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Bug That Took Down 8% of Ethereum's Validators Sparks Worries About Even Bigger Outage

The lion's share of Ethereum's validators rely on the same piece of software to power their operations. According to some experts, this could be a big risk.

Ethereum Foundation researcher Dankrad Feist, namesake for "proto-danksharding," a major component of Ethereum's upcoming "Dencun" upgrade. (Bradley Keoun)

Tech

Blockchain Security Firm CertiK Found an Infinite Loop Bug in Sui Network

The bug was found before Sui mainnet was live and the foundation granted a $500,000 award for the discovery.

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Tech

Arbitrum Temporarily Stopped Processing Due to Software Bug

The Ethereum layer 2 network went out of service for several hours due to a bug in the sequencer and a resulting transaction backlog that stressed the network. A fix was deployed and the network is now processing again.

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Tech

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.

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Finance

Binance Suffers Two-Hour Spot Market Outage Due to Software Bug

Exchange CEO Changpeng "CZ" Zhao described the outage as "unlucky."

Binance Logo (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Finance

Binance Bungles Accounting for Helium Tokens, Overpays Clients Millions: Sources

The Helium network has two tokens, HNT and MOBILE. Binance counted them as one, HNT, resulting in a windfall for customers who deposited the less valuable MOBILE.

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Markets

Market for Compound Ether Token ‘Frozen’ After Code Bug Kills Price Feed

Compound pointed to faulty code in a recent addition to the protocol as the problem and said a solution is days away.

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Tech

MetaMask, Phantom and Other Browser Wallets Patch Security Vulnerability

There is no evidence the vulnerability was ever exploited by attackers, meaning no user funds are believed to have been impacted.

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Tech

DeFi Lender Inverse Finance Exploited for $15.6M

It is the third multimillion-dollar crypto attack to make headlines in recent days.

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Tech

Ola Finance Exploited for $3.6M in Re-Entrancy Attack

The attack targeted Fuse Lending, which is an implementation of Ola Finance on the EVM-compatible Fuse blockchain.

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