1+ week, 6+ day ago   (443+ words) One let a block producer crash peer nodes; another let anyone force costly work across the whole validator set. Polygon disclosed that it had shipped two coordinated hardforks across its proof-of-stake clients to close denial-of-service vectors, publishing details only after…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (550+ words) The attacker compressed WBTC reserves to dust, then minted 4,408.8 BPT for one satoshi per join. An attacker drained a Balancer V1 pool by compressing its WBTC reserves until the deposit required to mint pool tokens rounded down to a single satoshi,…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (643+ words) A single Ethereum transaction pulled ENJ-backed items out of roughly 52 unrelated wallets and melted each one to reserve, netting the attacker about $142,000. An attacker drained approximately 5.24 million ENJ, worth about $142,000 at recent spot prices, from Enjin’s ERC-1155 “Crypto Items” platform…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (644+ words) Monad’s new MIP would let users change wallet keys, add passkeys, and upgrade to post-quantum security without changing their account address. Monad has proposed a new account-authentication system that would allow users to replace, add, or retire the cryptographic credentials…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (542+ words) The design accepts variable-length keys and scheme identifiers without choosing a post-quantum algorithm, leaving that to a later consensus-layer change. Ethereum researchers Kevaundray Wedderburn, Tom Wambsgans, and Thomas Coratger filed a draft improvement proposal on August 24 for a validator deposit…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (730+ words) The setup gives Midnight a shared system for discovering Zswap offers while providing data availability guarantees and reducing development requirements. Midnight Network, a privacy-focused blockchain backed by Cardano’s Input Output Global (IOG), is using Celestia’s data availability layer in its…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (580+ words) The changes could reportedly let privacy pools pay transaction fees directly instead of relying on intermediaries. Ethereum developers are considering a new set of changes that could give privacy pools more control over transaction fees as the network prepares for…...