defi
THORChain Reopens Trading After Month Long Halt
THORChain has resumed trading after more than a month offline, marking the end of one of the more serious operational pauses in recent cross chain DeFi.
zcash
zcash
Zcash Proposes 'Ironwood' Upgrade to Contain Potential Counterfeiting Flaw
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?
zcash
Zcash Patches Critical Counterfeiting Bug in Orchard Shielded Pool
A critical soundness vulnerability was discovered in Zcash’s Orchard shielded pool that could have permitted the creation of counterfeit ZEC within the pool.
ethereum
NEAR Protocol Activates Private Cross-Chain Swaps via Intents
The NEAR Foundation has announced the activation of a confidential payments feature built upon its new Intents protocol. The initial implementation enables users to execute private cross-chain swaps, sending NEAR tokens from the NEAR network and receiving ETH on the Ethereum mainnet. The system is d
zcash
ZCASH: The Trojan Horse Wearing Privacy as a Costume
There are moments in crypto where something slips into the collective feed so effortlessly that you can almost feel the invisible hand guiding it.