Cronos validators switched off the whole chain after a $75m exploit
About $6m of the $75m reached Ethereum before Cronos validators paused block production. The rest is stranded on a chain that has stopped.
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Revolut’s euro stablecoin is live in three countries, and Britain isn’t one
EURR is going to selected Revolut users in Denmark, Poland and Portugal. Bridge Building S.A. is the legal issuer, and UK customers are not included.
Solana validators back doubling the rate SOL inflation falls
Solana's first binding governance vote backs halving the time SOL inflation takes to reach 1.5%. The emission curve itself has not changed yet.
Deribit is switching off the daily reserves check its customers could run
Deribit is retiring the daily proof-of-reserves check its customers could run themselves, after moving about 90% of client assets to Coinbase.
NoOnes tells users to withdraw everything by Sunday
The platform now has two withdrawal routes left, bitcoin and USDT on Tron, weeks after saying an EU sanctions listing named a different company.
Nine Firefox add-ons that showed football scores later carried wallet-stealing code
Socket found 40 malicious Firefox extensions. Nine had earlier lived on the same listing IDs as football and basketball score tools, reviews and all.
17,600 people declared £1.38bn in crypto gains to HMRC
HMRC's first crypto gains figures show 17,600 people declaring £1.38bn for 2024-25. All of it self-declared, with exchange data-sharing due in 2027.
Lightning node operators told to upgrade now or take nodes offline
Core Lightning has asked operators to install patched binaries and keep the details secret for 14 days. Most UK users of Lightning apps have nothing to do.
The Bank of England is being told to encourage stablecoins, not approve them
A bill due before the Lords in September would oblige the Bank to have regard to stablecoin innovation. No issuer has been approved and nothing changes today.
Schwab plans to add Solana, Avalanche and Chainlink to its crypto platform
The broker named three tokens and one timeframe: 'coming months'. Nothing is tradeable yet, and Schwab Crypto remains a US-only retail product.