Two and a Half Billion Burned: What Tether's Quiet Reset Reveals
A record USDT destruction collides with oil shocks, regulatory easing, and a fragile BTC bid. The plumbing tells the truer story than the headlines.
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A record USDT destruction collides with oil shocks, regulatory easing, and a fragile BTC bid. The plumbing tells the truer story than the headlines.
An admin key leak let an attacker mint unbacked eBTC on Monad; the team's $816K loss is contained, but a 955-eBTC burn and an active phishing warning mean the cleanup is not over.
GitHub commit logs show the consensus bug was privately fixed four weeks before the attack; the Foundation's 'zero-day' framing is now in dispute, and the LTC moved during the 32-minute invalid…
A zero-day in the MimbleWimble Extension Block let attackers peg out funds and DoS mining pools; the chain reorg reversed the invalid spend while valid transactions were unaffected.
No user funds were lost and a patch is already live, but a 13-block reorg on a top-20 PoW chain is the kind of event miners, exchanges, and custody providers will be reading closely for weeks.
Flare is a Layer-1 built to give non-smart-contract chains like XRP and DOGE a DeFi life, anchored by an oracle system that looks nothing like Chainlink and a real airdrop history.
Mozilla compressed 14 months of security work into one month with model-assisted discovery — the bug bounty, dating to 2006, is the cleanest evidence yet that frontier AI is reshaping the…
Standard BTCPay on-chain wallets are safe, but LND operators on v2.4.1 or earlier face remote node takeover via unauthenticated .macaroon file access.
A memecoin's 96% collapse meets a German banking rail and an ETF exodus. On-chain, the signal is the gap between utility and pure speculation.
LEO is Bitfinex's exchange token, but it doubles as a credit claim on the firm. Here's what holders actually get and what they don't.
NEAR pairs sharded execution with chain signatures and an intents-based DEX. Here is what actually works, what is still vapor, and why DeFi activity stays thin.
Small airdrops disappear fast to gas fees, bad approvals, and panic sells. Here are the seven mistakes that cost recipients real money.