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Odaily News: Trader loshmi stated that he closed all positions on September 13, realizing $327,400 in profits from 30 days of public trading. He said he began buying when STONK had a market cap of approximately $1 million over a month ago and continued to add to his position as the price declined.Stonkfun is a Solana token launch platform that went live on August 3, allowing creators to pair new tokens with tokenized stocks. STONK is the platform's native token.loshmi disclosed that his portfolio once rose from $5,000 to over $25,000 before falling back to $4,000; during this period, he also lost over $6,000 due to a hack. He cited fatigue from intensifying competition in recent market trading as the reason for closing his positions. (Bitcoin.com News)
Empowa, a Cardano ecosystem project, disclosed two interrelated unauthorized asset transfer incidents across its three project wallets. Between November 2025 and June 2026, approximately 143,710 ADA were transferred out of one project treasury wallet in 18 transactions. The corresponding Midnight airdrop for this wallet was also registered and claimed by an unknown party using the private key, with approximately 36,000 NIGHT already transferred away. From June 2026 to August 2026, a cumulative total of approximately 4.24 million EMP tokens were transferred out of the other two project wallets, with portions sold via platforms such as Minswap and VyFi. Empowa stated that the funds from both incidents ultimately flowed into the same intermediate wallet, indicating they are controlled by the same party, although the identity of the individuals operating these private keys cannot currently be confirmed. The team has hired a professional blockchain investigation firm and plans to seek KYC information from the centralized exchange where the related funds ultimately entered.
Binance Wallet announced that following a security incident involving the Nesa (NES) token contract, Binance Alpha 2.0 will support NES contract swaps on BNB Smart Chain (BEP20) and provide compensation arrangements for eligible users: first, balances held by users as of 14:51 UTC on August 24, 2026, and maintained through to 04:00 UTC on September 5, 2026, will be swapped to the new contract at a 1:1 ratio; subsequent purchases will not be eligible for the swap and will be refunded separately. Second, users with net purchases of NES between 14:51 UTC on August 24, 2026, and 04:00 UTC on September 5, 2026, will receive an email detailing the specific refund plan within seven working days. Trading of NES on Binance Alpha 2.0 is expected to resume on September 10, 2026, at 08:00 UTC.
The Sandbox stated that it will provide full compensation to affected users for the SAND vulnerability incident on Base and BNB Smart Chain that occurred on August 22. Any wallet that legitimately held cross-chain SAND at the time of the snapshot prior to the incident will receive SAND compensation on the Ethereum network at a 1:1 ratio.
According to the post-incident report released by Tectonic, the Cronos blockchain lending protocol Tectonic suffered an oracle manipulation attack at 12:49 UTC on August 30, 2026. By repeatedly borrowing and re-collateralizing TONIC tokens 98 times within a single transaction, the attacker drove up the TONIC collateral price by approximately 195 times. Leveraging this artificially inflated value, they subsequently extracted assets with a nominal value of $120.4 million from nine lending markets, spanning USDC, USDT, WBTC, WETH, and other assets. The attacker then bridged the stablecoins to Ethereum and converted them to ETH, while selling the remaining assets for CRO on the Cronos chain before withdrawing them. Approximately $9.19 million in total successfully escaped before the network halt. At 14:32 UTC, Cronos validators emergency-paused the network, rolling back the on-chain state to pre-attack conditions and restoring assets still held on Cronos. Currently, Tectonic's supply and borrowing functions remain suspended, while withdrawal and repayment capabilities continue normally. Tracing efforts for the stolen funds are being coordinated by blockchain forensics firms, law enforcement agencies, and stablecoin issuers, with freeze requests already filed with the relevant issuers.
