— Blockchain, Charts
CHART: Solana survived six years of near-death experiences
Solana has survived until its sixth birthday. Given how many outages and hacks its blockchain experienced, that feat is remarkable.
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Sam Bankman-Fried begs Trump for pardon, gets bipartisan ‘No’
Sam Bankman-Fried has focused his energy on asking for a presidential pardon, but his efforts aren't going particularly well.
Ripple pushes urgent XRPL patch — but nodes must trust its new key
A new key controlled by Ripple used to sign rippled packages is needed to prevent XRP Ledger nodes from crashing.
Ethereum address poisoning spike, ‘wallets aren’t ready’ says researcher
Researcher Andrey Sergeenkov told Protos about his researc on Ethereum’s scaling improvements and a $63.3M spike in address poisoning losses.
Binance probed by DoJ, files lawsuit against WSJ
Binance's suit warns that the Wall Street Journal must not be allowed to set aside journalistic standards and publish defamatory narratives.
How bombing Iran shifted oil and bitcoin prices
The price of oil relative to BTC during key news events might be one of the most interesting chart studies of the Iran war.
DeFi lending platform Compound Finance hijacked again
The Compound incident is the latest in a string of website hijackings that have also affected Maple Finance, OpenEden and Curvance.
— AI, Social Media
The ‘dead internet’ theory is getting a rebrand — meet Web 4.0
AI peddlers and crypto entrepreneurs want us to rejoice about Web 4.0 and the internet being consumed by botnets and AI agents.
— Kalshi, Polymarket
Are Polymarket and Kalshi decentralized?
Polymarket and Kalshi are popular in the cryptocurrency industry, but neither is truly "decentralized" like other projects.
Pig butchering is creating entirely new industries
Pig butchering is expanding so quickly that it's given rise to two entirely new industries: escrowing and selling hostages.