Crypto news
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PHP flaw draws millions of exploit attempts, Cloudflare CEO warns
Cloudflare’s Matthew Prince said the network saw thousands of exploit attempts even before the PHP vulnerability was publicly disclosed.
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Asian stocks tumble, bitcoin retreats as China enters bear market
Technology shares led regional losses as mixed U.S. earnings unsettled investors and Brent crude climbed above $112 a barrel.
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CoinDCX Co-Founder Denies New Hack After $16 Million Wallet Alert
Sumit Gupta says the flagged addresses were compromised in July 2025 and that no funds from CoinDCX’s current wallets were affected.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Alpha Modus Reports $250 Million-Plus Bitcoin Holding From Share Swap
The Nasdaq-listed company exchanged 51.6 million shares and matching warrants for 3,170 BTC, expanding its asset base while diluting existing shareholders.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Bitcoin ETFs bag another $528M, taking 3-day haul past $1B
US spot Bitcoin ETFs drew $1.08 billion over three trading sessions to push October flows back above water.
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Chinese Prosecutors Seek Confiscation of 61,896 Bitcoin in Qian Case
The Tianjin application provides for victim restitution, while ownership claims to the UK-held coins must be assessed under Chinese law.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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China seeks to seize 61,800 BTC tied to $5.7 billion fraud scheme
Chinese prosecutors are seeking to confiscate more than 61,800 Bitcoin tied to a $5.7 billion fraud scheme, days after a U.K. court ruled Chinese law governs victims’ claims to the coins.
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Move over memecoins: Crypto ‘meme games’ coming, bagholders and all
“Plenty will be ponzis. Plenty will get exploited. Plenty will insta die. There will be ridiculous gains, and people will get absolutely f***ing rinsed,” says Illuvium co-founder Kieran Warwick.
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Solana completes Alpenglow upgrade. Here’s what it means for users
The new voting system targets settlement in about 150 milliseconds, potentially shortening waits for payments and deposits. Users can keep their existing wallets.
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Bitcoin ETFs attract $1.08 billion in 3 days but it may not be enough for a steep rally
Past steep rallies ran on about $235 million a day of net inflows into ETFs. The funds are yet to match that pace, according to data analyzed by CoinDesk.
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XRP Ledger bug fix moved to November after validator support dipped for two hours
The fix lost its two-week countdown less than two days from the finish after support slipped to 26 of 35 validators. It’s now back at 31.
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Matter Labs Introduces Prividium Commander for Existing Blockchains
Institutions can add application permissions without moving to Prividium Ledger, while retaining their existing custody and signing providers.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Bitcoin gives back its run at $85,000 as Tesla and Meta fail to calm AI nerves
BTC broke through its $84,000 ceiling late Wednesday, then slid back to the $82,500 support analysts are watching as tech futures fell.
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Developer Links $370,000 Theft to Railway Secrets Exposure
Railway restored Enterprise builds late Wednesday, while customers on other plans were still waiting to redeploy with replacement credentials.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Cloudflare CEO Reports Millions of PHP2Shell Exploit Attempts
PHP has shipped fixes for four supported branches. The flaws can let attackers run code on vulnerable web servers without logging in.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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How Elliptic-Curve Signatures Work: A Toy ECDSA Example
A deliberately insecure curve makes the signing arithmetic small enough to follow. The verifier needs the message and public key, but neither signing secret.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Mastercard Crypto Credential, KYC, Travel Rule and Screening Compared
Identity checks, transfer-party information and blockchain risk alerts serve different purposes. Providers remain responsible for deciding whether a payment can proceed.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Pendle Expands One-Click Looping to Yield Assets and Tokenized Stocks
Stock longs on Base use Aave loans, while PendleLoop fees on non-PT positions are waived through Dec. 31.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Collector Crypt Reports Record $24.3 Million Day
Users opened 123,425 packs, while the reported gross receipts equaled roughly 13% of DefiLlama's trailing 30-day pack-sales total.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Aero Launches as Aerodrome and Velodrome Merge Across Seven Chains
The combined exchange went live across seven networks, with VELO converting at 0.044 AERO and locked positions becoming sAERO... Read the full story at The Defiant
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PHP Foundation admits ‘structural failure’ delayed critical security fix
Government websites and online services were disrupted after concerns about a PHP bug that could allow attackers to take control of vulnerable servers.
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Aerodrome and Velodrome merge to launch Aero across seven blockchain networks
Aerodrome and Velodrome have merged to launch Aero across Ethereum mainnet, Base, Robinhood Chain, Ink, OP Mainnet, Arc, and Arbitrum.
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A Wallet Three Hours Old Minted Kimchi's Coin and Routed Every Fee to One Address
The deployer bought 79% of the supply for about $9,300 and named a single address the permanent, unchangeable recipient of every creator fee the coin will ever pay. Pump.fun's own profile page titles that address “Kimchi”... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Obol Urges Immediate Charon Upgrade After CA Key Compromise
The patch updates certificate checks in Go. Obol's mainnet cluster balances totaled 422,862 ETH in its latest daily snapshot.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Railway Urges All Users to Rotate Secrets After Security Incident
Deployments remain paused, preventing customers from updating applications with replacement credentials.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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American Bankers Association: OCC’s GENIUS rules ‘undermine’ US Congress
Banking advocacy organizations are pushing back against the OCC’s finalized rules on a stablecoin law, arguing against changes to provisions on yield.
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Ken Griffin Says AI Is 'Almost Certainly' in a Bubble—And Compares GPUs to Airline Seats
Citadel's founder says investors are almost certainly in an AI bubble, warns a chip glut could crash prices like empty airline seats, yet expects the survivors to lead for decades.
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eMudhra's Weak Certificate Keys Prompt Emergency Trust Updates
One recovered private key was just 4. The company says the flaw went undetected through two independent audit cycles.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Matter Labs Debuts Prividium Commander For Institutions
The control plane for bank digital-asset operations is generally available at launch. Its revenue goes to Matter Labs, not ZKsync tokenholders, CEO Alex Gluchowski told The Defiant.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Three Companies Have Notified the SEC of Intention To Start Tokenized Stocks Trading
Bitcoin Magazine Three Companies Have Notified the SEC of Intention To Start Tokenized Stocks Trading Three companies have notified the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission of their plans to operate tokenized securities venues following a new rule, according to the top regulator. Tokenized Stock...