Olympic Rewards Announced | Ethereum Foundation Blog
ETH DEV would like to thank everyone for their participation in the Olympic test network, which helped us greatly in stress testing, optimization, and finding bugs in the Ethereum clients, as well as determining what the limits of the current Ethereum system are. To that end, we are pleased to announce the Olympic reward recipients. On top of...
how a build flag drained 116M in bitcoin
A single line of firmware shipped in March 2021 told every Coldcard hardware wallet to skip its dedicated randomness chip. For five years nobody noticed. Then an attacker brute-forced the weak seeds in 41 minutes, draining 1,816 BTC from more than 5,200 addresses across four attack...
On Anti-Pre-Revelation Games | Ethereum Foundation Blog
An increasing number of proposed applications on top of Ethereum rely on some kind of incentivized, multi-party data provision - whether voting, random number collection, or other use cases where getting information from multiple parties to increase decentralization is highly desirable, but also where there is a strong risk of collusion. A RANDAO can certainly provide random numbers...
EU warns of crypto scams exploiting MiCA licensing transition
Fraudsters have begun impersonating European financial regulators and licensed crypto businesses to exploit customers moving funds after the European Union’s MiCA licensing deadline reshaped the regional crypto market. Summary ...
Security Advisory [Insecurely configured geth can make funds remotely accessible]
Insecurely configured Ethereum clients with no firewall and unlocked accounts can lead to funds being accessed remotely by attackers. Affected configurations: Issue reported for Geth, though all implementations incl. C++ and Python can in principle display this behavior if used insecurely; only for nodes which leave the JSON-RPC port open to an attacker (this precludes most nodes on...
Mysten Labs CTO Sam Blackshear joins Anthropic
Mysten Labs cofounder and chief technology officer Sam Blackshear said on Aug. 6 that he is leaving the Sui developer to join Anthropic for defensive security research. Summary ...
devcon one postponed until further notice
Unfortunately we were not able to secure the venue for devcon one in London on the dates desired (October 5th-8th). As a consequence we are postponing the event until further notice. Please do not make travel plans at this time. Updates will be forthcoming on the devcon one website .... Source link
Lummis pushes CLARITY Act vote before August recess
Senator Cynthia Lummis is pressing the Senate to vote on the CLARITY Act before its August recess as bipartisan negotiations continue over several unresolved provisions. Summary ...
Security Advisory [Implementation bugs in Go and Python clients can cause DoS – Fixed – Please update clients]
State transition and consensus issue in geth client causes panic (crash) when processing a (valid) block with a specific combination of transactions, which may cause overall network instability if block is accepted and relayed by unaffected clients thus causing a DoS. This may happen in a block that contains transactions which suicide to the block reward address. Affected...
Lido DAO price rebounds 5% as NEST vote goes live
Lido DAO price rebounded more than 5% on Thursday as holders voted on the NEST automated buyback system, although concerns over Ethereum’s proposed staking changes kept LDO under pressure. Summary ...
