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According to The Block, TRM Labs' latest report shows that AI applications in cryptocurrency crime grew by 40% year-over-year over the past year, primarily driven by fraud activities. In the first half of 2026, digital asset hacking incidents reached 201, a new record high, with approximately 75% of the losses concentrated in just 4% of the incidents. North Korean-linked activities caused approximately $600 million in losses, accounting for 61% of the total losses in the first half of the year. TRM Labs noted that AI has not created new types of crime, but has significantly lowered the barrier to criminal activity and expanded the scale of attacks.
According to The Block, open-source Bitcoin payment processor BTCPay Server disclosed a critical security vulnerability being actively exploited last Friday and urgently requested users to upgrade to version 2.4.2. The vulnerability affects all versions prior to 2.4.2; attackers can use it to steal administrator macaroon authentication credentials of LND nodes, thereby fully controlling the connected Lightning Network wallets. Users such as Foundation and Citadel21 have confirmed that their Lightning node funds were drained, but BTCPay has not publicly disclosed the total amount stolen or the number of affected nodes. Currently, the official release version 2.4.2 has fixed this vulnerability, and on-chain hot wallets are not affected. The BTCPay Server Foundation has donated 0.21 BTC each to security researcher Craig Raw and Bitcoin Red Team to commend their responsible private disclosure of the vulnerability. Meanwhile, BTCPay supporters have promised to provide a bounty incentive of "10% of recovered funds," capped at 3 BTC.
According to The Block, latest data from Immunefi shows that the crypto industry lost approximately $110 million due to hacker attacks in July 2026. During the same period, the platform paid researchers $2.32 million for confirmed vulnerability reports, and the number of confirmed and paid bug bounty reports increased by 18% month-over-month.
According to The Block, data from blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis shows that violent robberies targeting cryptocurrency holders in the first half of 2026 have resulted in losses exceeding $30 million. If the trend continues in the second half, the full-year total will surpass the historical peak of $58 million in 2025. France has become the world's largest "Wrench Attack" hotspot, with 30 public cases recorded in the first half of 2026, while the French Minister of the Interior stated that actual cases exceed 70. Chainalysis attributes this to the 2024 French tax authority data breach—a tax official was suspected of stealing and selling the names, addresses, holdings, and tax records of high-net-worth crypto holders, causing the attack frequency to surge from a monthly average of 1.9 in 2025 to a monthly average of 4.6 in the first half of 2026. Attack methods have also deteriorated; cases targeting family members rather than the holders themselves now account for over 40% of French cases, and the proportion of home invasions rose from 14% in 2025 to 37%. Stolen funds are typically quickly moved on-chain, with some laundered through tools such as decentralized exchanges and cross-chain bridges; advanced criminal networks are even linked to cartel money laundering and terrorist financing channels.
According to The Block citing Bits Media, Russian law enforcement agencies recently raided the offices of multiple cryptocurrency exchanges in Moscow to investigate a theft case involving 144 million rubles (approximately $1.8 million). Investigators suspect the stolen funds were transferred through the exchanges and are currently reviewing whether relevant employees are involved.
Odaily News, according to Bitcoin News monitoring, Chainalysis analysis of the Coldcard exploit involving over $38 million shows that the attacker deliberately targeted the highest-value wallets first, including one holding $1.8 million, indicating that victims had already been profiled before asset transfers began. Approximately $30 million was stolen in the initial 10 minutes, followed by around 500 wallets being drained within 25 minutes. Block's Clay Garrett stated that investigators also confirmed the attacker used a paid account with a well-known blockchain service provider to query victim addresses during the operation. The provider's internal logs match the request timestamps and sequence, but Block stated that no evidence was found suggesting the company knowingly assisted in the theft. Relevant information has been shared with authorities.
According to The Block, Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev's X account was hacked at approximately 17:24 UTC on July 23. Hackers posted claiming to launch "Vladhood ($VLAD)" as the "official mascot of Robinhood Chain," and attached a contract address. The Robinhood Chain blockchain explorer has labeled the token as a "potential scam," and the token has generated approximately 1,868 transactions since deployment. Robinhood officially confirmed later that the account was compromised, the relevant posts have been deleted, and the company is working with the X platform to restore account access.
