XRP Ledger patches a decade-old bug that could mint XRP from nothing
Researchers showed a payment could credit a receiver without debiting the sender. An emergency fix has shipped. Nobody has said if it was ever used.
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Ethereum researcher urges a slow migration of funds to fresh addresses
Justin Drake suggests a gradual move to fresh addresses. Nothing has been broken, and rushing a migration carries risks of its own.
Cardano adds a token standard that lets issuers freeze balances
Cardano's new standard lets token issuers freeze and seize balances. It covers assets issued under it, not ADA itself or coins you already hold.
Ledger’s new loans send your bitcoin somewhere the device can’t protect it
Ledger's Morpho-powered loans let you borrow stablecoins against bitcoin, but the collateral leaves your device and sits in a smart contract.
MetaMask is pulling its Ethereum validators and won’t say why
MetaMask is exiting validators in its staking arm after a security incident it has not described. The browser wallet is a separate product.
A crypto app in Apple’s App Store carried key-stealing code
SlowMist says two versions of the FomoPeek app hid code aimed at iPhone keychain data. The $580,000 figure is one firm's on-chain estimate.
Nearly $19m of XRP drained from 6,678 wallets over six days
XRPL.to traced 11.75 million XRP leaving 6,678 wallets between 15 and 20 September. D'CENT warned users on day two. No cause has been published.
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.
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.