Flash Loan Attacks Cost DeFi $1.2 Billion Over Four Years, Study Finds
TLDR Flash loan attacks caused $1.211 billion in losses across 72 incidents between February 2020 and July 2024. Those attacks mad...
DeFi Development Clears CHAD Buybacks—But Not Yet
TLDR DeFi Development authorized repurchases of current and future CHAD preferred shares. The company has no immediate plan to buy...
Aptos MonoMove Tests Reveal a Major Speed Shift
TLDR Aptos says MonoMove delivered up to 55x faster execution in selected internal tests. End-to-end workloads recorded broader th...
Flash Loan Attacks Drained $1.2B From DeFi Between 2020 and 2024: Study
Attacks grew more sophisticated and less predictable over the period, according to researchers who scanned more than 20 billion tr...
CFTC Joins SEC in Crypto Rule Push, but Spot Trading Is Excluded
TLDR: CFTC crypto regulations would address retail crypto transactions involving leverage, margin, or financing, rather than ordin...
East Asia’s $1.2T Crypto Economy Splits Between Retail and Institutions: Chainal...
TLDR: South Korea led East Asia with a $449.1B crypto economy and strong AI-token trading. Hong Kong’s institutional platforms cap...
Plume Brings Fidelity’s Bond ETF Onchain With New nBND Vault
TLDR: Plume launched nBND, a tokenized vault primarily backed by Fidelity’s FBND bond ETF. FBND provides exposure to investment-gr...
Injective Stockdrop Goes Live as CypherOS Debuts and BuyBack Burns 7.2M INJ
TLDR: The Community BuyBack closed with more than 7.2 million INJ burned, and Stockdrop claims are now open. CypherOS made its fir...
Solana Flips Ethereum as DEX Volume Tops L2s and Hyperliquid Combined
TLDR: Solana logged $3.06B in daily spot DEX volume, topping Ethereum, L2s and Hyperliquid combined on October 3. Solana captured...
Vitalik Buterin Tests AI Privacy Through zkAPI and Tor Routing
TLDR: Vitalik Buterin tested personalized diet and exercise recommendations through local AI orchestration, drawing on more capabl...