Category: NFT

[ad_1] A third-party vendor compromise discovered Thursday allowed attackers to inject a malicious script into Polymarket’s frontend, affecting multiple users. Blockchain analyst Specter said the malicious script appeared to facilitate a phishing attack that drained an estimated $2.94 million from at least 11 Polymarket user wallets. Polymarket said on X that the compromise has been…

[ad_1] Cardano has crossed one of the most consequential technical thresholds in its history. On June 23, the network launched the public testnet for its Leios scaling protocol — a milestone described as the most significant the chain has reached in years. The testnet carries the name Musashi Dojo, a nod to the 16th-century samurai…

[ad_1] A group of law enforcement organizations and a coalition of Catholic organizations have become the latest two groups urging caution over the US CLARITY Act, which is heading for a key hearing in July.   In letters sent Tuesday, four law enforcement organizations reached out to White House officials with concerns that the CLARITY Act…

[ad_1] Sixteen years after Bitcoin’s pseudonymous creator offered what may be the protocol’s most enduring philosophical aside, the crypto community is revisiting its implications with new data and renewed urgency. The discussion happened on June 21, 2010, in a Bitcointalk thread called “Dying bitcoins.” A user had asked whether forgotten wallets meant the network would…

[ad_1] Non-fungible token (NFT) project Pudgy Penguins has expanded the retail reach of its trading card game through a nationwide rollout at Target stores in the US.  According to a press release shared with Cointelegraph, the launch of Vibes Series 3 marks the game’s biggest retail expansion to date and brings the total number of…

[ad_1] One of the most successful MEV bots in crypto, Jaredfromsubway.eth, has been drained for more than $7.5 million, with an attacker exploiting the bot’s automated systems, the same ones that have netted it hundreds of millions over the years.  According to Blockaid, the incident on Saturday resulted from attacker-controlled contracts tricking Jaredfromsubway.eth’s automated MEV…

[ad_1] Morgan Stanley has taken another step toward launching its spot Ethereum and Solana exchange-traded funds, filing second-amended S-1 registration statements with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday. The updated filings introduce a detailed fee structure and staking mechanism for both products — and in doing so, position Morgan Stanley to offer the…

[ad_1] Malta’s financial regulator has issued a discussion paper outlining a potential legal framework for decentralized finance (DeFi), including recognition of decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs), as European policymakers continue to grapple with how to regulate blockchain-based financial services. On June 12, the Malta Financial Services Authority (MFSA) opened a public consultation on DeFi under the…

[ad_1] The memecoin boom that once defined Solana’s identity as a high-throughput speculation machine is unraveling in real time, and Pump.fun is bearing the brunt of it. The seven-day average of Pump.fun‘s token graduation rate — the share of newly created tokens that accumulate enough market cap to list on decentralized exchanges — has fallen…

[ad_1] Standard Chartered expects assets locked in decentralized finance (DeFi) to grow 37-fold to $2.7 trillion by the end of 2030. The expansion would be driven by both tokenized real-world assets (RWAs) and crypto-native assets moving through onchain protocols, Geoff Kendrick, head of digital assets research at Standard Chartered, said in a research note on…