Ethereum
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Blockchain network whose smart contracts were leveraged by malware for command-and-control infrastructure to evade domain takedowns.
Fraudulent Cryptocurrency App in Mac App Store Stole $9.5 Million From 50-Some Users
$285M Drift Protocol exploit using durable nonces and social engineering reveals Circle's inability to freeze stolen USDC, exposing stablecoin governance centralization risks.
Someone Bought 30 WordPress Plugins and Planted a Backdoor in All of Them
Attacker acquired 31 WordPress plugins via Flippa, implanted backdoors, then activated hidden SEO injection via Ethereum smart contract C2 infrastructure to evade takedown.
$12 billion crypto company boss says Gen Z ‘create an absurd amount of chaos’ and make him want to pull his hair out—but he’s betting on them anyway
Paradigm bets chaos-prone Gen Z talent delivers outsized technical value—Charlie Noyes identified MEV as critical infrastructure and seeded Flashbots, which now touches nearly every Ethereum transaction.
Morgan Stanley’s Bitcoin ETF began trading. An analyst put it in the top 1% of ETF launches
Morgan Stanley's Bitcoin ETF (MSBT) ranked in the top 1% of launches with $25M first-day volume and a 0.14% fee, signaling Wall Street's aggressive institutional pivot into crypto products.