Key Takeaways A Balancer V1 pool lost about $234,000 to a rounding-error exploit on August 31, per Slowmist. The attacker compressed WBTC reserves to dust, minting full BPT for a rounded-down 1-satoshi input. Balancer Labs shut down as a company in March 2026 after a similar bug drained $116 million. A Small Hack With a…
Solana price traded near $102.50 on Aug. 31 after retreating from a weekly high of $110.04, but its daily and 4-hour charts show that the broader August breakout remains intact above $100. Summary Solana price gained 4.2% from Aug. 25 through Aug. 31 despite falling 6.8% from its weekly high. Daily RSI cooled to 68.43…
Mashable Entertainment Editor Kristy Puchko was sent on a ropes course ahead of interviewing Fall 2: Deadpoint‘s cast Tom Brittney, Arsema Thomas, and Harriet Slater. Her training time was apparently almost as long as the actors’ for the Fall sequel. “We didn’t have that much time,” said Tom Brittney. “From casting to filming, it was…
Bitcoin traded at $78,500 as the Japanese yen breached 160 per dollar in Tokyo trading, while a U.S. strike on Iran’s Larak Island added to bearish price prediction. The moves followed Friday’s broad dollar advance and hawkish remarks from Warsh at Jackson Hole, which lifted expectations for a Federal Reserve rate hike. Bitcoin’s daily loss…
This summer, every meal feels like a risk. Just as the US is recovering from a major cyclospora outbreak stemming from tainted iceberg lettuce, salmonella has turned up in jalapeños, eggs, and even dog food. The jalapeño-related outbreak is now responsible for at least 431 illnesses and 57 hospitalizations in more than two dozen states….
Key Takeaways On Aug. 31, 2026, Tectonic lost over $70 million after an attacker used $600,000 to inflate TONIC’s price 40x. Cronos validators halted block production, trapping $60 million onchain while Crypto.com aids the probe. Cronos validators must now decide whether to resume network operations or execute a chain rollback. The Validator Dilemma: Restart or…
The purchase came after Saylor’s major hint yesterday on X. Well over two months after completing its last bitcoin buy, the world’s largest corporate holder of the cryptocurrency is back on the offensive. The firm’s co-founder and former CEO, Michael Saylor, outlined the acquisition on X, indicating that Strategy has acquired 4,603 BTC for…
Crypto platforms are suffering massive losses to sophisticated exploits despite many having undergone independent security audits. A new CoinGecko report shows that between January 2025 and July 2026, crypto platforms suffered a staggering $3.63 billion in losses across 245 documented incidents. Notably the top 10 largest attacks accounted for more than 72.5% of the total…
Everyone’s waiting for Nvidia to confirm this week’s most interesting tech deal: A reported $13 billion acquisition of Hugging Face, a platform for sharing open-weight AI models and benchmarks. Now best known as the target for a team of reward-hacking OpenAI agents, Hugging Face is at the center of the ecosystem of developers building and…
Float Protocol has lost about $28,000, or 10.71 ETH, after an attacker used a flash loan to manipulate a Uniswap V3 spot price and exploit how its Hypervisor contracts calculated liquidity provider share values. Summary Float Protocol lost about $28,000, or 10.71 ETH, after a flash loan attack manipulated a Uniswap V3 spot price. SlowMist…
