September 21, 2026
Crypto

Coldcard Bitcoin losses rise to $88.6M in third wave

Galaxy Research raised its estimate of Bitcoin drained from addresses linked to the Coldcard firmware flaw to 1,367.05 BTC, worth about $88.6 million, on Aug. 1.  Summary 1,367.05 BTC was drained across 4,585 addresses in three suspected Coldcard attack waves, Galaxy reported. July 30’s first wave removed 1,082.65 BTC from 1,196 addresses in just 41

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Bitcoin

Ark Invest Rotates $43.5M Into Coinbase and Circle as Bullish and Bitmine Exit

Ark Invest trimmed positions in Bitmine Immersion Technologies, Bullish, and Block while simultaneously deploying roughly $43.5M into Coinbase and Circle shares, a rotation that looks far more like portfolio rebalancing than a retreat from crypto equities, according to the firm’s daily trade disclosures. The Cathie Wood-led investment firm has over $16Bn in assets under management, and

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Ethereum

Jeff’s Ethereum ÐΞV Update II

First of all, happy new year! What a year it has been. With a little luck we’ll surpass last year with an even more awesome year. It’s been too long since I’ve given an update on my side of things and that of the Go team and mostly due to a lack of time. I’ve been so

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Crypto

Crypto PAC spending tops $2M in Michigan House race

A crypto industry-aligned political action committee has pushed its spending above $2 million in Michigan’s 13th Congressional District, according to final-week Federal Election Commission disclosures.  Summary Protect Progress spending surpassed $2 million backing Thanedar and opposing McKinney before Tuesday’s primary vote. $884,240 in new advertisements supported Thanedar, while more than $150,000 targeted McKinney with opposition

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Ethereum

Ethereum Community Survey | Ethereum Foundation Blog

Back in November, we created a quick survey for the Ethereum community to help us gauge how we’re doing, what can be improved, and how best we can engage with you all as we move forward towards the genesis block release in March. We feel it’s very important to enable the community to interact with Ethereum

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Bitcoin

Bitcoin cold-wallet attack spreads to 4,500 addresses as losses near $89 million

The attacker working through Coldcard-generated keys is now emptying wallets worth a few thousand dollars each. Galaxy Research flagged a third wave of sweeps early Sunday, roughly 208 bitcoin drained from 1,912 addresses between Friday midday and Saturday morning UTC. That is just over a tenth of a bitcoin per victim. The July 30 opening

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Crypto

DEX spot volume reaches 24% of CEX trading

Decentralized exchange spot trading rose to about 24% of centralized exchange volume in July 2026, according to The Block’s current DEX-to-CEX data series.  Summary July’s DEX-to-CEX spot ratio reached about 24%, according to The Block’s current data series estimate. DefiLlama’s trailing data ranked Solana, BNB Chain and Ethereum among the largest spot ecosystems globally. Robinhood

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Ethereum

Light Clients and Proof of Stake

Special thanks to Vlad Zamfir and Jae Kwon for many of the ideas described in this post Aside from the primary debate around weak subjectivity, one of the important secondary arguments raised against proof of stake is the issue that proof of stake algorithms are much harder to make light-client friendly. Whereas proof of work

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Bitcoin

COLDCARD SECURITY RISK: IMMEDIATE ACTION REQUIRED

First, yes, that is a very clickbait title and completely unusual. This is a real security issue. Here is the official announcement from Coinkite themselves posted yesterday, please read and verify the genuineness of the issue there. TLDR: Coldcard MK2, MK3, MK4, MK5 and Q are being drained. A bug lets attackers find your seed

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Crypto

A build error in Coldcard’s firmware drained $38 million in bitcoin in 25 minutes

Coinkite says an attacker used AI to find a flaw its own AI review missed, exposing 500 wallets to a seed generation bug that reduced 128 bits of entropy to 40. Summary An attacker drained 594 BTC, approximately $38 million, from roughly 500 Coldcard hardware wallets in 25 minutes on July 31, exploiting a seed

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