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MANTRA Chain remained halted on Aug. 21 after the team said an attacker exploited a vulnerability in an upstream dependency. Transactions, transfers, and staking are unavailable while the mainnet is paused.MANTRA identified the vulnerable software only as an upstream dependency. In its official incident record, the team said it was tracing fund movements, working with exchange partners, and continuing to assess the complete scope.The incident record shows MANTRA first froze endpoints and transactions while reviewing the root cause and impact. It later attributed the precautionary halt to an attacker exploiting the upstream dependency, then announced the patched release and testnet…

Justin Sun escalated his public fight with Donald Trump-backed World Liberty Financial on Friday, accusing its USD1 stablecoin of carrying administrative powers that allow privileged operators to move funds from frozen wallets without holder consent.On Aug. 21, the Tron founder alleged that World Liberty’s published source code does not match the contract currently running on-chain, arguing that the discrepancy amounts to evidence of deceptive deployment and comparing it with techniques used in rug pulls.Sun said the live USD1 implementation can drain or reallocate balances after an address has been frozen, meaning cold storage or multisignature custody would not prevent intervention…

Olenox Industries is an energy company that acquired Bitcoin miner CS Digital Ventures in May. It reported preliminary July production of 15.13 BTC against a June 30 balance sheet. The balance sheet carried $1.21 million of cash and $26.26 million of current liabilities.However, the output had a gross value of about $1.16 million at the Aug. 21 Bitcoin spot price of $76,371.25. It was not equivalent to disclosed revenue, sale proceeds or available cash. For part of the fleet, Olenox received the full Bitcoin output. It still owed a hosting invoice for power, management fees and profit share that had…

The United States Mint has presented the National 9/11 Memorial & Museum with 2,983 specially struck 1776 ~ 2026 Enduring Liberty half dollars, each carrying a 9/11 privy mark. The mintage matches the 2,983 names inscribed on the Memorial, honoring those killed in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and the Feb. 26, 1993, World Trade Center bombing. Special issue 1776 ~ 2026 Enduring Liberty half dollar with an enlarged view of the Always Remember 9 11 01 privy mark Struck at the West Point Mint in New York, the coins were delivered ahead of next month’s 25th-anniversary observances and during…

The suspected Bitcoin address at the center of Maya Protocol’s Aug. 18 exploit still held about 20.8273 BTC with no outgoing spend on Aug. 21, while no published recovery plan accounted for the much larger estimated impact across the cross-chain liquidity protocol’s pools. Related ReadingMAYAChain’s $1.36 million exploit spiraled into nearly $11 million of pool damage Public Bitcoin data showed 20.82731228 BTC funded, zero spent, 11 confirmed transactions and none waiting in the mempool. Ten initial deposits totaling 20.82730682 BTC arrived at 17:32:18 UTC on Aug. 18, while a later 546-satoshi transaction raised the total slightly. At today’s Bitcoin price, the…

Shade Protocol says only SHD burned before 18:00 UTC on Aug. 21 will qualify for a future Feather allocation, leaving holders hours to choose whether to permanently destroy their tokens for undisclosed terms. The deadline comes amid Shade’s wind-down of its Secret Network applications.Holders enter through Shade’s burn form, submit SHD, and record an Ethereum-compatible address. The transaction permanently destroys the SHD and cannot be reversed. Feather’s allocation ratio, amount, price, and distribution date remain undisclosed, and Shade’s original explanation says the process does not guarantee a specific amount, price, or timeline. Missing the deadline costs Feather eligibility; meeting it…

Four consecutive sessions of U.S. spot Bitcoin ETF inflows have revived a regulated demand channel just as the U.S. Treasury offered investors a 2.973% real yield for nearly three decades.The ETF complex drew $1.61 billion from Aug. 17 through Aug. 20, according to Farside Investors. On Aug. 20, Treasury’s February 2056 TIPS reopening cleared at a real yield 50 basis points above the same security’s original-issue yield in February.Bitcoin is trading near $77,821 on Aug. 21, up 7.2% over 24 hours. However, the next measure of the rally’s durability arrives quickly. $183 billion of two-, five-, and seven-year Treasury note…

US prosecutors have expanded an eight-year-old hacking case tied to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, adding eight defendants and linking six of them to the 2017 HBO breach that included a $6 million Bitcoin extortion attempt.A 14-count second superseding indictment unsealed Aug. 18 charges 17 people connected to Iran-based Mabna Institute, up from nine defendants named when the Justice Department first brought the case in 2018.Prosecutors allege Mabna operated as a private company that carried out cyber intrusions on behalf of the IRGC and other Iranian government, university and private-sector clients.Six of the newly added defendants, including Behzad Mesri, Saeid…

Intchains Group is pulling back from fresh Ethereum purchases after its first-half revenue collapsed by 94% and is now focused on redirecting capital toward a new mining chip and early-stage AI initiatives.On Aug. 20, the Nasdaq-listed altcoin mining-machine maker said revenue fell to RMB11.1 million (around $1.6 million) from RMB175.6 million a year earlier. Nearly all of that came from a RMB10.9 million sale of non-core chip inventory to a related party, underscoring the weakness in its core hardware business.Against that backdrop, Intchains said it no longer anticipates “material additional accumulation” of cryptocurrency as it prioritizes capital for developing and…

The US derivatives regulator is exploring a market for futures tied to AI computing power just as Bitcoin miners pour hundreds of millions of dollars into data centers, but the contracts may leave their biggest risks untouched.On Aug. 19, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) opened a consultation on compute derivatives, seeking feedback on the size and liquidity of underlying markets, manipulation risks, customer protections and perpetual futures tied to computing capacity.CFTC Chairman Michael Selig said a robust derivatives market for compute would be important to US competitiveness in artificial intelligence, describing the consultation as an initial step toward establishing…