Anthropic is reportedly set to release a public version of its Mythos AI model, and crypto analyst The DeFi Investor is urging decentralized finance users to act before that happens. The concern is based on how good Mythos is at finding software vulnerabilities, and a version of it becoming widely accessible could accelerate the speed […]
Sahara AI’s SAHARA token crashed by roughly 60% on June 9, triggering over $23 million in liquidations. The incident caused speculation across crypto markets, especially since it happened right around the time another protocol, Humanity, reported a breach that cost it $30 million and led to its native H token losing nearly 90% of its […]
Aave Labs announced on May 28 that its two subsidiaries located in the United Kingdom, Push Labs Ltd. and Push Virtual Assets Ltd., have been granted registration by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to operate as crypto asset exchange providers in the UK. The approval also gives the firms permission to issue electronic money under […]
SOL fell 33% in the first quarter of 2026 to close at around $83, but Messari’s Q1 State of Solana report tells a story that’s harder to dismiss than the price chart would suggest. While dollar-denominated numbers dropped across the board, the network set new records for daily transaction volume, grew its real-world asset market […]
TrustedVolumes, a liquidity provider on the Ethereum blockchain, lost about $5.9 million in funds to a hacker on Thursday. The attacker was able to exploit a vulnerability within the custom trading system used by the platform and managed to withdraw the funds, which included ETH, WBTC, as well as USDT and USDC stablecoins. What Happened […]
Blockchain investigator ZachXBT has built a reputation for repeatedly calling out crypto platforms and entities he believes are involved in suspicious or illegal activity. In his latest allegation, he has turned attention to Tokenlon, a relatively lesser-known decentralized exchange with around 17,000 followers on X. Tokenlon Draws Scrutiny ZachXBT has alleged that a large share […]
The fallout from the $293 million KelpDAO exploit over the weekend has spread across the DeFi ecosystem, with Total Value Locked (TVL) across several chains dropping significantly in the last 24 hours. According to data from on-chain analytics platform DeFiLlama, at least 126 of the networks it tracks were in the red, with CosmoHub the […]
Cybersecurity researcher Taylor Monahan has claimed that North Korea-linked IT workers have been operating within the decentralized finance ecosystem for years. Monahan stated that these actors have contributed to many well-known protocols during the “DeFi summer” era of 2020. According to her latest tweet, the years of blockchain development experience listed on their resumes were […]
The crypto sector may be struggling with the ongoing bear market, but some projects are relentlessly building and expanding their ecosystems. One such is Cardano, which just hit a milestone in its Bitcoin decentralized finance (DeFi) integration, by completing the first atomic swap between BTC and the blockchain’s native asset, ADA. According to a tweet, […]
Solana-based DeFi aggregator, Step Finance, along with two other affiliate projects, SolanaFloor and Remora Markets, announced plans to shut down all operations with immediate effect. The decision follows the aftermath of a major security incident earlier this year. Hack, Halt, Shutdown In a statement shared on X, the teams said the decision came after exploring […]