MAMO in existence is worth about $7.6 million combined, and the token trades near $0.011366. A market that small is cheap to pump.
MAMO Price Performance. Source: BeInCryptoThat was the whole attack. Pump MAMO on thin markets, post it as collateral at the fake price, and borrow assets with real value. Moonwell’s oracle, the system that feeds prices to the protocol, believed the pump.
Security firm PeckShield later put total losses at $8.7 million. That is more than the market value of every MAMO token. The firm said the funds now sit in the DAI stablecoin at a wallet starting with 0xD71d.
Borrow Caps Cut to One Wei as Recovery Questions BeginMoonwell acknowledged the incident in a post, indicating that they were already working to stop the bleeding.
“We are aware of an issue affecting the MAMO Core Market on Base and are actively investigating. As a precaution, borrow caps for all Core Markets on Base have been set to 1 wei, preventing new borrowing and limiting the potential for further impact,” the team wrote.
One wei is the smallest unit possible. The change blocks all new loans without touching withdrawals. Supply caps for MAMO and WELL, Moonwell’s governance token, also fell to one wei.
Thursday’s exploit is not a first. Bad prices, not bad code, keep costing Moonwell money. A wrsETH oracle malfunction created around $3.7 million in bad debt in November 2025. A cbETH oracle misconfiguration added $1.78 million more in February. Pricing failures have now cost the protocol over $14 million in ten months.
The wider sector shows the same weakness. Term Labs lost roughly $8.5 million to a governance exploit on Sunday. Analysts increasingly blame economic design failures rather than broken code for DeFi’s biggest losses.
Moonwell says another update is coming. Two numbers will tell the real story. The first is the final bad debt once MAMO’s price settles. The second is how much cbBTC and USDC remains for suppliers who want out.
Moonwell has halted new borrowing across its Core Markets on Base after an apparent MAMO collateral price manipulation exploit drained about $8.7 million from the decentralized lending protocol.
Summary
Moonwell has restricted new borrowing across its Base Core Markets after an apparent MAMO collateral price manipulation exploit drained about $8.7 million. CertiK said the attacker manipulated the relatively illiquid MAMO token’s collateral price before borrowing real cbBTC from Moonwell’s mCBTC market. Moonwell lowered all Base Core Market borrow caps to 1 wei and also set MAMO and WELL supply caps to 1 wei while it investigates the incident. PeckShield estimated losses at roughly $8.7 million and said the attacker consolidated the stolen funds into DAI at a single address. Moonwell said in an Aug. 27 post on X that it was investigating an issue affecting the MAMO Core Market and had lowered borrow caps across all Core Markets on Base to 1 wei as a precaution, effectively preventing users from opening new borrowing positions while the investigation continues.
“As a precaution, borrow caps for all Core Markets on Base have been set to 1 wei, preventing new borrowing and limiting the potential for further impact,” Moonwell said.
Supply caps for MAMO and WELL were also reduced to 1 wei, while supply limits for other assets were left unchanged, according to the protocol. Moonwell said it would provide further updates once more information became available.
Blockchain security firms PeckShield and CertiK separately estimated that approximately $8.7 million had been taken, while Blockaid traced the apparent attack to manipulation of the MAMO token’s collateral price.
Moonwell exploit used MAMO collateral price to borrow cbBTC According to CertiK, the attacker manipulated the collateral value of MAMO, a relatively illiquid token, before using the inflated collateral to borrow real cbBTC from Moonwell’s mCBTC market.
Blockaid identified the same mechanism, initially reporting that 50.6 cbBTC worth more than $4 million had been drained as it monitored the transactions. PeckShield later estimated total losses at about $8.7 million and said the attacker had consolidated the proceeds into DAI at a single address.
The use of a thinly traded asset as collateral was central to the attack described by the security firms. By changing MAMO’s market price, the attacker was able to increase the value assigned to the collateral position before borrowing assets with deeper liquidity.
MAMO has previously experienced sharp price swings. The token fell after its Coinbase debut in August 2025 after gaining more than 120% during the preceding week. At the time, crypto.news reported that MAMO had reached an all-time high of $0.227 before losing nearly 20% as selling activity increased.
Price pressure returned following Thursday’s security incident. Moonwell’s WELL token was down about 13% over the preceding 24 hours, according to CoinGecko data cited in the initial report, while MAMO had fallen roughly 9% over the same period, according to DEX Screener.
The restrictions imposed by Moonwell cover borrowing across its Base Core Markets, not only the MAMO market where the issue was identified. Existing supply caps for assets other than MAMO and WELL remained unchanged while the team investigated the incident.
Moonwell has faced previous oracle and governance problems Thursday’s incident follows other security problems at Moonwell during 2026, including a pricing failure that left its lending markets with about $1.78 million in bad debt.
