Month: September 2026

Solana-based automated market maker Aquifer has lost roughly $2.5 million in an exploit involving wallets on Solana and Ethereum, with the protocol offering the attacker a 20% bounty for returning most of the funds. Blockchain security monitoring service Defimon reported…...

Protocol 26 tightened the smart contract layer, Protocol 27 is bringing automated market making to testnet, and a decentralized exchange is planned for September; the token has not moved above nine cents. Pi Network has been shipping infrastructure at a…...

The magazine-cover indicator has a messy record, but TIME’s OpenAI cover checks the classic boxes: a mainstream publication, a widely understood theme and a multiyear run-up in investor enthusiasm....

XRP rallied 37% in August on a wave of record ETF inflows. The market is pricing momentum. It is not pricing the Sept. 11 mainnet upgrade that hardens Vaults, AMMs, and the Lending Protocol for institutional use. The anatomy of…...

A prediction market that went from zero revenue to a billion dollar run rate in six months is signing deals with major sports leagues while state attorneys general line up to call it illegal gambling. The sports league playbook The…...

A two-month-old Layer 2 built by a stock brokerage is now processing more daily decentralized exchange volume than chains that have existed for years, and the market is only beginning to pay attention. How Robinhood built a top-five chain in…...

CME Group has launched two multi-asset cryptocurrency benchmarks, including a 10-token index that leaves out Bitcoin and Ether and tracks assets such as BNB, XRP, Solana and Hyperliquid. According to CME Group’s index documentation, the CME CF Emerging Crypto Index…...

Donald Trump Jr.’s 1789 Capital has agreed to lead a $1 billion Polymarket funding round with roughly $300 million that would value the prediction market platform at $21 billion. Bloomberg first reported the new financing, while 1789 Capital spokeswoman Alexa…...

Chainlink has recorded nine new integrations across five blockchains in its latest weekly ecosystem update, adding another set of deployments to its oracle and infrastructure network. The update covers integrations across multiple services and chains, reinforcing Chainlink’s role as one of crypto’s main data and interoperability providers. This is...

Crypto hacks reached 50 in August, causing an estimated $136.3 million in losses as Tectonic accounted for more than half, PeckShield said....