Ethereum news
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Mercado Bitcoin Breach Wallet Sends 2,800 ETH Onward
Other transfers moved 2.24 million USDC and 1.7 million TRX, while deposits and withdrawals remained suspended.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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New Jersey Rescinds Coinbase Staking Order, Clearing Path for Restart
The state withdrew its $5 million penalty and staking restrictions without prejudice; Coinbase says customer access will return ‘very soon.’... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Horizen’s Nov. 4 Bridge Cutoff Leaves USDC.e Outside DAO Recovery Plan
The DAO plans to return remaining ZEN, including staking rewards, and eligible ETH balances on Base in the second half of November.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Researcher Puts Mercado Bitcoin Freezes Near $7 Million
Onchain records show Circle freezing USDC on Polygon and Paxos freezing gold tokens on Ethereum, while exchange withdrawals remain suspended.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Binance completes latest proof of reserves as it works to restore assets, withdrawals after record hack
Binance users can now independently verify 1:1 backing for BTC, ETH, BNB, SOL, XRP and more as it replenishes 95% of assets lost in record hack.
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Bitmine Buys More Ethereum as Tom Lee Calls the Binance Hack Bullish
The chairman laid out six reasons the market’s “muted” 4% ETH drop after the record Binance theft shows crypto is “increasingly resilient,” as the firm’s stash neared its 5% supply goal.
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Uniswap Extends VolatilePair Hook to Robinhood Chain
The ETH/USDG pool has about $3.5 million in liquidity and uses a tighter resting fee spread than its Ethereum counterpart.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Tether Says It Froze Over 4.5 Million USDT Tied to Mercado Bitcoin Incident
Ethereum and Tron records confirm blacklist actions against exchange-identified wallets, while deposits and withdrawals remain suspended.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Bitmine adds 8,573 ETH as Tom Lee flags muted Binance hack reaction
Bitmine added 8,573 ETH last week, lifting holdings to 6.06 million ETH, as Tom Lee flagged muted market response to Binance's hack.
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ZachXBT Flags Suspected $106 Million-Plus Theft From EU Entity
The investigator says funds withdrawn from multiple exchange accounts were being swapped into ETH and routed through instant exchanges, Monero and cross-chain bridges.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Ether.fi Explained: Staking, Vaults, Borrowing and Cash
Staking tokens, managed-vault shares and collateral-backed loans carry different exposures. Cash adds card access, subject to identity and geographic checks.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Swell Opens Ethereum Claims for Tokens Stranded by Swellchain Shutdown
The project reported recovering 72.77 million SWELL, 100.99 swETH and 55.28 rswETH through a temporary BNB Chain bridge route.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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THORChain halts swaps after block reorg bug, slowing Binance hackers
THORChain node operators paused swaps involving assets on 10 networks, including Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana and Tron.
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Threshold Says tBTC Operators Patched or Went Offline Over Linux Flaw
Threshold also disclosed a separate incident that drained about 0.5 ETH from an operator’s fee-paying account. Aave’s frozen Ethereum Core reserve holds about $136.3 million of tBTC.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Crypto card startups are racking up losses just to buy your loyalty with big rewards
Providers are betting trading, lending and staking revenue can cover rewards and turn card users into profitable customers.
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DeFi Fees, Revenue and Holder Payouts: How the Money Flows
Buybacks and burns can count as holder revenue without putting cash in a wallet. A worked example separates those flows from treasury income and staking payouts.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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How Staking Rewards Change Token Holdings and Supply Share
In a hypothetical year, a 9% net token reward produces a 3.81% gain in supply share when total supply grows 5%. Dollar returns depend on price.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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What Happens When a Uniswap v3 Position Goes Out of Range?
An ETH/USDC worked example tracks token balances, fees and the holding benchmark—and shows why opening a new range does not reset cumulative returns.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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FBI confirms North Korea's role in $6 billion Binance hack, asks DeFi community to block BTC, ETH, SOL addresses
While the FBI listed hundreds of addresses in its notice, Chainalysis said the Binance attackers have already used "thousands addresses," and expects this number to continue growing.
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Threshold Says tBTC Is Fully Backed as Bridge Pause Continues
Aave’s Ethereum Core tBTC reserve remains frozen, while Gauntlet says roughly 640,000 USDC remains supplied to a tBTC-backed Morpho market.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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b14g Says 97 Million CORE Drained, Pauses Contracts
The Bitcoin staking protocol says exchanges froze about 9 million CORE and that staked BTC was unaffected.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Institutions embrace crypto staking despite shrinking yields
Easier access and growing familiarity are encouraging investors to stake their tokens, while falling rewards and withdrawal delays test the economics.
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Origin Restores OGN Liquidity After Pulling Funds During Binance Incident
Origin says the attacker sold OGN at an average 79% discount. Ethereum records show liquidity returning to its Curve pool after a withdrawal of 46.74 million OGN.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Lido Revenue Jumps to $605,000 on Execution-Reward Windfall
The DAO received 269.69 stETH in staking fees, but its next daily reward report delivered a much smaller treasury payment.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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One Fish, Multiple Meals — Analysis of the $780K zkLink Exploit
Background On October 29, 2026, the well-known cross-chain protocol zkLink was attacked, resulting in losses of approximately $783,000. The following is a detailed analysis of this incident by the SlowMist security team: Prerequisites zkLink is a multi-chain zk-rollup protocol. On Ethereum, the...
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Aave Freezes tBTC Reserve After Threshold Pauses Minting and Redemptions
Repayments, withdrawals and liquidations continue, while Aave’s Ethereum Core market holds about $136.5 million in tBTC deposits.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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IPX Unveils Patent-Pending Atomic Router: Protected Capital in the Bonding Curve, Coinbase-Funded Rewards and Automatic Graduation Into Liquid Markets
IPX today detailed its patent-pending atomic router, the technology at the heart of its protocol, ahead of the launch of the IPX OS, IPX Exchange and the $IPX token on Base Nov 17.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Ethereum Draft Would Let Wallets Permanently Disable EIP-7702 Delegation
Accounts would keep their addresses and ordinary transaction capabilities, but the opt-out would not protect funds from a stolen private key.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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How the Binance hack happened on-chain on Ethereum
The Binance hack is one of the largest heists of all time and relied, in part, on exploiting how wallet delegation functions on Ethereum. Specifically, the attacker appears to have deployed a sweeper contract and then sent 50 EIP-7702 authorizations targeting the address labeled as Binance 14, all...
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What is EIP-7702? The Ethereum Upgrade Behind the $6.4B Binance Hack
EIP-7702 lets ordinary Ethereum wallets run smart contract code, enabling batched and sponsored transactions. Here's how it works.