Ethereum news
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Polymarket Adds Five-Minute Crypto Contracts to US App
The BTC, ETH, SOL and XRP markets use CF Benchmarks prices, with ties settling Up and taker fees charged separately from the spread.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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OpenAI Proves ETH Is False, and Crypto Twitter Has Questions
A new OpenAI paper declares ETH false, a claim that hundreds of research papers lean on. Crypto Twitter degens and serious mathematicians are abuzz.
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Ethereum Name Service Queues Upgrade That Closes Its Old Registry to New Names
Migration would have no deadline and would be irreversible, while some names are excluded from automatic reservations in the new system.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Predict Fun users lose $260K in ‘likely’ ongoing draining incident
Users of BNB-based prediction market Predict Fun have lost roughly $260,000 in a draining incident that's likely to claim even more. On Tuesday, crypto analyst “Dethective” claimed they'd been drained for roughly $5,000 in an incident linked to Predict Fun. The funds were bridged to Ethereum and...
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Ethereum fixes Glamsterdam bug that could have sent staking deposits to builders
Developers initially rejected the change before reversing course, as testing delays gave them more time to examine a flaw in Ethereum's upcoming Glamsterdam upgrade.
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Osmosis Ends OSMO Inflation, Shifting Staking Rewards to Revenue
The change removes an estimated two percentage points of issuance-funded staking APR and freezes about 51.9 million pre-minted developer tokens.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Akash Opens Vote to Move From Cosmos to Solana
Prop 346 would authorize a one-way AKT token conversion, while staking rewards would end at a later marketplace cutover requiring another vote.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Aave Raises USDT Borrowing Costs at High Utilization
The Ethereum pool now enters its steeper rate tier at 92% utilization, giving borrowers an earlier incentive to leave liquidity available for withdrawals.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Tom Lee's Bitmine favors share buybacks to ether purchases as crypto declines
The Ethereum treasury firm spent $46 million buying back shares as Chairman Tom Lee said crypto has held up better than AI stocks during the recent market pullback.
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Tom Lee's Bitmine Keeps Buying Ethereum But Pivots to Record Share Buybacks
The firm added 10,452 ETH to reach 4.95% of supply, but its bigger move was repurchasing 2.04 million of its own shares—part of what it calls the largest equity buyback any crypto treasury company has run.
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Base Promotes 'Tokenized Anthropic Shares' as Trade.xyz Opens Pre-IPO Bets
Trade.xyz's new ANT contract offers up to 10x leverage without equity ownership, while Base's pitch identifies no issuer or token contract.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Tom Lee insists ‘crypto bull market is underway’ as Bitmine adds 10,452 ETH
The company's combined crypto, cash, marketable securities, and other investments totaled $15 billion as of Oct. 25.
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X100 Exploiter Sends 420.8 ETH to Tornado Cash
Four holding wallets still contain about 1,602 ETH, while the distributor that sent the mixer deposits has been nearly emptied.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Consensys Warns Ethereum Operators of eMudhra Signing Risks
The teams identify vulnerable Java trust stores and configuration-dependent exposure. Default setups are unaffected, while some Web3Signer deployments need immediate access-control changes.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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AI agents help rescue ETH’s Glamsterdam fork, ‘Steal My Bitcoin’ site: Hodler’s Digest
Similar to the Hugging Face hack, Ethereum researchers have set up an AI Agent message board to help rescue the Glamsterdam fork. New site says ‘Steal My Bitcoin’... if you can.
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X100 Exploit Proceeds Split Into Four 400-ETH Wallets
The first exploiter swapped about 4.75 million USDT into ether, while the distribution wallet retained another 423 ETH.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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ARB Touches Four-Week Low as Losses Outpace Bitcoin and Ether
OP and POL also lost more than a quarter over matched four-week windows, while Arbitrum One's active-address count rose.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Ether Falls Below $2,300 as 28-Day Loss Reaches 14.7%
ETH lagged bitcoin by 9.15 percentage points over matched nearly four-week windows, while US ether ETFs recorded another outflow on Oct. 22.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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X100 Exploit Nets 4.85 Million USDT After Governance Takeover
Two transactions turned treasury tokens and liquidity positions into USDT; Blockaid warned that the Ethereum attack was ongoing.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Arthur Hayes Says He Sold Maelstrom’s Directional Book
Hayes-linked wallets transferred 8,000 ETH and six other tokens, contrasting with his Oct. 15 declaration that he was long Bitcoin and Ether.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Arbitrum Proposal Would Reopen Stylus Activations With Foundation Sign-Off
Existing active contracts and renewals would remain permissionless, while the DAO could revoke the Foundation’s signing authority.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Initia halts blockchain after exploit reportedly drains over $2.6M
The blockchain suspended its layer-1 network and rollups after security researchers identified unauthorized token minting and millions in assets transferred to Ethereum.
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Agora Says Initia Exploit Hit Third-Party Product Using AUSD
Ethereum records show 1.4 million AUSD left a bridge adapter, while Agora says it has no smart contracts deployed on Initia.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Agora Freezes AUSD Account Linked to Initia Exploit
Agora says it has no contracts on Initia; the targeted Ethereum account had already swapped 1.4 million AUSD for ETH.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Initia Halts L1 and Rollups After Reported Mint Exploit
Analyst Spreek estimated $2.6 million had been cashed out; Ethereum records show stablecoin swaps and a later 1,135.5 ETH transfer.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Bitcoin ETFs Bleed $636 Million as October Turns Red Again
Spot Bitcoin ETFs lost $635.6 million on Thursday, their biggest outflow of the month, pushing October flows back to a loss of about $176 million as Ethereum and Solana funds also bled.
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Ethereum Delays Glamsterdam Testnet Fork Over Gas Security Flaws
The Hoodi testnet fork is off after ChainSecurity found gas changes that could let contracts lock in failures, citing 13 real-world cases.
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Cysic dangles a 10% bounty, hacker pours loot into Tornado Cash
The attacker moved $744,000 in ETH and BNB to Tornado Cash after exploiting Cysic’s bridge to mint 10 million tokens on BNB Smart Chain.
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Base Active Addresses Jump Another 50% as Transactions and Fees Fall
Transactions fell 8.7% and dollar-denominated user fees dropped 20% on Oct. 22 as a GMGN trading competition continued.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Swell Pauses swETH and rswETH Deposits and Withdrawals
The protocol says it must correct NAV before reopening, while onchain controls now block withdrawal requests and ETH claims.... Read the full story at The Defiant