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7 ASTRL in. 1.14M XRD out.
A flash-loan transaction drained 1.14 million XRD from a first-version Ociswap Flex Pool on Radix by swapping 7 ASTRL into it while its…
Now Hiring: Humans. AI Agents Can Pay You to Film a Loading Dock
Vangrid's USDC bounty board lets buyers, including AI agents over x402, pay people nearby to film real places that become 3D models.
One Hub for Every Digital Dollar. So Far, Mostly Farmers Commuting.
Spark funded both sides of Ripple's RLUSD pool on Uniswap, and onchain data shows most of its traffic comes from yield, lending and…
No-Loss Raffle: A Fifth of the Token in a Jar
Moku's Pupkins Gen 0 raffle has locked over 19% of the SCHIFFY supply as 10,000-plus tickets chase 1,800 NFT boxes.
Same Address. Empty Lot.
A Safe on Avalanche had unlimited approvals pointing at an address that was empty on that chain, and an attacker and an MEV bot raced to…
Moving day. The validators stay.
Akash's Proposal 346 would move its GPU marketplace off its own Cosmos chain to Solana, with AKT converting one-way and validators losing…
Quantum-Proof. One Guy Holds the Keys.
BB84, a new OP Stack L2 on Ethereum, replaces signatures with keccak-256 hash chains for post-quantum payments, but runs on a…
No Bridge Needed. The Curator Rows It Over.
NAVI's first Ethereum vault takes native USDC and has its curator bridge it to Sui for lending, starting with about $1,000 in a…
The Loot Box Is Now Just a Box
Floki's Valhalla patch 1.13.2 strips out wallet setup, the Vera Condition penalty and the Battle Arsenal, and makes chest drops a sure…
Stolen in 19 Hours. Wrong Key Inside.
A Bitcoin key left on an unpatched PHP server as a public challenge was cracked in 19.28 hours, but the key that came out didn't match the…
Compound's Cancel Button Faces a Vote It Can Cancel
Compound Proposal 619 would end the Community Multisig's power to cancel governance proposals on Nov. 1, after five signers killed a vote…
Now Hiring Miners. Pay: Zero FLOP.
Arthur Hayes says Flop Labs' public devnet opens in the coming days, and nothing done on it counts toward the FLOP token.
Easy exit: closed. $40M still on the Blast bridge.
Blast's regular withdrawal website hit its Oct. 26 deadline with about $40.41M still in its Ethereum bridge, leaving the rest to exit…
106M Berries Bet. Cash Value: $0.
BEARISH's sweepstakes-style casino beta logged 68,000+ rounds and 106M+ play-only Red Berries in 24 hours, while the prize leaderboard and…
Quantum-Proof Lock. Same Old Front Door.
Stellar's Bell upgrade lets smart contracts verify post-quantum signatures, but network transactions stay on Ed25519, with validator votes…
Record Year. Wrong Record.
DeFi has logged 43 price-manipulation attacks in 2026, already beating 2022's full-year record of 27, per DefiLlama data.
Carved into Bitcoin. Says nothing.
Galaxy Research says the ~40 random-letter inscriptions hitting Bitcoin daily for three weeks are an automated test of a data-publishing…
Four.Meme Lets Only Bots Ride the Bonding Curve
Four.Meme's new Binance Agent ID Exclusive launch mode on BNB Chain limits bonding-curve trading to Binance Agentic Wallets with an Agent…
One Shot a Day: World of Dypians Launches Single Strike
World of Dypians launched Single Strike on BNB Chain, a daily boss mode with one attempt per day, after claiming 1.2 billion onchain…
Upland players voted to burn it
Upland burned 2.9M SPARKLET that players had spent in-game in 2026, after its second community vote on the pooled tokens.
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