protocol
JPMorgan deploys JPMD deposit token on Ethereum mainnet
Kinexys by J.P. Morgan put JPMD, its dollar-deposit token, live on Ethereum mainnet on October 19, extending it beyond Base and opening EVM-wide institutional transfers.
Stories tagged: #infrastructure
exploit
Qubic halts network after 1,404 wallets drained via weak iOS seeds
Attackers drained 2.94T QU (~$1.3M) from 1,404 Qubic wallets created with weak 55-character seeds in Safari and the iOS app; validators halted the chain at tick 85,371,949.
infrastructure
World launches a banks-focused World ID suite at Money20/20, Zoom integration hits GA
Tools for Humanity unveiled a World ID suite for financial firms at Money20/20 on October 18. World ID for Zoom is now generally available after an April beta with VanEck Funds.
exploit
Cysic halts BNB-chain bridge after unauthorized 10M CYS mint
Cysic says 10M CYS were minted on BNB Smart Chain at 12:31 UTC on October 17; the bridge is offline indefinitely and most of the tokens left the recipient address before blacklisting.
infrastructure
Quantum Alliance launches: nine blockchain orgs set open post-quantum readiness standards
Nine blockchain organizations formed the Quantum Alliance on October 15 to set open post-quantum readiness criteria across networks, wallets, zk systems, and cross-chain compatibility.
regulation
Circle plans USDC push into 40 emerging markets, Allaire says
Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire told Reuters at the IMF-World Bank meetings in Bangkok on Oct 16 the issuer plans to enter about 40 emerging markets ahead of the GENIUS Act's January start.
infrastructure
Visa Direct moves USDC prefunding to commercial production with Inyo Global
Visa Direct's stablecoin prefunding leaves pilot on October 15 with Inyo Global as first processor; USDC top-ups reach Visa in minutes across 180+ countries.
infrastructure
Circle: USDC H1 2026 — $1.4B revenue, $819M to partners and transaction costs
Circle's October 16 blog breaks out H1 2026 USDC economics: $1.4B revenue, $819M (59%) to partners and transaction costs, $473M (34%) reinvested, ~7% net margin.
infrastructure
Coinbase and Marqeta expand card deal to settle stablecoin spend on Base
Marqeta and Coinbase announced on October 16 an expanded card partnership; Coinbase custodies the stablecoins and settles on Base, Marqeta issues and processes.
protocol
Ledger unveils Atom at Op3n Paris: Android signer with EAL6+ secure element and Solana Mobile integration
Ledger announces Atom, an Android touchscreen device with EAL6+ secure element, FPGA Secure Mode isolation, Solana Mobile Seeker integration, $849 Founder's Edition shipping summer 2027.
infrastructure
Mastercard launches Global Money Platform with BVNK, Nuvei and Marqeta as first integrators
Mastercard launches Global Money Platform on October 15, the first product from its $1.8B BVNK acquisition; Nuvei, Marqeta, Ontop, Beem and Almond FinTech are early customers.
infrastructure
BNY and Citadel Securities say they settled a Treasury repo in minutes using a tokenized note
BNY says it settled an overnight triparty repo with Citadel Securities in minutes on its private digital ledger, using a tokenized U.S. 2-year Treasury as collateral.
protocol
Solana sets Alpenglow activation at epoch 1064 on Oct 21, replacing TowerBFT
Alpenglow switches on at Solana epoch 1064 on October 21, ~15:00 UTC. Agave 4.3.0 is mandatory, Firedancer and Frankendancer must swap clients, and vote fees drop to a flat 0.8 SOL.
infrastructure
Binance ends Binance Pool and all mining services at 07:00 UTC on Nov. 10
Binance will shut Binance Pool, Pool Savings, Cloud Mining, the Transaction Accelerator and all mining-pool APIs on Nov. 10 at 07:00 UTC. Pool pages stay viewable until Nov. 24.
protocol
Blur announces frontend shutdown on November 12 as volumes fall 99%
The NFT marketplace will close its website and wind Blend lending down on Nov. 12; smart contracts and the BLUR fee switch stay live. BLUR fell ~20% to $0.015.
infrastructure
DRW and Marex book first OTC swap on tokenized S&P iBoxx index via Canton
DRW and Marex closed a total return swap referencing S&P's iBoxx USD Liquid Investment Grade Index, tokenized by Kaiko and recorded on Canton via DRW's Derivnex platform.
