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L-BTC Hacked for 4000 BTC

“White Hacker” Prints $320 Million of L-BTC, Backed by Nothing

Liquid’s Bitcoin sidechain drained yesterday (6th september, 2026), without a stolen key, compromised multisig, or direct attack on the Bitcoin blockchain. A flaw in the...

DeFi

Agentic Payments: We Gave Agents Wallets Before We Gave Them Limits

A developer in 2026 can give an AI agent a funded wallet in an afternoon. Circle’s Agent Stack, which launched on May 11, hands an...

Artificial Intelligence
List of 2026 Dead web3 Project

The 2026 Crypto Shakeout: What 100+ Dead Projects Leave Behind

More than 100 dead web3 crypto projects — BitMEX, POAP, Tally, Zapper, Moonbeam and others — shut down in 2026. A data-driven look at why...

Blockchain
The Next Web3 Infrastructure May Be Confidential Computing

The Next Web3 Infrastructure May Be Confidential Computing

Consider an AI trading agent deployed on a public blockchain. The agent receives a user’s private strategy, reasons over it, and submits a transaction. Every...

Blockchain
TVL is Misleading: The Hidden Risks Inside Tokenized Assets

TVL is Misleading: The Hidden Risks Inside Tokenized Assets

Total Value Locked (TVL) has become the default scoreboard for tokenized Real-World Assets (RWAs). This category now sits anywhere between $17 billion and $35 billion,...

Blockchain
Web3 Developer Tool Stack

The Web3 Developer Tool Stack in June 2026: Confidential Compute, Cross-Chain Execution, and AI Agent Wallets Go Mainstream

Arcium hits 1 million confidential computations on Solana, ZINC breaks into top 3 revenue protocols, and a wave of developer tools lands including MintLocke, Universal...

Blockchain
Inco enables developers to easily create confidential smart contracts with private data types, operations and programmable access control.

Confidential Smart Contracts on Base: A Deep Technical Look at Inco Lightning

Public blockchains made a radical trade. In exchange for trustlessness, they put everything on display — every balance, every transfer, every bid, every vote, forever....

Privacy

Best New Web3 Developer Tools of June 2026: MintLocke, Universal Gas Framework, Elytro, and MetaMask Go Agentic

MintLocke brings self-custodial DeFi automation, Universal Gas Framework solves cross-chain gas pain, Elytro gives AI agents spending power, and MetaMask launches its own AI Agent...

Blockchain
How to Build a Verifiable dApp on EigenCloud - A Developer Guide to the Full Stack

How to Build a Verifiable dApp on EigenCloud: A Developer’s Guide to the Full Stack

EigenCloud is more than a rebrand; it is a complete infrastructure stack for developers who need off-chain computation to carry the same trust guarantees as...

Artificial Intelligence

Zcash’s Invisible Money Printer: Inside the Orchard Soundness Bug

A four-year-old flaw in Zcash’s flagship privacy circuit could have minted counterfeit ZEC that no one would ever be able to see or find out...

Blockchain
Beyond Restaking: How EigenCloud Is Rebuilding Blockchain Infrastructure From the Ground Up

Beyond Restaking: How EigenCloud Is Rebuilding Blockchain Infrastructure From the Ground Up

What started as EigenLayer, a restaking protocol that let Ethereum validators reuse staked ETH to secure additional services, has become something considerably more ambitious. In...

Blockchain
QDay

Quantus Q-Day Event Predicts the Demise of Bitcoin

Quantus convened cryptographers, blockchain builders, and investors at the Network School to thrash out how blockchains should upgrade for the post-quantum era. The event was...

Blockchain

HACKATHONS

Solana Fall Hackathon 2026 (Colosseum)

28 Sep – 2 Nov 2026 · Happening now

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Zerion

Zerion operates as a software wallet on Ethereum. It sits within the Web3 wallets category. The project is described by its maintainers as using AI or machine learning. The team maintains a presence on LinkedIn.

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Tychi Wallet

Tychi Wallet operates as a software wallet on Arbitrum. It sits within the Web3 wallets category. Further details are published at tychiwallet.com. Chain coverage recorded at the time of listing: Arbitrum.

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UKey Wallet

UKey Wallet is listed as a software wallet on Arbitrum. It sits within the Web3 wallets category. The team maintains a presence on Discord and Telegram. Further details are published at ukey.com. Chain coverage recorded at the time of listing: Arbitrum.

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UTORG

UTORG is listed as a software wallet on Arbitrum. It sits within the Web3 wallets category. The project is described by its maintainers as using AI or machine learning. The team maintains a presence on Telegram and LinkedIn.

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Unhosted

Unhosted is listed as a smart contract wallet on Arbitrum. It also appears under Software wallets. The project is described by its maintainers as using AI or machine learning. Resources include developer documentation. The team maintains a presence on Discord and Telegram.

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UniPass Wallet

UniPass Wallet is a smart contract wallet on Polygon. It sits within the Web3 wallets category. Resources include a public GitHub repository. Further details are published at unipass.id. Chain coverage recorded at the time of listing: Polygon.

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