South Korean prosecutors investigate missing seized Bitcoin
The Gwangju District Prosecutors’ Office is investigating the disappearance of Bitcoin seized from government custody. Summary Multiple Bitcoins went missing...
Smart Contract Security | Ethereum Foundation Blog
Solidity was started in October 2014 when neither the Ethereum network nor the virtual machine had any real-world testing, the gas costs at that time were even drastically different from what they are now. Furthermore, some of the early design decisions were taken over from Serpent. During the last couple of months, examples and patterns that were initially...
AI meme coin RALPH falls 80% following developer token sale
An AI-themed meme coin associated with the “Ralph Wiggum” prompting trend declined sharply after on-chain data indicated a wallet connected to developer Geoffrey Huntley sold a substantial amount of tokens within one hour, according to visual analytics platform Bubblemaps. ...
The Ethereum Foundation welcomes Microsoft as the Premiere Sponsor of Devcon2, Shanghai 19-21 September, 2016
London, United Kingdom, June 14, 2016 – The Ethereum Foundation is pleased to announce Microsoft as the Premiere Sponsor of Devcon2, the Ethereum developer conference in Shanghai, 19-21 September, 2016. Devcon2, which will showcase the most up-to-date research and development work supported by the Foundation, also represents the most comprehensive Ethereum-focused developer’s conference to date. The Ethereum Foundation’s Chief...
Trump-linked crypto firm WLFI aims for orbit with Spacecoin
World Liberty Financial (WLFI), the crypto venture tied to President Donald Trump’s family, is taking decentralized finance off the grid — and into space — through a new partnership with satellite network builder Spacecoin. Summary ...
CRITICAL UPDATE Re: DAO Vulnerability
An attack has been found and exploited in the DAO, and the attacker is currently in the process of draining the ether contained in the DAO into a child DAO. The attack is a recursive calling vulnerability, where an attacker called the “split” function, and then calls the split function recursively inside of the split, thereby collecting ether...
Visa taps Mercuryo to accelerate crypto-to-fiat payments
Visa Inc. said Thursday it has partnered with crypto payments firm Mercuryo to let users convert digital assets into fiat currency and send the proceeds to Visa cards using Visa Direct, the company’s real-time payments network. ...
Thinking About Smart Contract Security
Over the last day with the community's help we have crowdsourced a list of all of the major bugs with smart contracts on Ethereum so far, including both the DAO as well as various smaller 100-10000 ETH thefts and losses in games and token contracts. This list (original source here) is as follows: We can categorize the list by categories of...
2026’s leading DeFi play isn’t Ethereum or Shiba Inu, it’s Digitap and its banking revolution
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Security Alert – Smart Contract Wallets created in frontier are vulnerable to phishing attacks
Affected configurations: All smart contract wallets created using Ethereum Wallet Frontier, version 0.4.0 (Beta 7) or earlier. Wallets created with Ethereum Wallet 0.5.0 and all later versions released after March 3, 2016, are not affected. Likelihood: Low Severity: High Summary: Do not use wallet contracts or owner accounts of those wallets that were created by the Ethereum Wallet 0.4.0 or earlier. If...
