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Smart contracts power decentralized applications, and smart contract news follows innovations in blockchain automation. These self-executing agreements enable DeFi, NFTs, and DAOs but also face security risks and legal questions. As Ethereum, Solana, and other networks improve scalability, smart contract adoption is transforming finance, gaming, and data security.
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In the summer of 2020, a governance token called COMP turned decentralized finance inside out. Compound, a lending protocol on Ethereum, began distributing COMP tokens to anyone who lent or borrowed on the platform, and within weeks, hundreds of millions…
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In April 2024, a single on-chain vote moved $165 million from Uniswap’s treasury into a two-year grants program. No CEO signed off. No board convened. A collection of token holders, pseudonymous and scattered across every time zone, debated the proposal…
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Every guide says a liquidity lock means safer. On launchpads paying creator fees, the lock is the scam’s revenue engine. What it does and does not cover.
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A binary derivative paying $1 if an outcome happens. How pricing works, where they trade legally, and why regulators still cannot categorize them.
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Aztec has launched the alpha version of its v5 execution layer, introducing a programmable privacy framework that allows Ethereum applications to process both public and private state within the same layer-2 environment. Aztec Labs announced the alpha release of its…
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A smart contract is not smart, and it is barely a contract. It is a small program that lives on a blockchain and runs itself when its conditions are met, with no person to enforce it and no way to…
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Stablecoins’ promise lies in their utility, making them ideal for solving one of the oldest problems: managing risk in an unpredictable world.
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Cross-chain liquidity protocol CrossCurve has been targeted in a smart contract exploit, with attackers draining roughly $3 million across multiple networks. CrossCurve confirmed the exploit via a Feb. 2 X post and has requested all users to “pause all interactions”…
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Chainlink price crashed to the lowest level since Oct. 17, mirroring the performance of most cryptocurrencies.
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Hyperliquid is activating its HIP-3 upgrade on Monday, introducing permissionless perpetual market creation on its decentralized derivatives platform. Hyperliquid (HYPE) is set to take a major leap toward decentralization with the activation of HIP-3 (Hyperliquid Improvement Proposal 3) upgrade. According…
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GLEIF and Chainlink have partnered to provide a trusted on-chain solution for verifying the legal identities behind digital assets and smart contracts. The Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) and Chainlink (LINK) have announced a strategic partnership to develop an…
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DigiFT, Chainlink, and UBS are teaming up to automate the management of tokenized funds in Hong Kong. DigiFT, a licensed exchange for institutional-grade tokenized assets, has teamed up with Chainlink (LINK), the industry-standard oracle platform, and UBS Tokenize, UBS’s in-house…
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Blockstream’s newly launched Simplicity language brings formally verifiable contracts to Bitcoin’s Liquid Network, offering institutions a new logic they can trust. By anchoring to Bitcoin’s UTXO model, it sidesteps the fragility that plagues state-based systems. In a press release dated…
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Grayscale expanded its list of digital assets under review for future investment products, adding 28 new tokens across multiple sectors in its Crypto Sectors framework. Crypto asset manager Grayscale has recently updated its list of digital assets under consideration for…
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The blockchain industry has been waiting for its “iPhone moment”, a product so intuitive, it pulls in mainstream users. With AutoTasks, EASE Protocol may have just delivered it. In a press release shared with crypto.news on July 10, EASE Protocol,…
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Coinbase has launched a $5 million bug bounty program hosted on Cantina, aimed at strengthening the security of its on-chain products and the Base layer 2 network. The program, which was announced on July 8, is one of the biggest…
