NEAR Intents Postmortem Links $3.8 Million Exploit to Deposit Bug
The protocol removed deposit notifications after another critical bug report and says all affected users were made whole…. Read the full story at The Defiant
Solana Postpones Shanghai Event, Citing Registration Surge
The official tour site still lists three more China stops, but registration pages for Hangzhou, Shenzhen and Beijing show sign-ups closed…. Read the full story at The Defiant
Celestia’s TIA Climbs 59% in Four Weeks as Blob Demand Slips
Daily blob data fell during the rally, while Celestia’s new Fibre throughput benchmark remains separate from mainnet usage…. Read the full story at The Defiant
Solana’s Shanghai Event Halted With Officers Present, Attendees Say
The interruption follows a new Shanghai office and skyline promotion at the start of the foundation’s four-city China tour…. Read the full story at The Defiant
Judge Rejects Gemini-CFTC Bid to Lift Settlement Restrictions
Gemini has already paid the $5 million penalty. A permanent injunction and restrictions on publicly denying the case’s findings remain in place…. Read the full story at The Defiant
CoreWeave, Broadcom Join Objections to OKX-ICE Stock Tokenization
The venture now discloses nine issuer objections, each of which bars the affected stock token from trading under the SEC’s conditional exemption…. Read the full story at The Defiant
bOSMO Bug Leaves Little Backing, Prompts Holder Compensation Plan
The contract still allows cheap minting, putting liquidity pools at risk. bOSMO bought after the snapshot will not be compensated…. Read the full story at The Defiant
Aave V4’s Arc Markets Connect Dollar-Euro Loans to Shared Liquidity
The deployment launched Sept. 16 with four reserve assets. Its Forex market lets borrowers pledge EURC, which is not eligible collateral in Arc’s Main market…. Read the full story at The Defiant
Ledger Was Hacked — Who Do You Trust With Your Keys Now?
The Defiant Livestream | Wednesday, Oct. 14, 1:00pm ET Up to $93M drained from more than 300 wallets, and the software was never touched. Ledger confirmed a physical implant inside signers sold through reseller CryptoBilis, reading recovery phrases off the screen at setup and sending them out over… Read the full story at The Defiant
IPX Exchange, the Agentic OS and Tokenized Exchange for IP, Closes $4M Seed Round at a $125M Valuation
IPX, an agentic operating system and tokenized exchange for intellectual property built on Base, closed a $4 million seed round at a $125 million valuation. Bitsurge Holdings led the round alongside YICIPX Holdings Family Office…. Read the full story at The Defiant