August 4, 2026
Crypto

Why maximum leverage is a fee, not a feature

Exchanges advertise leverage the way carriers advertise data speeds, as a capability offered for your benefit. The arithmetic says something else. A venue earns on notional, so the slider that multiplies your position multiplies its revenue identically while collapsing your survival odds, and the deleveraging queue ranks you first for forced closure because the venue

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Ethereum

Security Advisory [Insecurely configured geth can make funds remotely accessible]

Insecurely configured Ethereum clients with no firewall and unlocked accounts can lead to funds being accessed remotely by attackers. Affected configurations: Issue reported for Geth, though all implementations incl. C++ and Python can in principle display this behavior if used insecurely; only for nodes which leave the JSON-RPC port open to an attacker (this precludes

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Crypto

Why transaction counts tell you almost nothing

Every chain announcement leads with a transaction number. On a network charging $0.0002, 1 million transactions represents $200 of economic activity and a weekend of testing. The metric that headlines every milestone is the one that survives the least scrutiny, and the analytics platforms already know it. Summary Transaction counts are the most-cited blockchain metric

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Ethereum

devcon one postponed until further notice

Unfortunately we were not able to secure the venue for devcon one in London on the dates desired (October 5th-8th). As a consequence we are postponing the event until further notice.  Please do not make travel plans at this time. Updates will be forthcoming on the devcon one website …. Source link

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Bitcoin

Morgan Stanley’s MSSE and MSOL ETPs Bring Staking Yields to Regulated Crypto

Morgan Stanley Investment Management has launched two new exchange-traded products tracking Ether and Solana, both with staking rewards passed directly to investors, a first in the crypto ETP space. This extends a crypto push that began with its Bitcoin fund in April 2026. The move makes Morgan Stanley one of the first major US commercial

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Crypto

What happens if a prediction market is delisted?

Prediction market guides explain how contracts resolve and pay. Almost none explain what happens when a market never gets that far, because it was voided, suspended by a court, renamed mid-life, or pulled by the exchange. The answers live in rulebooks and incident history, and they differ enough to matter. Summary A prediction market can

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Ethereum

Security Advisory [Implementation bugs in Go and Python clients can cause DoS – Fixed – Please update clients]

State transition and consensus issue in geth client causes panic (crash) when processing a (valid) block with a specific combination of transactions, which may cause overall network instability if block is accepted and relayed by unaffected clients thus causing a DoS. This may happen in a block that contains transactions which suicide to the block

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Bitcoin

Robinhood (HOOD) slides 4% as crypto revenue sharply fell

Robinhood (HOOD) topped Wall Street’s second-quarter expectations, but shares fell about 4% in after-hours trading, adding to their 3.1% decline during Wednesday’s session. The online brokerage reported adjusted earnings per share of $0.62, well ahead of analysts’ $0.43 estimate, while revenue climbed 32% from a year earlier to a record $1.31 billion, narrowly topping the

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Crypto

CFTC loses Wisconsin bid to shield prediction markets

A federal judge has rejected the CFTC’s request to stop Wisconsin from enforcing state gambling laws against federally regulated prediction market platforms. Summary Judge William Griesbach denied the CFTC’s request for a preliminary injunction against Wisconsin. The court found sports event contracts may fall within Wisconsin’s commercial gambling laws. Wisconsin is pursuing cases against Kalshi,

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Ethereum

Security Alert – [Implementation bug in Go clients causing increase in difficulty – Fixed – Miners check and update Go clients]

Implementation bug in the go client leads to steady increase of difficulty independent of hashing power. Affected configurations: All Go client versions v1.0.x, v1.1.x, release and develop branches. The bug was introduced in a recent update and release through commit https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/commit/7324176f702a77fc331bf16a968d2eb4bccce021 which went into the affected client versions. All miners running earlier mentioned versions are

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