BitMEX has stopped trading and leftover balances now cost money
Trading ended at 04:00 UTC Wednesday and balances left behind now attract a fee, per Decrypt. Withdrawals remain open, so this is a wind-down.
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The ECB’s new settlement system isn’t finished until 2028
The ECB's Pontes launched with only a "core set of services" live. Full implementation isn't expected for another two years, and it's wholesale only.
Solana is testing a change that would make payments final in 150 milliseconds
Alpenglow targets 150ms finality on Solana, down from roughly 13 seconds. It is a testnet trial, not a mainnet launch, and two validator clients are missing.
US prosecutors are reportedly investigating Binance over Iran sanctions
Bloomberg says Manhattan prosecutors are examining whether Binance let Iranian users evade sanctions. No charges filed, no change for customers.
Fake AI trading bot tutorials cost 224 people 274 ETH
TRM Labs traced 274.60 ETH from 224 people who followed YouTube tutorials into deploying a smart contract that quietly forwarded their funds onwards.
0x says Uniswap v4 hooks quote one price and settle another
0x claims most Uniswap v4 hooks it analysed quote one price and settle another. Hayden Adams called it a skill issue. Here is what that means for swaps.
WSJ says Lagarde pushed to delay Binance’s EU licence in Greece
The ECB has no legal role in MiCA licensing, which is why the claim that its president leaned on Greece's regulator lands the way it does.
Splash patched the Cardano pool exploit. The 2.4m ADA is still missing.
Splash says a reserve check would have stopped the drain of 2.4m ADA. It would not return it, and Optim has announced no redemption for OADA holders.
A breach at a Swiss bitcoin service linked names to wallet addresses
Pocket Bitcoin says leaked compliance records tied names, and in some cases postal addresses, to customers' bitcoin addresses. No keys were exposed.
Cronos rewound nearly two hours of its blockchain after the Tectonic exploit
Validators discarded 10,961 blocks to reverse the Tectonic exploit, erasing about two hours of everyone's transactions. The bridged funds remain gone.