Author: Olivia Martinez

Ethereum exchange supply hit multi-month lows, indicating substantial accumulation. Solana price weakens as bears threaten a move below $163 – $165. ZEC lost 25% the past 24 hours after robust gains over the previous few sessions. Cryptocurrencies displayed mixed performances on Tuesday, with most tokens losing momentum after yesterday’s gains. The value of all digital tokens lost 2% the last 24 hours to $3.51 trillion as Bitcoin hovered at $104,340. This article evaluates the current altcoin landscape by analyzing Ethereum, Solana, and Zcash. Ethereum exchange supply hits record lows The second-largest cryptocurrency exhibits a bullish catalyst amidst broader market sluggishness.…

A Toronto outlet handed over $1,900.00 in cash using only a $5 bill for verification. Ukraine-based exchange 001k offered to deliver $1,000,000.00 in cash in Montreal. Over 20 crypto-to-cash services were found operating unregistered across Canada. A report by CBC has revealed how Canada is witnessing the rise of unregulated crypto-to-cash services that enable large-scale anonymous financial transfers. These operations not only bypass anti-money laundering laws but also establish an untraceable money trail that financial intelligence agencies are unable to track. Across cities from Toronto to Montreal, crypto platforms are facilitating discreet cash handovers worth thousands and even millions, without…

SBI Crypto was breached, losing $21 million in assets via a suspected laundering operation. A phishing scam targeting GMGN tricked 107 users into approving fake transactions. Honeypot token scams rose 600% month-on-month, with over 2,100 tokens detected. Web3 has entered a new phase of cyber threats, with attackers now leveraging artificial intelligence, automation tools, and complex social engineering to exploit users across decentralised networks. According to GoPlus Security, over $45.84 million was lost in October alone from a surge of scams, phishing attacks, token exploits, and wallet hacks. The data reveals how scammers are evolving their methods, creating high-impact exploits…

The company will issue 3.5 million STRE shares, each priced at €100 ($115). Investors will receive a 10% annual dividend, paid quarterly beginning 31 December. Strategy currently holds 641,205 BTC, valued at approximately $47.49 billion. Strategy, the crypto treasury company known for its methodical accumulation of Bitcoin, has unveiled plans for a euro-denominated perpetual stock under the ticker STRE. The initial public offering (IPO) signals a refined integration of traditional capital markets with the Bitcoin economy. Strategy’s latest move extends its long-term model of raising capital through equity and debt to expand its Bitcoin reserves, consolidating its position as the…

The moved assets included StakeWise Staked Ether (OSETH), Wrapped Ether (WETH), and Lido wstETH (wSTETH). In September 2023, Balancer suffered a phishing attack that resulted in a loss of about $238,000. A separate August exploit drained nearly $1 million after a vulnerability was found in Balancer’s liquidity pools. A suspected exploit involving nearly $70 million worth of digital assets has once again placed Balancer, one of Ethereum’s leading decentralised exchanges, under scrutiny. The incident has reignited debate over the security of decentralised finance (DeFi), where transparency and automation often coexist with deep structural vulnerabilities. It also shows how core DeFi…

Ethereum’s weekly All Core Developer calls are a lot to keep up with, so this “Checkpoint” series aims for high-level updates roughly every 4-5 weeks, depending on what’s happening in core development. See the previous update here. tl;dr: The Fusaka upgrade is nearly out the door and we’ll get a very good idea of “wen” this week with the first testnet upgrade going live just a few hours from this post. Glamsterdam headliners have been chosen: enshrined Proposer-Builder Separation and Block-level Access Lists, but small features still have about a week to be proposed for inclusion. Testing teams are looking…

Privacy is the freedom to choose what you share, when you share it, and who you share it with. We all take this for granted in daily life: closing the door to a room, casting a secret ballot, or speaking privately with a friend. But online and onchain, these protections are often missing. Ethereum was created to be the foundation of digital trust, one that is worthy of civilizational scale. For that trust to remain credible, privacy must be part of its core, the EF, along with dozens of Ethereum teams focused on privacy, are proud to support this cause..…

The Funding Coordination team is excited to announce a joint initiative with Keyring Network that introduces a new approach to impact funding in the Ethereum ecosystem. Directly support privacy-focused developers Keyring’s zkVerified permissioned vaults on mainnet provide compliant and privacy-preserving access to DeFi lending markets. For the first two months, all protocol fees from Keyring’s zkVerified vaults will go to the legal defense funds of Roman Storm and Alexey Pertsev, the Tornado Cash developers currently on trial for publishing open-source code. This model ensures that the first users of a vault directly support the legal protection of privacy-focused developers. By…

The Ethereum Foundation has opened applications for the 2026 Internship Program: a paid, full-time opportunity to work directly with teams advancing the Ethereum protocol and ecosystem. Interns will join EF teams for 12 weeks over the summer, contributing to active R&D and ecosystem-oriented projects across a wide range of focus areas. The internship is open to candidates worldwide and can be completed remotely or from EF’s offices. A summer meetup will bring the cohort together to connect in person. The Goal Ethereum continues to evolve; each upgrade, research initiative, and experiment depends on people willing to dive into complex problems…

tl;dr: Over the last couple of days, some L2s noticed that their deployments on Sepolia didn’t work properly anymore. This is due to EIP-7594 which changes the format for proofs. In anticipation of Fusaka, we urge all blob originators to update their software to create Cell Proofs instead of blob proofs. Background One underdiscussed aspect of EIP-7594 (PeerDAS) is that it changes the format for proofs from blob proofs to cell proofs. This allows for downloading a specific part of the blob instead of the whole blob for data availability sampling. This change might break user applications that send blob…