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The Sept. 7 return replenished the federation wallet, but Blockstream still listed a public bridge outage the following morning. The post Liquid recovers 3,400 BTC as hacker asks “is that ok?” after pocketing $47 million in Bitcoin appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Data tracked by lending platform Curve data tracked 704 soft-liquidation instances lasting a median 14.5 days, showing how some DeFi loans can survive for weeks after entering the 'danger zone.'

Athough XRP has been consolidating around $1.40, analysts have become significantly more bullish about its next potential move.

EF Protocol’s priorities make shorter slots and node efficiencies conditional, while a proposal could move mandatory execution proofs one fork later. The post Ethereum’s 2029 quantum deadline is starting to reshape what gets built next appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Validators rolled back nearly two hours of blockchain history to recover user assets. But the attackers still managed to get away with $9.19 million before Cronos halted the network.

Bitcoin fell 0.42% since midnight UTC to $78,874, but the CoinDesk 20 rose 0.2% and the memecoin index gained 0.41% as BNB Chain tokens rallied.

Humo Digital will test HUMO payments with more than 20 merchants under a sandbox jointly overseen by NAPP and Uzbekistan’s central bank. Uzbekistan has launched a pilot to test payments with a som-pegged stablecoin backed by government securities.  On Monday, the National Agency for Prospective Projects (NAPP) said it had registered Humo Digital as a participant in a special regime jointly overseen with the central bank. The pilot will test the issuance, circulation and redemption of HUMO, with each token pegged to one Uzbek som. NAPP said more than 20 merchants are prepared to test HUMO payments for goods and services. Read more

Institutional plumbing rarely makes headlines, but it moves targets. A new ChatGPT AI price prediction leans on exactly that, and the model predicts Ripple’s XRP price will reach $2.20 to $3.00 by the end of 2026, with $2.50 as the realistic base case.The strongest near-term catalyst arrived on August 6. XRPL 3.3.0 introduces proposed upgrades […] The post ChatGPT AI Predicts XRP May Be in a Much Different Place by the End of 2026 appeared first on Cryptonews.

Ledger and Trezor said researchers have a responsibility to publish their findings if vendors fail to fix bugs within an agreed disclosure window. Hardware wallet makers Ledger and Trezor called for more responsible disclosure of security vulnerabilities. In a Monday post on X, Ledger chief technology officer Charles Guillemet said artificial intelligence has made bugs easier to find and exploit. However, some researchers are publishing their findings before fixes are available, a practice he called “attention farming with someone else’s risk.” Guillemet urged researchers to report bugs privately and agree on a timeline for fixes before publishing details. He cited 90 days as a common default, with flexibility depending on the severity of the flaw and the work needed to fix it. Read more

Two chief executives of the exchange have now vanished, four years apart, leaving 1.3 million clients locked out.

Growing demand for tokenized stock trading may drive the Robinhood chain’s annual fees to $160 million by 2028, predicted analysts from Bernstein. Trading platform Robinhood’s blockchain network is expected to generate as much as $160 million in annual fees by 2028, Bernstein analysts forecast in a Tuesday report shared with Cointelegraph. The analysts cited growing demand for tokenized stock trading on the network, which grew to account for about 27% of the chain’s total trading volume, while native memecoin pairs trading decreased to 36% of network activity, down from 100% at launch on July 1. Bernstein said the growing demand for tokenized stocks on the Robinhood chain is driven by automated market-making pools on Uniswap that pair memecoins with stock tokens and create “reflexive demand” for both sides. Read more

South Korea’s budget office warned that stablecoin adoption could reduce banks' roles as credit intermediaries and potentially destabilize token pegs during mass redemptions.

Unrealized gains by whale speculators hit their highest levels on record last week, per data going back to 2016. Bitcoin (BTC) whales have more reason to sell than at any time in Bitcoin’s recent history as their unrealized profits hit records. Key points: Read more

The firms say their combination of physical authentication, digital traceability and enterprise process design has no precedent in supply chains, and cocoa is just the start.

Hunter Biden is about to test whether his criticism of political profiteering through crypto applies to his own business ventures. According to The Wall Street Journal, former President Joe Biden's son plans to launch a memecoin called LAPTOP on Sept. 9, turning one of the most politically charged episodes of his father’s 2020 election campaign […] The post Hunter Biden’s new “LAPTOP” memecoin targets traders who lost money on TRUMP appeared first on CryptoSlate.

AERO and PIEVERSE are today's top gainers, while PONS has finally retreated.

The Sept. 4 vote leaves domestic applicants waiting for a legal authorization route while qualifying EU providers retain access to Polish customers. The post Poland’s crypto licensing deadlock is handing foreign EU firms an advantage appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Bitcoin, gold and technology stocks fall as the yen rallies, while oil prices and government bond yields climb globally.

A daily close above that level could shift Bitcoin's next targets toward $89,000-$91,000 before a potential run at $100,000.

Cronos’s post-mortem put the Tectonic exploit’s affected borrowing at $120.4 million, with 7.6% transferred off-network before validators intervened. Layer-1 blockchain Cronos said $9.19 million left its blockchain before validators halted the network during the Tectonic exploit, providing an official accounting of funds that were not reversed by its rollback.  In Tuesday’s post-mortem report, Cronos said manipulated collateral values generated about $120.4 million in borrowing activity. Restoring the network to its pre-exploit state reversed about $111.2 million, leaving 7.6% of the affected funds outside of the network.  The disclosure confirms the scale of the incident after earlier estimates placed the amount affected at about $75 million. It also puts the amount transferred off Cronos at $9.19 million, above the $8.3 million previously traced to Ethereum by blockchain data provider Bitquery. Read more