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Taiko Halts Ethereum L2 Block Production After .7 Million Bridge Exploit

Taiko Halts Ethereum L2 Block Production After $1.7 Million Bridge Exploit

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Taiko confirmed compromise of its chain state verification mechanism, rendering bridge security assumptions unreliable. Attacker drained approximately $1.7 million from the ERC20 Vault on Ethereum via forged proofs. Project halted all block production and urged users to withdraw funds from all bridges immediately. TAIKO token dived around 10% following the incident. Ethereum Layer 2 scaling solution Taiko has taken its...

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Humanity Protocol Hit by M Private Key Exploit as H Token Crashes Nearly 90%

Humanity Protocol Hit by $32M Private Key Exploit as H Token Crashes

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Around 17 wallets interacting with Humanity Protocol were drained for over $32 million in an ongoing exploit. Founder Terence Kwok confirmed a private key compromise of a Humanity Foundation member. The H token crashed up to 90%, trading near $0.13 after selling pressure from stolen and minted tokens. The project urged users to avoid bridges and liquidity pools while investigations continue. Humanity Protocol, a...

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Potential Privacy Token Debacle Rocks Secretive World

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The cryptocurrency sector has long thrived on the promise of privacy, but the recent revelation of a critical bug in Zcash has shaken confidence in the very foundations of the privacy token market. The vulnerability, disclosed by developers after being discovered on May 29 by an AI-assisted security auditor, could have allowed rampant counterfeiting of ZEC tokens for nearly four years—without detection. While Shielded Labs, the nonprofit...

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The Zcash Orchard Vulnerability

The Zcash Orchard Vulnerability

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On May 29, 2026—one day after Anthropic released its powerful Opus 4.8 model—a security researcher named Taylor Hornby made a discovery that sent shockwaves through the Zcash ecosystem. Hired by Shielded Labs specifically to hunt for protocol weaknesses before malicious actors could, Hornby used the new AI model in a targeted review of the Orchard circuit. What he found was not a minor implementation error. It was a fundamental soundness...

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White Hat Hacker Unlocks Million in ETH Trapped for Nine Years in 2016 ICO Smart Contract

White Hat Hacker Unlocks $2 Million in ETH Trapped for Nine Years in 2016 ICO Smart Contract

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A pseudonymous white hat developer known as 0xflorent recovered roughly 1,003.62 ETH (about $2 million) locked in a 2016 HongCoin ICO contract. The funds, belonging to 48 original investors, became trapped due to a bug in the refund mechanism after the project failed to meet its funding goal. The recovery exploited an integer overflow flaw in an admin function, executed in coordination with the project team. Investors can now...

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