Tag: Keys

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DeFi

Arbitrum-based AFX Trade drained of $24 million after bridge keys compromised

Another week, another multi-million-dollar hack in DeFi, and once again, it’s an off-chain compromise rather than a smart contract exploit.AFX Trade, a decentralized perpetuals...
Markets

Ledger wants AI agents to manage crypto without holding your keys

Ledger said is bringing its hardware security model to the fast-growing world of AI agents with the launch of Ledger Agent Stack, an open-source...
Markets

Private keys, not smart contracts, caused 40% of crypto’s $16 billion hack losses. Here’s whats being done.

"Most blockchain infrastructure was originally built for a single-user, single-key model, one private key controls everything, and if that key is lost or stolen,...
DeFi

Alephium Bridge Loses $815K to Forged Guardian Messages, Not Stolen Keys

Alephium's Wormhole-fork TokenBridge was drained on Ethereum and BNB Chain in roughly seven minutes after an off-chain backend flaw let fraudulent messages slip past...
Ethereum

Bitcoin’s biggest quantum risk may not be wallet keys. An early investor fears something bigger

A venture capitalist who has spent a decade backing deep-tech and quantum hardware startups says the bitcoin BTC$73,560.14 industry is fixated on the wrong...
Markets

Anonymous Plaintiff Seeks Legal Title To $293 Billion In Dormant Bitcoin, Without Holding Any Private Keys

A pseudonymous individual calling himself “Noah Doe,” along with two Wyoming LLCs, has filed suit in New York Supreme Court seeking a...
Ethereum

Hack at Vercel sends crypto developers scrambling to lock down API keys

A breach at web infrastructure provider Vercel is forcing crypto teams to rotate API keys and do a deep inspection of their underlying code....
Markets

One person holds the keys to $200 million of a project’s crypto. His co-founder says that has to end

For years, NEO's treasury was held in a setup that would be unusual for most financial institutions: hundreds of millions of dollars in crypto...
DeFi

Bitcoin’s ‘your keys, your coins’ promise just got an expiry date from a new developer proposal

Bitcoin BTC$74,545.19 was built on a promise that no one can touch your coins without your private key. No government, no bank, nobody. That...
Markets

Audit admin keys, not just code, expert says after $200 million Drift exploit: Crypto Daybook Americas

By Omkar Godbole (All times ET unless indicated otherwise)Programmable blockchain Solana's SOL token has hit five-week lows after an exploit at one of its...
DeFi

AI Agents Can Now Transact Via MetaMask Without Accessing Private Keys, Says CoinFello

A new OpenClaw skill from CoinFello addresses a key security issue with AI agents using crypto. The team behind AI agent CoinFello today announced...