The spread of US dollar-pegged stablecoins could increase the vulnerability of countries with fixed exchange rates and accelerate currency crises, according to a new study by IMF economists. The authors note that stablecoins facilitate access for individuals and businesses to digital dollar assets. In times of economic uncertainty, this allows for quicker withdrawal of funds […]
The US Department of Justice plans to drop charges against Matthew Goettsche in the BitClub Network case without the possibility of refiling them, according to Bloomberg Law, citing two sources and court documents. The agency reports that the office of the US Deputy Attorney General has instructed the federal prosecutor in New Jersey to seek […]
Meta has removed a feature from Muse Image that allowed image generation based on public Instagram account mentions. The company announced this change in an update to the official model announcement. On July 7, Meta introduced Muse Image as the first image generation model from Meta Superintelligence Labs, integrated into Meta AI. One of its […]
This week’s “Deconstruction” focuses on Ethereum’s new roadmap, the Federal Reserve’s hawkish shift, Strategy’s Bitcoin sale, and Solana’s contradictions. Ethereum Undergoes Radical Changes Vitalik Buterin summarized the outcomes of a researchers’ meeting in Berlin and introduced an updated roadmap under the Lean Ethereum concept—marking the network’s “third major iteration.” The upgrade priorities include quantum resistance, […]
Ledger Donjon researcher Baptiste Boileau disclosed a vulnerability in Tangem hardware wallets. A laser fault injection attack can reset the card’s password and gain control over the assets stored on it. Tangem produces hardware crypto wallets in the form of a plastic NFC card, similar to a bank card. Inside is a secure chip that […]
The Protocol Security team at the Ethereum Foundation (EF) deployed coordinated AI agents against critical components of the blockchain infrastructure. These agents examined system software, cryptographic code, and smart contracts. The Protocol Security Team has been pointing AI agents at Ethereum’s protocol code. Our core takeaway wasn’t about finding bugs, it was about triage. Here […]
Bitcoin miner TeraWulf plans to raise approximately $3.5 billion in debt financing for the Justified Data campus in Kentucky, leased by Anthropic, according to Bloomberg. According to the company’s CFO, Patrick Fleury, Morgan Stanley will organize the deal. The financing may include leveraged loans and high-yield bonds. This will be TeraWulf’s first venture into the […]
Researchers at Socket discovered a compromised version of the Injective SDK npm package, version 1.20.21, which intercepted wallet seed phrases and private keys. The incident is linked to the compromise of a developer’s GitHub account. According to Socket, suspicious commits appeared on June 8, 2026. The malicious release altered key derivation functions, stored private keys […]
Researchers from Tel Aviv University, the Technion and Intuit described a new class of attacks on agentic AI applications. It leverages language models’ tendency to invent nonexistent identifiers for repositories, skills and other external resources. In a preprint, the authors showed that such errors can be turned into a channel for delivering malicious instructions. In […]
Sales of Bitcoin reserves by Strategy only exert periodic pressure on the market. The real structural threat to Bitcoin is the development of private blockchain infrastructure, according to JPMorgan analysts. This was reported by The Block. The bank described a negative scenario in which tokenization, payments, and settlements continue to migrate to closed networks. If […]