Business
Did an insider have something to do with the $112 million hack on Ripple chairman Chris Larsen’s personal accounts? Blockchain security researchers at Hacken say its too early for conclusions, but two wallets connected with the XRP authorized wallet played a key role in the events.
Ethereum
The Dencun upgrade was forked on Ethereum’s Holesky testnet on Wednesday, bringing “proto-danksharding” one step closer to mainnet deployment.
Bitcoin
Chainway Labs announced the rollout of Citrea, the first zero-knowledge (ZK) rollup on Bitcoin.
Tech
The remaining 132 players will start voting tonight to eliminate more contestants from the first season of the Survivor-like crypto game.
The largest validator securing Dymension, a recently launched modular blockchain, has the name “Big Brain Staking,” and it controls 35.6 million DYM, 18.5% of the total voting power.
A U.S. bankruptcy judge approved a settlement resolving disputes between BlockFi and 3AC, ruling that the details should remain sealed because it would be “counter-intuitive” to disclose them.
DeFi
The SEC adopted a set of rules on Tuesday that further expands the definition of a securities dealer, requiring those that take on liquidity provision roles – including automated market makers – to register with the agency.
EigenLayer’s total value locked (TVL) has increased about 84% in the past 24 hours to over $4 billion, its largest daily increase by dollar amount ever.
Despite a successful $DYM airdrop, Dymension faced challenges with its mainnet due to validator issues.
Those 190,000 bitcoins were acquired by the software firm for a total cost of just under $6 billion.