According to The Block, Ledger's security research team Donjon disclosed a security vulnerability in Tangem hardware wallet cards. After obtaining the physical card, attackers can use laser fault injection equipment to bypass recovery state verification in the firmware and reset the password, thereby controlling the wallet and initiating transactions. The research states that this vulnerability affects all Tangem cards currently in circulation, and since the product does not support firmware updates, it cannot be fixed via patches.
According to The Block, the Securities and Futures Commission of Hong Kong (SFC) issued a circular requiring licensed virtual asset trading platforms and internet brokers to stop using one-time passwords (OTP) for user login and device binding within 12 months, and instead adopt stronger authentication methods such as passkeys (Passkey) and device binding. This move stems from deception attacks accounting for up to 57% of Hong Kong cybersecurity incidents in 2025. The SFC also requires all institutions to establish monitoring systems for suspicious logins, transactions, and withdrawals, and promptly notify customers of unusual account activity; large brokers must implement the new authentication measures immediately. The SFC emphasized that if internal control deficiencies within an institution lead to customer losses, relevant parties will be held accountable.
According to The Block, BNB Chain is building a new Layer 1 blockchain designed specifically for agent trading, targeting transaction pre-confirmation in under 50 milliseconds, and suppressing MEV behaviors such as sandwich attacks by eliminating the public mempool (adopting the TxStream mechanism). The new chain will also reserve block space for oracles, liquidations, and cross-chain bridges via PriorityLane, with a designed throughput target exceeding 100,000 TPS, and supporting sub-second block finality. This chain will become the fourth chain in the BNB Chain ecosystem, connected to BNB Smart Chain via a native bridge, with BSC serving as the settlement hub. The testnet is planned to launch at the end of 2026, and the mainnet is expected to deploy in early 2027.
BNB Chain is developing a new Layer 1 blockchain designed for Agentic Trading, releasing the first detailed architectural information after months of research and development. According to BNB Chain's disclosed technical roadmap for the second half of 2026, the new chain will run in parallel with the existing BNB Chain ecosystem, targeting transaction preconfirmation times of less than 50 milliseconds. The goal is to deliver an execution experience close to that of centralized exchanges (CEX) while retaining the advantages of on-chain self-custody and transparency.In terms of technical architecture, the new chain will remove the traditional public mempool and introduce a transaction transmission mechanism called "TxStream," which directly sends transactions to block producers to reduce latency and minimize MEV extraction behaviors such as sandwich attacks. (The Block)
Odaily Zcash's native token ZEC rose over 12% on Tuesday after the team responsible for developing its privacy pool said it is nearing completion of a mathematical proof to confirm that there are no undetectable counterfeit minting vulnerabilities in the latest Zcash shielded pool.The verification work, driven by Project Tachyon, is aimed at Zcash's upcoming Ironwood shielded pool. Zcash founder Zooko Wilcox stated that the project is on the verge of producing a mathematical proof, with the goal of proving that the latest Zcash privacy pool has no undetectable minting vulnerabilities.This development follows the disclosure last month of a serious counterfeit vulnerability in the Zcash Orchard shielded pool. At the time, the flaw sparked market concerns about the potential for undiscoverable, hidden inflation risks within Zcash's privacy system, causing ZEC to drop by over 40% within two days.Developers say that with the help of AI-assisted formal verification, proof work that previously might have taken years has now been compressed to a few weeks. The news pushed ZEC back above $500, its highest level since early June. (The Block)
the official Bonk Inu X account announced that BonkDAO was attacked via a malicious governance proposal, resulting in the theft of approximately $20 million worth of BONK tokens from its DAO treasury.According to reports, the attacker exploited a suspicious governance proposal to transfer assets from the BonkDAO treasury. The stolen BONK subsequently began flowing to exchanges, putting downward pressure on the BONK price. Data from The Block shows that the BONK price has dropped over 9%.South Korean exchange Upbit subsequently issued a notice stating that it has temporarily suspended BONK deposits and withdrawals to address the incident and mitigate potential risks. (The Block)
Odaily Planet Daily reported that Humanity Protocol founder Terence Kwok stated that after suffering a hacker attack of approximately $36 million, which caused the H token to plummet, the project is realigning its strategic direction, gradually shifting from a "decentralized identity + blockchain project" to enterprise-grade AI products and services. It is reported that Humanity Protocol will place less emphasis on the blockchain identity narrative in the future, instead focusing on developing enterprise AI-related products and services. (The Block)
Ethereum Layer 2 project Taiko has reopened its cross-chain bridge. Taiko stated that the network is now fully recovered, all user funds have been replenished, and it will soon release a full post-mortem report on the vulnerability incident. (The Block)
Base has officially released an analysis report on the block production outage, disclosing that the Base mainnet experienced two block production interruptions on June 25 and 26, lasting 116 minutes and 20 minutes respectively. On-chain asset security was unaffected, and funds remained safe at all times. The root cause was a vulnerability in the sequencer's block construction logic: after a transaction execution failure, the old journal state was not properly cleared, causing subsequent legitimate transactions to encounter gas calculation errors during execution, thereby generating invalid state transition blocks and halting block production on the entire L2 chain.Base stated that the issue has been resolved through a patch, and will strengthen the protocol's fuzz testing and stress testing framework to identify potential malicious transaction paths, while optimizing monitoring and operational processes. Additionally, plans are in place to introduce a recovery mechanism to enhance rapid recovery capabilities in future similar events.
