19+ hour, 58+ min ago   (433+ words) Bitcoin payment processor BTCPay Server has warned that bots are probing exposed Lightning nodes for a potential route to administrative control. The activity follows a separate critical BTCPay vulnerability that attackers exploited a month ago to obtain credentials protecting LND…...

4+ day, 22+ hour ago   (260+ words) LayerZero introduced Akita on Sept. 9, a new polynomial commitment system designed to protect zero-knowledge proofs against potential attacks from quantum computers. Introducing Akita, the first production-ready, lattice-based polynomial commitment scheme for post-quantum security.It’s the first major step in making…...

5+ day, 2+ hour ago   (301+ words) The Alby Bitcoin vulnerability centers on outdated builds of Alby Hub, the self-hosted node software that powers Lightning wallets and payment infrastructure for the platform’s users. Alby has acknowledged the issue directly, confirming that older versions of the software carry…...

6+ day, 12+ hour ago   (535+ words) Aave governance is considering an emergency Guardian powers proposal that would allow vulnerable lending pools to be frozen quickly during active security threats, without requiring immediate public write-ups. It is a slightly uncomfortable proposal, and that is exactly why it…...

6+ day, 15+ hour ago   (595+ words) R3E Network has resolved all 11 findings from a systematic audit of neox-rs, the Rust-based Neo X full-node client, including four classified at P1 severity. Separately, R3E shipped a security-focused release for the Neo Decompiler, hardening its parsing, output sanitisation, and release pipeline. The…...

6+ day, 21+ hour ago   (787+ words) Vitalik Buterin sees a 60% chance that advanced cryptography becomes cheap enough to reshape Ethereum privacy. On Sept. 6, the Ethereum co-founder said there is a 60% probability that SNARKs, fully homomorphic encryption and indistinguishability obfuscation will eventually operate at less than 10 times…...

6+ day, 20+ hour ago   (883+ words) Arthur Hayes has released the FLOP Network technical paper detailing a proof-of-useful-inference blockchain for AI agents, with a genesis supply of approximately 2.48 billion FLOP tokens allocated through airdrops. According to the FLOP Network details shared by Hayes, the protocol is…...

1+ week, 6+ hour ago   (363+ words) Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson has reacted to the reported theft of 4,000 Bitcoin from the Liquid Network’s federation wallet. Liquid confirmed the incident in an X post yesterday, stating that hackers siphoned approximately 4,000 Bitcoin worth $320 million from its federation wallet. According…...