: Harmony has released an update on the exchange reconciliation progress following the August 11 incident. It has verified on-chain deposits/withdrawals and cross-platform fund flows with Binance, Gate, KuCoin, MEXC, OKX, and Binance.US, prioritizing the coordination of restoring ONE deposits, withdrawals, and trading, with specific timelines to be announced separately by each exchange.Harmony stated that after matching 295 cross-exchange transfers totaling approximately 3.493 billion ONE and adjusting for circular transfers and returned funds, the preliminary shortage has been reduced from approximately 10.234 billion ONE to 6.581 billion ONE, a decrease of about 3.653 billion ONE. This change reflects an adjustment in reconciliation methodology and does not equate to newly recovered funds.Among these, Binance's data remains a preliminary upper-bound estimate, while some data from Gate and OKX are still pending final verification. Exchange teams have already frozen significant ONE balances and hacker proceeds. These efforts will be coordinated with the ONE migration and validator transition proposal, and validators may cease operations starting 22:00 Beijing time on September 10.
Odaily News: Bitcoin fork asset BTCB2 hit an all-time high of $1,799 on September 5. Over the past 4 hours, its price has fluctuated between 750 and 1,000 USDC; the Neoxa USDC market recorded a 24-hour trading volume of approximately $1 million.BTCB2 originated from a chain split that occurred on August 8, 2026, at block height 961,632. The network subsequently changed its proof-of-work algorithm to Blake2 and reduced block size, and it can now be mined using Blake2-compatible ASIC miners.Neoxa Exchange and Nonkyc.io have listed BTCB2, with the former offering BTC, USDC, and USDT trading pairs, and the latter offering a USDT trading pair. Both platforms have limited liquidity, and CoinMarketCap and CoinGecko have not yet listed the asset.Based on a BTCB2 price of $1,000, its fully diluted valuation stands at approximately $20.9 billion. Since UTXOs need to be split from Bitcoin first, transactions may otherwise be vulnerable to replay attacks; the network's hash rate has risen by 30.41% over the past 7 days, reaching approximately 5.1 PH/s. (Bitcoin.com News)
According to CriptoNoticias, Argentina's Public Prosecutor's Office (MPF) conducted a specialized training course titled "Virtual Assets: Financial Analysis, Tracking, Detection and Confiscation" via Zoom on August 19 and September 2, 2026, for internal staff, officials, and judges. Led by anti-money laundering specialist Carmen Chena, the curriculum covered digital wallet asset analysis, domestic and international legal frameworks, the cryptocurrency ecosystem, and practical case studies on preservation measures. Previously, Argentina's judiciary had already accumulated extensive experience in cryptocurrency-related cases, including the freezing of 3 million USDT in December 2024 and the 2022 ruling ordering Binance to return stolen BTC.
Odaily News: FUN LONGINUS, the first on-chain game launched by FUNVERSE, will officially go live on the Anubis Chain mainnet at 10:00 UTC on September 1, 2026 (18:00 UTC+8).Originating from a hackathon, FUN LONGINUS is an Eastern martial arts-themed on-chain game built for the Anubis GameFi ecosystem.The game adopts the 24 solar terms as its competitive structure. Each round brings together 24 different addresses, with each player using fLGNS to enter the arena. The execution of matches, determination of results, and final settlement are all handled by smart contracts, ultimately crowning one champion.On August 18, 2026, FUN LONGINUS completed its "Heroes Collective Mint." Based on market prices at the time of writing, the total value of this collective mint exceeded $1.4 million.This mainnet launch marks FUN LONGINUS's official transition from the hackathon prototype, public beta, and collective mint phases into the on-chain game operation stage.
According to PeckShieldAlert, the cryptocurrency industry saw 50 major attack incidents in August 2026, an increase of 67% over the 30 incidents in July. Total losses reached approximately $136.3 million, a 49.5% decrease from the $270 million in July. The Tectonic.cro incident caused approximately $74 million in losses, ranking as the fourth-largest crypto theft of the year, behind only attacks associated with Drift, KelpDAO/LayerZero, and COLDCARDwallet. The attacker managed to cross-chain only around $6 million to Ethereum before Cronos suspended its entire network, leaving the rest of the funds mostly stranded on Cronos. The attacker has since started laundering the illicit proceeds and bridging a portion to Bitcoin, amounting to roughly $200,000 to date. Other significant attack incidents in August involved Moonwell, Termlabs, Coinsbuy, TAC, Injective, MANTRA, BounceBit, Cosmos Labs, and aquifer.
