Nine crypto firms form a Quantum Alliance while executives split on 2028 and on freezing coins
Nine crypto companies launched the Quantum Alliance, which estimates that 6.4 million bitcoin, or 30.2% of supply, have public keys already exposed. Executives quoted by coindesk.com split on a 2028 arrival date and on whether to freeze vulnerable coins.
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- Evidence35
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- Incentives60
- Confidence50
Soda Labs raised a $3 million seed round, all from Luxembourg's NextBlock, to move its privacy layer for banks and payment firms from pilots into production. The cash covers 12 to 18 months to show a bank will settle on Ethereum or Base once amounts and counterparties are hidden.
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- Builder 35%
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- Operator 27%
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- Investor 38%
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- Evidence45
- Adoption30
- Hype gap+35
- Incentives70
- Confidence60
Unnamed Base vault loses $6 million to a whitelist flaw spotted a week earlier
About $6 million in wstETH left an unidentified Base vault via a whitelist flaw a researcher had found the week before, Immunefi says. Roughly $31.7 million remains under seven unnamed Safe signers who, more than a day later, had not claimed the vault or announced a fix.
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- Evidence45
- Adoption
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- Hype gap+15
- Incentives70
- Confidence40
The exchange reports $5.36m of reserves, most of it its own token, against CoinMarketCap volume of $272.6m. The proof-of-reserves report it promised in May is now 90 days late.
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- Evidence55
- Adoption
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- Hype gap+45
- Incentives60
- Confidence50
The records that expanded Trezor's breach were US orders from 2019 to 2021, held years past the 90-day deletion window its fulfillment partner had promised, which puts the failure in the contract rather than the device.
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- Evidence60
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- Hype gap+15
- Incentives60
- Confidence58
Copilot built the fake Ledger app. A human still only made 20 lookups in two weeks.
Rapid7's Operation ASTERIX report shows the cost of building convincing wallet malware collapsing while targeting stayed manual. The durable asset is the validated list, not the code.
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- Evidence58
- Adoption32
- Hype gap+26
- Incentives62
- Confidence45
The exchange promised proof of reserves on May 23 and has not delivered it. Its founder now says he will take his own staff's unpaid-wage claims to the police.
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- Evidence54
- Adoption48
- Hype gap+42
- Incentives72
- Confidence57