Bitcoin traded at $75,733 on Tuesday morning, up 1.5% over 24 hours, as Iran signaled it will send a team to Pakistan talks and Brent crude slipped ahead of the Wednesday ceasefire deadline.
Ripple has laid out a four-phase plan to make the XRP Ledger quantum-resistant by 2028.
More than $500 million was siphoned across the Drift and Kelp exploits in just over two weeks. What once looked like isolated breaches now resembles a sustained campaign, likely driven by the financial needs of a sanctioned state.
Aave published a report outlining two possible outcomes: around $123 million in losses if damage is shared across all rsETH, or up to $230 million if confined to Layer 2s, with the final impact depending on how Kelp DAO allocates the shortfall.
Bitcoin traded at $74,335 after Iran reimposed controls on the Strait of Hormuz over the weekend, with the modest 1.6% pullback standing out against a 5.7% jump in Brent and a 1.2% drop in European equity futures.
LayerZero said the attackers compromised two RPC nodes the company’s verifier relied on and DDoS’d the rest, with the attack working only because Kelp had ignored multi-verifier recommendations.
Multiple lending and yield protocols are posting double-digit percentage declines in TVL, though token prices are seeing a limited decline.
Breach tied to compromised AI tool may have exposed credentials used by app frontends, the user-facing layer that connects web3 wallets and trading interfaces to backend services.
2026 is shaping up to be DeFi’s “worst year in terms of hacks,” Ledger’s CTO said, as the Kelp exploit shows how a single point of failure can cascade across systems.
An attacker drained 116,500 rsETH, roughly 18% of circulating supply, from Kelp’s LayerZero-powered bridge on Saturday, triggering emergency freezes across Aave, SparkLend, Fluid and Upshift.
Strategy aim to reduce volatility, enable consistent bitcoin buying, and create the only bi-monthly paying preferred shares in the market.
Alcoa is in advanced negotiations to sell its dormant Massena East smelter in upstate New York to Bitcoin mining firm NYDIG.