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Session Keys and Scoped Permissions: How ERC-7715 Replaces Blind Wallet Signatures
The user experience of interacting with public blockchains has long remained an exercise in anxiety and cognitive overload. In conventional Web2 applications, navigating a digital...

The Fault Proof Shift: How Base Decentralizes Network Security
In early rollup architecture, network security relied on trusted sequencers and centralized multisig security councils. Fault Proofs introduce permissionless dispute games to Base...

Deconstructing Flash Loans: Why Oracles Fail and How Protocol Secures Liquidity
Flash loans have redefined capital efficiency in DeFi by allowing collateral free, single transaction borrowing. However, they have also become the primary tool for executing...

Api3's Role in Fortifying Unichain Against Flash Loan Exploits
The deployment of Api3 decentralized oracles natively on Unichain marks a critical security upgrade for the network's lending markets. Leveraging Unichain's sub block architecture...

July’s $110M Hack Bill Shows Security Work Is Rising with the Losses
Immunefi’s July read , surfaced this week, puts crypto hack losses around $110 million for the month while also flagging higher confirmed bug bounty activity. The pairing is more...

Bitcoin’s BIP Editors Removed Luke Dashjr after the BIP-110 Fight
Bitcoin’s BIP editing group removed Luke Dashjr from editor and admin access this week after a bitter fight around BIP 110, the soft fork effort aimed at tightening non financial...

BTCPay’s Critical Exploit Is a Payments Infrastructure Story, Not a Bitcoin Bug
BTCPay Server operators spent the past days patching after a critical vulnerability was actively exploited against certain Lightning deployments. Project communications urged...

Vitalik Just Made Privacy and Quantum Safety First-Class on Ethereum
On August 10 Vitalik Buterin published an updated overlay of his 2023 Ethereum roadmap against the Foundation’s current Strawmap, the living draft of L1 work through the rest of...

Boltz Paused Swaps Because a Small Team Cannot Outrun AI Attackers
Non custodial Bitcoin swap service Boltz disabled operations indefinitely after a series of automated attacks. The team said it contained several exploits over recent months, but...

When Seized Wallet Access Becomes a Personal ATM
Former FBI supervisory agent Patrick Steven Yaroch admitted using internal systems to obtain credentials for cryptocurrency wallets linked to an adversarial country and...

Coldcard Mk3 Warning Puts Bitcoin Self-Custody Back Under Pressure
Coinkite warned Coldcard Mk3 users about a potential risk affecting seed phrases generated on certain firmware versions. Industry reports connected the warning to analysis of a...

Restaking: Security Innovation Or Stacked Financial Risk
Restaking: Shared Security or Stacked Risk? Restaking is one of those crypto ideas that sounds almost too clever the first time you hear it. Ethereum is secured by tens of billions...