5+ day, 22+ hour ago   (474+ words) The Harmony blockchain is now proposing an Ethereum migration after deciding its independent network is no longer worth preserving. Harmony is proposing to shut down the blockchain it controversially restored through a rollback less than three weeks ago. The Sept....

6+ day, 3+ hour ago   (529+ words) Technical accounts describe how unbacked L-BTC allegedly passed security checks, while a reported split between nodes raises questions about federation software deployment. Researchers examining the roughly $320 million Liquid Network incident have identified an alleged failure in the software’s transaction-validation cache,…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (406+ words) The Mina Mesa upgrade stopped transaction processing for about eight hours on September 3 as the layer-1 blockchain shifted mainnet to its Mesa release. Exchanges suspended MINA transfers, while deployed zkApps now need new verification keys before they can resume proof-authorized…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (508+ words) Ontology version 3.1.5 is mandatory for compatibility, while the attack path and wider service recovery remain undisclosed. Ontology said its mainnet resumed normal operation on Sept. 2 after an emergency security pause and told every sync-node operator to upgrade to version 3.1.5. Sync…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (518+ words) One transaction emptied 28.6% of supply from the bonded pool, while 1.66 billion attacker-held TAC remains unresolved. The TAC network halt continues at block 24,671,475, more than 10 days after an exploit emptied the bonded staking pool. The network is an EVM-compatible Layer 1 connected…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (438+ words) The network stayed secure at the consensus level, but the emergency response jailed validators and disrupted exchange transfers. Injective, a layer-1 blockchain network, produced no new block for nearly four hours during an emergency response to an exploit that researchers…...

2+ week, 22+ hour ago   (976+ words) The new attempt swaps SHA-256d for BLAKE2b, but miners, wallets and exchanges still have to show up. Bitcoin Knots is preparing a Sunday rehearsal for a BLAKE2b fork after its previous breakaway BIP-110 chain stalled. On Aug. 29, Bitcoin developer Luke Dashjr told…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (565+ words) LND, a Lightning Network node implementation, has disclosed a channel-close flaw that can put an entire channel balance at risk in the reproduced maximum-loss scenario. Operators using standard releases below 0.21.0 should treat their nodes as lacking the official fix unless…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (888+ words) The better.codes contest puts Ethereum’s abstract security target against live certificates, but its score covers only koalaIRS12. Ethereum’s better.codes contest now measures a cryptographic proof gap that researchers can attack from both sides. At 15:44:47 UTC on Aug. 21, the live…...