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.
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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.
Cardano’s IOG tells users to avoid its own YouTube channel
Cardano's IOG says to stay off its YouTube channel after it began streaming an apparently AI-altered video of Charles Hoskinson promising doubled returns.
One routing error took 29% of Solana’s stake offline in August
Nearly 29% of Solana's stake stopped voting on 12 August after a stale route on a Miami router. Finality stops at 33%. The explanation took a month.
The XRPL change that would let a bank pay your XRP fees for you
A proposed XRP Ledger amendment would let banks cover account reserves and fees, so customers never hold XRP. Validators have not voted it in yet.
L-BTC trading has reopened while the route back to bitcoin stays shut
SideSwap reopened its Liquid markets on 10 September while peg-outs stayed shut. One explorer reading put reserve coverage near 85% of L-BTC supply.
Revolut handed customer passports and Bitcoin histories to a fake government request
Revolut says no funds were lost and the number affected is limited, but passport scans and full Bitcoin transaction histories cannot be reissued.
Ledger still can’t show ATOM balances days after Cosmos halt
Cosmos Hub recovered a day after it stalled. Ledger's app still can't show ATOM balances or send transactions, with no cause and no timeline given.
3,400 bitcoin returned to Liquid, 598 still missing
Roughly 598 BTC, about $47m, is still outstanding after the Liquid federation drain. The sidechain remains paused and Blockstream has stayed quiet.