Protocols, exploits, governance, regulation and on-chain analysis — in plain English and French.
exploit
Polychain/Variant-backed neo-brokerage Cascade lost 1.34M USDC from pre-launch First Wave deposits on July 16; funds were bridged Arbitrum→Solana→Ethereum and swapped into unfreezable DAI.
exploit
An attacker with an authorized oracle-signer key and a registered PriceUpKeep forwarder booked twenty round-trip BTC/USD trades, draining ~28% of Ostium's OLP vault; trading paused.
protocol
Japan's dominant security-token platform completes 'Project Keystone', porting all live RWA — corporate bonds, real estate, funds — from Corda 5 onto a dedicated Avalanche EVM L1 with sub-2s finality.
on-chain
Arkham data shows ~3,800 BTC and 30,007 ETH — from the Ryan Farace, BTC-e and Brian Krewson cases — reached Coinbase Prime on July 13, testing the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve no-sell posture.
governance
EMURGO, one of Cardano's five Pentad governance entities, stepped down on July 8 to lead recovery for its SecondFi wallet, drained of 16M ADA (~$2.4M) via an Ed25519 signer flaw.