Aquifer, a Solana-based automated market maker, suffered a $2.5 million loss due to an exploit involving compromised wallets on both Solana and Ethereum. The protocol has offered the attacker a 20% whitehat bounty if at least 80% of the stolen assets are returned by September 3. The exact method of compromise remains unclear, with no evidence yet that Aquifer's smart contracts were directly exploited. This incident highlights ongoing security challenges in DeFi, especially related to wallet access rather than smart contract vulnerabilities.
About 74.12% of Solana's circulating tokens, or 437 million SOL, are staked, locking up roughly $45 billion worth of SOL and leaving only 152.6 million tokens freely tradable. This high staking ratio restricts daily market supply, explaining Solana's...
Open interest in Bitcoin (BTC) and four other major cryptocurrencies fell notably within 24 hours, with XRP experiencing the sharpest drop of 7.02% to $415.4 million. BTC open interest declined 6.35% to $7.79 billion, while Ether (ETH), Solana (SOL),...
U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs experienced a significant outflow of $635.6 million on Thursday, wiping out nearly 60% of the $1.07 billion inflows over the previous three days and turning October net flows negative by about $176 million. Ethereum and Solana ...
Securitize has listed 12 major U.S. stocks, including Apple, Nvidia, and Tesla, as security tokens on the Solana blockchain. These tokens are backed 1:1 by actual shares, providing regulated on-chain access to traditional equities. This move could in...
The total cryptocurrency market capitalization declined by 6.37% to $2.74 trillion as of October 22, with Bitcoin falling 4.04% to $81,255. Other major tokens like Ether, Solana, Dogecoin, XRP, and BNB also saw notable losses, with Dogecoin and XRP d...