infrastructure
Interactive Brokers opens ETH staking in the Client Portal via Zerohash
Interactive Brokers has turned on Ethereum staking for eligible clients through its Client Portal, with Zerohash as the staking infrastructure provider announced as a launch partner in June.
exploit
Ledger's Donjon describes LTE-eSIM implant; MediaMarktSaturn pulls devices across Europe
Ledger's security team says a CryptoBilis implant reads the 24-word setup screen and exfiltrates via LTE through an eSIM. MediaMarktSaturn removes Ledger from every store it operates.
infrastructure
Binance ships Binance AI free tier to all English users after 150k-user beta
The free generative-UI layer went global on October 12 following a September 7 beta; Binance AI Pro and Agent OS remain behind separate rollouts.
regulation
Standard Chartered opens RLUSD custody in Dubai, lines up LMAX collateral mirror
The bank's DIFC branch now holds Ripple's RLUSD on the XRP Ledger; a planned mirror lets clients post the balance as LMAX trading collateral without moving the token.
infrastructure
SWI Group raises €800M to convert ex-FTX miner Genesis Digital's Texas and Sweden sites to AI
Euronext Amsterdam-listed SWI, now at a €6.1B valuation, will repurpose Genesis Digital's 1.3GW mining fleet for AI/HPC and sell its Kazakhstan sites.
exploit
Ledger confirms hardware implant in affected device; CryptoBilis pauses all wallet brands
Ledger says at least one affected user's device contained a hardware implant. The CryptoBilis reseller widens its pause to all hardware wallet brands, not just Ledger.
exploit
Ledger halts CryptoBilis sales after $86M in reported wallet drains
Ledger paused shipments through Southeast Asian reseller CryptoBilis after on-chain investigators traced over $86M in suspected thefts across BTC, ETH and Tron.
protocol
Ethereum ships Prysm 7.2.1 hours before Glamsterdam's 200M-gas Sepolia test
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.
infrastructure
Google Cloud sunsets Blockchain Node Engine on December 15, hands customers to Quicknode
GCP will delete all BNE nodes and RPC endpoints on Dec 15, 2026. Customers get a Quicknode migration path with marketplace incentives.
infrastructure
Solana Foundation open-sources DvP settlement program with JPMorgan input
Solana DvP is an MIT-licensed escrow program for atomic delivery-versus-payment on Token-2022, with JPMorgan contributing institutional settlement requirements.
on-chain
Binance's SAFU fund now holds 15,000 BTC at $1.27B, ~$270M in the money
Binance's insurance reserve, converted from stablecoins in February, sits at roughly $1.27B against a $1B cost basis. The wallet is public and verifiable on-chain.
on-chain
Ethereum exit queue hits 850K ETH as MetaMask drives 61% of 2026 high
Beaconcha.in puts the ETH exit queue at 850,736 ETH on Oct 2, a ~14.77-day wait. MetaMask Staking's precautionary exits account for ~523,000 ETH across 17,000 validators.
infrastructure
Blast L2 to shut down, sets October 26 withdrawal deadline
Blast, the Blur-team Ethereum L2 that peaked at $2.3B TVL in 2024, said on Oct 2 that operating costs exceed revenue and will wind down operations.
regulation
ECB's Schnabel maps three models to put central-bank money on-chain
ECB board member Isabel Schnabel outlined three options for central-bank money on DLT in a London speech on Oct 1: direct DLT issuance, a TARGET bridge, or tokenized settlement claims.
protocol
DogeOS opens Chikyū public testnet, bets Dogecoin DeFi on OP_CHECKZKP
DogeOS opened its Chikyū EVM zkVM testnet for Dogecoin DeFi on Sept 30. Current trust: permissioned sequencer, TEE, Security Council. Miner-verified state waits on OP_CHECKZKP in Dogecoin Core.
infrastructure
Lloyds and Visa settle $750K in USDC on Canton in seven-day cross-border pilot
Lloyds Banking Group booked seven US-dollar settlements with Visa through Archax USDC, moved on Canton, with each flow landing in under an hour including weekends.
infrastructure
MetaMask Staking exits Lido validators on infrastructure compromise
MetaMask disclosed an infrastructure incident Sept 30 and is exiting all its ETH validators from Lido by Oct 7, ~45-day return cycle. Sentora Morpho vaults shed ~$136M PYUSD/RLUSD.
exploit
NEAR Intents drained for $3.8M via Omni deposit-layer bug
NEAR Intents paused cross-chain swaps on 11 networks Oct 1 after a bug in its Omni deposit/withdrawal layer let an attacker drain ~$3.8M. Contract patched; full reimbursement pledged.
