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Founder of Aave and Lens Protocol
Founder of Aave, one of DeFi's biggest lending protocols, and Lens Protocol, a major social infrastructure project in Web3.
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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 HTXOctober 7, 2026
Blockchain security firm CertiK has flagged an exploit involving a MakerDAO liquidation keeper bot, raising fresh questions about the security of the automated infrastructure that underpins DeFi's largest lending protocols.
October 8, 2026
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.
October 8, 2026
Sui has announced the mainnet rollout of Hashi, its Bitcoin-backed lending protocol, with more than $500 million in committed capital backing the launch. The figure signals serious institutional appetite for what the network is building at the intersection of Bitcoin liquidity and decentralized finance.
October 7, 2026
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.