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Arbitrum proposes reopening new Stylus contracts on Arbitrum One, but each one would need a limited audit and an Arbitrum Foundation…
X100's Senate: Elected by One Raw Unit
Attackers took two of X100's three Senate seats by out-freezing the incumbent by one raw unit, then voted the treasury's X into an…
Rang the bell. Called it a stress test.
Anyone Protocol capped relay scores at 50,000 after finding exit relays inflating their bandwidth scores with traffic bursts, and stakers…
Last call at the Waypoint
Ronin's keyless Waypoint wallet shuts down for good on Oct. 31 at 11 a.m. ET, and assets left inside may become inaccessible.
Checked the label. Never counted the boxes.
Succinct's SP1 zk prover had a high-severity bug that let invalid proofs pass its native Rust verifier; it was quietly fixed Sept. 24 and…
Aztec V6: Approved. Still Voting.
Aztec announced its V6 privacy-rollup upgrade passed while its governance dashboard still showed voting open, and the upgrade can only…
The Oracle Takes Weekends Off
Morpho now lends USDG against Robinhood Stock Tokens on Robinhood Chain, but the stock price feeds behind those loans only update 24/5.
The fee was negative. The WAX bridge paid out anyway.
An attacker set a negative withdrawal fee on WAX's multi-chain bridge, zeroing the charge while Solana and Ethereum released about $90,500.
Realms playtest: same rules, the bots don't sleep
Loot Realms opened a public playtest where humans and AI agents compete under the same rules, with $LORDS-entry Blitz brackets and a…
Decentralized Brain. Centralized Memory.
Perceptron is moving its AI data network's storage to Walrus so buyers can verify each dataset's chain of custody.
$22M Gross
Collector Crypt was credited with $22M in one-day gross revenue, while DefiLlama's biggest net day for it this week was $1.67M.
A Dollar for Black Swans
Monolith's swanUSD, pitched as a dollar for black swan events, is backed by staked ETH and was set to launch at noon ET Oct 22.
The Keys Walked. The ETH Stayed.
A security researcher flagged an apparent compromise of Swell's swETH and rswETH admin keys; Swell says no ETH has left its contracts.
Drop Rate: ???
Kintara's Halloween event added Haunted Chests and rare Zombie Masks without a published drop rate or end date.
Market Open. Sales: 0.
GrowBlocks put its game NFTs on Robinhood Chain mainnet, with most eFroglet claims made by the team's own wallet and no sales yet.
Pay Their Gas. Get 100% Back.
Taiko raised block proposers' share of the L2 base fee from 75% to 100%, so sponsoring users' gas now breaks even.
Locked for Two Years. The Token Didn't Wait.
Fables launched $FABLES on Robinhood Chain and its market cap fell about 60% from an $18.67M peak.
The Bot Got There First
An MEV bot copied an attack on BiFi's idle USDT lending market 12 seconds later, drained 165,575 USDT, and later returned 159,103.65 USDC.
Every Dollar to the Fire
PlayZap pledged 100% of its YouTube Playables revenue to burning $PZP, though YouTube revenue sharing isn't switched on for it yet.
Six Currencies. Open.
Frax opened onchain FX on Base with six local-currency stablecoins, which did roughly $16K in 24h volume on day two.
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