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World Rolls Out Money App as Key Features Remain Country-Limited
World has begun rolling out World Money in more than 150 countries, bringing stablecoin balances, global payments, virtual accounts, trading, yield programs and Mini Apps into a self-custodial financial app. Existing World App and World ID App users can carry their credentials into World Money....
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S&P Global to Acquire OpenZeppelin in Onchain Risk Push
S&P Global has agreed to acquire OpenZeppelin, bringing a provider of smart contract audits and open-source developer libraries into the financial-data company’s digital asset risk business. The companies said OpenZeppelin will retain its name and operate as a separate business unit. CEO Demian......
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Blockworks Lets Exchanges Take Compliance Alerts Straight From AI Agents
Blockworks will let crypto exchanges and banks take compliance alerts directly from AI agents, without waiting for a human analyst to sign off. Analyst verification took roughly five minutes per development, the company said. A proprietary model trained on years of Messari analyst work now... Read...
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Tenka Announces Pre-Seed Round Led by Maven 11 to Build Market Infrastructure for Asset-Backed Finance
Tenka has closed its pre-seed round to build the market infrastructure that connects the origination of asset-backed finance with a secondary market, giving investors a credible route to liquidity before maturity without changing the terms of the underlying loans. London, England, September 17,......
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Bitcoin Round-Trips the First Fed Rate Increase Since 2023 as Zcash Runs to $1,383
The Federal Reserve raised its benchmark rate on Wednesday for the first time since July 2023, and bitcoin traded through the decision little changed. The vote was unanimous, against three dissents for an increase at the July meeting, and the committee's own projections now point to one more...
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The Next Bull Run Could Be One Big Airdrop Away
If you used Uniswap just once before September 2020, even for a failed transaction, you woke up exactly six years ago today to 400 UNI sitting in your wallet, worth about $1,200. Fourteen months after that $450 million airdrop, total crypto market capitalization had surged from roughly $350...
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Analysis of the Liquid Network Cache Key Collision Vulnerability: Nearly 4,000 L-BTC Minted Out of…
Analysis of the Liquid Network Cache Key Collision Vulnerability: Nearly 4,000 L-BTC Minted Out of Thin Air At 13:52:10 UTC on September 6, two transactions with the same structure appeared in Liquid block 4,050,335. One minute later, a third transaction was confirmed in block 4,050,336, bringing...
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U.S. OFAC and DOJ Join Forces to Crack Down on Xinbi Guarantee, Restricting More Than $52 Million…
U.S. OFAC and DOJ Join Forces to Crack Down on Xinbi Guarantee, Restricting More Than $52 Million in Crypto Assets On September 9, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced coordinated enforcement actions against...
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The Vanishing Debt — An Analysis of the Notional Finance Hack
Background On September 4, 2026, the well-known decentralized lending platform Notional Finance was attacked, resulting in approximately $1.73 million in losses. The following is a detailed analysis of this attack by the SlowMist Security Team: Prerequisite Knowledge In Notional Finance V1, fCash...
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Threat Intelligence | iOS Safari DarkSword Wallet Asset Theft
Background A campaign offering free VPS services was actually a decoy. A page recovered from a public web archive shows that event[.]polarnode[.]vip, registered in late August 2026, declared https[:]//lk[.]wyincc[.]com/lk.js as a preload script and automatically loaded it once the page became...
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On-Chain Fund Source Risks Behind OKX’s Risk Control Strategy
Recently, the CEO of OKX responded to a user post about a situation where a “gambling platform directly transferred funds to an exchange, causing the deposit to trigger a review.” According to his public statement, deposits to OKX from high-risk addresses may trigger stricter anti-money laundering...
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SlowMist: MistTrack & SlowMist KYT Partner Program Officially Launches
As crypto assets, stablecoin payments, and digital financial services continue to develop, on-chain AML, KYT, and fund risk analysis are becoming practical needs for an increasing number of institutions. To this end, MistTrack & SlowMist KYT has officially launched its Partner Program, recruiting...
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“Gray Rhinos” and “Black Swans”: SlowMist Founder Cos on Security Risks and Protection in the…
“Gray Rhinos” and “Black Swans”: SlowMist Founder Cos on Security Risks and Protection in the Crypto World On August 28, at the Cypher Asia Intelligent Crypto Finance Summit, SlowMist Founder Cos delivered a keynote speech titled “Gray Rhinos and Black Swans in the Crypto World.” Starting from...