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Step Finance has disclosed a significant security incident involving its protocol-owned funds, marking one of the largest Solana DeFi treasury compromises so far this year.
The Solana analytics platform confirmed that multiple treasury and fee wallets were breached, resulting in the unauthorized unstaking and transfer of 261,854 SOL, worth roughly $30 million at current market prices.
The team...
The crypto industry is once again grappling with a rising wave of security breaches as new data from blockchain security firm PeckShield reveals that hackers drained $86.01 million across 16 separate incidents in January 2026.
While the total represents a modest 1.42% decline year-over-year compared to January 2025, it marks a sharp 13.25% increase month-over-month from December’s $75.95 million...
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin is once again challenging a popular crypto narrative, this time around creator coins. In a recent post, Buterin argued that creator coins have largely failed, not because creators lack incentives, but because the real bottleneck in today’s internet is filtering for high-quality content, not producing more of it.
According to Buterin, the assumption that...
Shockwaves moved through the Solana ecosystem after DeFi dashboard and portfolio platform Step Finance confirmed that parts of its treasury infrastructure were compromised.
The team disclosed that some of its treasury and fee wallets suffered a security breach and are now under active investigation.
In a brief initial statement, the project said there had been “a breach of security for some of...
Tether has released its Q4 2025 quarterly attestation, and the numbers confirm what much of the crypto market has already felt, 2025 was a breakout year for the world’s largest stablecoin issuer.
The company crossed $10 billion in profits, driven by massive global demand for USDT and strong returns from its growing reserve portfolio.
At a time when traditional banking systems remain slow,...
Lighter is officially stepping beyond its roots as a high-performance perpetual DEX with the launch of Lighter EVM, a major upgrade that introduces Ethereum Virtual Machine compatibility directly onto its infrastructure.
The move allows developers to deploy general-purpose smart contracts on Lighter for the first time, turning what was once a specialized trading engine into a broader blockchain...
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin is once again channeling personal capital into the long-term foundations of decentralization.
In a recent update, Buterin revealed he has withdrawn 16,384 ETH, worth over $45 million at current market prices, to fund privacy-focused technology, open-source infrastructure, and secure digital systems over the coming years.
The initiative aims to strengthen the...
Lido Finance has officially activated Lido V3 on the Ethereum mainnet, introducing a powerful new staking primitive called stVaults designed to redefine how participants, builders, institutions, and platforms engage with Ethereum staking.
The rollout marks a major evolution in liquid staking infrastructure, one that bridges the long-standing trade-off between flexibility and liquidity that has...
Bitcoin tumbled to around $83,500, marking its lowest level in over a month and triggering a wave of forced liquidations across the derivatives market.
In just 24 hours, nearly $1 billion worth of long and short positions were wiped out as leveraged bets unraveled in a rapid cascade.
The drop below the key $85,000 level accelerated selling pressure. Within minutes, thin order books amplified...
The Zero Knowledge Proof (ZKP) presale auction has officially entered Stage 2, and for anyone watching from the sidelines, the clock just accelerated. With more than $1.6 million raised and a daily cap now fixed at 190 million ZKP coins, the opportunity window has tightened. While Stage 1 offered 200 million tokens per day, that ceiling is gone, and it won’t return.
This 10 million daily...