
Cronos Halts Its Chain After an Estimated $75M Tectonic Exploit
Validators stopped block production on Sunday after an attacker inflated TONIC about 100-fold and borrowed against it. The loss estimates do not agree.
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Validators stopped block production on Sunday after an attacker inflated TONIC about 100-fold and borrowed against it. The loss estimates do not agree.

ALKN is backed by about 7 million metres of nickel wire held in a Swiss vault. Whether the $50 million is raised or still being raised depends on the outlet.

A postmortem published Friday says Cosmos Labs could not reproduce the flaw on 18-decimal chains and cleared it in May. Attackers took $5.7 million in August.

Ripple's engineering lead described four stages of post-quantum work on the XRP Ledger, with the network-wide amendment targeted for 2028. The stage dates differ by account.

Circle becomes Chelsea's principal partner and front-of-shirt sponsor from 2026/27. Neither side disclosed a fee, and the reported estimates disagree.

The Fogo Foundation says an unknown actor took 400 million FOGO from its wallets. The chain stopped about fifteen hours after it said all was normal.

The UK tax authority's first cryptoasset capital-gains figures show 17,600 filers declaring £1.38 billion for 2024-25, with 240 of them above £1 million each.

SBI Holdings will pay $270 million for about 20% of Jakarta's Ajaib Group to extend its yen stablecoin into Southeast Asia. No valuation was disclosed.

A transaction secured by a hash instead of an elliptic-curve key was mined in block 964,199. StarkWare says the method does not make Bitcoin quantum-safe.

Dunamu and Visa will look at stablecoin payments, remittances and AI-driven services in South Korea. No product, launch date or token has been chosen.

BitGo is taking on NYDIG's derivatives, financing and structured-products desk, with about 30 people moving across. Neither side has published a price.

Core Lightning says several vulnerabilities reported through AI-generated submissions are real. The technical details stay embargoed for two weeks.