Apps & Wallets

Ledger’s Data Incident Is a Supply-Chain Lesson, Not a Wallet Lesson: What This Breach Really Changes
2026-01-06 08:45

Ledger’s Data Incident Is a Supply-Chain Lesson, Not a Wallet Lesson: What This Breach Really Changes

Ledger says its core systems and seed phrases remain safe after a customer-data exposure tied to third-party payments partner Global-e. The bigger takeaway isn’t about hardware wallets being compromised—it’s about how modern crypto security is increasingly shaped by “boring” external vendors: checkout, shipping, cloud, and customer-support stacks. The breach changes the threat model from key theft to identity-driven phishing, and that shift deserves a different kind of vigilance.

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UNIfication: How Uniswap’s New Fee and Burn Model Rewires UNI’s Value Proposition
2025-12-28 16:00

UNIfication: How Uniswap’s New Fee and Burn Model Rewires UNI’s Value Proposition

The UNIfication proposal marks a historic shift for Uniswap: protocol fees are finally activated, 100 million UNI have been burned, front-end fees are set to zero, and future revenue streams are explicitly routed through governance. Instead of capturing value primarily at the company layer, Uniswap is now directing more of the economic upside back to the protocol and its token holders.

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Kora and the Next UX Leap on Solana: From Blockchain Jargon to Invisible Infrastructure
2025-12-23 15:50

Kora and the Next UX Leap on Solana: From Blockchain Jargon to Invisible Infrastructure

Solana Foundation’s new Kora infrastructure is designed to make on-chain activity feel less like using a blockchain and more like interacting with a familiar Web2 app. By letting applications cover fees, accept almost any token for payments, and isolate transaction signing in secure environments, Kora aims to remove three of the biggest frictions that keep mainstream users away from on-chain experiences.

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X402: When AI Agents Learn to Pay Their Own Bills
2025-12-21 15:55

X402: When AI Agents Learn to Pay Their Own Bills

The x402 standard turns the old HTTP 402 error into a native checkout flow for AI agents, allowing them to pay in stablecoins directly over the internet without accounts or API keys. Backed by players like Coinbase, Cloudflare and Solana, it points to a future where economic activity increasingly flows between machines rather than only between human wallets.

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MoMA, CryptoPunks and the Moment NFTs Enter the Art Canon
2025-12-21 10:05

MoMA, CryptoPunks and the Moment NFTs Enter the Art Canon

The Museum of Modern Art in New York has added eight CryptoPunks to its permanent collection, signaling that NFTs are no longer just a speculative experiment but a chapter in the story of contemporary art. This piece unpacks why that matters, how it changes the conversation around digital ownership, and what it might mean for the next generation of artists and collectors.

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MetaMask Adds Native Bitcoin And Prediction Markets: From Ethereum Wallet To Multi-Chain Super App
2025-12-16 09:20

MetaMask Adds Native Bitcoin And Prediction Markets: From Ethereum Wallet To Multi-Chain Super App

MetaMask has moved beyond its Ethereum-only roots by adding native support for the Bitcoin network and integrating on-chain prediction markets such as Polymarket. The update turns the browser wallet into a true multi-chain access point, reduces reliance on wrapped assets, and positions MetaMask as a competitor to centralized exchanges and trading apps — just as Consensys prepares a MASK token and a potential IPO.

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Ledger’s Dimensity 7300 Warning: What It Really Means for Solana Seeker and Mobile Crypto Security
2025-12-05 14:45

Ledger’s Dimensity 7300 Warning: What It Really Means for Solana Seeker and Mobile Crypto Security

Ledger’s research team has disclosed that MediaTek’s Dimensity 7300 chip, used in a range of Android devices including Solana’s Seeker phone, can be compromised using specialised electromagnetic equipment during the boot process. The issue sits inside the silicon itself and cannot be fixed by a software update, raising understandable questions for anyone keeping crypto keys on a smartphone. This article explains what the vulnerability is, who it really affects, and how to think about mobile self-custody in a brand-safe, practical way.

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Trust Wallet Turns Into a Prediction Hub: What Its New “Predictions” Feature Really Means
2025-12-02 19:19

Trust Wallet Turns Into a Prediction Hub: What Its New “Predictions” Feature Really Means

Trust Wallet is rolling out “Predictions”, a self-custodial hub for onchain prediction markets that starts with Myriad and is set to plug into platforms like Kalshi and Polymarket. The move pushes the wallet deeper into advanced trading and information markets, while raising important questions about regulation, risk and how everyday users should think about event-driven contracts inside a wallet they already use.

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Aave App Wants to Be Your Next Savings Account – And a Trojan Horse for On-Chain Finance
2025-11-18 11:03

Aave App Wants to Be Your Next Savings Account – And a Trojan Horse for On-Chain Finance

Aave Labs has launched Aave App, a retail savings application that wraps DeFi yields in a bank-like experience, advertising a 5% base rate with boosts up to 9% APY, second-by-second compounding and balance protection up to 1 million dollars. Behind the marketing is a serious attempt to connect more than 12,000 banks and debit cards to one of DeFi’s largest lending protocols and challenge both high-yield fintechs and traditional savings accounts.

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From Blue-Chip Pools to Permissionless Credit: Can Agoralend (AGORA) Rewrite DeFi’s Lending Rulebook?
2025-11-06 23:45

From Blue-Chip Pools to Permissionless Credit: Can Agoralend (AGORA) Rewrite DeFi’s Lending Rulebook?

Aave and Curve Finance became blue-chip pillars by prioritizing risk-managed collateral and deep, stable liquidity. Agoralend claims a different path: permissionless markets for almost any ERC-20 (from stablecoins to memecoins), dual P2P/P2C matching, multi-chain reach, audits, and a buyback-and-burn token model. We dissect the architecture, incentives, and risk plumbing that must work for AGORA to scale without repeating DeFi’s long-tail collateral blowups.

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