Chainalysis Used AI to Trace the $387M Bitget Hack Back to North Korea
The firm says the Sept. 24 breach pushed North Korea’s 2026 crypto haul past $1 billion, and detailed how it used in-house AI to trace the stolen funds across four blockchains in a race against the attackers.
Blast shuts down $20M layer-2 network, forcing Oct. 26 exit deadline
Ethereum layer-2 network built around native yield Blast said on Oct. 2 that it will shut down because maintaining the chain costs more than it earns. The project asked users to move their assets to Ethereum mainnet by Oct. 26 to withdraw through its…
Ethereum Now Lets You Pay for AI Without Revealing Who You Are
Ethereum’s zkAPI lets users prepay in USDC and query AI models through cryptographic proofs, so no single party sees both who they are and what they ask.
Crypto hackers have taken $2.7 billion in 2026 and the losses are alarmingly concentrated
Crypto firms and users have lost nearly $2.7 billion to security incidents this year, with North Korea-linked thefts exceeding $1 billion. Blockchain security firm CertiK recorded 658 incidents through September, with about $420.4 million of stolen…
New Bitcoin upgrade catches hidden key leaks hiding the exact fix
Bitcoin improvement proposal BIP461 could make a hidden route for leaking wallet secrets easier to detect. The draft defines a common signing procedure for ECDSA, an existing Bitcoin signature scheme. Independent compliant signers should produce…
Ethereum Gets Another Privacy Boost as Aztec Brings Back zk.money
Aztec Labs relaunched its self-custodial zk.money wallet on Aztec Network, letting users make private stablecoin payments using readable tags.
A Clever RSA Attack Fooled a Hardware Vault—Here’s What It Means for Crypto
A UC San Diego-led team impersonated a hardware security module without extracting its key.
Bitcoin’s Quantum Problem: Three Ways Researchers Are Trying to Fix It
Three developments this week—a cost breakthrough, a new privacy design, and a custody playbook—show a field moving from theory to logistics, even as “Q-Day” remains hypotheti
AI Agents Are Racing to Make Quantum-Safe Bitcoin Cheap—And Winning
An open competition run by StarkWare, Yukon Research, and Eigen Labs drove the estimated cost of building a quantum-safe Bitcoin transaction from about $320 to roughly $67, with AI models topping the leaderboards.
Cardano proposal slashes fees by 55%, but it comes with a cost for small pools
A new Cardano governance action proposes cutting the minimum from 170 ADA to 75 ADA, this time without the Plutus memory-limit change that brought stake pool operators into the previous ballot. The proposal drops one voting requirement that stopped the…