Liquid Network’s Security Incident Is a Stress Test for Federated Blockchain Operations
Liquid Network has reported a security incident involving its Federation wallet. In its September 6 statement, the operator said that…
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The BIS Tests a Modest but Important Blockchain Use Case: Proving Official Data Was Not Altered
The Bank for International Settlements has published a working paper that tests a narrow, practical use for public blockchain infrastructure:…
The DOJ’s Latest Crypto Seizure Shows That Address Tracing Is Only One Layer of an Enforcement Operation
The U.S. Department of Justice announced on September 1 that court-authorized actions allowed the FBI to seize $560,000 in cryptocurrency…
BitMine’s ETH Treasury Has Reached a Scale Where Staking Economics and Concentration Risk Are the Same Story
BitMine Immersion Technologies says it held 5,901,112 ETH as of August 30 at 3:00 p.m. Eastern Time, placing the reported…
Polygon’s Austin and Kyoto Hard Forks Show Why Liveness Bugs Matter as Much as Consensus Bugs
Polygon has published a detailed postmortem-style explanation of the Austin and Kyoto hard forks, two coordinated upgrades across its proof-of-stake…
Soluna and Bitdeer Trade Fixed Hosting for Bitcoin Output Exposure
Soluna and Bitdeer have disclosed a new co-mining arrangement at Project Kati 1, a wind-powered data center in South Texas.…
Algorand 5.0’s New Box Access Is a Composability Upgrade With a Clear Security Line
Algorand’s August 24 technical post on the 5.0 upgrade describes a narrow change with wider consequences: controlled access to an…
How Secret Network’s Proposal #365 Saved an L1 from the Brink
When a foundational core development team announces its departure from a layer-1 blockchain, the standard playbook of crypto history offers…
Hyperion DeFi’s Record Profit Reveals the Promise—and the Accounting Risk—of Token Treasuries
Hyperion DeFi has delivered a remarkable second-quarter headline: $31.0 million of GAAP net income and $53.7 million of adjusted EBITDA.…