Unchained

The exchange raised its loss estimate after counting Zcash and TRON transfers, and said it will announce the status of suspended withdrawals by midnight ET.

Eligible U.S. investors can now buy the ARK Venture Fund as an Ethereum token with USDC through Securitize, while cash-outs still run through the fund’s quarterly repurchase offers.

Co-founder Joe said Friday afternoon that the crypto casino needs more downtime to secure the site and refill its hot and cold wallets.

Funds sat locked until each deal closed, in a UK Finance project with Barclays and HSBC that expects to test digital-asset settlement next.

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.

Ran Neuner argues crypto has finally found product-market fit, and a BlackRock report on AI agents and blockchain rails convinced him the thesis may be much bigger than he thought.

Validators stopped the network for nearly 25 hours after a governance vote on Neutron gave an attacker control of Astroport and Drop contracts.

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.

The company behind much of Ethereum’s tooling will carry on as MetaMask under Joe Lubin, while its protocol and institutional infrastructure work, including Linea and Besu, moves into a newly formed company that takes the Consensys name.

The EF’s Protocol cluster set a hard date for post-quantum Ethereum and graded 62 proposals for the fork that decides whether it holds.

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.

Blockchain Association CEO Summer Mersinger will step down Oct. 16 and SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce leaves Oct. 2. Both announced their exits 10 days after the Senate blocked the Clarity Act.

The appeals court said Kalshi hadn’t shown its sports contracts are swaps, and that even if they were, federal law wouldn’t stop Ohio and Tennessee from enforcing their gambling laws.

New FAQs from the SEC’s Division of Corporation Finance also say some liquid staking tokens can count as digital commodities and that funding upgrades to a working network isn’t the kind of effort that makes a token a security.

The European Banking Authority wants requirements for crypto firms that connect users to DeFi lending, and it raised barring those firms from facilitating lending with stablecoins that lack EU authorization.

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.

A crowdsourced challenge of more than 100 researchers and AI agents drove a quantum benchmark down 86% in two months, well below Google’s March figure.