protocol
Base activates Cobalt: conditional transactions and B20 seize-with-memo go live
Base's third mainnet upgrade lands validity transactions, composite allow/blocklist policies, ERC-8056 schedule multipliers, and a seizeWithMemo function for B20-standard tokens.
protocol
NEAR ships v2.13 to mainnet: FIPS-204 ML-DSA signatures and dynamic resharding go live
NEAR activated protocol upgrade 2.13 on July 20, adding NIST-approved ML-DSA-65 as a third signature scheme and automatic shard splitting at epoch boundaries.
regulation
Bank of England clears HSBC Orion as first live entrant in Digital Securities Sandbox
HM Treasury confirmed on July 16 that HSBC Orion has passed DSS Gate 2 — first firm cleared to run a live digital-securities depository in the UK, ahead of the DIGIT gilt pilot.
exploit
Across Protocol takes first hit on Solana, loss lands on Risk Labs relayer
Across said its Solana deployment was attacked at ~5:30 AM UTC on July 17. Users were kept whole; the loss sits with the Risk Labs relayer. Solana deposits paused.
protocol
Cardano enacts Van Rossem hard fork, first Voltaire-ratified upgrade goes live
Cardano crossed the Van Rossem hard fork boundary on July 18 at 21:44:51 UTC — Protocol Version 11, ratified entirely through on-chain Voltaire governance without an IOG or Cardano Foundation trigger.
protocol
Progmat migrates ¥452B ($2.7B) of tokenized securities from Corda to Avalanche
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.
protocol
Ethereum Foundation disbands Protocol Support team as five-cluster reorg lands
The EF Protocol Support account announced its own dissolution on July 9, absorbing the team that ran All Core Devs into the new Protocol Layer cluster from the June 23 restructure.
protocol
Stellar Zipper (Protocol 27) activates on mainnet, ships Soroban auth delegation
Protocol 27 lands on Stellar mainnet on July 10, adding CAP-0071-01 authentication delegation for Soroban custom accounts and CAP-0071-02 address-bound credentials.
protocol
THORChain rolls Monero, router V6 into v3.20 as consensus bug halts churning
A consensus bug hit during vault rotation forces THORChain to pause churning. v3.19.4 is scrapped; the fix ships in v3.20 alongside XMR and router V6. Solana re-enables first.
protocol
VALR launches 200+ Hyperliquid perps, a first for a regulated CEX
VALR, Africa's largest regulated exchange, ships 200+ cross-asset perps on July 6 by natively integrating Hyperliquid's L1 — the first CEX to route perp order flow to an on-chain DEX.
infrastructure
Loopring shuts down its zk-rollup DEX, citing absent VM and failed adoption
Loopring took its zk-rollup DEX relayer offline on June 28, 2026, ending the first production zkRollup on Ethereum. A whitelist-only smart contract upgrade returns L2 balances to L1.
on-chain
ZachXBT flags AscendEX: stalled withdrawals, hot wallets thin on ETH, USDT, SOL
On June 26 the on-chain investigator said the BitMax-era exchange's known hot wallets on Arkham and TRM lack large-cap reserves. AscendEX has not responded.
infrastructure
Base mainnet stalls after block 47,806,542, hours before Beryl activation
A consensus bug sequenced an invalid block, halting Base's single sequencer for ~2 hours. Sequencing restored by 17:51 UTC; Beryl mainnet upgrade still set for 18:00 UTC.
infrastructure
BitGo cuts 15% of staff, pivots to AI infrastructure and stablecoins
BitGo CEO Mike Belshe announced on June 25, 2026 a ~15% headcount cut — about 90 jobs — and a refocus on security, trading, stablecoins, settlement and AI-powered infrastructure.
protocol
Ethereum Foundation cuts 54 jobs and 40% of 2026 budget in restructure
The Ethereum Foundation laid off 54 staff (~20%) and slashed its 2026 budget 40% on June 23, reorganizing into five layer-clusters under a 5% endowment-spend target by 2030.
exploit
Taiko halts L2 block production after bridge proof-verification exploit
Taiko's chain state verification was compromised on June 22; proposers stopped producing blocks, the ERC20 Vault on Ethereum was drained for an estimated $1.7M, and all bridges are flagged unsafe.
exploit
Axelar shuts Secret IBC route after $4.67M forged-packet drain
Forged-packet attack on Secret's ICS-20 contract minted unbacked wrapped tokens, then redeemed them via the legitimate Axelar IBC channel. Caught June 17 when an escrow accounting check failed.
