6+ day, 21+ hour ago   (740+ words) Buterin outlined a transaction model built around calls, static dependencies, and proof-based processing as Ethereum prepares for future upgrades. Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin published a technical note on the social platform X late on Saturday, 5 September 2026, arguing that recent work…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (616+ words) AEREDIUM has launched AERSeal, a smart contract security product designed to replace reliance on a single administrative private key with threshold signing and approval-based controls. The company said Wednesday that AERSeal is its first end-to-end product built using AERKey, AEREDIUM’s…...

1+ week, 5+ 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, 5+ 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, 3+ 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, 4+ 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, 4+ 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, 4+ 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…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (598+ words) The maintainer of the open-source Cosmos EVM module has advised chains in contact with it to pause block production while it addresses an undisclosed vulnerability; a move that follows recent halts at MANTRA, KiiChain and TAC. The advisory broadens the…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (474+ words) Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has released the third and final post in his series on cryptographic obfuscation, known as indistinguishability obfuscation, or iO. The post examines local mixing, a distinct approach to constructing obfuscation protocols. In the previous two parts…...