Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 5 days ago
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin supports Moonshot AI’s choice to leave advanced offensive hacking material out of its Kimi K3.1 Pro model. TL;DR He says restricting what a model can do is far better than restricting who may use it, and fears AI...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 5 days ago
Electrum, one of Bitcoin’s oldest software wallets, published a security advisory on Saturday describing a weakness that attackers were already abusing. TL;DR A bug in the Electrum bitcoin wallet let malicious servers slip fake pending payments into...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 5 days ago
Tech investor Chamath Palihapitiya, once a loud Bitcoin bull, now says the asset is capped and will eventually be hacked and fall to zero. TL;DR He cites a limited pool of buyers, security risks from leaked ownership data, and AI-driven attacks on c...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 5 days ago
Strategy’s common shares returned 77.4% between June 26 and October 23, 2026, outperforming four of the company’s preferred securities, according to a performance chart shared by executive chairman Michael Saylor. The comparison comes as...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 5 days ago
Elon Musk says SpaceX has secured $40 billion in debt financing for artificial intelligence infrastructure, highlighting the enormous capital requirements of the AI computing race. The announcement came alongside a warning that specialized cloud prov...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 week ago
TL;DR: Archax has adopted Chainlink Data Streams to supply pricing information for GOVY, its tokenised US Treasury product, as it develops collateral use cases. Putting Treasury bills on a blockchain is only the beginning. If an institution wants to...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 week ago
TL;DR: In a newly published explanation of its European consultation response, the Cardano Foundation argues for regulating activities and intermediaries rather than creating blanket rules for decentralised technology. The Cardano Foundation has spel...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 week ago
TL;DR: Fhenix says CoFHE is available on Ethereum and Arbitrum mainnets, giving approved applications a way to perform computations involving encrypted data. A major weakness of public blockchain applications is that transparency is often the default...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 week ago
TL;DR: PancakeSwap’s ‘The Flip’ vote would boost liquidity providers‘ share of certain trading fees to 88% while cutting daily CAKE emissions to 7,000. PancakeSwap holders are being asked to decide how much value should go to...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 week ago
Exchange Tokens Are Being Redesigned Around One Question: How Do You Stop People Leaving? The airdrop cycle of 2024 and 2025 produced a repeatable pattern, and everyone in the market can recite it. A protocol announces a points programme. Volume clim...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 week ago
TL;DR: Zcash’s NU7 upgrade is targeted for early November, promising 25-second blocks, while final activation parameters still require implementation work. Zcash developers are moving closer to a substantial change in the network’s basic...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 week ago
How a Verified Smart Contract is Changing DeFi Yield Generation A revolutionary smart contract called NOX FUND has just launched on BNB Smart Chain, and it’s already paying users guaranteed 1.5% daily returns on USDT deposits with complete tran...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 week ago
TL;DR: NGRAVE says attackers hijacked a notification provider used by LIQUID, directing users to a fake recovery-page and stealing at least $2.56 million. A convincing security notification became the entry point for a costly crypto phishing campaign...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 week ago
TL;DR: Technical documentation for the proposed LendingProtocolV1_1 amendment describes closed-ended vaults with defined subscription and redemption dates on the XRP Ledger. XRP Ledger developers have outlined a more structured approach to lending va...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 week ago
TL;DR: Zakura has proposed assigning a separate viewing key to each Zcash swap made through NEAR Intents, reducing how much transaction history a future attacker might be able to link. Zcash’s privacy model is built around shielding transaction...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 week ago
TL;DR: Attackers are exploiting a chain of Plex Media Server vulnerabilities to install unauthorised cryptocurrency miners and a Linux proxy backdoor on vulnerable systems. The latest cryptojacking warning comes from an unexpected direction: home and...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 week ago
TL;DR: Sophon has warned users to withdraw remaining assets by November 25 ahead of the planned shutdown of its standalone chain at the end of the month. The end of a blockchain isn’t always announced with a hack or a dramatic market collapse....
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 week ago
TL;DR: On-chain trading records indicate that a large Hyperliquid trader rebuilt an Ethereum short worth roughly $16 million after suffering around $469,000 in losses. Losing nearly half a million dollars on a leveraged Ethereum trade would be enough...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 week ago
TL;DR: DefiLlama’s chain-revenue figures put Tron at roughly $23.4 million over 30 days, ahead of Ethereum and Solana combined on that specific measure. A look at blockchain fee revenue offers a different picture of the market from token prices...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 week ago
TL;DR: Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson says he is personally developing a programming language that combines transaction intents, proof-carrying data and Groth16 proofs. Charles Hoskinson is returning to the keyboard. The Cardano founder says he is...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 week ago
TL;DR: Cardano is highlighting a 12-team Catalyst pilot in which much of the grant funding depends on real adoption rather than merely launching a project. Crypto grant programmes have a familiar problem: it’s easier to count funded ideas than...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 week ago
TL;DR: Solana is approaching its planned Alpenglow consensus upgrade, which targets transaction finality of roughly 150 milliseconds — a goal, not a guarantee of live-network performance. Solana’s next big technical change is scheduled for Octo...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 week ago
TL;DR: SkyAI says it has sold all its SOL and started a cash tender offer that could cost roughly $201.3 million if fully subscribed. SkyAI’s experiment as a Solana treasury company has taken a dramatic turn. Rather than simply holding through...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 week ago
The arrest count is striking, but the scale of the online infrastructure removed may be the bigger story. An international effort against West African scam networks has resulted in 28 arrests, while technology companies say they removed more than 3.7...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 week ago
Crypto’s third-quarter security bill came to $1.18 billion, but the headline total is only part of Hacken’s latest warning. The firm recorded 107 incidents between July and September, with smart-contract exploits taking a much larger shar...
