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Systems that move assets and messages between separate blockchains, relying on fee models, liquidity pools and security assumptions to enable transfers.
Ethereum Economic Zone settled its first atomic L1-to-L2 transaction on mainnet on October 5, moving 0.001 ETH as one all-or-nothing unit. At that size it proves the design works on mainnet, and its value now depends on rollups agreeing to let Ethereum set the order of their transactions.
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Abstract will shut its Ethereum layer-2 network on Dec. 15, 70 days after its Oct. 6 notice telling users to migrate or lose access to their funds. Under the terms of service provider Cube, Inc., the deadlines to start, finish or claim an exit can each fall before that date.
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Scammers ran a working copy of Dunamu's unlaunched GIWA network on its reserved chain ID 9134 and drained 766.25 ETH from users. The ID got through an exchange's listing checks, so a matching network ID is now weak evidence that a chain is the real one.
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DogeOS opened a public testnet on September 30 that brings Ethereum-style smart contracts to Dogecoin, whose DOGE token has a $14.7 billion market cap. Until Dogecoin can verify the rollup's proofs, DOGE used as programmable capital would depend on the bridge's signers.
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Kelp DAO has sued LayerZero Labs and co-founder Bryan Pellegrino for negligence and misrepresentation over April's $292 million rsETH bridge exploit. The forged message cleared a bridge that trusted one LayerZero-run verifier, so the case tests who answers for that setup.
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Chainlink's CCIP 2.0 cuts a transfer's default checks from two networks to one and lets institutions add their own verifiers back. Paying for the second check now falls to the bank or issuer, five months after a single-verifier bridge setup cost Kelp DAO $292 million.
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Bitget CEO Gracy Chen publicly asked THORChain to refuse service to the wallets that took $387.5 million, after Circle and Tether stopped nearly $318,000. Much of the rest now depends on a no-KYC swap protocol that has declined to block stolen funds in earlier hacks, including its own.
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Bitget CEO Gracy Chen asked Thorchain to refuse service to the hackers behind a theft the exchange now puts at $387.5 million. After the Bybit breach, Thorchain's validators reversed a trading halt within 30 minutes, so recovery plans have little reason to count on the protocol's help.
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GoPlus Security says THORChain validators can halt the swaps that moved about $51.5 million of Bitget's stolen bitcoin and XRP. If that power exists, each DPRK-linked transfer the network signs is a choice made by its roughly 100 node operators.
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The rebate ladder that recruits big exchanges also shrinks the burn: 60 cents of every fee dollar at the bottom tier, 26.25 cents at the top.
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The 0.08634 ZRO per STG rate has been on offer since the 2025 acquisition and expires for good on December 15, 2026. Stargate drops every transaction mode except Taxi on October 1, 75 days earlier.
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Symbiosis halted BTC routing on September 11 after its BridgeV2 processed a bad message and generated more than 2^62 unbacked syBTC. The attacker realized about $336,000, roughly 1.5 times the average hack TRM counted this year.
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A cross-chain firm that never earned enough to fund itself is closing on September 30, and the 303m tokens it will destroy return no cash to holders or to the $4.1mn of 2021 venture money behind it.
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