Blumenthal Demands Tether Records on Payments to Bo Hines Firm Nxum
Circle Match Opens Hourly USDC Mint and Redeem Auctions
Blockchain Association Asks Congress for Crypto Tax Overhaul, Names No Bill
Cloudflare CEO Reports Millions of Exploit Attempts on Critical PHP Flaws
Dolomite Adds $100 Million in Concrete BTCcx Bitcoin Collateral
Researchers Flag Inflated swETH and rswETH Rates After Swell Key Compromise
Ethereum Developers Cancel Oct. 26 Glamsterdam Fork on Hoodi Testnet
Kraken xStocks Lineup Passes 1,000 Tokenized Instruments
Arbitrum One Daily Active Addresses Hit 571,767, a 408% Weekly Jump
Fireblocks Denies Axios Report of $2.5 Billion Visa Acquisition Talks
Dune Launches Onchain Trading Data Feeds in Real Time for Institutions
Central Bank of Ireland Fines Coinbase Ireland €3.25M Over Safeguarding
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Circle Match Opens Hourly USDC Mint and Redeem Auctions
Blockchain Association Asks Congress for Crypto Tax Overhaul, Names No Bill
Cloudflare CEO Reports Millions of Exploit Attempts on Critical PHP Flaws
Ethereum Developers Cancel Oct. 26 Glamsterdam Fork on Hoodi Testnet
Kraken xStocks Lineup Passes 1,000 Tokenized Instruments
Arbitrum One Daily Active Addresses Hit 571,767, a 408% Weekly Jump
Fireblocks Denies Axios Report of $2.5 Billion Visa Acquisition Talks
Dune Launches Onchain Trading Data Feeds in Real Time for Institutions
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Cloudflare CEO Reports Millions of Exploit Attempts on Critical PHP Flaws
Cloudflare recorded millions of exploit attempts against two critical PHP vulnerabilities after disclosure, and thousands in the 10 hours before, CEO Matthew Prince said. PHP shipped emergency fixes on Wednesday as the FBI urged organizations to patch or go offline.
Ethereum Developers Cancel Oct. 26 Glamsterdam Fork on Hoodi Testnet
Ethereum developers have cancelled the October 26 Glamsterdam activation on the Hoodi testnet. Node operators are told to avoid fork-enabled builds. The upgrade already ran on Sepolia, but the floated early December mainnet window now looks less certain.
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Regulation
Blumenthal Demands Tether Records on Payments to Bo Hines Firm Nxum
Sen. Richard Blumenthal sent letters to Tether and Nxum Group, the firm co-founded by Bo Hines, seeking payment records, crypto wallet addresses and lobbying communications by Nov. 3 over reported payments made while Hines was a White House crypto adviser.
Blockchain Association Asks Congress for Crypto Tax Overhaul, Names No Bill
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DeFi
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Researchers Flag Inflated swETH and rswETH Rates After Swell Key Compromise
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