🚨APTOS FLAW EXPOSING $70 BILLION FOUND BY TWO ETHICAL HACKERS
Two ethical hackers achieved a near 90% success rate exploiting a flaw in Aptos' core consensus mechanism using a server costing just THREE-THOUSAND dollars. The attack exposed a vulnerability that could have theoretically put $70B in network value at risk before it was patched.
The hack cost only hundreds of dollars to execute, highlighting how a relatively inexpensive exploit could have threatened one of crypto's largest Layer 1 networks before the vulnerability was fixed. $APT
$12 trillion asset manager Vanguard is searching for a Head of Digital Assets to lead its strategy across crypto, tokenization, stablecoins, custody, and blockchain finance.
The move follows its decision to allow crypto ETF and mutual fund trading, even as it still refuses to launch its own crypto products.
LATEST: 🚨 Aptos patched a critical flaw discovered by Hexens in February that could have exposed tens of billions of dollars in crypto to systemic risk. $APT
NEW: BonkDAO says it was targeted by a malicious governance proposal that resulted in roughly $20 million worth of BONK being drained from its treasury.
The DAO says it has identified exchange wallets linked to purchases made ahead of the proposal and is working with exchanges, the Solana Foundation and law enforcement. $BONK $SOL
🔥SAYLOR FIRES BACK AT BUTERIN: BITCOIN DOESN’T NEED AN ETHEREUM-STYLE REBUILD
Michael Saylor says Bitcoin will evolve by "changing less" at the protocol layer, just after Vitalik Buterin said Ethereum is entering its "biggest rebuild" since the Merge.
Saylor’s thesis is that Bitcoin’s base layer should harden over time while wallets, apps, institutions and markets build around it.
Meanwhile, Buterin says Ethereum’s new era could replace nearly every major part of the network for quantum resistance, privacy and scaling. $BTC $ETH