Ethereum

The Arcadia Finance attacker used a reentrancy exploit to drain $455,000 from the decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol, according to a July 10 post-mortem report issued by the app’s development team. A “reentrancy exploit” is a […]

With growing institutional demand for cryptocurrencies, particularly Bitcoin and Ethereum, CME Group is looking to expand its range of services. On June 29, CME Group, the world’s leading financial derivatives exchange operator, announced that it […]

Layer-2 blockchain Public Goods Network launched a testnet on July 7, promising to spend “the vast majority of net sequencer fees” on public goods instead of paying them out to the development team or tokenholders, […]

Contrary to expectations, the Shanghai upgrade has not triggered an exodus of users, but rather a surge in staking deposits on Ethereum. In fact, it looks like ETH may be ready to take on the […]

Account abstraction, also known as “smart accounts,” could eventually onboard a billion users from Asia to Web3, according to an executive at Ethereum software solutions provider ConsenSys. Laura Shi, the director of strategic initiatives at […]

Zero-knowledge (ZK) projects continue to spread worldwide, and a new go-to ZK event is coming to Paris, hosted by Manta Network, a ZK layer-1 blockchain; investment firm Polychain Capital and Cointelegraph. The ZK community conference — […]

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin stated that he does not stake all of his Ether (ETH) due to multisignature wallets being “complicated in a bunch of ways.” On the June 29 episode of the Bankless podcast, Buterin […]

Polygon Labs, creator of the Polygon network, has proposed an architecture for its forthcoming “Polygon 2.0” project. The team suggested in a June 29 blog post that the new project should be made up of […]

Web3 lending platform Maple Finance has announced the launch of a direct lending program, according to a June 28 fact sheet from the platform’s development team. The program is intended to replace services previously provided […]

Ether (ETH) price faced strong resistance at $1,920 after the 17.5% rally between June 15 and June 22. A number of factors contributed to the limited upside, including worsening macroeconomic conditions, the regulatory cryptocurrency environment, […]