protocol
Base Beryl hardfork hits Sepolia, mainnet activation set for June 25
Beryl ships a native B20 token precompile, cuts L1 withdrawal delay from 7 to 5 days, and lands Reth V2 with ~50% lower disk and +33% throughput. Sepolia live June 18, mainnet June 25.
protocol
Ethereum Glamsterdam enters final devnet phase, all EIPs in one bundle
Glamsterdam-devnet-5 and -6 are now running with every planned EIP — ePBS, BALs, gas repricing. Foundation engineers describe it as the last phase before testnet hardening.
infrastructure
Backpack and Sunrise debut SPCX on Solana on day of SpaceX IPO
Backpack Securities and Sunrise launched SPCX on Solana on June 12, the day SpaceX priced at $135 on Nasdaq. The token is 1:1-backed and redeemable into shares via ACATS.
protocol
NEAR opens voting for protocol version 84 — Wasmtime runtime on mainnet
Validator voting for NEAR protocol version 84 opened June 10, 2026, 00:00 UTC. nearcore v2.12.0 switches the contract runtime to Wasmtime and enables Wasm bulk memory ops.
protocol
Stellar publishes Quantum Preparedness Plan, ML-DSA to Soroban 2026
Stellar publishes a three-stage Quantum Preparedness Plan. Stage 1 (2026) ships ML-DSA-44/65 verification as Soroban host functions, then quantum-safe contract accounts.
protocol
IoTeX activates v2.4.0 Yap hard fork tonight, pulls in four Pectra EIPs
IoTeX mainnet hard-forks at block 48,985,561 (~23:52 UTC on June 7). v2.4.0 'Yap' ships EIP-7702 account abstraction, EIP-7623 calldata repricing, EIP-2935 and EIP-2537.
infrastructure
Mastercard opens card settlement to stablecoins across eight chains
Mastercard's June 3 update lets issuers settle card flows on-chain in USDC, PYUSD, USDG, USDP, RLUSD and SoFiUSD across Ethereum, Solana, XRPL and five others.
protocol
Zcash patches Orchard soundness bug with NU6.2 emergency hard fork
An under-constrained Orchard circuit could have minted undetectable counterfeit ZEC. Zcash froze the pool with a June 2 soft fork, then re-enabled it via NU6.2 the next day.
exploit
Gnosis Pay halted after Zodiac Delay Module exploit; Gnosis to cover losses
Gnosis co-founder Martin Köppelmann confirms an active exploit on Gnosis Pay tied to Zodiac Delay Modifier v1.1.0 and Roles Modifier v2; Gnosis pledges to cover all user losses.
regulation
SEC draft strategic plan FY26-FY30 adds digital assets objective
The June 2 draft (File DSP-3) makes digital assets and DLT a standalone SEC objective for fiscal years 2026-2030; comments due July 2.
regulation
SEC grants Paxos PSSC temporary clearing-agency registration
Paxos Securities Settlement Company, LLC won temporary SEC registration as a clearing agency under Section 17A — the first blockchain-native firm to clear and settle US securities.
exploit
Gravity Bridge halted after $5.4M drain on suspected key compromise
Cosmos-Ethereum Gravity Bridge lost ~$5.4M on May 30. Peckshield and on-chain analyst Specter call it a signing key compromise. Team halted validators; attacker holds ~2,102 ETH.
protocol
Zcash Zebra 4.5.0 patches P2SH sigop bug that risked chain split
Zcash Foundation ships Zebra 4.5.0 plus a 4.5.1 hotfix, closing 15 advisories including a critical P2SH disabled-opcode sigop undercount that could split the chain.
infrastructure
DTCC connects tokenization service to Stellar for Russell 1000 and Treasuries
DTC will tokenize Russell 1000 equities, ETFs and US Treasuries on Stellar under its SEC no-action letter. First production trades targeted for July, broader rollout October.
infrastructure
Leap Wallet sunsets May 28, four-year Cosmos default-wallet run ends
Leap Wallet shuts down all products on May 28, 2026 — browser extension, mobile apps, Compass, Swapfast and the Leap Cosmos Hub validator. ATOM stakers need to redelegate before the unbonding window.
exploit
Bybit cold wallet drained for ~$1.5B; Lazarus signatures on-chain
Bybit's primary ETH cold wallet lost about 401,000 ETH on Feb 21, 2025 via a Safe{Wallet} UI manipulation. Arkham and the FBI attribute the attack to Lazarus.