BLOCKCHAIN • CRYPTOCURRENCY • NARRATIVE JOURNALISM
That 55% share puts logic exploits ahead of price manipulation, which had previously been the more commonly cited flash loan threat vector. Price manipulation attacks work differently: they use borrowed capital to distort an on-chain price oracle, tricking a protocol into mispricing collateral or swap rates.
Bitmine has a ceiling. Tom Lee, the firm's chairman and co-founder, has stated that Bitmine will stop purchasing Ethereum once its holdings reach 5% of the cryptocurrency's total circulating supply, setting a defined upper limit on one of the most aggressive corporate ETH accumulation strategies in the market.
A crypto user lost $30,004 in USDT after sending funds to a fraudulent Ethereum address in what on-chain security monitors identified as an address-poisoning attack, one of the most deceptively simple scams in crypto.
Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse took to X to admit his team came up short in its push to advance the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act, a rare public acknowledgment of a legislative stumble from one of crypto's most vocal policy advocates.
Evernorth is on track to hold 473 million XRP on its corporate balance sheet, a move that would position the company as the largest publicly traded XRP treasury in existence. The planned addition marks a significant milestone in the growing trend of corporations treating XRP as a strategic reserve asset.
Blast, an Ethereum Layer 2 network, is shutting down after the project determined that operating costs consistently exceeded the revenue the network generated. The closure raises pointed questions about whether smaller Layer 2 projects can survive in an increasingly crowded and capital-intensive market.
The only spot Hedera ETF on the market closed out September on a bullish note, with Canary Capital holding its position as the sole issuer offering direct HBAR exposure through a listed fund.
Most stablecoin launches pick a single chain and expand later. Open Standard went the other direction, rolling out OUSD on Ethereum, Solana, Base and Tempo in one move, according to reporting from CoinGape .
The average cost basis is the mean purchase price across all holdings within a group. For US spot Bitcoin ETF holders, Bitfinex placed that figure at $81,722.
A crypto user lost $67,572 in USDT after falling victim to an Ethereum address-poisoning attack, according to on-chain security monitor ScamSniffer. The funds were sent to an attacker-controlled wallet after the victim copied what appeared to be a familiar address from their transaction history.
Coinbase has filed to list more than 50 single-stock perpetual futures contracts in the United States, a move that would give American traders access to a derivatives product type that has largely existed offshore.
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has sent proposed rules covering crypto transactions to the White House for review, a procedural step that moves federal crypto oversight closer to formal adoption, even as the legislative path through Congress remains blocked.