Arthur Hayes denied any token, pre-sale, or memecoin launch for Flop Labs, saying an airdrop and mainnet are still months to a year out
Eric Trump denied reports of a new Trump coin launch, calling the claims fraudulent
Hyperliquid Builder Codes hit a record $984M in daily perp volume on Aug 21, with $782K in builder revenue that day
Miner Jiang Zhuoer said he’s now 90% confident the bear market is over and plans to deploy remaining reserves into ETH
Over 500M SAND minted in suspected Sandbox security breach on Base
Solana’s Double Disinflation governance vote went live, cutting the disinflation rate from -15% to -30%; combined with SGP-2 and SGP-3 proposals the plan would remove ~37M SOL (~$3.5B) from future supply by 2032
BounceBit will shut down its Layer 1 and migrate to BNB Chain after a $3M exploit
KiiChain halted its network after a Cosmos EVM module exploit
Arrakis Finance’s V1/G-UNI ENS-WETH vault was drained via a flash-loan and Uniswap V3 spot-price manipulation attack, netting the attacker about 2.94 WETH
Mantra Chain resumed block production after patching the same Cosmos-EVM vulnerability, with no user funds affected
Hyperliquid shipped a network update but held off on permissionless deployment of Outcome markets
FOMO’s iOS app was hit by an active exploit after an update, draining user balances instantly, estimated total damage around $6M
Tether’s $120M bitcoin mining project in Uruguay collapsed after a power-allocation dispute with state utility UTE, which cut power to two sites in July 2025
Solana mainnet cut slot time from 400ms to 350ms after Friday’s upgrade, speeding up confirmations though not raising overall throughput
Vitalik published Part III of his obfuscation series, introducing local mixing, a new approach that destroys circuit structure through iterative transformations borrowed from symmetric crypto rather than lattices, potentially far more efficient than existing methods though still unproven
Fomo flipped Phantom and MetaMask in 24h on Hyperliquid builder code revenue
Term Labs DAO governance exploit: attacker turned 2 ETH into enough governance tokens to seize 100% voting power on 4 of 5 USDC vaults and ~91% of the ETH Meta Vault, then voted to drain the treasury — 2,843 ETH (~$6.87M) stolen plus 1.68M USDC swapped to DAI, total ~$8.5M gone