In February, an oracle calculation error mispriced Coinbase Wrapped ETH, or cbETH, at roughly $1.12 when the asset was trading near $2,200. The incorrect price allowed liquidators and automated bots to repay positions at the distorted valuation and seize cbETH collateral, according to the protocol’s disclosure cited by crypto.news.
The faulty oracle logic reportedly included code generated with Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.6 model. Moonwell said at the time that an incorrect scaling factor in the calculation caused the large difference between the oracle value and the market price.
Another Moonwell security issue surfaced the following month when an unknown party acquired about $1,800 worth of MFAM tokens and used the holdings to push a malicious governance proposal through quorum on the protocol’s Moonriver deployment.
The March proposal sought control of seven lending markets, Moonwell’s comptroller and its oracle through an attacker-controlled contract, putting about $1.08 million of assets at risk. Moonwell’s Break Glass Guardian multisig provided an emergency mechanism capable of stopping the proposal before execution, while subsequent votes moved against it.
Unlike the February pricing failure, security firms assessing the Aug. 27 incident have described the latest attack as active manipulation of the market price used for MAMO collateral. Moonwell has not yet published a detailed post-mortem identifying the exact contracts, oracle structure or transaction sequence involved.
DeFi exploits have remained elevated since April The Moonwell exploit comes after a series of large DeFi attacks during the second quarter of 2026, with April accounting for several of the year’s biggest losses.
CertiK warned in April that AI misuse and infrastructure weaknesses were becoming significant parts of crypto security risk. The firm said attackers were using social engineering, infrastructure vulnerabilities and more advanced automated tools, including AI-assisted phishing, deepfakes and exploit techniques.
By April 18, crypto protocols had lost more than $606 million across at least 12 incidents during the month, according to DefiLlama data cited by crypto.news. The total exceeded losses recorded during the entire first quarter of 2026.
Kelp DAO accounted for one of the largest incidents after attackers drained roughly 116,500 rsETH worth about $292 million from its cross-chain setup on April 18.
LayerZero later said the Kelp DAO exploit involved compromised RPC infrastructure used by its decentralized verifier network and affected Kelp DAO’s single-DVN rsETH configuration. The company said preliminary evidence pointed to North Korea-linked TraderTraitor, which it associated with the Lazarus Group.
The incident also affected lending markets holding rsETH. Aave experienced large withdrawals and was left with substantial bad debt after stolen rsETH was used as collateral to borrow other assets, while SparkLend and Fluid restricted affected markets.
In June, Binance Research said April’s DeFi exploits had contributed to about $13 billion in total value locked outflows from on-chain protocols. Its May market report put DeFi TVL at $82.7 billion at the end of April, down 10.7% from the previous month, while exploit losses for the month totaled $635.24 million.
Moonwell has not yet disclosed whether the $8.7 million estimate represents its final loss from the MAMO Core Market incident or whether any of the affected assets can be recovered. The protocol said its investigation remains active and that further information will be released when available.
Revolut spustil EURR pro vybrané zákazníky v Dánsku, Polsku a Portugalsku; širší dostupnost plánuje později letos. Bridge jako regulovaný emitent má v oběhu 374 EURR a v rezervách 374 €.
Revolut opens EURR to selected customers in three countries; Bridge reported €374 outstanding, compared with €394.5 million of Circle’s EURC.
Revolut has begun rolling out EURR, its first euro-backed stablecoin, to selected customers in Denmark, Poland and Portugal, putting a branded onchain euro inside its app while Bridge Building S.A. serves as issuer and redemption counterparty.
Bridge Building is the legal issuer; Revolut describes it as a Stripe company. Revolut Digital Assets Europe Ltd acts as the offeror and is admitting EURR to trading on the Revolut X platform, according to Revolut’s legal disclosure.
The arrangement makes the rollout a distribution play: Revolut provides access through an app used by more than 75 million customers, although EURR is initially limited to eligible users in the three test markets. Revolut said users can move between euros, crypto, external wallets and supported blockchain networks.
Revolut says more markets are set to follow and expects wider EURR availability later this year. Stablecoins tied to other currencies are also in development.
A Regulated Issuer, but a Small Supply SnapshotEURR is an e-money token under the European Union’s Markets in Crypto-Assets framework. Luxembourg’s Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier lists Bridge Building as an active electronic money institution authorized on June 29, 2026. The regulator separately lists Bridge as an active crypto-asset service provider with custody, exchange and transfer permissions.
Tokenholders have the right to redeem EURR at par against Bridge at any time, subject to the applicable terms and redemption process. Bridge’s reserve page says funds received for EURR are safeguarded in segregated accounts at regulated credit institutions or invested in eligible, highly liquid euro-denominated instruments.
