BLOCKCHAIN • CRYPTOCURRENCY • NARRATIVE JOURNALISM
Founder of the decentralized oracle network Chainlink, which connects off-chain data and real-world systems to smart contracts.
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Vitalik Buterin
Co-founder of Ethereum
Carl From the Moon
Founder & Executive
Satoshi Nakamoto
Creator of Bitcoin
Charles Hoskinson
Founder of Cardano and IOG, and Ethereum co-founder
Justin Sun
Founder of TRON and adviser to HTXAugust 19, 2026
Maya Protocol halted network operations after a six-bug exploit drained roughly $1. 4 million in Bitcoin and other assets, forcing the cross-chain project offline as it scrambled to contain the damage.
August 19, 2026
Maya Protocol, a cross-chain decentralized finance platform, was hit by an exploit that drained roughly $1. 7 million in bitcoin and other assets, in an attack that reporting has tied to a chain of separate code-level bugs rather than a single point of failure.