6+ day, 4+ hour ago   (471+ words) Ethereum is targeting a quantum-resistant Layer 1 by December 2029, with the Ethereum Foundation’s Protocol cluster laying out a multi-fork plan as Hegotá enters its scoping phase. Post-quantum security sits alongside privacy, faster finality, state management and zkEVM development, while the next…...

6+ day, 13+ hour ago   (1205+ words) The Ethereum Foundation has published ratings for 62 Hegotá proposals after collecting 397 assessments from about 60 protocol specialists across nine teams. The Ethereum Foundation said in a Sept. 7 post on X that its Protocol Cluster had released two articles covering Hegotá and…...

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1+ week, 2+ day ago   (412+ words) Ethereum blob usage has reached a new all-time high this week. The three-day moving average is now 5.9 blobs per block, and the daily average has climbed to 6.7. Since blobs are the low-cost data slots that rollups use to post transaction…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (518+ words) It feels unfair. But wait, because there are still things to unpack before losing faith in self-custody. The first thing we must understand is that no, crypto networks aren’t just insecure now. The recent attacks weren’t against strong distributed ledgers,…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (1066+ words) An attacker exploited an outdated Rain card contract on Aug. 28, draining approximately $1.1 million from multiple stablecoin card programs operating on Solana, according to blockchain security company Blockaid. Avici and Tria were among the affected crypto neobanks. The two companies disclosed…...

2+ week, 4+ hour ago   (336+ words) The attackers use a technique called EtherHiding, which stores or retrieves attack information through blockchain smart contracts. Instead of hosting the complete skimmer on a normal malicious server, the attackers keep a delivery domain inside an Ethereum Sepolia testnet contract....

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (22+ words) A new Monad proposal would separate a wallet's address from its signing keys, enabling post-quantum security, passkeys and social recovery....

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (231+ words) Ethereum developers have put forward a draft EIP to overhaul the validator **staking** deposit contract in preparation for the threat of quantum computing. The proposal would expand validator public-key sizes to as much as **8,192 bytes**, laying the groundwork for applying…...

2+ week, 5+ 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…...