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- Bitget Attackers Reached Wallet Systems Via Third-Party Security Products
Investigators found no evidence that Bitget private keys were exposed, while cold wallets were not affected.
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- Earliest Bitget Attack Activity Traced to Aug. 31
The interim investigation found suspected intrusions across third-party security systems and wallet infrastructure before verified asset transfers began Sept. 25.
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- DeepSeek and Huawei Expand Ascend Support Across AI Software Stack
New open-source tools cover operator development, matrix computation, cross-chip communication, Attention and data selection as the companies reduce reliance on Nvidia’s CUDA ecosystem.
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- peaqOS Integrates World ID to Verify Humans in Machine Interactions
The integration uses zero-knowledge proofs to provide anonymous yes-or-no verification without revealing or storing personal information.
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- Mandiant Links Bitget Wallet Breach to Third-Party Security Devices
Attackers accessed some third-party security devices before entering Bitget’s exchange wallet environment and obtaining access to hot and warm wallets during the Sept. 24 incident.
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- Flink Hackers Seek 100 ETH From Customers After Ransom Refusal
The attackers demanded 0.005 ETH from individuals and threatened to sell stolen personal data if the group’s target was not reached.
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- Crypto.com’s ai.com Personal AI Agent Still Unavailable Nearly Eight Months After Debut
The platform remains in secret development, while ai.com says high demand has placed agent creation in a queue.
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- SlowMist Links Bitget Theft to Zero-Day Flaw and Custom Tool
The Sept. 25 attack lasted nearly three hours across multiple blockchains and later involved attempts to alter withdrawal records.
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- China Shipped 77.9% of Global Humanoid Robots in First Half
Global shipments approached 25,000 units, up 432.1% year over year. AGIBOT shipped more than 8,600 units during the period.
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- Zcash Token Holders Approve $1.5 Million Orchard Bug Reward
Two proposals would pay Taylor Hornby $750,000 each for discovering the vulnerability and an additional community-nominated reward.
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- Bitget Theft Funds Move Through CoW Protocol Before Bitcoin Conversion
Automated orders sent assets to prepared Chainflip deposit addresses, enabling cross-chain swaps into Bitcoin (BTC).
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- Abracadabra DAO Opens Vote to Shut Protocol, Liquidate MIM
The protocol estimates just $900,000 in enforceable collateral against $21 million in bad debt, leaving MIM less than 5% backed.
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- Abracadabra Proposes Shutdown After MIM Loses Path Back to Dollar Peg
The plan would liquidate collateral and distribute proceeds after repeated attacks left Magic Internet Money severely undercollateralized.
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- Cosmos Tokenization Suite Can Link Banks to Swift Shared Ledger
The system supports EVM and Hyperledger Besu environments and can connect tokenized deposits with Canton, Partior, Ethereum and Solana.
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- Arthur Hayes Says Digital Currencies Lack a Native Role for AI Agents
The Maelstrom CIO said AI agents need currency that can be converted directly and transparently into the computing power required to operate.
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- Abracadabra Proposes Liquidation as MIM Holders Face 96% Shortfall
The proposal estimates about $900,000 in recoverable assets against $21 million in bad debt, leaving MIM holders roughly 4 cents per $1 of face value.
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- Abracadabra DAO Votes on Wind-Down After $21 Million MIM Debt
The proposal would liquidate MIM after hacks left the stablecoin with about $900,000 in executable collateral and less than 4 cents of backing per token.
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- Abracadabra Proposes Wind-Down That Could Leave MIM Holders With 4 Cents
The proposal would liquidate remaining collateral, convert it to Ether and distribute proceeds to MIM holders pro rata.
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- Velocity Relaunches After Hack as Co-Founder Cindy Steps Down
The former Drift Protocol exchange completed a security rebuild, an audit and full code release before restarting operations.
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- Anthropic Says GLM-5.3 Can Build End-to-End Network Exploits
Simple simulated attacks bypassed the model’s safeguards about 64% to 100% of the time, while protected Claude models resisted the same methods.
