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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.
Odaily News: Monument Bank has delayed its project to tokenize £250 million (approximately $330 million) in UK retail bank deposits by several months, as the bank was unable to find a local crypto custodian in the UK that meets Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) standards and can handle zero-knowledge privacy proofs. Monument Bank founder Mintoo Bhandari stated that the bank originally planned to tokenize customer deposits on the privacy-focused public blockchain Midnight, and expects it will take another two months, with a launch to retail customers in November. To meet regulatory requirements, the bank has expanded its search for custody partners overseas and has found an FCA-approved Canadian custodian.Midnight is a privacy-first Layer 1 blockchain project funded by Charles Hoskinson that uses zero-knowledge proofs to keep customer information within Monument's systems while allowing the bank to prove compliance on-chain and provide audit records to regulators. Monument Bank announced the project in March of this year, planning to offer tokenized private equity, structured products, and automated Lombard loans to "mass affluent" customers with investable assets between £50,000 and £5 million. Bhandari stated that customer deposits will continue to earn interest, be fully backed by Monument, redeemable 1:1 for pounds, and protected by the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) up to £120,000 per person or per company.
the Midnight Foundation has provided an update on the handling of the cross-chain bridge attack event involving Wanchain Cardano and BNB. Multiple exchanges including KuCoin, Kraken, Binance, Bybit, OKX, Gate, and MEXC have coordinated risk control actions, temporarily freezing the involved accounts and associated addresses, adding the hacker wallet to a blacklist, and pausing NIGHT token deposits and withdrawals as needed to curb the transfer and cashing out of stolen assets.The Foundation specifically noted that this security incident is an isolated incident related to a third-party cross-chain bridge, and the Midnight mainnet and native NIGHT assets have not been affected. The project team continues to collaborate with major exchanges and ecosystem partners to advance traceability investigations, reminding the community to rely on official disclosures for information and to be cautious of misinformation.