Unchained

Neuner said on Unchained that apps like FOMO, where traders see and follow each other’s trades, will replace exchanges, helped by tokenized stocks that trade around the clock.

ETH, USDT and every other asset follow on a set schedule through Oct. 2, the exchange said, four days after attackers drained its hot and warm wallets.

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.

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.

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.

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.

A report by Democratic staff on a Senate subcommittee says 84% of 846 Iran-linked wallets flagged by the U.S. and Israel ran almost entirely on USDT.

The new law also blocks platforms from listing officials’ meme coins issued from 2027, a cutoff that appears to leave out the $TRUMP token launched last year.

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.

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.