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Ledger hardware wallets sold by reseller contain backdoor Ledger confirmed investigators discovered an unauthorized hardware implant in one affected user’s wallet, according to the company. Scope and attribution All affected devices were purchased from CryptoBilis , which serves as Ledger’s official…

Musk Regains Trillionaire Status as Crypto and AI Concerns Rise Elon Musk again crossed the $1 trillion net worth threshold, while several crypto and AI stories shaped market sentiment this week. Wealth milestone and market context Elon Musk’s valuation rebound returned him to a $1 trillion -plus ne…

XRPL patched two vulnerabilities enabling possible XRP creation Developers of the XRP Ledger released fixes addressing two vulnerabilities that could have allowed new XRP issuance and halted consensus. First vulnerability: incorrect debit handling The first bug could let a payment recipient receive …

Inside TOKEN2049: Observations and Key Takeaways, Part 2 A 19-minute audio file collects personal observations, unexpected anecdotes and several off-stage findings from TOKEN2049 and related events. Timecodes and topics 01:26 — Solana Summit and a meeting with the Meteora team. 02:20 — Exclusive: la…

Ledger owners lost over $86 million; reseller devices suspected Ledger is investigating thefts affecting customers who bought hardware wallets through the reseller CryptoBilis in Southeast Asia, and has asked to pause sales and shipments. Scope of the investigation Researchers estimate that the inci…

ZachXBT infiltrated syndicate, traced $1 billion to Lazarus Crypto investigator ZachXBT reported infiltrating a Chinese syndicate and tracing over $1 billion tied to Lazarus Group hacks. Operational approach After the Bybit security incident, ZachXBT contacted a middleman on Telegram and began swapp…

CZ sold apartment for Bitcoin and founded Binance In 2013, Changpeng Zhao sold a family apartment for $900,000 to buy bitcoin and later founded Binance in 2017. He subsequently faced legal proceedings in the United States, served a prison term, and later advised several governments on crypto policy.…

Old Signatures Can Cost You Crypto Months Later Two recent cases show signatures granted more than a year earlier enabled theft of crypto assets using address spoofing and malicious approvals. Details of incidents A user lost $305 000 in DAI after the attacker sent tiny test transfers from a lookali…

Miners Shift Back from AI Workloads to Bitcoin Mining After a summer decline in bitcoin mining activity, operators redirected capacity to artificial intelligence tasks and then returned to btc production as prices improved. Hashrate trends Industry aggregate power stood near 980 EH/s at the end of J…

OpenAI introduces GPT-6.1 Sol and background assistants OpenAI announced a new model named GPT-6.1 Sol and introduced background AI assistants called dots for prolonged tasks and monitoring. Capabilities of GPT-6.1 Sol GPT-6.1 Sol is described as capable of programming assistance, computer interacti…

Friend Invested Half Apartment Proceeds into Zcash According to a user report, a private investor used half the proceeds from a sold apartment to buy ZEC at $1620 . Transaction details The purchase was reported as a direct personal decision after exposure to two podcast episodes and subsequent convi…

Buterin Proposes Transforming Ethereum Beyond a Simple Blockchain Vitalik Buterin published a programmatic paper titled "Cryptographic World Computer" , outlining the first major roadmap for Ethereum since 2022. Outline and ambition He argues that referring to Ethereum merely as a blockchain mischar…

Bitget reports $400 million theft, withdrawals paused Bitget announced an unauthorized transfer of nearly $400 million , paused withdrawals and initiated an investigation into the incident. How the breach occurred On 24.09.2026 at 18:31 UTC the exchange detected unexpected outbound transfers from it…

X launches cashtag trading with U.S. broker partners X rolled out a cashtag partner program that enables trading directly from the feed, initially available to U.S. users only. How cashtag trading works When a user taps a ticker such as $BTC or $AAPL inside a post, the service opens an asset page wi…

Bitget Confirms $351.6 Million Loss, User Withdrawals Paused Bitget’s CEO Gracy Chen confirmed a loss totaling $351.6 million and said withdrawal outflows have been halted while cold wallets remain intact. How the breach occurred According to the company, attackers accessed internal wallet managemen…

Two Robinhood Engineers Face Up to 30 Years Over Crypto Trades The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York has indicted two Robinhood engineers on charges related to insider crypto trading. The indictment names the defendants as Hefu Chai (36) and Huaisun "Jerry" Xiang (30). All…

Robots Perform Tasks; Payment Systems Still Needed Agility Robotics reported that its humanoid robots have accumulated substantial operational hours at customer sites, highlighting a practical deployment milestone. Field deployments and usage metrics On 15.09. Agility Robotics disclosed that its Dig…

Anthropic launches Claude Opus 5.5 with lower costs Anthropic announced the release of Claude Opus 5.5 , describing it as more capable and cheaper than the previous Opus version. Performance and benchmark results The company states that the new model operates at the level of Fable 5.1 across most ev…

Starcloud Plans Bitcoin Mining Operations in Orbit Startup Starcloud, backed by Nvidia, intends to operate bitcoin mining equipment in low Earth orbit and expects launch of Starcloud-2 by year end. Project overview According to an interview with Documenting Bitcoin, CEO Philip Johnston said the seco…

Exploring Konnex Testnet: Hands-on with Tasks The public Konnex testnet provides practical tasks for evaluating robotics and mapping models in realistic simulation and sensor setups. Available task categories Participants can access a set of scenarios designed to replicate industrial and research wo…