Blockchain

Base activated its Cobalt upgrade Wednesday, adding conditional transactions and new issuer controls for tokenized assets as the Ethereum layer-2 network deepens its push into onchain finance.  Cobalt, Base’s third major upgrade, expands its B20 […]

NEAR Intents said it blocked more than $50 million in attempted transfers linked to the Bitget hack.  Attackers stole $387.5 million from Bitget on Thursday. A significant portion of these funds moved across chains to […]

Zano has rolled back approximately a month of blockchain history after a vulnerability involving Gateway Addresses allowed unauthorized ZANO and Freedom Dollar to enter circulation, according to its core team.  The Zano blockchain has been […]

Samourai Wallet co-founder Keonne Rodriguez faces another prison transfer after the drug treatment program at FCI McKean was deactivated, he said Wednesday. Rodriguez said on X that McKean’s warden told program participants that Rodriguez and […]

KelpDAO has filed a lawsuit against cross-chain protocol LayerZero following the roughly $292 million exploit of its rsETH bridge earlier this year, alleging that failures in LayerZero’s security infrastructure contributed to the attack. KelpDAO said […]

[Update, 12:55 UTC, Sept. 25: This article was updated with Magic Eden’s statement identifying the affected protocol and its guidance for former users.] A whitehat moved 3,832 non-fungible tokens from hundreds of wallets on Friday […]

[Update 09:15 UTC, Sept. 23: This article was updated with comments from SlowMist on how FomoPeek operated, what its researchers verified and its advice for people who installed affected versions.] A malicious iOS app distributed […]

South Korean financial companies Kakao Pay and KakaoBank have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with crypto infrastructure provider Fireblocks to explore digital asset opportunities, including stablecoins.  Under the agreement, the companies will conduct proof-of-concept […]

ZetaChain tokenholders have approved a plan to wind down the project’s layer-1 blockchain and migrate its native ZETA token to Solana.  Governance proposal 68 passed Sunday with 99.4% support and 58% participation, exceeding the network’s […]

Solana raised its maximum transaction size from 1,232 bytes to 4,096 bytes to allow developers to fit more complex operations into a single transaction, including zero-knowledge proofs and new onchain signature schemes. The upgrade was […]