Unchained

Chen said on Unchained that a group impersonating a well-known investment firm’s team approached her on Monday, and that she caught it by checking with the firm’s leader through another channel.

The head of the bank’s digital-asset team reportedly said that DeFi vaults are a focus of the new lab, calling the technology too nascent to put on its platform untested.

The deal folds Riva’s work on hash-based signatures, MPC and hardware signing into Project Eleven, which is building tools to move crypto networks onto quantum-resistant cryptography.

The wallet and exchange company, which filed confidentially with the SEC in May, is reportedly telling prospective investors it wants to list this year.

NEAR Intents says attackers tried to move more than $50 million through it and it froze $503,000 mid-trade, days after THORChain refused Bitget’s request to cut off the hacker’s wallets.

The exchange wants the protocol to stop serving addresses linked to last week’s $387.5 million theft, but THORChain says its emergency halts are not a tool for freezing specific funds.

A proposal titled “ATOM Refund & Justice Bounty” would pay 1.72 million ATOM out of the Hub’s community pool, including 500,000 ATOM for the voters who back it.

The developer behind Kelp alleges LayerZero approved the single-verifier setup attackers used in April, then blamed Kelp for it; Pellegrino called the claim meritless.

Tom Lee’s Ethereum treasury company added 17,362 ETH last week, its smallest purchase since its Aug. 17 update, leaving it about 104,000 ETH short of its goal of owning 5% of ether’s supply.

In a new essay, the Ethereum co-founder says upgrades after next year’s fork will turn the network into a hybrid of blockchain and advanced cryptography, with 4- to 8-second slots by 2030.

The endowment built from unclaimed 2016 DAO money is asking the companies that benefit from Ethereum security work to help pay for it, in a year whose first half already set a record for the number of crypto hacks.

The teams behind rival plans to build account abstraction into the base layer, Ethereum’s EIP-8141 and Base’s EIP-8130, have given up trying to converge, so wallet developers may end up supporting two transaction formats across the two networks.

Owners must stake, post and attest to a permitted country to earn Robinhood Stock Tokens. Anyone can buy the NFT, and the portfolio inside it, with no KYC.

OpenSea postponed its SEA token generation event indefinitely as NFT market capitalization fell 50% since January, even as the platform’s OS2 rebuild shifts most volume to crypto trading.

Committee Chairman James Comer asked the three platforms for records on identity checks and trade surveillance, citing reports of a Hyperliquid short placed before an October 2025 tariff announcement was public.

Three days after publishing its crypto FAQ, the SEC’s Corporation Finance division added a condition to its buyback answer, a change a16z crypto’s Miles Jennings called “great work by the SEC.”

The registration completes Coinbase’s U.S. derivatives lineup of exchange, broker and clearinghouse, though its margined derivatives and planned stock perpetuals will still rely on outside partners.

A senior Financial Services Commission official said the agency will review allowing crypto market making and cited a yen stablecoin’s spike on Upbit in arguing exchanges may need public oversight.

With CCIP 2.0, institutions can run or hire verifiers that must approve each transfer alongside Chainlink’s 16-operator committee, and can build KYC and sanctions screening into the flow.

Zcash and NEAR are both ripping this week, and Illia Polosukhin and Mert Mumtaz say privacy is the reason why. Is this how the “Bitcoin DeFi” vision comes true?

Chainalysis says state-backed operators now account for about half of the malicious code written to public chains, storing command-server addresses in smart contracts and transaction data that no registrar or host can take down.

Nearly 2.4 million ZEC, about two-thirds of the eligible supply, voted to speed up blocks, preserve halvings and ship NU7 as soon as possible.