(*1*) Aave founder Stani Kulechov has clarified that the protocol’s latest choice to decommission dozens of low-adoption property and 6 blockchain deployments is strictly a risk-management train and shouldn’t be interpreted as a press release on the viability of any Layer 1 or Layer 2 community. In a submit on social media platform X, he…
Fhenix and Canopy have fashioned a technical partnership to embed confidential computation straight into the Canopy Stack, giving builders a direct path to constructing sovereign onchain functions that maintain consumer information encrypted throughout processing. The collaboration removes the necessity for groups to assemble a separate cryptography stack or make use of specialist cryptographers earlier than…
Ostium, an Arbitrum-based RWA buying and selling platform, suffered a serious safety breach on July 15 that resulted within the withdrawal of roughly 23.75 million USDC from its public liquidity supplier vault. The assault compromised the protocol’s off-chain value infrastructure relatively than its on-chain sensible contracts or governance methods, highlighting how decentralized finance platforms stay…
Perplexity AI has open-sourced Numbat, an agent-detection and response framework designed to safe AI coding brokers towards a newly acknowledged class of safety incidents generally known as “unintentional meltdowns.” Released as a part of the corporate’s membership within the Open Secure AI Alliance, the device supplies safety groups with real-time visibility into agent exercise and…
South Korea will implement its long-delayed digital asset tax beginning January 1, 2027, as Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Koo Yun-cheol confirmed the federal government is not going to search additional postponement. The announcement, made throughout a National Assembly Strategy and Finance Committee assembly on July 29, ends years of hypothesis over whether or…
Prediction market platform Polymarket introduced the formation of a devoted analysis group geared toward advancing scholarly understanding of how these markets function and what they reveal about future occasions. The newly established Polymarket Institute represents an effort to construct formal tutorial infrastructure round a discipline that has grown more and more influential throughout a number…
Kaito AI, an intelligence and monetary markets platform targeted on the eye financial system, has launched Kaito Katalyst, a performance-based reward tier for creator advertising and marketing that permits challenge groups to compensate creators solely in accordance with verified conversion outcomes reasonably than flat charges or estimated attain. The product is constructed upon Kaito’s newest…
Aurora Labs has built-in its cross-chain execution answer, Aurora Intents, into Solflare, a number one non-custodial pockets on the Solana blockchain. The integration allows customers to switch funds from a number of exterior networks straight into Solflare by a function named Bridge, which is accessible throughout cell, internet, and browser extension platforms. Traditionally, shifting property…
AI security and analysis firm Anthropic launched the fifth specification of its Model Context Protocol, designated MCP 2026-07-28, representing probably the most substantial revision of the open commonplace since its introduction. The replace arrives as MCP surpasses 400 million month-to-month SDK downloads—a fourfold improve this yr—and solidifies its place because the dominant protocol for connecting…
The first half of 2026 marked probably the most exploited interval in blockchain historical past, with onchain safety agency Blockaid verifying 212 incidents totalling $1.1 billion in losses — representing 3.4 occasions the variety of high-threshold exploits recorded throughout all of 2025. While whole greenback losses fell in need of 2025’s figures, largely as a…