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WaterPlum posed as recruiters for AI, crypto and NFT companies and planted malware in fake interviews and coding tasks, draining wallet keys from more than 7,000 crypto wallets.
Zcash jumped to roughly $1,350 and $345 million in crypto liquidations followed, with shorts bearing $208 million of the pain after Matt Huang disclosed Paradigm's ZEC holdings.
Ripple's XRPL AI Starter Kit v1.1 adds Stripe-Tempo MPP, x402, and Open Wallet Standard support, letting AI agents pay with XRP and RLUSD.
The SEC's Innovation Exemption only covers tokens that carry real shareholder rights, shutting price-tracking synthetic tokens out of the US framework.
Hijacked HBO Max Reddit ads pushed fake Ledger, Trezor Suite and Exodus apps built to steal recovery phrases, researchers say.
Circle minted the full 10 billion ARC supply at the launch of its Arc blockchain but says the mint is not a commitment to publicly launch the token.
The Senate rejected the CLARITY Act 49-50 on September 15, and an estimated $100M-$225M in crypto lobbying could not bridge the gap between a May committee win and a September floor defeat.
An MEV bot called yoink front-ran a $7.8M rsETH hack from a Gnosis Safe, and Kelp DAO paused the receiving address for 24 hours.
Injective activated its IIP-677 upgrade to v1.20.3, headlined by Injective Mint, a platform for issuing tokenized equities and bonds built for SEC rules.
The Zcash ETF (ZCSH) crossed $500 million two weeks after its NYSE Arca debut, holding over 550,000 ZEC as ZEC rallied 43% on the week.
