Monday, October 12, 2026
Crypto
Ledger confirms a hidden cellular implant in a wallet sold by reseller CryptoBilis as theft estimates reach $93 million
Ledger has verified one tampered device and says its own systems were not breached. But an unconfirmed report of a suspect Nano X bought in Europe challenges the company's view that the problem is confined to one Southeast Asian distributor.
Crypto
StarkWare weighs moving Starknet off Ethereum to a hash-based, quantum-resistant chain by 2027
The STRK token more than doubled in seven days and Starknet's value secured rose 40.1% in a week, although no formal proposal or vote exists yet.
Crypto
XRP Ledger patched an overflow bug that could have created up to 18 trillion new XRP, and its foundation says supply was not affected
The flaw sat in the order-book payment math for about a decade, earned researchers a $250,000 bounty, and was fixed quietly in version 3.4.1 before it was made public.
Crypto
79thVault recovers 92% of $12.5 million drained through a single operator key as October hack losses pass $98 million
Cointelegraph's tally puts 2026 hack losses at $2.68 billion through September, and the cause of a $4 million wallet drain on a trader at Token2049 is still unknown.
Crypto
Miden launches a private self-custody wallet while Aztec waits on a proving-system fix it found in July
Miden says its "PriFi stack" makes privacy the default for on-chain finance, while Aztec's V5 network still runs with an acknowledged flaw that lets an invalid proof pass verification.
Crypto
Optimism takes over Unichain's operations as DATA Network retires its own chain to move to Sui
Optimism will run Unichain's sequencer and infrastructure from an October 29 mainnet upgrade, and the Sui Foundation is investing $30 million in DATA Network's move.
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