According to an official tweet from Cronos Network, the Cronos network was previously affected by a vulnerability exploit targeting the Tectonic protocol. Validator consensus triggered an emergency halt to block production to protect user assets. The on-chain state has been rolled back to pre-exploit levels, and the network resumed block production at 07:49 Beijing Time on August 31, 2026, starting from block height 90,896,189. Node operators can now upgrade to Cronos v1.7.8 and use the latest mainnet snapshot to restart their nodes. The network remains under continuous monitoring, with select protocols, RPC providers, block explorers, and cross-chain bridges gradually recovering. A full post-mortem report will be released by the team in the near future.
According to CNBC, Andrew Bailey, Governor of the Bank of England and Chairman of the Financial Stability Board (FSB), wrote to G20 finance ministers and central bank governors on August 31 to warn that frontier AI models are exhibiting increasingly sophisticated autonomy and threat capabilities, which could fundamentally alter the speed, scale, and economics of cyberattacks, potentially triggering disorderly adjustments across global financial markets. Bailey noted that highly concentrated third-party service providers will become critical nodes of systemic risk, emphasizing that most countries currently lack regulatory frameworks for the development and deployment of frontier AI. He also flagged vulnerabilities in sovereign debt markets, the growing trend of leverage in equity markets, and the overvaluation of AI-related assets, urging governments to accelerate the refinement of relevant safety mechanisms.
Binance announced that due to a hack on BounceBit and the project team's decision to permanently shut down the chain, Binance will stop supporting the BounceBit (BB) mainnet. Binance has suspended deposits and withdrawals of BB on the BounceBit mainnet as of 10:00 (UTC+8) on August 20, 2026, and will reopen deposits and withdrawals via the BNB Smart Chain (BEP20) network starting at 15:00 on September 1, 2026. BB will be migrated from the original mainnet to the BNB Smart Chain at a 1:1 ratio. During the migration, spot, margin, futures, and Earn services will remain unaffected.
Odaily News: The sandwich attack bot operated by JaredfromSubway.eth has extracted a cumulative total of 117,007 ETH since March 2023, worth approximately $295 million at current prices. In June 2026, an anonymous attacker deployed 66 counterfeit token contracts, exploiting the bot's automated trading logic to steal at least $7.5 million in ETH and stablecoins, and funneled the funds into Tornado Cash. The stolen assets have not yet been recovered.Sandwich attacks are a form of Maximal Extractable Value (MEV): the bot monitors large transactions in Ethereum's public mempool, buys ahead of the target transaction, and sells after the transaction pushes the price up, capturing profits from the spread. The bot's primary contract had received a cumulative total of 117,007 ETH as of August 28.MEV-Boost block construction is centralized among a small group of participants, with relay.ultrasound.money, Titan Relay, and bloXroute regulated relays collectively forwarding approximately 85% to 88% of related blocks within a 24-hour window; Titan's builder independently assembled 50.3% of the blocks. Monthly sandwich attack extraction amounts have declined from approximately $10 million in late 2024 to roughly $2.5 million in October 2025. (Bitcoin.com News)
: Blockchain technology company Starkware stated that on August 26, a transaction using researcher Avihu Levy's Quantum-Safe Bitcoin (QSB) scheme was mined on the Bitcoin mainnet, without requiring a soft fork, hard fork, or modification of consensus rules.The transaction consumed 10,000 sats and was processed through MARA Foundation's Slipstream service, as the non-standard format typically cannot propagate through Bitcoin's public mempool. The test consumed several hours of GPU computation, costing approximately $150 to $200.QSB employs hash-based quantum-resistant spending conditions and reduces quantum attack risks through signature trial mining, but still requires users to proactively migrate funds and cannot protect assets whose public keys have already been exposed. Starkware CEO Eli Ben-Sasson still supports introducing a protocol-level solution via a soft fork. (Bitcoin.com News)
Odaily News: Bitcoin News posted on X platform that U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs have recorded net inflows for 8 consecutive days, totaling $2.8 billion. August has become the strongest month for capital inflows since 2026.As Bitcoin and gold rise in tandem, investors are increasingly seeking to hedge against risks including a weakening U.S. dollar, persistent inflation, and the widening U.S. fiscal deficit. Gold funds have also seen record demand.This shift is beginning to reflect in ETF trading. IBIT and GLD have rejoined the list of the top 10 most-traded ETFs, after semiconductor funds dominated for most of the summer.BlackRock noted that another significant source of demand comes from existing Bitcoin holders moving their tokens into ETFs. The company has so far processed approximately $5 billion in deferred-tax Bitcoin transfers into ETFs, and the minimum conversion amount has recently been lowered from $25 million to $1 million."As we continue to expand access, this scale will continue to grow," said Robbie Mitchnick, Head of Digital Assets at BlackRock.Mitchnick pointed out that incidents such as kidnappings, ransomware attacks, and custody failures are driving some Bitcoin holders to shift toward ETF custody.Bitcoin and gold are once again aligning with the core of the same macroeconomic logic, as the currency debasement trade makes a comeback.
