Hackers mint trillions in fake Bitcoin, but 15 BTC bridge recovery leaves liquidity providers unpaid
Cross-chain protocol Symbiosis said it recovered approximately 15 BTC after an attacker exploited its native Bitcoin Bridge, but affected liquidity providers still lack compensation terms as a Sep. 13 bounty window nears its unspecified cutoff. The…
Audited DeFi protocols lost $885M to attacks that occurred completely outside their audit scopes
In decentralized finance, “audited” is often presented as a verdict on an entire project. In practice, an audit usually covers named code, components and versions at a particular point in time. Anything added, excluded or operated around that boundary…
Coinbase gives community banks a stablecoin bridge while supplying infrastructure underneath
Coinbase’s new partnership with payments platform Moov gives community banks and credit unions a route to offer stablecoin services through the financial relationship they already have with businesses. The local institution can remain the customer’s…
Malicious bots are actively probing exposed Bitcoin payment servers to steal master administrative keys
Bitcoin payment processor BTCPay Server has warned that bots are probing exposed Lightning nodes for a potential route to administrative control. The activity follows a separate critical BTCPay vulnerability that attackers exploited a month ago to obtain…
Cosmos is back online after outage, but Ledger users still can’t see or send their ATOM
Ledger’s status page continued to list Cosmos (ATOM) as a major outage on Sept. 13, leaving users unable to view ATOM balances or transaction history and unable to submit transactions through Ledger Wallet more than four days after the incident…
AI Agents Spending Money Online? New Research Says Not Really
TRM examined roughly $52.7 million across 198.9 million settlements using the x402 protocol. Most of it isn’t coming from AI agents, it says.
Thailand’s stablecoin proposal would block transfers to other people’s wallets
Thailand’s Securities and Exchange Commission has proposed a same-owner requirement for stablecoin transfers that would sharply narrow how customers can move tokens such as USDT through licensed crypto firms. The measure remains at the consultation stage…
Bitcoin’s $80,000 ceiling looks fragile after stocks shrugged off near-5% Treasury yields
Bitcoin failed to break $80,000 on Sept. 11 as US stocks climbed about 1% and long-dated Treasury yields stayed near levels not seen in years. Bitcoin registered an intraday high of $79,890, still short of the $80,000-$82,000 resistance zone identified…
The biggest vulnerability in your Bitcoin wallet might be the shipping label
Hardware wallets might be able to protect your keys, but the paperwork from buying them could expose your identity. To buy a hardware wallet, you give a company your name and address so it can send you a device designed to put you in control of your…
Why Bitcoin initially held its gain as rate traders put September hike odds at 85%
August’s inflation report left the Federal Reserve with a mixed signal: gasoline drove much of the headline increase, but monthly core inflation accelerated. That combination kept Governor Christopher Waller’s conditional case for a rate hike in play…