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On-chain tracing by Specter and MistTrack shows the Ledger / CryptoBilis cluster swapping USDT for USDD through SUN.io on October 9, moving the stolen float onto a stablecoin Tether cannot blacklist.
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StarkWare CEO Eli Ben-Sasson and the Starknet account say the project is actively considering a move from Ethereum L2 to a standalone L1 to chase 2027 post-quantum security. No proposal yet.
protocol
XRPLF's October 9 disclosure describes an unchecked 64-bit overflow in the payment engine, present since 2015 and patched in rippled 3.4.1. No evidence of mainnet exploitation.
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Ledger paused shipments through Southeast Asian reseller CryptoBilis after on-chain investigators traced over $86M in suspected thefts across BTC, ETH and Tron.
regulation
New York settled its 2023 civil fraud case against ex-Celsius CEO Alex Mashinsky with up to $35M in conditional payments and a permanent securities, commodities and crypto industry ban.
protocol
USDG goes live on Arbitrum. The chain requests a 100M-ARB DRIP allocation to steer liquidity toward Paxos' stablecoin and away from USDC's ~60% dominance.
regulation
Conduit filed in SDNY on October 6, saying Tether's T3 unit froze $2.76M USDT on September 24, 2025 without a court order and keeps earning yield on reserves.
regulation
Federal judge Percy Anderson sentenced Zort founder Adam Iza to 78 months and $23.4M restitution for a Meta ad-credit scheme, concurrent with his prior 15-year sentence.
protocol
A last-minute Prysm patch switches the validator default to 200M gas so Sepolia's October 6 Glamsterdam activation actually tests the higher capacity target.