MANTRA has released a complete review of the August 20 security incident. The incident stemmed from an unsigned integer underflow vulnerability in the balance accounting layer of the upstream dependency, cosmos/evm. Without requiring privileged access, the attacker transferred a combined total of 720,923,967.99 MANTRA tokens from a burn address and a legacy genesis multisig address, amounting to approximately $3.6 million at pre-incident prices.
blockchain gaming platform The Sandbox has announced it will compensate users who held bridged SAND on Base or BNB Smart Chain prior to the August 21 bridge vulnerability exploit at a 1:1 ratio. The compensation will be paid using Ethereum-based SAND from the project treasury, with no new tokens being minted.The attack resulted in approximately 14.744 million SAND being stolen from the Ethereum treasury, valued at around $700,000. The claims process is expected to open within two weeks and will last for two weeks; two centralized exchanges holding over 72% of eligible balances will directly distribute compensation to affected customers.The Sandbox stated that the attacker exploited a configuration vulnerability in SAND contracts on Base and BNB Chain, becoming the sole validator of bridge messages and minting unbacked tokens. Additionally, over 339 trillion unbacked SAND tokens were minted across the two networks, but these have been quarantined and cannot be bridged or exchanged. SAND on Ethereum and Polygon was unaffected, and the compromised bridge contracts will be permanently decommissioned. (Cointelegraph)
Odaily News: OneKey Anzen has reproduced the Ledger vulnerability and discovered that Ledger Ethereum app version 1.22.1 contains a transaction replacement vulnerability. When an affected user is attacked, the hardware screen still displays transaction A under review, but the device may sign transaction B, which the user never viewed. OneKey Anzen stated that the issue stems from a race condition between the transaction display logic and the underlying buffer, with the attack requiring the host side to already be compromised by a malicious DApp or intermediary software. Ledger's CTO previously responded that a fix had been rolled out approximately two weeks ago, and users simply needed to update the app. Public information shows that the official tag for version 1.22.2 on Ledger's GitHub appeared on August 24. Ledger's official website states that the issue has been fixed through app-level checksums and SDK-layer patches, with Ledger Secure SDK v26.6.1 released on August 21, and the related apps have been rebuilt and republished. Users need to update the app via Ledger Live — updating only the device firmware will not complete the fix. Ledger stated that there is currently no evidence that this vulnerability has been actively exploited.
According to Decrypt, privacy-focused Bitcoin wallet Sparrow Wallet released version 2.5.4 on August 28. Developer Craig Raw stated that the update was driven by an AI-assisted code review, with the majority of fixes originating from it. This review was prompted by the recent seed generation code vulnerability exploit affecting Coldcard, as well as the release of unrestricted AI models in China, which has significantly enhanced vulnerability scanning capabilities across large codebases. Key updates include: validating the authenticity of transactions returned by Electrum servers, enforcing stricter BitBox02 hardware wallet security requirements (firmware v9.4.0 or higher required), patching local DNS leaks, and masking sensitive credentials in debug logs. Raw noted that there are no indications of any exploits being leveraged, user funds remain secure, and he still advises all users to update at their earliest convenience.