How AI Is Reshaping Crypto Security, with Michael Coates
A ~$116 million Coldcard exploit shows why crypto security must eliminate single points of failure and automate defenses for AI-speed threats.
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TRON Foundation Library and Upgradeable Contracts Audit
OpenZeppelin audited three repositories. The first two make up the TRON port of the OpenZeppelin Contracts library, and the third is the TRON adaptation of the Open Intents Framework...
Privacy Bootcamp | Day 1 | CRE + Confidential Workflows Fundamentals
In Day 1 of the Bootcamp, learn how Confidential Workflows enable sensitive data and computation to be protected inside TEEs. We’ll cover how TEEs and the Vault DON work together, how...
Beyond slop, taste, and AI moral panic: What social science tells us
In the early 18th century, if you lived in London and you wanted to slander an opponent or rival, you could head to Grub Street, a slum just north of the city named for a garbage ditch....
🟢 LIVE: Inside Bitcoin's Worst Security Stretch in Years w/ Foundation & Casa CEOs
Bitcoin has just been through its worst stretch of infrastructure failures in years. On July 30, Coinkite disclosed that a 2021 Coldcard firmware bug had routed seed generation to a...
Clear Signing: Making Transaction Approvals Safer on Ethereum
An Ethereum Working Group consisting of wallet developers, security firms and the Ethereum Foundation’s Trillion Dollar Security Initiative today launched an open standard designed to...
Vyper v0.5.0a1
What's Changed • feat[docs]: add Cyfrin Updraft and Moccasin to docs by @PatrickAlphaC in #4704 • refactor[parser]: remove asttokens dependency by @charles-cooper in #4702 •...
Drift to issue ‘recovery tokens’ in wake of $295m hack
Developers behind Solana-based derivatives exchange Drift proposed on Tuesday a recovery plan that would funnel protocol revenue to users who lost money in a devastating April hack. The...
Aave secures emergency hearing to void ‘catastrophic’ restraining order
An emergency hearing on Wednesday could determine whether the relatives of a slain minister are entitled to $71 million in crypto that was nearly stolen by North Korean hackers last...
Crypto industry reels as April sees highest number of hacks ever
April was a bad time for the crypto industry. Over the past month, 29 crypto projects have suffered hacks or exploits, the highest monthly tally in the industry’s history, per DefiLlama...
Anthropic’s new Mythos AI will hit crypto. Bitcoin investors don’t care, says Coinbase
Artificial intelligence is a Sword of Damocles dangling over crypto — but Wall Street isn’t quailing, says Coinbase. Anthropic’s new Claude Mythos AI model is able to exploit security...
Elizabeth Warren slams Trump after expose ties World Liberty Financial to crypto projects linked to human trafficking group
Elizabeth Warren has lashed out against World Liberty Financial over news that the Trump family-run crypto company partnered with a blockchain venture called AB, which has links to a...
A wallet tied to one of crypto’s most notorious hackers is laundering funds again
A wallet belonging to Andean Medjedovic, the hacker allegedly behind the Indexed Finance and Kyberswap exploits, is active again after a year-long hiatus. On Wednesday, the wallet sent...
Tokenisation will balloon to $2tn despite DeFi turbulence, Standard Chartered says
Tokenisation will balloon some 5,600% to be a $2 trillion market by 2028, according to Standard Chartered. At the heart of the forecast is continued expansion in decentralised finance...
Aave-led 'DeFi United' campaign raises $300m to address Kelp DAO breach
A version of this story appeared in The Decentralised newsletter on April 28. Sign up here. There’s been a silver lining to this month’s devastating Kelp DAO/LayerZero hack: DeFi...
Aave publishes plan to plug $246m hole left by Kelp DAO attackers
Aave and Compound are moving closer to plugging the $246 million hole left by the Kelp DAO hack. On Tuesday, DeFi United, a coalition of several protocols that includes the top...
Justin Sun announces $20m boost for Aave as he calls on lender to expand to his blockchain
Crypto mogul Justin Sun has announced a $20 million liquidity injection for Aave, and called on the top DeFi lender to expand to Tron, the blockchain he founded in 2017. Sporting some...