1+ hour, 46+ min ago  (487+ words) Ostium paused trading after an attacker drained about $18 million in USDC from its liquidity vault on Arbitrum, using manipulated oracle reports to create fake trading profits. Ostium, a decentralized perpetuals exchange on Arbitrum, suffered an oracle manipulation attack that removed…...

9+ hour, 48+ min ago  (193+ words) Ethereum treasury firms Bitmine and SharpLink backed the new company EthSystems after an Ethereum Foundation privacy team became an independent business. The venture also received support from Consensys CEO Joe Lubin and will target institutional Ethereum deployments. The announcement marks…...

2+ day, 13+ hour ago  (430+ words) A hacker broke into the SpaceXAI and Starlink accounts on X and used them to promote a meme coin called SCATMAN, walking away with around $125,000 in Ethereum before the posts were taken down. Hacker Makes $125K After Hijacking SpaceXAI & Starlink X…...

3+ day, 9+ hour ago  (434+ words) Hedera-based lending protocol Bonzo Lend lost approximately $9.05 million on July 11 after an attacker exploited a verification flaw in a third-party oracle contract. Just In: Hedera’s largest lending protocol Bonzo loses $9M in oracle exploit — Wu Blockchain (@WuBlockchain) July 11, 2026 The attacker used…...

5+ day, 10+ hour ago  (376+ words) The Ethereum Foundation said AI agents find bugs, but most reports prove false. Its team confirmed vulnerabilities while rejecting duplicate or unsupported reports. Researchers now verify findings and prove which reports identify genuine weaknesses. The Protocol Security team uses AI…...

6+ day, 2+ hour ago  (496+ words) Ben Bernanke, the former chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve, has joined Anthropic’s Long-Term Benefit Trust. The AI company announced the appointment on Thursday, July 9. — The Kobeissi Letter (@KobeissiLetter) July 9, 2026 The Long-Term Benefit Trust is Anthropic’s independent governance structure. It advises…...

6+ day, 11+ hour ago  (542+ words) A global anti-fraud operation across 97 countries and territories led to 5,811 arrests and the interception of $293 million in illicit assets, including cases tied to crypto laundering, romance scams, illegal gambling, and business email compromise. INTERPOL said Operation First Light 2026 ran from…...

1+ week, 2+ hour ago  (397+ words) Google will block prediction market extensions from the Chrome Web Store under updated developer rules taking effect on August 1, 2026. The policy targets extensions that enable real-money transactions tied to predictive outcomes. It also tightens data collection rules and expands disclosure…...

1+ week, 7+ hour ago  (497+ words) China’s government-backed cybersecurity body has flagged a “security backdoor” in Anthropic’s AI coding tool Claude Code, urging users to uninstall it or update to the latest version. China on Wednesday warned of “back-door” security risks affecting companies that use U....

1+ week, 8+ hour ago  (517+ words) OpenAI is set to publicly release its most powerful AI model series, GPT-5.6, on Thursday after the US government gave it the green light following national security reviews. The GPT-5.6 lineup has three tiers. Sol is the flagship model. Terra…...