L2s, ZK proofs, cross-chain, MEV, and new consensus mechanisms.
A firmware flaw in Coldcard hardware wallets has enabled the systematic drain of 1,367 BTC across three attack waves, with losses approaching $89 million.
A firmware flaw in Coldcard hardware wallets collapsed key entropy to just four billion possibilities, letting attackers reconstruct private keys entirely offline.
The upcoming xrpld release puts five amendments before validators, including two previously withdrawn after critical bugs and three new features enabling private tokenized assets.
A Bank for International Settlements pilot saw JPMorgan, Citi, UBS, and 25 other banks move real money across borders using blockchain-based settlement in a live test.
The network upgrade retires the Orchard pool after a counterfeiting bug was found undetected for four years, opening a new quantum-resilient pool with a turnstile migration mechanism.
A malware campaign distributed through both major app stores scanned users' photo libraries for wallet seed phrases, exposing a common security practice as a critical vulnerability.
Quantum computing could expose crypto networks first, but the real vulnerability isn't cryptography — it's governance speed.
Real-world asset value on Robinhood Chain has jumped from the low tens of millions to $70 million in under two weeks, with a dozen tokenized stocks now clearing $500,000 in daily volume.
India's cybercrime agency has ordered GitHub to remove Bitchat, a Bluetooth mesh messaging app that relays encrypted messages and bitcoin transactions without internet connectivity.
Multiple Bitcoin and Ethereum-linked protocols lost approximately $35 million in a series of coordinated attacks exploiting compromised validator keys and flawed upgrade mechanisms.