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Audited DeFi protocols lost $885M to attacks that occurred completely outside their audit scopes
11+ hour, 20+ min ago (1191+ words) The ack3-affiliated preprint found a 72.1% outside-scope share after excluding two H1 2026 outliers, while August incidents add operational context. In decentralized finance, “audited” is often presented as a verdict on an entire project. In practice, an audit usually covers named code, components…...
Solana beats Bitcoin on one key metric, but a single software bug could still take down the network
6+ day, 9+ hour ago (517+ words) A live reading is already 18, showing why institutions need more than one decentralization metric. ARK Invest and Glassnode have put a new number on blockchain capture risk: the smallest group of block-production entities needed to cross a protocol-relevant control threshold....
Tokens created out of thin air may explain how $320 million in Bitcoin left the Liquid sidechain
6+ day, 11+ 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,…...
Scan reveals 96,000 fake-address outputs clogging Bitcoin’s unspent database
1+ week, 3+ day ago (550+ words) Bitquery’s scan shows why cheap OP_RETURN repetition and fake-address text impose radically different costs on Bitcoin nodes. Blockchain data company Bitquery published a census on Sept. 2 of four ways text appears in Bitcoin, scanning 965,135 blocks and revealing that the same words…...
Cronos validators erase transaction history to contain massive $75 million lending protocol exploit
1+ week, 5+ day ago (675+ words) Cronos restored the chain to a pre-exploit state and resumed block production, while some connected services remain in recovery and a postmortem is still pending. Cronos has restarted and restored block production after validators restored the chain to its state…...
Bitcoin Knots is trying to fork Bitcoin again after its last chain died in two blocks
2+ week, 1+ day 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…...
Phantom's plan to drop Sui exposes the hidden power wallet interfaces hold over user funds
2+ week, 5+ day ago (1024+ words) Sui assets stay onchain after Sept. 24, but access shifts to swaps, Slush imports and Ledger connections. Phantom will remove Sui from its wallet interface on Sept. 24, one month after announcing that it and Sui had decided to end the integration....
Coldcard now requires 65 key presses after seed exploit, while exposed funds still must move
3+ week, 1+ day ago (532+ words) Firmware 5.6.1 and 1.5.1Q harden new wallet creation but cannot repair a seed made on an affected release. Coinkite, the maker of the Coldcard Bitcoin hardware wallet, released new standard firmware on Aug. 20 that forces users to add physical randomness whenever they…...