Key Highlights: Axis Robotics announced a $150,000 AXIS token buyback following steep market volatility post-launch. The company’s $12 million seed round in July was led by Hack VC, with participation from Pi Network Ventures’ $100 million initiative. Axis Robotics has disputed claims raised by on-chain investigator ZachXBT alleging that insiders dumped 42 million tokens. Axis ...
Key Highlights A critical state-root calculation bug affecting execution clients across Ethereum Layer 2 networks prompted urgent patches for reth, op-reth, and Base node-reth. Blockaid advised node operators, RPC providers, bridges, and protocols to upgrade immediately to eliminate the risk of state-root mismatches and invalid proof generation. DeFi teams and infrastructure providers reacted swiftly: LayerZero ...
Key Highlights: A supplier in Moonwell’s Base cbBTC Core market submitted a formal governance request demanding a remediation plan and clear timeline from the protocol’s contributor team and risk manager Anthias Labs. The request follows an August 27 exploit of the MAMO market that left Moonwell’s cbBTC pool on Base burdened with substantial bad debt. ...
Key Highlights: The x402 payment protocol, published by Coinbase in May 2025, intentionally excludes dispute mechanisms to enable sub-cent, millisecond settlements for machine-to-machine transactions. A systematic security study by researchers at EPFL and Zhejiang University revealed that all 15 live facilitators tested breached at least one of eight foundational safety rules. Transaction data on the ...
Key Highlights: JPMorgan is expanding its dollar-denominated deposit token, JPM Coin, directly onto the Ethereum mainnet. The deposit token was previously launched on Base, an Ethereum Layer 2 network developed by Coinbase. JPM Coin offers institutional clients the ability to execute deposits and payments 24/7 in near real-time, bypassing conventional banking hours. JPMorgan Expands JPM ...
Key Highlights Aave has officially launched through Base Earn & Borrow to facilitate stablecoin yield generation and decentralized borrowing. Developers and commercial entities building on the Base network can now directly embed Aave’s core lending and credit features into their customer-facing products. The strategic rollout aims to accelerate liquidity, onboarding, and overall user participation across ...
Key Highlights A bad actor unauthorizedly generated 19 million THEO tokens on the Base layer-2 network. The exploiter dumped the newly minted tokens for 700.8 ETH, valued at roughly $1.76 million, and bridged the funds to the Ethereum mainnet. The unauthorized token creation and subsequent sell-off triggered an immediate 92% crash in THEO’s market price. ...
Key Highlights: Aerodrome ($AERO) surged 17.01% to hit $0.942, clearing its recent swing high of $0.93 amid broader market optimism. Trading volume nearly tripled to $124.93 million, bolstered by a proposed merger and September protocol revenue that reached a yearly high of $7.92 million. Maintaining support above $0.93 remains critical for buyers targeting resistance near ...
Key Highlights Aerodrome’s native token, $AERO, climbed 7.6% over a seven-day stretch, outperforming Bitcoin and Ether as both major assets recorded losses. Trading volume on the Aerodrome decentralized exchange reached $3.51 billion over seven days and $14.61 billion over 30 days, supported by nearly half of the token supply being locked. A major seven-network rollout ...
Key Highlights: A suspected security incident on the Base network led to the theft of an estimated $6 million in digital assets. Exploiters drained 1,783,067 aBaswstETH across six separate transactions targeting an unidentified vault. The breach highlights ongoing security vulnerabilities surrounding decentralized finance vaults and wrapped liquid staking tokens on Layer-2 ecosystems. Security Breach Drains ...
Hunter Biden, son of former U.S. President Joe Biden, has entered the cryptocurrency market with the launch of a memecoin called $LAPTOP, reigniting the laptop controversy that dominated political discourse ahead of the 2020 presidential election. Hunter Biden Addresses $LAPTOP Memecoin Purpose In a post on X, Hunter Biden explained the motivation behind the token ...