23+ hour, 20+ min ago   (357+ words) LDK v0.2.6 addresses small splice-related fund losses and a payment-handling flaw that could prevent saved channel state from loading. Lightning Development Kit, a toolkit for building Bitcoin Lightning applications, released v0.2.6 on Sept. 9 with fixes for bugs that could divert small amounts…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (1421+ words) DAOs replaced boards and executives with token holders and software, but new research suggests the machinery protecting those systems can easily rebuild the concentrations of power they were meant to escape. Compound is a crypto lending protocol governed by holders…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (406+ words) The Mina Mesa upgrade stopped transaction processing for about eight hours on September 3 as the layer-1 blockchain shifted mainnet to its Mesa release. Exchanges suspended MINA transfers, while deployed zkApps now need new verification keys before they can resume proof-authorized…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (508+ words) Ontology version 3.1.5 is mandatory for compatibility, while the attack path and wider service recovery remain undisclosed. Ontology said its mainnet resumed normal operation on Sept. 2 after an emergency security pause and told every sync-node operator to upgrade to version 3.1.5. Sync…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (610+ words) The project said no incident or asset loss had been confirmed, while a public node remained at block 20,770,893 and no restart time was disclosed. Ontology suspended mainnet block production to investigate a potential security concern, pausing the network while its…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (828+ words) The vulnerability was patched in the main codebase in May but later proved broader than engineers initially believed. A Cosmos EVM vulnerability exploited across six networks, including MANTRA, exposed a security gap spanning around 40 blockchains. On Aug. 28, Cosmos Labs said…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (565+ words) LND, a Lightning Network node implementation, has disclosed a channel-close flaw that can put an entire channel balance at risk in the reproduced maximum-loss scenario. Operators using standard releases below 0.21.0 should treat their nodes as lacking the official fix unless…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (1095+ words) Ethereum's shortcut to smart wallet behavior arrived with a new trust problem: a wallet can make a regular address programmable without moving the user's assets, while the delegated code gains power to act with that account's authority. A peer-reviewed study…...