Ethereum News

Ethereum News

Markets

Yet another crypto bridge falls victim to an $11 million hack

The latest attack adds to growing string of cross-chain infrastructure exploits.

Hacker facing screens with lines of code (Boitumelo/Unsplash)

Tech

The $293 million KelpDAO hack shows why DeFi is finally being forced to grow up

For protocol founders and security researchers, the incident reinforced a broader shift underway across crypto: DeFi is no longer primarily battling coding bugs. It’s battling complexity.

Hacker facing screens with lines of code (Boitumelo/Unsplash)

Tech

The Protocol: Solana’s ‘Alpenglow’ upgrade is live for testing

Also: LayerZero apology, Ronin layer-2 transition and ‘Clear Signing’

Digital screens, business & work. (Joshua Aragon/Pixabay)

Tech

The Ethereum Foundation unveils new 'Clear Signing' standard to stop users from approving malicious crypto transactions

The move comes after billions in losses from phishing attacks and wallet drains, with Ethereum pushing to make transaction approvals safer and easier to understand.

Graphic showing ethereum symbol on a grid with screens. (Ethereum)

Markets

ETH/BTC ratio falls to 10-month low as ether continues to underperform bitcoin

Widely followed crypto market gauge signals weakening risk appetite as investors continue favoring bitcoin over ether.

ETH/BTC (TradingView)

Finance

Galaxy Digital to manage Sharplink’s new $125 million onchain yield play

The Galaxy Sharplink Onchain Yield Fund would receive $100 million from Sharplink’s staked ETH treasury and $25 million from Galaxy.

Daytrading bitcoins financial markets at a coffeeshop. (Austin Distel/Unsplash)

Finance

Tom Lee's Bitmine slows down ether purchases after already buying 1 million tokens this year

The firm bought roughly 26,000 ether last week, a sharp decline from the average of the previous weeks' 100,000.

Tom Lee, chairman of Bitmine and cofounder of Fundstrat, speaking at Consensus 2026 in Miami (CoinDesk)

Tech

Ronin set to transition to Ethereum layer 2 from independent sidechain

The purpose behind the migration is to enhance security, tokenomics and scalability, said Ronin, which suffered the largest DeFi bridge exploit on record in 2022.

Computer keyboard with multicolored LED keys (Mateo/Unsplash)

Policy

Judge clears path for Aave to move $71 million in ETH linked to North Korea hack

Judge Margaret Garnett allowed frozen exploit funds on Arbitrum to move to Aave, but the legal freeze follows the assets as terrorism plaintiffs continue their claim.

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Finance

Bitmine to slow down ether purchases as it nears accumulation goal, Tom Lee says

At the current pace of purchases, Lee said his Ethereum treasury giant would reach its 5% ether accumulation goal in six weeks, then shift its focus to staking and share buybacks.

Tom Lee, chairman of Bitmine and cofounder of Fundstrat, speaking at Consensus 2026 in Miami (CoinDesk)