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- PPV2 Exploit Remains Active as Users Urged to Revoke Approvals
A wallet lost 0.15246 WETH after accepting an offer, with nearly all of the funds paid as a tip to Titan Builder.
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- Router Protocol Will Shut Down Cross-Chain Operations by Sept. 30
The project plans to permanently burn 303,333,198 ROUTE tokens and coordinate token delistings with centralized exchanges.
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- OpenAI Halts GPT-6.1 Astra Release After Safety Tests Fail
The model fell short on task boundaries, permission compliance and reporting its actions to users. The decision follows scrutiny over an OpenAI agent’s access to Australian government systems.
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- Yuga Labs VP Warns Limit Break NFT Exploit Remains Active
Quit (0xQuit) warned that assets moved into wallets with unrecalled authorizations may still be stolen after the Sept. 25 incident.
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- Balancer Approves Winddown as Pools Shift to Withdrawals Only Oct. 30
The V3 Vault will pause Nov. 30, while BAL holders can begin treasury redemptions in late May 2027.
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- Balancer Governance Approves Shutdown, Rejects Fork Proposal
Liquidity pools will operate normally through Oct. 30, while a proposed extension for designated V3 pools faces an Oct. 16 deadline.
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- Aztec Relaunches Privacy-Focused zk.money Wallet on Ethereum Layer 2
The self-custodial wallet supports privacy-encrypted payments without publishing balances, payment amounts or counterparties on the public ledger.
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- Trump Launches AI-Powered America.gov Federal Services Portal
An executive order directs all federal agencies to integrate public-facing systems with the new website as a single government-services entry point.
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- Stride Proposes Orderly Shutdown of Its Cosmos Blockchain
stToken redemptions are expected to remain available on Stride until Oct. 12, pause during asset unbonding and resume on Osmosis around Nov. 20.
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- Verona Launches verUSD Stablecoin With More Than $100 Million Committed
The token launched across seven networks for AI-agent payments, with more than $60 million in signed, committed revenue expected to flow through verUSD.
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- Illicit Crypto Addresses Received At Least $154 Billion in 2025
Stablecoins processed $28 trillion in adjusted economic volume as attackers adopted artificial intelligence faster than defenders and crypto theft exceeded $3.4 billion.
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- Balancer Holders Approve Protocol Wind-Down With Payout Estimate
More than 99% of roughly 17.2 million BAL cast supported the plan, with treasury claims scheduled to open at the end of May 2027.
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- Bitget Reopens Withdrawals After Hack as Balances Fall $600 Million
The exchange still holds more than $6.7 billion in assets after the security incident.
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- Bitget Restores Withdrawals After $388 Million Security Breach
Bitcoin withdrawals resumed Sept. 28, with Ether, USDT and other services scheduled to return in phases through Oct. 2.
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- Person Using Alias Joe Urges Cybersecurity Role in AI Safety
The recommendation follows an incident in which roughly 1,200 AI agents exchanged more than 70,000 messages and files before about 700 participated in an attack on Hugging Face.
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- OpenAI Expands ChatGPT With Apps and Always-On Dots Agents
The company is building software discovery, connected services and task execution into ChatGPT without announcing app-store-style payments or revenue sharing.
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- Nvidia Targets More Than $500 Billion in Third-Party AI Capital
Nvidia signed memorandums of understanding with six financial firms, but the arrangements may not lead to definitive agreements.
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- OpenAI Begins Phased Rollout of Private Safety Processing
The system reviews related API interactions for misuse while keeping prompts and responses outside retention, though safety records may remain for 30 days.
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- TRES Finance Launches Claude Plugin for Crypto Accounting Teams
The integration supports balances, transactions, cost basis and reconciliations through Claude while preserving existing TRES account permissions.
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- Ethereum Schedules Oct. 6 Sepolia Fork for Glamsterdam Upgrade
The testnet activation will occur at epoch 353,024, while Ethereum’s mainnet target remains the fourth quarter of 2026 without a confirmed date.
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