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.
The actor responsible for the 18 April exploit of Kelp DAO has successfully laundered approximately $220 million of the $293 million in stolen assets. The funds, originally drained as 116,500 restaked ETH (rsETH), were laundered over six weeks using a multi-stage, cross-chain process.
The Gravity Bridge, a protocol for asset transfers between Ethereum and Cosmos ecosystem chains, has been halted by its validators. The action followed a security incident where an attacker drained approximately $5.4 million in digital assets from the bridge’s primary Ethereum smart contract. The st
On 30 May, Circle, the issuer of the USDC stablecoin, executed a freeze on a smart contract address belonging to the privacy protocol Zama. The action, taken in compliance with a court-ordered restraining order, has immobilised approximately 12.6 million USDC. The target of the legal action is a sin
The United States Treasury Department has seized approximately $1 billion in cryptocurrency assets linked to the Iranian state. The action, confirmed by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, is a component of Operation Economic Fury, a broad financial pressure campaign targeting Tehran.
Sui's back to back outages weren't just technical failures. They were a stress test of the network's decentralization.
A sophisticated software supply chain attack, codenamed TrapDoor, is actively targeting developers in the cryptocurrency and artificial intelligence sectors.