Security researchers found 31 vulnerabilities across 15 x402 protocol operators covering 99% of transactions, confirming asset theft and free-shopping exploits.
Garden Finance disabled its app on July 27 after Blockaid detected a $450K USDT drain from its HTLC contracts across Ethereum, Base, Arbitrum, and BNB Chain.
South Korea's KB Kookmin Bank is launching USD cross-border payments on JPMorgan's Kinexys blockchain, targeting import/export businesses across 10 countries.
Sanctioned Sberbank aims to launch crypto trading infrastructure by December 1 as Russia's crypto bill advances — raising serious secondary-sanctions questions.
Storj has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy while keeping its decentralized storage network live and pursuing a novel court-approved equity conversion for STORJ tokenholders.
Total crypto market cap recovers to $2.31T with Ethereum up 3.5% in 24 hours, but a Fear & Greed Index of 30 keeps the bounce tentative. Full market wrap.
Alpaca Finance custodies $1.5B in shares backing 94% of tokenized equities — exposing a deep irony as the DTCC prepares its own tokenization service.
The CFTC has issued its second 2026 warning to prediction markets over boilerplate self-certifications, raising the prospect of enforcement against Kalshi, Polymarket and others.
Mirae Asset plans to rebrand South Korea's Korbit crypto exchange as Digital X, targeting tokenized real-world assets, stablecoins, and digital finance services.
BNB Chain now holds 61.7% of Franklin Templeton's Benji tokenized-asset platform after a reported 1,226% one-month surge, displacing Stellar and Ethereum.
