California Governor Gavin Newsom signs law banning public officials from issuing crypto meme coins
Vitalik said Ethereum’s Hegota upgrade next year is likely its last normal one, with everything after focused on ZK proofs and quantum safety, targeting finality in as little as 8 seconds by 2030
Ethena will end all USDe related token incentives and inflation at the end of this month, after incentives already fell about 85% since 2024
Wazz traced at least $18.43M extracted across 53 Robinhood Chain token launches to one rug-pull operation, with CRUMBS, LEGS and PINK taking about $3.12M, $2.9M and $1.44M
Jumper is spinning out of LI[.]FI to build a super-app for onchain finance, ticker JUMP
THORChain said it is decentralized and permissionless like Bitcoin and Ethereum after Bitget CEO Gracy Chen asked it to refuse transactions from flagged attacker addresses
GoPlus argued THORChain’s decentralization claims don’t hold, said FBI or OFAC attributed DPRK linked funds could be blocked under its existing emergency framework
GoPlus said Bitget’s $387.5M hack hit the transaction-signing trust chain, not private keys, with funds drained over about 2 hours and 25 minutes
Bitget said the vulnerability behind its September 24 hack is fixed, with withdrawals resuming in phases
SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce will leave the agency on October 2 after nearly nine years.
Circle and Tether froze $318,000 tied to the Bitget hack (218,023 USDT and 99,990 USDC), while attacker addresses still hold more than 63,000 ETH
Zano restarted its blockchain from block 3,833,000, just before Hard Fork 6, to wipe out unauthorized ZANO and fUSD minted through its Gateway Address vulnerability, and said it will publish a reimbursement process
Giwa team confirmed its mainnet is not live yet after a fake Giwa mainnet deployment caused asset losses across the community.
The biggest takeaway is how quickly leverage can distort the market. When speculative positioning grows faster than genuine spot demand, the eventual unwind can become much more aggressive.