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Crypto Security Firm Unciphered Claims Ability to Physically Hack Trezor T Wallet
Unciphered, a company of cybersecurity professionals who recover lost cryptocurrency, says it found a way to physically hack into the Trezor T hardware wallet. Trezor says it acknowledged a similar-sounding attack vector a few years ago.
Zuzalu Is 2 Months in Montenegro With Crypto Elites, Cold Plunges, Vitalik Selfies
This invite-only gathering of 200 people in the Mediterranean marina town of Lustica Bay has been taking place since late March and wraps up this week, featuring official sessions on zero-knowledge cryptography, twice-a-day jumps into the Adriatic Sea and the chance to get face time with Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin.
Ethereum Briefly Stopped Finalizing Transactions. What Happened?
The loss in finality meant that blocks could have been tampered with, and while it isn’t supposed to affect end-user experiences, it did lead to some inconveniences for some applications.
Ethereum Mainnet Was Unable to Fully Finalize Transactions for 25 Minutes
Developers resolved the finalization issues and are investigating what caused the outage.
Meet ‘Dencun.’ Ethereum Developers Are Already Planning Next Hard Fork
The next major upgrade for the blockchain will include “proto-danksharding,” though developers are still deciding what else to include in the hard fork.
PEPE Meme Coin Craze Spreads Wealth to Ethereum Validators Running Blockchain
As risk-taking crypto traders sought to make tremendous profits off of surging prices for the suddenly-hot PEPE, a resulting surge in transaction fees brought a windfall to validators running the Ethereum blockchain.
Blockchain Developer Platform Alchemy Launches Public Support for ZK Rollup Starknet
The blockchain is the first with native account abstraction that the Web3 developer platform offers, allowing developers to build applications with Alchemy’s infrastructure on Starknet.
CoinDesk Validator ‘Zelda’ Successfully Exits Ethereum as Withdrawal Queue Shrinks to 9 Days
It took about 12 days for Zelda to fully exit the Ethereum blockchain. For any new staking withdrawal requests, the wait to get out has shrunk to nine days from 17 days.
Ethereum Name Service to Work With MoonPay to Build Fiat On-Ramp
The partnership will create the ability for people to purchase .eth domain names with fiat currency.
Ethereum Unstaking Requests Now Face About a 17-Day Wait
The queue stood at 14 days late last week, but it’s lengthened as more exit requests piled in from validators on the blockchain. Also, staked ether deposits outpace withdrawals for the first time since last week’s Shanghai upgrade.
