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…
The biggest change on this year’s Apple Watch might be the introduction of a white and/or gray ceramic case. Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman has outlined the changes being made for Apple‘s upcoming wearables: the Apple Watch Series 12 and Apple Watch Ultra 4. In his Sunday article, he reiterated that these devices will only receive “fairly…
Adrian Wall is Managing Director of the Digital Sovereignty Alliance (DSA), where he is a leading voice on blockchain policy, digital asset regulation, and financial innovation. Adrian recently joined the Bitcoin.com News Podcast to talk about the Clarity Act, the DSA’s mission and much more: The conversation in this episode highlights the immense benefits that…
In contrast to XMR, POL, PUMP, RAIN, and TRUMP have plunged hard over the past 24 hours. Bitcoin began the new business week with a dip below $77,000 as geopolitical tensions in the Middle East escalated amid new attacks, but has since managed to shrug off the losses. The same cannot be said about…
For the past five years, security researcher Matt Burch has immersed himself in the esoteric and high-stakes world of ATM security, in which small software flaws can sometimes expose cold, hard cash. As Burch has bored deeper into the computers powering these digital lock boxes—and continued to find vulnerabilities in key digital security systems—he has…
Zakura released an open-source cryptography toolkit on Aug. 29 that it says can reduce the time required to construct some private Zcash transactions from more than three seconds to below 200 milliseconds. Summary Zakura Common cuts transaction construction from over three seconds to under 200 milliseconds, developers claim. Mobile proof generation improved more than fourteenfold,…
Nearly every company that’s trying to deploy artificial intelligence runs into the same problem: it’s hard to integrate the tech into everyday operations. Industrial heavyweight Caterpillar has spent decades dealing with a version of that problem in the physical world, and now it’s using its experience to deploy AI. Caterpillar’s push into the autonomous space…
Key Takeaways Robinhood Chain’s apps generated $2.66 million in 24-hour revenue on August 30. Gmgn, Pons and Uniswap combined for about 88% of that revenue, per the same data. Hyperliquid still processed $8.9 billion in perpetuals volume in a single July day. A Two-Month-Old Chain Punches Above Its Weight Even though the Arbitrum-built L2 launched…
