A new initiative called Ethereum Institutional has launched with support from across the Ethereum ecosystem, arriving during a period of significant structural change for the network's support organizations. The launch follows the recent debut of EthLabs and coincides with ongoing efforts by the Ethereum Foundation to address community
Blockchain security firm PeckShield reported that crypto-related thefts totaled $75.9 million across 40 separate incidents in June, marking a 7.1% decline from the previous month's figures. The largest single event was a $31 million exploit targeting Humanity Protocol, which accounted for a significant portion of
New York Life, an asset manager overseeing $807 billion, is moving a high-yield corporate bond strategy onto the blockchain through a partnership with tokenization platform Centrifuge. The launch marks the firm's first venture into tokenized funds and signals that Wall Street's onchain ambitions are broadening
Compromised private keys, rather than flawed smart contracts, account for roughly 40% of the $16 billion stolen across crypto's history, according to industry analysis. The figure highlights a persistent weakness in how users and institutions store and manage the cryptographic credentials that control digital assets. Wish Wu, co-
Developer Fernando Irarrázaval stress-tested his OpenClaw assistant by publicly sharing access to its inbox on Hacker News, inviting users to attempt to compromise it. The AI agent, powered by Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 model, reportedly withstood roughly 6,000 attack attempts as visitors tried various prompt-
Base, the Ethereum layer-2 network developed by Coinbase, experienced another disruption to block production, marking its second mainnet stall in two days and raising concerns about network reliability. The latest incident was flagged at 15:33 UTC, with block production resuming roughly 38 minutes later at 16:11 UTC.
Securitize, a tokenization platform backed by asset management giant BlackRock, is preparing to enter public markets through a SPAC merger that could raise as much as $400 million. The company expects to close the deal next week and begin trading on the New York Stock Exchange, pending approval from shareholders.
Base, the Ethereum layer-2 network developed by Coinbase, has rescheduled its Beryl mainnet hard fork to June 26 to allow additional preparation time. The delay stems from a timing issue involving the B20 Activation Registry, which needs to become fully operational before the upgrade can safely proceed. Hard forks
Following the suspension of the Rust Lightning project on GitHub, prominent Bitcoin developer Matt Corallo is urging Bitcoin projects to migrate away from the Microsoft-owned platform. The call reflects growing concerns about relying on centralized infrastructure for open-source development critical to Bitcoin. Senior developers, including Andrew Poelstra, have
Chainlink has introduced a framework aimed at freeing capital that gets tied up during foreign exchange settlement between banks. The system pursues T+0 payment-versus-payment settlement, meaning currency exchanges could clear on the same day rather than over the multi-day cycles common in traditional FX markets. By
The achievement marks the first known use of Stratum V2's Job Declaration feature in Bitcoin mining, a protocol upgrade designed to redistribute control over transaction selection. Traditionally, mining pools determine which transactions are included in a block and construct the block template, concentrating influence over the network. Working
A week of structural change at the Ethereum Foundation has drawn optimistic reactions from prominent figures in the crypto industry. The shifts began with the launch of EthLabs, a new entity tied to the network's development efforts, and were followed by layoffs at the Ethereum Foundation itself. Together,