Odaily Odaily News Blockchain analyst Vadim noted that Base experienced a network outage today due to a consensus bug triggered by a single invalid block. All block generation after height 47806542 ceased, halting the network for nearly two hours. Since Base utilizes a single sequencer architecture, when that node encountered an error, the entire network stopped running, with no backup block producer or other validator nodes available to bypass the fault and maintain on-chain activity. During the outage, users were unable to conduct transactions, perform liquidations, or process withdrawals.Furthermore, the network recovery process was not automated; node operators within the ecosystem had to manually restart for block synchronization to gradually resume. This is not the first such incident for Base. In August of last year, the network also experienced a freeze lasting approximately 33 minutes due to a sequencer switching failure. The single sequencer model exposes the centralization risks in some current L2 networks: while offering higher speed, the entire chain can come to a halt due to a single point of failure when the core component malfunctions.
According to The Block, four major U.S. law enforcement organizations—the National District Attorneys Association, the National Association of Assistant U.S. Attorneys, the International Association of Chiefs of Police, and the National Sheriffs’ Association—jointly wrote to the Department of Justice and the White House, warning that Section 604 of the “Clarity Act” (i.e., the “Blockchain Regulatory Certainty Act”) contains regulatory loopholes. This provision offers a “safe harbor” exemption for non-custodial developers; law enforcement agencies contend that it could shield individuals or entities assisting in the transfer of crypto assets, hinder investigations and prosecutions of crypto-related crimes, and weaken the existing anti-money laundering framework.
Odaily, the decentralized cross-chain liquidity protocol THORChain has resumed trading after being down for over five weeks following a May attack. Signing, swapping, liquidity provider operations, and redemptions have all been restored.On May 15, blockchain investigator ZachXBT and security firm PeckShield identified that the protocol had likely been exploited, prompting THORChain to halt trading. The vulnerability resulted in a loss of approximately $10.7 million from one of its six Asgard vaults, while the other five vaults were unaffected.THORChain stated that each vault has now been verified, and every key share has been cross-checked. Native Monero swaps are currently undergoing end-to-end testing and will be launched subsequently. (The Block)
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has stated that if new AI models pose specific risks, governments should have the authority to prevent their deployment. In a lengthy post on Wednesday, Amodei argued that AI models should undergo mandatory third-party testing to assess potential risks across multiple domains. He wrote that if an AI is deemed to pose "unacceptable risks," then "governments should have the power to block or constrain its deployment." This is one of Amodei's strongest statements to date advocating for stricter AI regulation. "I believe that, at least during this current exponential growth phase, the most appropriate analogy is cars, airplanes, or pharmaceuticals—technologies that are essential to the modern economy but can also lead to significant loss of life if poorly designed or misused," Amodei wrote. Anthropic has previously warned that its AI model, Mythos, possesses the ability to discover and exploit critical software vulnerabilities, leading the company to restrict access to a small number of partners. This week, Anthropic also released a new version that removes related cybersecurity attack capabilities. (Jinshi)