AFX Trade, a protocol on Arbitrum (ARB), misplaced roughly 24.15 million USDC (USDC) on July 22 after an attacker exploited a bridge it operates. Security agency Blockaid flagged the assault at 21:30 UTC. It marks the 14th crypto safety incident recorded in July, a month that has already surpassed June’s hack losses. Attacker Drains 24…
Injective has filed Form TA-1 with the US Securities and Exchange Commission to register as a switch agent, a transfer geared toward supporting regulated real-world asset infrastructure on-chain. The submitting is about recordkeeping for securities possession. It shouldn’t be a registration of the INJ token as a safety, and it shouldn’t be learn that means….
dYdX Chain’s v5.1 improve introduces smart contract functionality and permissionless market listings, giving customers a path to launch perpetual markets with out counting on governance intervention. That is a serious shift for a derivatives-focused chain. Perpetual exchanges rely on market protection, liquidity, velocity, and danger administration. If customers can create new markets extra simply, dYdX…
Pyth Network has launched a USDY/USD worth feed designed to assist Ondo Finance’s yield-bearing USDY asset throughout Aptos and Sui DeFi ecosystems. The feed provides builders and protocols real-time pricing knowledge for USDY, which is essential if the asset is utilized in lending markets, collateral programs, buying and selling merchandise, or different on-chain monetary functions….
Sui is testing confidential transactions on devnet, transferring one in every of its privacy-focused upgrades from idea right into a dwell developer atmosphere. The function is designed to maintain transaction quantities and balances personal whereas leaving sender and recipient addresses seen for auditability. That steadiness is essential. Sui will not be presenting this as full…
Uniswap governance is reviewing a proposal that will route protocol charges from chosen Optimism swimming pools towards UNI token burns, testing a extra direct connection between deployment-level exercise and token economics. The proposal is particular to Optimism swimming pools. That distinction issues as a result of it isn’t a protocol-wide payment burn throughout all Uniswap…
Base and Optimism are working to deliver native account abstraction to the OP Stack, with developer testing already dwell on Base Vibenet and mainnet rollout deliberate for the Cobalt improve in September 2026. The replace facilities on EIP-8130 and goals to make consumer accounts extra versatile throughout OP Stack chains. For customers, the concept is…
Chainlink is shifting the economics of its BUILD program towards business price agreements, a transfer that might make LINK’s utility extra carefully tied to paid oracle and infrastructure companies. The replace follows the ultimate BUILD rewards claims ending July 7, 2026. Under the brand new course, taking part tasks are anticipated to maneuver towards business…
Ripple has launched its UDAX accelerator program in Brazil, increasing its effort to attach universities, researchers, and builders with the XRP Ledger ecosystem. The program is designed to assist tutorial analysis, grants, and developer exercise round XRPL functions. For Ripple, Brazil is a pure market to focus on. The nation has an energetic fintech sector,…
Fund managers now see gold (XAU) as the most undervalued asset since March 2023, in line with Bank of America’s July survey. The studying arrives as the metallic bounces 3.5% in two days from the $3,900-$4,000 assist zone. The final time the survey flipped this fashion, gold traded beneath $2,000 after which rallied to $5,598…