Eclair 0.14.3 patches Lightning flaws that could drain node balances to miner fees
ACINQ's Eclair 0.14.3 patches three Lightning vulnerabilities, including one that could send a node's entire channel balance to miners as fees.
Insights
Analysis, explainers and market notes, newest first.
Binance buys $100 million Circle stake days after Arc mainnet launch
Binance bought $100 million of Circle stock alongside a five-year USDC promotion deal, per an SEC filing, closing a day after Circle's Arc blockchain went live.
98% of VVV Sits in 100 Wallets: Why Retail Isn’t What’s Moving This Record Price
VVV hit a record $34.51, but the 100 largest wallets hold about 98% of the supply, so the rally is driven from the top rather than by retail buying.
Hyperliquid Lending Launch: The LTVs and Liquidation Thresholds Behind the $269M Day One
Hyperliquid's lending launch: how the protocol isolates risk, and the collateral terms lenders should check.
World splits in two: World Money separates finance from identity
World has split its identity and financial services into two apps, with World Money handling payments, trading and earning in more than 150 countries.
Crossmint leans on SEC ‘collectibles’ guidance as Visa reclassifies memecoin card purchases
Crossmint says its digital-goods procedures have not changed as Visa reportedly directs processors to stop coding memecoin purchases under MCC 5815.
Oracle network Switchboard shuts down, gives users until September 25 to migrate
Oracle network Switchboard is shutting down all operations, giving protocols until September 25, 2026 to migrate to alternatives like Pyth and RedStone.
Solana cuts slot time to 250 milliseconds in latest SIMD-0525 stage
Solana cut its target slot time to 250 milliseconds at the start of epoch 1037, trading per-slot compute limits for fresher data rather than higher throughput.
The job interview was the attack: how WaterPlum turned hiring into a malware channel
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.
$345 Million Liquidated as Zcash Short Squeeze Rips Through Leveraged Traders
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.