Security expert Olivier Laflamme published an analysis of two attack vectors on the humanoid robot Unitree G1. One of these allowed access to the device within Bluetooth range. Unitree, the manufacturer, confirmed the vulnerabilities and released patches. Unitree robot lineup. Source: Laflamme’s blog. Laflamme named his primary discovery UniBLEed. The vulnerability allowed connection to the […]
The Ethena Foundation has proposed a vote to allocate nearly all net revenue from its ecosystem to a programmatic buyback of the governance token ENA. We are excited to announce four updates regarding the Ethena ecosystem, further details on each point are provided in the blog linked below: 1. Buyout of early investors:The Ethena Foundation […]
Concerns over U.S. debt and deficit are driving investors towards Bitcoin and gold, according to Robert Mitchnick, head of BlackRock’s digital assets division, in an interview with CNBC. “The level of debt and deficit is a serious concern for the markets. However, the situation benefits assets like Bitcoin and gold,” he explained. Mitchnick believes investors […]
The UK government announced plans to assign the Bank of England an additional responsibility to support innovation in payment systems and new forms of digital money, including stablecoins. Reform Without Compromising Stability The new mandate will be secondary to the Bank of England’s primary goal of safeguarding financial stability. This means that supporting innovation should […]
An unknown attacker exploited a vulnerability in the Moonwell protocol on the L2 network Base, stealing assets worth approximately $8.7 million. Researchers at CertiK highlighted the incident. #CertiKInsight 🚨 We have seen an exploit of @MoonwellDeFi lending market on Base. Attacker manipulated relatively illiquid MAMO’s collateral price, then borrowed real cbBTCeg. https://t.co/yOBrkzXzfn ~$8.7M has now […]
On August 26 and 27, the Seoul Central District Court ruled in favor of Bithumb in two lawsuits against users who sold mistakenly credited bitcoins and did not return the proceeds, according to South Korean publication Chosun Biz. The exchange is seeking the return of funds as unjust enrichment. In the first case, the claim […]
Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Nvidia have agreed to deploy an additional two million GPUs in AWS’s cloud infrastructure during 2027–2028. The companies are expanding their partnership amid growing demand for computing power for agentic and physical AI. In Addition to One Million GPUs The new plan involves supplying over 2 million GPUs for AWS’s […]
In a guest column for ForkLog, trader and Coen+ Telegram channel author Vladimir Coen analyzed the positioning in the bitcoin options market ahead of the August 28 expiration. He suggests that the mechanical demand that recently pushed the leading cryptocurrency towards $80,000 has been exhausted, and the $82,000 level could serve as the next price […]
Widespread adoption of tokenized deposits could change banks’ funding models, and instant transfers between institutions may reduce the stability of that funding base and constrain lending, economists at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas Rozi Levi and Shrini Ramaswami said. Tokenized deposits are a digital form of bank liabilities issued on distributed ledger infrastructure. Unlike […]
ECB Executive Board member Piero Cipollone stated that the digital euro will offer a higher level of privacy than traditional bank transfers, and the Eurosystem will not be able to directly link users to their transactions. Cipollone clarified that offline payments in CBDC should occur directly between users. According to him, the details of such […]