An attacker has hit the Layer 1 blockchain Harmony and minted not less than 4 billion of its native ONE token. Data from CoinGecko exhibits the token plummeted to a brand new all-time low of $0.0005735 following the incident. Hackers Mint 4 Billion ONE X person Juiceberg was among the many first to increase the…
After shifting its focus to rebuilding its USD stash and reinstating buyers’ perception in STRC, Strategy’s CEO, Phong Le, defined that the agency plans to renew its BTC purchases by the finish of the 12 months. As reported by Wu Blockchain, the exec famous that the world’s largest company holder of bitcoin stays an enormous…
Xora Finance has enabled native Stellar settlement on the XRP Ledger, creating a brand new hyperlink between the XLM and XRPL ecosystems with out counting on wrapped belongings. The firm describes itself as a custodial neobank constructed on the XRP Ledger. Its new integration is designed to permit Stellar worth to settle via XRPL infrastructure,…
TRON processed $2.1 trillion in USDT transfers in the course of the second quarter of 2026, in response to Messari’s State of TRON Q2 report, underscoring the community’s dominant position in stablecoin motion. The report additionally confirmed circulating USDT on TRON reached $87.9 billion, surpassing Ethereum, whereas common each day transactions rose 8.7% to 11.8…
Keel Infrastructure has decommissioned all of its US Bitcoin mining websites because it repurposes these places for AI and high-performance computing workloads. The firm, previously Bitfarms, disclosed the shift in its August 2026 Form 10-Q. It reported a $65 million web loss and $819 million in complete liquidity, whereas nonetheless holding $121 million in Bitcoin…
On August 9, a bridge connecting the XRP Ledger and Coreum (now rebranded as tx) misplaced near 200,000 XRP after an attacker tricked its deposit-checking system into treating a wallet-to-wallet switch as an actual deposit. The bridge has since halted, and each the operator and out of doors researchers have traced the failure to Coreum-side…
Grayscale has voluntarily withdrawn registration statements for its Cardano, Hedera, and Polkadot Trust merchandise, pausing one other set of altcoin ETF ambitions earlier than they reached market. The withdrawals had been filed on Form RW on August 7, 2026. Grayscale stated it doesn’t intend to proceed with the deliberate distributions. That wording issues. This just…
Arthur Hayes printed a brand new essay this week arguing that the US Treasury and Japan’s Ministry of Finance have settled on a single technique to strengthen the yen: operating newly printed {dollars} by way of the Federal Reserve’s foreign money swap facility. Hayes says the mechanics level to a wave of greenback liquidity hitting…
Prominent blockchain investigator ZachXBT recognized Tiffany Milanovich as a US-based menace actor tied to no less than $5 million in thefts by means of {hardware} pockets and centralized change assist impersonation scams. He stated Milanovich labored as a “caller” and posed as change or pockets assist, convincing victims to surrender entry to their funds. ZachXBT…
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) stated Monday it can maintain an open assembly this Friday, August 14, to think about proposing new guidelines that will create a tailor-made providing path for sure crypto funding contracts. The announcement lands simply days after the Senate pushed its subsequent procedural vote on the CLARITY Act to…