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Blockchain software company behind the MetaMask wallet and infrastructure tools for Ethereum developers.
ClearToken and Consensys have partnered to settle tokenised assets and cash 24/7 in wholesale markets. ClearToken supplies legal finality inside the UK regulatory perimeter and Consensys supplies the on-chain kind.
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Consensys is splitting by the end of 2026. The faster-growing wallet business keeps the existing legal entity that lined up JPMorgan and Goldman. Linea, Besu and Teku move to a newly formed company under a new chief executive.
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MetaMask's validator key rotation after its Sept. 30 breach sends clients' staked ETH through exit and re-entry queues of about 45 days each. Joseph Lubin says self-custodied wallets were never within the attackers' reach, so the cost of the incident lands on staking clients.
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MetaMask is pulling its Ethereum validators out of Lido after an infrastructure compromise, putting the stake on a round trip Lido says can take up to 45 days. The stake earns no rewards on the way, and stETH holders share that cost, for an attack whose only documented theft so far is diverted block rewards.
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MetaMask is exiting its Ethereum validators in the Lido protocol by October 7, 2026, as a precaution during an infrastructure incident it has not explained. Lido expects lost rewards and possible downtime penalties, a cost incurred before MetaMask has said what was affected.
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Japan, Germany, Australia and the US say one North Korean group infected 30,000 devices in more than 100 countries to steal $10.7 million, a thin cash yield that points at the identity documents it also took.
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The existing entity keeps operating as MetaMask with Joe Lubin as chief executive, while the protocols business goes out as a newly formed company aimed at a tokenized market Citi sizes at 5.5 to 8.2 trillion dollars by 2030.
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The plan names five leadership positions, two of them Joe Lubin's, and leaves revenue, valuation, ownership percentages and listing intent for later, which is the part anyone pricing either half would need.
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Integration took about a year and Citi says it was not a heavy lift, which leaves the harder question of how many of Swift's 11,500 members follow, since no participant count or volume has been published.
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MetaMask and Trust Wallet both ship poisoning detection, and both keep it on EVM chains, which leaves Tron users doing the character-by-character checking themselves. The two largest victims paid $2.5M each.
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