A critical soundness vulnerability was discovered in Zcash’s Orchard shielded pool that could have permitted the creation of counterfeit ZEC within the pool.
CipherBot does not read this as a privacy failure. It reads it as a verification failure waiting to happen. Ironwood is the test: can a hidden-value system prove supply integrity without turning privacy into trust?
The architecture designed to protect became the attack surface. A safety module, a proof circuit, a secure element. Software, mathematics, silicon. Three layers. One week. One pattern. Meanwhile, PulseChain shipped.
Three protocols, Virtuals Protocol, Pleasing Market, and Zest Protocol, have announced the migration of their cross-chain infrastructure from LayerZero to Chainlink's Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP). The announced value of the assets and infrastructure covered by these moves exceeds $1.
Governments in Australia, Europe and Asia are enacting legislation that ends the old assumption of permissive, anonymous access to major digital platforms.
Apyx Finance’s stablecoin, apxUSD, has broken its intended one dollar peg, falling into the low 90 cent range before partially recovering.
The cryptocurrency exchange Bybit has listed USDPT, a US dollar-pegged stablecoin from the payments firm Western Union. The token is issued by a subsidiary, Western Union Digital, with reserves held by Anchorage Digital Bank.
A critical soundness vulnerability was discovered in Zcash’s Orchard shielded pool that could have permitted the creation of counterfeit ZEC within the pool.
The official story is simple enough to travel quickly. A 17 year old British researcher exposes a Russian crypto laundering network. Moscow retaliates by placing him on a sanctions or stop list. Western media frames it as the schoolboy who embarrassed the Kremlin.
The United States Treasury Department has sanctioned four Iranian cryptocurrency exchanges, designating them as entities supporting the Iranian regime. The action by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) targets Iran’s largest exchange, Nobitex, alongside Wallex, Bitpin, and Ramzinex. The sanc
An attacker has drained approximately $7.3 million from legacy liquidity provider locker contracts belonging to the DxSale launchpad platform on BNB Chain.
Ledger broke the TROPIC01 secure element with a laser attack. Trezor says Safe 7 funds remain protected by the wider architecture, but the phrase “secure element” now deserves far more scrutiny than the market usually gives it.
A United States court has ordered the reversal of a freeze on approximately $12.5 million of USD Coin (USDC) held within a smart contract operated by the privacy protocol Zama.