The supply snapshot was €374. Bridge reported 374 EURR in circulation and €374 in reserve assets as of Aug. 25, with all of the reported backing held as cash deposits in credit institutions. Bridge identifies Ethereum and Polygon as EURR chains.
By comparison, Circle reported €394.5 million of EURC in circulation as of Aug. 24. Circle identifies EURC on Avalanche, Base, Cronos, Ethereum, Solana, Stellar and World Chain.
Bridge is authorized as an electronic money institution in Luxembourg. Circle Internet Financial Europe SAS issues EURC under an electronic money institution license from France’s Autorité de Contrôle Prudentiel et de Résolution. For EURR, Bridge carries the issuance and redemption role while Revolut supplies the brand and customer channel.
Revolut says more markets are set to follow and expects wider EURR availability later this year.
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Circle spustil na Plasma stablecoiny USDC a EURC spolu s CCTP a Bridge Kit. Síť tak získává interoperabilní infrastrukturu pro platby, vypořádání a převody.
We’re excited to announce that USDC, EURC, CCTP, and Bridge Kit are now available on Plasma.
Plasma is an EVM-compatible, Layer-1 (L1) blockchain built for high-throughput stablecoin applications including payments, settlement, remittances, and other use cases. Supporting payment and partner infrastructure in over 100 countries with over 100 currencies, these integrations bring Circle’s trusted and interoperable multi-currency onchain infrastructure to Plasma’s large and established stablecoin-focused ecosystem.
With the launch of USDC and EURC along with CCTP support, Plasma gains access to some of the leading dollar and euro stablecoins. This unlocks MiCA compliant dollar- and euro-denominated payments, settlement, DeFi trading, FX, treasury management, and more on a blockchain designed for global transaction efficiency.
Benefits of USDC and EURC on Plasma:
Regulated1, fully reserved stablecoins redeemable 1:1 for USD2 and EUR,2 respectivelyIntegrate easily with Plasma payment and DeFi appsMigrate money flows to trusted, unified, and issuer-backed stablecoin infrastructureWith CCTP, eligible institutional traders and teams will be able to:
Access institutional-grade fiat on/offramps for USDC payments and settlementEnable full deposit, withdraw, and API access for USDC on PlasmaTransfer USDC from one supported blockchain (e.g., Ethereum) to another (e.g., Plasma)Integrate crosschain transfers in around 10 lines of code with Bridge KitKey use cases for USDC and EURC on PlasmaUSDC and EURC will enable a regulated1 dollar- and euro-denominated payment ecosystem on Plasma. With issuer-backed stablecoin infrastructure, MiCA compliance, and 1:1 redeemability for dollars and euros respectively, USDC and EURC can support payments, settlement, remittances, trading, and more on a chain purpose-built for stablecoin usage. Establishing deep liquidity for both EUR/EURC and USD/USDC trading pairs can support stablecoin flows at the volumes institutions and enterprises need. Through CCTP, USDC on Plasma will become interoperable with other supported blockchains, enabling users and developers to move USDC securely across ecosystems without relying on wrapped assets.
Together, USDC, EURC, CCTP, and Bridge Kit will give businesses and developers on Plasma access to trustworthy, multi-currency fiat rails for institutional-grade payments, B2B settlement, trading, FX, treasury, and other compliant stablecoin flows. While USDC is widely used around the world, euro-denominated EURC is well suited for onchain activity within the EU, where 1:1 euro redeemability and MiCA compliance are often required to enable compliant capital movement.
Starting today, users can access USDC through Plasma One, Plasma’s stablecoin app and card for sending and spending digital dollars. Developers can also integrate USDC and EURC across Plasma apps.
Get started todayBusinesses can access institutional on/offramps to convert to Circle stablecoins on Plasma by applying for a Circle Mint3 account. Individuals and smaller institutions can access USDC and EURC through various exchanges, wallets, and providers. Visit circle.com/eurc and circle.com/usdc to learn more.
Get started today with our developer docs for USDC, EURC, CCTP, Bridge Kit, and Circle Mint. USDC and EURC are open-source, permissionless stablecoin infrastructure that anyone can build with.
1 USDC is issued by regulated affiliates of Circle. EURC is issued by Circle Internet Financial Europe SAS. A list of Circle’s regulatory authorizations can be found here.
2 Circle Mint customers are able to redeem USDC and EURC directly from Circle. In addition, Circle will redeem all USDC and EURC presented to it for redemption in compliance with MiCAR, regardless of whether the holder is a Circle Mint customer. Circle Mint is currently available only to institutions and is not available to individuals.
3 Circle Mint and money transmission services are provided by Circle Internet Financial, LLC, NMLS # 1201441, and Circle Internet Financial Europe SAS, Electronic Money Institution License No. 17788, when provided in France.
