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A sophisticated theft targeting crypto exchange Bitget's hot wallet exposed criminal actors and prompted stablecoin issuers to freeze accounts, illustrating both the scale of exchange risk and the limits of on-chain asset controls.
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Tom Lee's company has accumulated nearly 6 million ether as its chairman argues institutions remain underweight crypto and could increase exposure.
ARK's tokenized venture fund (holding OpenAI and Anthropic stakes) launches on Ethereum with retail access via Securitize at lower subscription tiers, trades 24/7.
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Ondo released three professionally managed investment tokens built on BlackRock models, bringing structured financial products to onchain investing.
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Archive nodes can now store history on the flat state database with configurable retention, reducing storage requirements while improving eth_call throughput and block validation speed for node operators.
The All Core Devs Execution (ACDE) call approved a 200 million gas limit for Sepolia's Glamsterdam fork, confirmed the fork for October 6, and flagged a JUMPDEST-based attack that can slow block execution to 8 to 14 seconds.
Aztec's privacy rollup cuts private-transaction proving time by over 2x and drops block production time from 14 to 6 seconds, launching its first wave of privacy-preserving apps.
Uniswap is live on Robinhood Chain, a Layer 2 built by Robinhood Crypto, with full support across the Uniswap Web App, Wallet, and API from day one.
Tokenized versions of major securities are live on Uniswap's Web App, Wallet, and API, letting users discover and trade tokenized SpaceX, Apple, Tesla, NVIDIA, and other assets directly from Uniswap apps.
Linea has reduced proof generation latency and RAM requirements through a fundamental redesign of Ethereum state proving, moving toward real-time finality.