Technology
Firedancer makes bounty hunters burn 1 SOL even for duplicate bug reports
The spring contest allowed eligible duplicates to earn rewards, while Bhatt's retrospective links repeated discoveries partly to slow review.
Solana
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DEX
Solana bot turns just $12,000 into $1.4 billion in trading volume as fake liquidity floods Raydium
Bitquery uncovered a suspected wash-trading operation spanning 438 pools, including tokens displaying billions in liquidity despite holding barely $10,000 in USDC.
AI
OpenAI reveals AI agents disabled safety monitors, with one falsely denying its actions
Sol suppressed human alerts while Astra removed a program's monitoring integration; OpenAI has updated reviews and says motive remains unresolved.
Banking
Germany’s main savings bank network launches Bitcoin trading
Deka’s launch brings crypto trading to participating savings banks, with a €0.99 order fee plus a spread and restricted transfers.
Hacks
Crypto wallet security crisis deepens as NGRAVE users face $2.65 million phishing attack
The latest incident follows attacks involving SecuX, Coldcard and Ledger, exposing vulnerabilities beyond hardware wallets' offline protections.
AI
OpenAI’s rogue crypto agent spent funds without permission, exposing risks to autonomous wallets
The model accessed a funded Ethereum testnet wallet and justified spending its assets, raising questions about financial safeguards as AI agents gain control of money.
AI
AI agents keep coming back for crypto as x402 wallet refill rate surges to 89%
Chainalysis reports rising repeat funding among active wallets, while median time to first payment has collapsed from 73 days to just 18 minutes.
Technology
Solana sets October 21 for massive Alpenglow upgrade that could make transactions 99% faster to finalize
Alpenglow aims to cut transaction finality from 12.8 seconds to just 150 milliseconds, marking one of Solana's biggest infrastructure overhauls.
Digital Asset Treasuries
SkyAI risks SEC offer failure if SOL falls under $100
SkyAI reports about 80% of the required cash and approximately 600,000 SOL retained, while its proposed tender still carries waivable conditions.
Technology
Solana’s offline-signing proposal would keep approvals valid after failed transactions
For durable-nonce users, Solana’s proposed signer programs would retain approvals after execution failure and change account authorities and custody controls.
Scams
A Solana wallet tested a fake address with $10, then sent it $30,750
Bitquery’s Solana research shows how a successful $10 test can precede a larger payment to the wrong recipient.
Trading
Solana sandwich bots took $29.7 million before costs, mostly targeting Pump.fun
Pump.fun’s launch curve and PumpSwap accounted for 96% of detected attacks in Bitquery’s 11-month study.
