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MANTRA Chain is still dark after the exploit, and the Aug. 21 restart rides on one testnet patch
MANTRA Chain spent Aug. 21 doing nothing at all. No transactions. No transfers. No staking. The mainnet sat paused after the team said an attacker exploited a vulnerability…
Two more crypto groups sue Illinois over its 0.2% digital asset tax
Illinois now has a second lawsuit to defend, and the plaintiffs aren’t a couple of aggrieved traders. They’re the trade groups that lobby for the entire industry. The…
QUDO sets Aug. 24 for mainnet launch and $QUDO token debut
In Brief: QUDO said its platform leaves testnet on Aug. 24 and the $QUDO token goes live the same day. The launch closes out a testnet run that…
Mysten Labs’ Abiodun says Sui cracked AI agent access to DeFi, withholds details until Basecamp
In Brief: Adeniyi “Eman” Abiodun, co-founder and chief product officer of Mysten Labs, said the team solved how humans and AI agents can move real money into DeFi…
Arbitrum activates Elara, quadrupling Stylus contract size and adding optional compliance filters
In Brief: ArbOS 61 “Elara” went live on Arbitrum One and Nova on Aug. 20 at 17:00 UTC after a constitutional ArbitrumDAO vote. Stylus contracts can now hold…
One Optimism-funded team’s 8.5M OP vote moved $49M away from users
With 16 minutes and 52 seconds left on the clock, a single wallet showed up and changed the outcome. The vote was going against the Optimism Foundation. Approval…
Bitcoin touched $70,000 for the first time since June 2 [Here’s what pushed it]
Bitcoin spent most of August pinned under a level chart watchers kept circling. On Wednesday it blew through it and printed $70,000 on Coinbase, according to TradingView data,…
Ripple pulls in $275 million in senior notes to fund its prime brokerage bet
Three years ago, a $275 million debt raise from a crypto company would have been a story about survival. This one isn’t. Ripple upsized a private placement of…
Six bugs had to line up: how MAYAChain lost 20 BTC and $11 million in pool value
Twenty-point-eight-three bitcoin left MAYAChain’s pools and landed in an attacker’s wallet. That’s about $1.34 million. It’s also the smallest number in this story. The bigger one is $10.9…