Key Highlights: Binance founder Changpeng Zhao (CZ) advises cryptocurrency users to isolate new software and hardware wallets from primary funds for several weeks before moving substantial assets. The warning follows reports of between $86 million and $87 million in losses connected to a third-party Ledger reseller operating in Southeast Asia. Former Mt. Gox CEO Mark ...
Key Highlights Ethereum researcher Justin Drake warned crypto holders to prepare for a “bunker mode,” cautioning that AI could potentially breach wallet cryptography in months rather than years under a worst-case scenario. Zcash faces scrutiny over its cryptographic security, particularly regarding its transparent pool, which holds about 11.96 million of the 16.98 million $ZEC issued. ...
Key Highlights: Bitcoin Core developers have addressed an authorization vulnerability involving the SIGHASH_SINGLE signing mode when a transaction lacks a corresponding output. While legacy raw-transaction signing interfaces previously blocked this edge case, the Partially Signed Bitcoin Transaction (PSBT) workflow remained susceptible, potentially allowing signatures that fail to bind the approved recipient. Merged into Bitcoin Core’s ...
Key Highlights Joseph Lubin said there is currently no evidence that the security incident affected MetaMask wallets or user funds. MetaMask recovery phrases, private keys, and wallet-held assets were not included in the reported scope of the incident. Consensys and its partners changed validator keys as a precaution, causing some validators to exit and re-enter ...
Key Highlights Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin reports that local AI models on high-end laptops, specifically Qwen 3.8 Flash running via llama.cpp, are approaching a practical turning point for handling a “large share” of daily computing tasks. September benchmarks on a Strix Halo laptop show input processing of 109.82–373.22 tokens per second and output generation of ...
Edge Wallet has warned users that a data breach at its former customer support provider, Zendesk, exposed email addresses used to contact the company between…