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Aave records $6 billion TVL drop as Kelp hack exposes structural risk at DeFi lender
The AAVE token fell 16% and deposits fled the protocol after attackers used drained rsETH as collateral to borrow wrapped ether, leaving Aave to quantify how much bad debt it is now carrying.
2026's biggest crypto exploit: $292 million gets drained from Kelp DAO with wrapped ether stranded across 20 chains
An attacker drained 116,500 rsETH, roughly 18% of circulating supply, from Kelp's LayerZero-powered bridge on Saturday, triggering emergency freezes across Aave, SparkLend, Fluid and Upshift.
Bitcoin 'plebs eat first' mining pool Parasite finds its second BTC block
Parasite Pool, which pays 1 BTC to the block finder and splits the rest among all participants, mined block 945,601 on Friday, about 48 days after its first.
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Cardano's Charles Hoskinson says Bitcoin's quantum fix is a hard fork that can't save Satoshi's coins
The Cardano founder argues BIP-361 is mislabeled as a soft fork and that its zero-knowledge recovery plan cannot rescue roughly 1.7 million pre-2013 bitcoin, including Satoshi's holdings.
VerifiedX brings privacy layer to Bitcoin as institutional demand for confidentiality grows
A new zero-knowledge-powered system enables shielded bitcoin transactions, reflecting a broader push across crypto to address the “privacy gap” keeping institutions off public blockchains.
Wall Street trading-tech is coming to crypto as DoubleZero rolls out high-speed data for Solana
The project, called DoubleZero Edge, offers a real-time feed of raw data from the Solana blockchain, giving traders faster access to information that can influence prices.
Bitcoin's quantum debate splits as Adam Back pushes optional upgrades over forced freeze
The Blockstream CEO told Paris Blockchain Week that Bitcoin should build quantum-resistant upgrades now, a day after Jameson Lopp proposed freezing vulnerable coins instead.
Bitcoin devs bet a quantum attacker will play nice with a ‘wait and react’ plan
BitMEX Research proposes a canary system that pays a bounty to the first quantum attacker and activates a network-wide freeze, offering an alternative to a fixed five-year timeline.
