The a16z-backed privacy chain goes live with private smart contracts, but warns users of known critical vulnerabilities as audits continue.

Employees can elect to receive a portion of their salary in shares of WTGXX, earning yield from the day compensation is paid.

A whitepaper co-authored with the Ethereum Foundation and Stanford researchers slashes qubit estimates by 20x, warns that billions in crypto assets are exposed to multiple attack vectors.

ETH gained 2% as BitMine extended its buying streak.

The DeFi curator says existing deposits and smart contracts are unaffected, but asked users to avoid the platform until the front-end is restored.

The ex-Blackstone team wants to move beyond crypto-collateralized loans and into ‘real economy credit’ as the tokenized RWA sector continues to grow.

Announced at EthCC in Cannes, the upgrade enables institution-specific borrowing environments, structured credit products, and RWA-backed lending within a unified liquidity system.

Built by Tezos R&D hub Trilitech, the new web app brings tokenized rare earth metals on-chain alongside gold and uranium as AI-driven industrial demand intensifies.

A new DeFi exploit triggered millions in losses, but the deeper story is about risk. In this episode, Omer Goldberg, founder of Chaos Labs, explains how the attack unfolded, why the damage spread across lending markets, what vault curators got wrong, and whether DeFi is truly ready for mainstream adoption. If you want to understand stablecoin risk, oracle design, curator incentives, and the future of safer onchain finance, this is the conversation to watch.

Co-funded by the Ethereum Foundation, the EEZ promises synchronous composability between Ethereum mainnet and Layer 2 networks, aiming to address ecosystem fragmentation.