Vitalik Buterin estimated a 33% chance SNARKs, FHE and iO reach near-zero overhead and a 60% chance they hit single-digit overhead, with SNARKs potentially getting there this decade.
Liquid Federation confirmed 4,000 BTC ($320M) was withdrawn from its bridge by purported whitehats via the SideSwap peg out key
HYPE hit a new all-time high of $89.666, up 60.7% over 30 days, with 24h volume around $629M.
Chilean crypto exchange Orionx is shutting down permanently after an audit found $7M+ in customer assets moved to outside wallets
13F data shows 30 institutional holders had $74.9M combined exposure to the three Hyperliquid ETFs as of June 30, led by Wealth High Governance Asset Management at $23.9M, with the top five accounting for 71% of total exposure.
El Salvador’s Bukele denied an El País report claiming state Bitcoin reserves were transferred to a private operator
UNI burns hit $1.15M in a single day for the first time, with Robinhood Chain driving 150k of the 184k UNI burned as its DEX volume topped $3B in a day, 98% via Uniswap.
Tom Lee’s GRNY ETF made MSTR its largest holding (3.02% of portfolio) as of September 3 after sharply building the position since mid-August
Base’s Jesse said an attacker posted scam tickers via a compromised third-party app connection to his account
StonkFun rolled out infrastructure upgrades fixing downtime and reward-distribution issues, with a DeFiLlama revenue-reporting patch coming and new TradFi listings planned after the holiday market open.
Offchain Labs’ Steven Goldfeder and Solana’s Anatoly Yakovenko publicly clashed over Robinhood Chain’s fee model, debating whether Arbitrum’s 90% gas-fee retention beats Solana’s gasless alternative.
LaunchOnSF on Solana enabled users to launch coins paired with ARB, powered by Sunrise.
CrowdStrike launched SafeMind, a purpose-built agentic security model family from its new Cyber Superintelligence Lab.
Purps launched, letting users pair memes with stocks or crypto where fees compound into Hyperliquid perp profits that reward holders.
Moove launched its Developer Program with a $100,000 Moove Developer Fund, offering approved projects up to $10,000 each in USDC for building on Moove Agentic Payments, its cross-chain settlement layer supporting 16,000+ cryptocurrencies and 30+ blockchains.
CrowdStrike shipping an AI built to defend systems lands in the same roundup as an exchange collapsing with $7M of customer money gone and a well-known developer's account hijacked. Defense got a new tool the same week offense kept winning.