Trader Loses $2 Million From Malicious DEX incident
A trader who swapped $2.01 million worth of Ether on a decentralized exchange has been left with just $14,500 worth of tokens after a router directed the order through a low-liquidity pool, allowing an Ethereum block builder to profit…
Can Ethereum’s $150B stablecoin liquidity help ETH bulls reclaim control?
According to a recent update, Ethereum has already taken the lead in the financial infrastructure for digital dollars and tokenized assets, and this is not just hype.
Artemis reported that Ethereum has more than $150 billion in on-chain…
Trump’s Bitcoin Reserve Stalled By Interagency Clash: Report
The Trump administration’s push to establish a US Strategic Bitcoin Reserve has reportedly hit a roadblock, as the Commerce and Treasury departments are at odds over how the reserve should be structured and which agency should have primary…
Summer Finance Hit by Sophisticated Flash Loan Liquidity Manipulation
Summer Finance lost around $6 million in a flash loan exploit.
Summer Finance has become the latest decentralized finance protocol to suffer a major security incident.…
Injective CEO on Layer-1 Centralization Risk
Layer-1 blockchains will come under increasing pressure to sacrifice decentralization for speed and efficiency as adoption of the technology grows, according to Injective CEO Eric Chen.This pressure will come from the need to satisfy users’…
Ethlabs Launches with Former Ethereum Foundation Researchers and Institutional Backing
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Ethlabs was founded by five former Ethereum Foundation researchers focused on core protocol work.
The nonprofit will research scalability, settlement efficiency, interoperability, and economics.
Backers include Bitmine,…
Bitcoin’s ‘greatest evolution’ lies beyond the protocol: Michael Saylor
In a recent appearance on X, Strategy’s Michael Saylor shed light on the most significant shift in Bitcoin over the next decade. Saylor noted that the shift will not happen due to frequent protocol changes, but rather to the sharp…
Standard Chartered Extends Tokenization Thesis to Aave Lending
Banking giant Standard Chartered has identified Aave as a potential beneficiary of tokenized assets as they move into decentralized finance (DeFi), saying the protocol could rebuild its position as a dominant onchain lending platform.In a…
DeFi TVL Down by $45B in 2026 Despite More Resilient Market Structure
Total value locked (TVL) in decentralized finance (DeFi) has fallen by about 39% in 2026 so far, declining to just over $70 billion from roughly $115 billion in January.A Wednesday report from crypto data aggregator CryptoRank attributed…
Fhenix Combines With Sunscreen to Build Quantum-Resistant FHE for Finance, AI and Payments
Key TakeawaysFhenix has bought cryptographic developer Sunscreen to unite frontier Web3 research under one roof.Since 2022, Sunscreen has pushed FHE to become standard, critical infrastructure across Ethereum networks.Fhenix will deploy a…