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30 current headlines from The Defiant.

X100 Exploit Proceeds Split Into Four 400-ETH Wallets

The first exploiter swapped about 4.75 million USDT into ether, while the distribution wallet retained another 423 ETH.

15h ago

Keystone Website Breach Exposes Customer Addresses and Order Details

The hardware-wallet maker says it blocked access and fixed the vulnerability. Payment details, recovery phrases and private keys were not exposed, according to the company.

15h ago

Electrum Patches Wallet Flaw Exploited Through Malicious Servers

A malicious server can substitute a fake payment, then trick the user into signing it while raising the transaction fee. Developers say one user reported losing money.

17h ago

ARB Touches Four-Week Low as Losses Outpace Bitcoin and Ether

OP and POL also lost more than a quarter over matched four-week windows, while Arbitrum One's active-address count rose.

18h ago

Ether Falls Below $2,300 as 28-Day Loss Reaches 14.7%

ETH lagged bitcoin by 9.15 percentage points over matched nearly four-week windows, while US ether ETFs recorded another outflow on Oct. 22.

19h ago

Third X100 Exploit Transaction Pulls 550,000 X From Uniswap Pool

A different sender routed about 549,916 X and 1,909 USDT to a new beneficiary, while the affected pool held less than 200 USDT.

19h ago

X100 Exploit Nets 4.85 Million USDT After Governance Takeover

Two transactions turned treasury tokens and liquidity positions into USDT; Blockaid warned that the Ethereum attack was ongoing.

20h ago

Shaw Publishes Daos.fun Reconstruction, Claims Critical Flaw

The repository reports matching captured and rebuilt binaries. Daos.fun says it no longer maintains the platform, though existing tokens remain tradable.

20h ago

Hyperliquid’s Yan and CME’s Duffy Split Over Who Must Bear US Compliance

Yan favors oversight of market deployers rather than the blockchain, while Hyperliquid’s interface still bars US-based users and VPN circumvention.

20h ago

API Key Rotation: What Revocation and Redeployment Actually Change

Scheduled replacement can let two keys overlap. Suspected exposure makes that overlap a security decision, not just a way to avoid downtime.

21h ago

UNI Slides 29% in Four Weeks as Uniswap Liquidity Holds Steady

The token has underperformed bitcoin and ether, while Uniswap still holds about $4 billion in liquidity.

1d ago

Arthur Hayes Says He Sold Maelstrom’s Directional Book

Hayes-linked wallets transferred 8,000 ETH and six other tokens, contrasting with his Oct. 15 declaration that he was long Bitcoin and Ether.

1d ago

Kraken Scraps Monero Withdrawal Questionnaires, Keeps XMR Listed

Source-of-funds checks remain, but co-CEO Arjun Sethi says asking what clients will do with withdrawn coins is unacceptable.

1d ago

Argentine Judge Dismisses LIBRA Criminal Case Against Milei and 10 Others

The ruling also covers Karina Milei and Hayden Davis. A New York investor class action was separately dismissed in September.

1d ago

IRYS Surges 1,200% Past May Listing Peak

The latest price implies a circulating valuation near $561 million, with just 20% of the token’s total supply in circulation.

1d ago

Arbitrum Proposal Would Reopen Stylus Activations With Foundation Sign-Off

Existing active contracts and renewals would remain permissionless, while the DAO could revoke the Foundation’s signing authority.

1d ago

Netanyahu Says He Requested Blockchain Plan for Potential Banking Sanctions

The Israeli premier called blockchain one of several alternatives as Britain threatens action against businesses supporting settlement construction.

1d ago

Tether Blacklists USDT Wallets Linked to CoinDCX Outflows

AMLBot puts the frozen sum at about $2.2 million, after CoinDCX acknowledged losses from a failed process for securing deposits to retired addresses.

1d ago

AI-Agent Payments Explained: Mastercard Agent Pay, AP2 and x402

AP2 records spending authority, while x402 carries payment requests. Mastercard’s machine-payment pilot shows why a signed voucher and final settlement are different steps.

1d ago

Agora Says Initia Exploit Hit Third-Party Product Using AUSD

Ethereum records show 1.4 million AUSD left a bridge adapter, while Agora says it has no smart contracts deployed on Initia.

1d ago

Lighter Adds weETH as Perpetual Futures Collateral

Lighter counts 70% of weETH’s index value toward trading margin and caps platform-wide collateral supply at 1,000 weETH.

1d ago

Agora Freezes AUSD Account Linked to Initia Exploit

Agora says it has no contracts on Initia; the targeted Ethereum account had already swapped 1.4 million AUSD for ETH.

1d ago

Initia Halts L1 and Rollups After Reported Mint Exploit

Analyst Spreek estimated $2.6 million had been cashed out; Ethereum records show stablecoin swaps and a later 1,135.5 ETH transfer.

1d ago

Extended Plans November XTEN Launch With 30% for Points Users

Eligible participants will receive tokens in self-hosted Arc wallets. Full tokenomics will follow a MiCA white paper expected on Oct. 31.

1d ago

China Sets 2030 Target for National Blockchain Network

The plan prioritizes trade and finance in the Yangtze River Delta and industrial applications in Chengdu-Chongqing, alongside continuing restrictions on crypto business.

1d ago

SEC Adds Tokenization to 2027 Examination Priorities

Clearing agencies and entities covered by Regulation SCI face explicit tokenization scrutiny, while transfer-agent technology reviews continue from 2026.

1d ago

Succinct Patches SP1 Bug That Could Let Invalid Proofs Pass

The flaw affected native Rust verification in versions 6.0.0–6.8.0. Onchain Groth16 and Plonk verification through Solidity verifiers was unaffected.

1d ago

Socket Finds 16 Fake Rabby and OKX Wallet Extensions on Firefox

Mozilla had unpublished the add-ons by Oct. 5, the security firm says. Removing them does not secure wallets whose recovery phrases were exposed.

2d ago

Base Active Addresses Jump Another 50% as Transactions and Fees Fall

Transactions fell 8.7% and dollar-denominated user fees dropped 20% on Oct. 22 as a GMGN trading competition continued.

2d ago

CoinDCX Acknowledges Wallet-Sweeping Losses After Denying New Breach

The exchange says affected deposits were credited, but has not disclosed the size of its losses.

2d ago