Company
Interoperability company behind the LayerZero messaging protocol, the OFT token standard, the Zero blockchain and the ATLAS exchange backend.
LayerZero's Oct. 20 unlock of 23.63 million ZRO equals 5.92% of circulating supply, about $54.1 million at $2.29, per DefiLlama. At September's roughly $1 the same tokens were worth about $23.6 million.
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Bitcoin traders held $21.9 billion in futures open interest, almost unchanged, while Bitway's BTW token rose 170% in a month. Bitcoin's leveraged longs are still open, so traders closing those bets did not pay for the small-cap run.
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LayerZero has spent about $3.7 million buying back 2.54 million ZRO, against roughly $279 million in open futures positions on the token. Its latest $347,000 buy was 0.2% of a day's spot trading, so traders and promised ATLAS fees are setting the price of a token up 41% in a week.
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Anchorage Digital is cutting about 17% of staff, an estimated 68 jobs, eight months after Tether's $100 million investment valued it at $4.2 billion. That price covered a roughly 2.4% stake, and Anchorage's own 2023 record points to a cost cut it has reversed before.
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Crypto hacks drained $766.49 million in September, a 2026 monthly record, and $387.5 million came from one breach of Bitget's hot wallets. After the money returned from the Liquid Network exploit, that one exchange accounts for about 80% of what stayed stolen.
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Chainlink's CCIP 2.0 cuts a transfer's default checks from two networks to one and lets institutions add their own verifiers back. Paying for the second check now falls to the bank or issuer, five months after a single-verifier bridge setup cost Kelp DAO $292 million.
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The rebate ladder that recruits big exchanges also shrinks the burn: 60 cents of every fee dollar at the bottom tier, 26.25 cents at the top.
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Bitget says attackers took over a wallet backend, faked transaction data and got the exchange's own authorization process to move $351.6 million out. No key was reported stolen, so the failure is in where the approvers got their facts.
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SentinelOne has documented North Korea's Jade Sleet inside a small Indian IT services provider, using Rust backdoors built for Apple Silicon and a Terraform lock file that points developers at a fake HashiCorp registry.
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Proposal 68 passed with 99.4% of a 58% turnout, converting ZETA one for one into a Solana SPL token and ending the Layer 1 that Blockchain.com and Jane Street Capital backed at its January 2024 launch.
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The Stable Token Commission's September 14 memo opens with a $292 million North Korea-linked bridge theft and ends with two access-control lapses under Wyoming's own token, 149 days after the attack that started the review.
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LayerZero shipped a lattice-based proof component on Wednesday; Coinbase gathered Bitcoin developers and custodians at Stanford and left without a chosen signature scheme, which is the piece no date can order.
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The Stable Token Commission has wired an outside examiner's numbers into a Chainlink feed that updates between reports, setting a transparency cadence private issuers did not choose and cannot easily price.
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