US deposit rates choke USDC adoption, and a BIS model reveals why
A Bank for International Settlements research paper shows that rising US bank deposit rates slow USDC adoption more than USDT adoption, highlighting…
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Bitcoin’s quantum-safe protection gets 82% cheaper as researchers race to secure 6 million exposed BTC
Cheaper GPU computation supports specially prepared QSB spends, while conventional funding signatures and direct miner access limit practical use. The post Bitcoin’s…
A Solana wallet tested a fake address with $10, then sent it $30,750
A Solana wallet fell victim to an address poisoning scam, losing over $30000 after testing a fake lookalike payment destination found in…
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Solana sandwich bots took $29.7 million before costs, mostly targeting Pump.fun
Blockchain analytics firm Bitquery reports that sandwich bots siphoned approximately $29.7 million in gross value from Solana transactions, with 96% of the attacks targeting the Pump.fun platform.
Newer AI models missed more payment fraud in Coinbase’s benchmark
Coinbase announced that newer iterations of three prominent AI model families failed to catch as many fraudulent payments during a historical payment-screening benchmark for its Onramp service, challenging the assumption…
ETH fee burns cover just 2% of new coins printed in 2026
Ethereum transaction fees have neutralized only 2.07% of newly minted coins in 2026, adding nearly 778,413 ETH to the total supply as discussions continue around gas limits and Glamsterdam upgrades.
Polygon’s 8 million USDT0 holders face scrutiny as 58% of growth matches scam patterns
An investigation by Bitquery reveals that 58% of the net increase in Polygon's USDT0 user base since August 2025 stems from suspected address-poisoning scams, complicating network growth metrics.
Backing Polymarket’s primary favorites would have lost 4%, new audit finds.
A new Bitquery audit reveals that backing leading favorites on Polymarket across 2026 U.S. primaries would have resulted in a 4% loss, despite those candidates winning 87% of the time.
Solana’s geographic speed plan trusts validator locations the network cannot verify
A proposed scheduling plan aims to accelerate Solana block generation by grouping validators geographically, but it relies on unverified self-reported locations and raises security concerns regarding extended adversarial control.
PumpFun is making millions from a market where 81% of memecoins crashed 90%
Solana memecoin launchpad Pump.fun continues generating millions in revenue even as a study reveals that 81% of established memecoins have crashed 90% from their all-time highs.