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Two Ethereum bridges lose $31.7M within hours as third protocol halts staking
About $31.69M in combined bridge losses and B²'s July 22 staking suspension reveal three distinct control failures.
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Ethereum bridge users have 24 hours to exit before chain shuts down after just 5 week warning
Powerloom claims and unstaking are already closed, leaving liquid balances one final bridge route to Ethereum before 6:00 AM UTC on July 21.
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AscendEX shuts down after MiCA miss and warns some withdrawals may not be processed
Automated payouts are paused after a failed liquidity deal, leaving customers without assurances on timing or amounts.
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Exchanges
Binance will be cut off from Europe on July 1 – Removes the “best liquidity in the world” says CZ
The July 1 deadline will show whether licensed venues can absorb users without weakening execution or stablecoin access.
DeFi
Solana’s $1B USDC mint collides with DeFi app shutdown as users face unfinished Drift recovery
Pyra users face a September exit deadline while fresh Solana minting signals show liquidity moving faster than recovery systems.
Technology
How a single computer file accidentally took down 20% of the internet on Tuesday – in plain English
A tiny Cloudflare bot-file glitch exposed how fragile the internet’s core really is.
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The internet is still broken: A “failed” centralized bottleneck caused the global internet blackout today
A Cloudflare outage exposed the internet’s fragility as services worldwide faltered.
DeFi
If Web3 is decentralized, why do DeFi dApps still break when the cloud goes down?
For all its talk of decentralization, Web3 still lives inside the same data centers as everyone else, and October’s cloud failure made that impossible to ignore.
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How today’s AWS glitch took down Coinbase, ETH L2s, and half the internet
Crypto's dependence on AWS highlights the irony of centralization within decentralized ecosystems.
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Ethereum layer-2 solutions Linea and Polygon stumble with outages and finality delays
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Starknet resumes block production after major outage following Grinta upgrade
Exchanges
Binance futures $90B market went offline last night before 25 minute recovery
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