On September 7, the Ethereum Foundation (EF) Protocol Cluster published priorities for the Hegota upgrade. Of 62 Ethereum Improvement Proposals (EIPs), two received the top S-tier, or must-ship: FOCIL (EIP-7805) and Frame Transactions (EIP-8141). The Protocol Cluster has published two new posts: Hegotá EIP Opinion Post and Tier List evaluates and grades all 62 EIPs […]
On September 7, Ledger CTO Charles Guillemet published an open letter proposing to make coordinated vulnerability disclosure an industry norm. The initiative was supported by Trezor, Foundation, AnchorWatch, SEAL and other market participants. 📌 AI made finding bugs cheap, but it didn’t make responsible disclosure optional. Finding and exploiting vulnerabilities has never been easier. A […]
Irish criminal groups have started storing seed phrases and private keys for cryptocurrency wallets in rented bank safe deposit boxes. This practice was revealed by Michael Gubbins, head of the Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB), in an interview with the Sunday Independent. He stated that the bureau uncovered this scheme during investigations and reported the findings […]
Analysts at Galaxy Research have detected the transfer of bitcoins stolen during the third wave of attacks on Coldcard users. The hacker moved the assets into the CoinJoin mixer, which complicates tracking by combining payments from multiple participants. Previously, the perpetrator converted the coins into Ethereum through THORChain.
Approximately $91.3 billion in USDT on the TRON network is managed by a contract that can be controlled if two signature keys are compromised, according to CoinDesk, citing an assessment by Hacken. About half of the stablecoin’s market supply is tied to a contract without built-in delay, cancellation window, or reliable rollback mechanism, experts noted. […]
The return of traders to leveraged positions poses a risk of new waves of liquidations in the bitcoin market. This warning comes from CryptoQuant analyst known as Darkfost, who studied the dynamics of open interest on Binance. 🗞️ Bitcoin experienced its sharpest deleveraging since 2023 After a cycle largely dominated by futures volumes, Bitcoin has […]
Sparrow Quantum, in collaboration with Ruhr University Bochum, has developed a deterministic source capable of delivering over 500 million usable photons per second in a single-mode fiber. This was reported by The Quantum Insider, citing the company’s press release. According to Sparrow Quantum, the system operates at a frequency of 1 GHz and achieves fiber […]
Bitcoin tested $82,000, the Bank of Russia launched the digital ruble, OpenAI and Anthropic unveiled new flagship models, and more from the past week. Bitcoin climbed to $82,000 The leading cryptocurrency closed August with a gain of about 24% and entered September with similar momentum. Overnight on September 3–4, the asset’s price rose to $82,000; […]
In a guest column for ForkLog, trader and Coen+ Telegram channel author Vladimir Koen examines how shifting Fed rate expectations, rising yields and fuel prices affected markets, and how inflows into crypto funds supported bitcoin after a midweek reversal. Financial markets: August 31–September 4, 2026. The indexes ended little changed: the S&P 500 added 0.1%, […]
In just 11 days, Claude agents prepared the first fully computer-verified version of the proof for Fermat’s Last Theorem, as announced by Anthropic on September 4. Checking that a major mathematical proof is correct can take years. Formalization—converting the mathematical reasoning into a form computer proof assistants like Lean can verify—can help. Last month, Claude […]