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2025-01-17 · EU

EU financial-sector firms must demonstrate operational resilience (incl. ICT third-party risk) — including cryptographic posture.

2025-12-31 · US-NSA

NSA target for new National Security Systems software & firmware to start adopting CNSA 2.0 (Kyber, Dilithium, SHA-2) algorithms.

2026-06-30 · DE-BSI

Annual BSI cryptographic-recommendation refresh — flagged deadline for hybrid (classical + PQC) roll-out in regulated DE.

2027-12-31 · US-NSA

Networking, VPN, and key-management products on NSS networks should fully support CNSA 2.0 algorithms.

2030-12-31 · US-NIST

NIST recommended sunset for classical public-key crypto in federal systems — full PQC migration target.

2033-12-31 · US-NSA

All NSS systems must be using CNSA 2.0 PQC algorithms exclusively.

@CISAgov

Reminder: NSA's CNSA 2.0 timeline is in effect. New software for NSS should now be adopting Kyber, Dilithium, and SHA-2.

@NIST

FIPS 203 (ML-KEM), 204 (ML-DSA) and 205 (SLH-DSA) are now the standards. Migration windows are short for high-value targets.

@matthew_d_green

Harvest-now-decrypt-later isn't a scenario, it's an active intelligence program. The ECDSA signatures you commit today are tomorrow's plaintext.

@hashedout

Bitcoin's quantum exposure isn't a 2040 problem. ~25% of circulating supply sits in P2PKH addresses with exposed pubkeys. Q-Day day-one targets.

@SchneierBlog

If your security architecture cannot survive the public release of CRYSTALS-Kyber breaks, you needed PQC yesterday.

@a16zcrypto

Wallet providers shipping PQC migration paths in 2026 will own the institutional custody narrative for the next decade.

NEWS_THEDEFIANT · INFO

DeFi Fees, Revenue and Holder Payouts: How the Money Flows

Buybacks and burns can count as holder revenue without putting cash in a wallet. A worked example separates those flows from treasury income and staking payouts.

NEWS_THEDEFIANT · INFO

How Pendle Principal Tokens Turn a Discount Into a Maturity Return

An early sale replaces the maturity payoff with a market price. A worked example separates annualized yield, redemption units and costs.

NEWS_THEDEFIANT · INFO

How Staking Rewards Change Token Holdings and Supply Share

In a hypothetical year, a 9% net token reward produces a 3.81% gain in supply share when total supply grows 5%. Dollar returns depend on price.

NEWS_THEDEFIANT · INFO

What Happens When a Uniswap v3 Position Goes Out of Range?

An ETH/USDC worked example tracks token balances, fees and the holding benchmark—and shows why opening a new range does not reset cumulative returns.

NEWS_THEDEFIANT · INFO

What Are Perpetual Funding Rates? A Worked SEI Example

In a hypothetical SEI ledger, a $30 funding transfer equals 0.75% of one trader’s starting collateral and 0.375% of the other’s.

NEWS_COINTELEGRAPH · INFO

Binance says phase one of withdrawals opens after $6.3B hack

The crypto exchange said it has begun phased withdrawals after the record hack the FBI has blamed on North Korea.

NEWS_THEDEFIANT · INFO

How to Read Kraken’s Proof of Reserves—and Its Limits

Kraken’s June 2026 snapshot separates customer-balance inclusion from wallet control. Neither alone guarantees solvency or withdrawal access.

NEWS_THEDEFIANT · INFO

How Circle Makes Money From USDC—and Why Reserve Income Is Not Profit

Circle’s second-quarter accounts trace $701.315 million in revenue and reserve income to $48.214 million in net income, after distribution costs, operating expenses and taxes.

NEWS_THEDEFIANT · INFO

What Zero LTV Means for an Existing Aave Loan

A hypothetical $10,000 collateral position loses $1,500 of borrowing headroom without changing its 1.33 health factor.

NEWS_THEDEFIANT · INFO

Uphold RLUSD Earn vs. Ethena Pay Earn+: Lending and Leverage Compared

An equal-$10,000 illustration shows how rising borrowing costs can turn a leveraged stablecoin strategy negative without a depeg.

NEWS_THEDEFIANT · INFO

USDT vs. USDC: What Backs Them and How Dollar Redemptions Work

Tether publishes a $100,000 minimum for direct redemption. Circle Mint serves institutions, while a separate European policy provides a retail route subject to checks.

NEWS_THEHACKERNEWS · INFO

CVSS 10.0 LXD, MicroCloud Flaw Lets Attackers Impersonate Trusted Clients Without a Private Key

A critical flaw in Canonical's LXD and MicroCloud let an attacker log in as a trusted client without holding that client's private key. To do it, the attacker had to reach their HTTPS API over the network and have the trusted client's public certificate. Once in, the attacker would act as that clien

NEWS_COINTELEGRAPH · INFO

FBI blames North Korea for record $6.3B Binance hack

US agency seeks private-sector help to block further money-laundering of stolen digital assets.

NEWS_THEHACKERNEWS · INFO

Hackers Steal About $2.7 Million From Polymarket Traders via Hijacked DebugBear Script

Malicious code on the website of prediction market Polymarket sold some signed-in traders' positions and moved their funds to the hackers on October 29. The code had replaced a page-speed script that the site loaded from an outside company. Polymarket says it is refunding about $2.7 million to

NEWS_THEHACKERNEWS · INFO

FBI Links North Korea's TraderTraitor to Record $6.43 Billion Binance Crypto Heist

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has officially attributed the theft of more than $6 billion in virtual assets to TraderTraitor, a North Korea-aligned elite hacking group also tracked as Jade Sleet, Pressure Chollima, PUKCHONG, Slow Pisces, and UNC4899. The FBI, along with the U.S. Sec

NEWS_THEHACKERNEWS · INFO

NetamLoader Malware Targets Government Windows 10 Systems in Asia via .NET Injection

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of what has been described as a "highly sophisticated infection chain" targeting government organizations in Asia. The activity, detailed by Kaspersky this week, targeted a custom Windows 10 build used exclusively by government entities in Asia and in

NEWS_THEDEFIANT · INFO

Binance Begins Reopening Withdrawals With Bitcoin After $6.3 Billion Hack

The exchange says it has replenished about 95% of the impacted amount, with less-liquid tokens accounting for the remaining 5%.

NEWS_THEDEFIANT · INFO

Attacker Drains About $437,000 in Collateral From Premia Vaults

The attack moved vault collateral into option pools before withdrawing it as liquidity, according to Blockaid.

NEWS_COINDESK · INFO

FBI confirms North Korea's role in $6 billion Binance hack, asks DeFi community to block BTC, ETH, SOL addresses

While the FBI listed hundreds of addresses in its notice, Chainalysis said the Binance attackers have already used "thousands addresses," and expects this number to continue growing.

NEWS_THEDEFIANT · INFO

FBI Attributes $6 Billion-Plus Binance Hack to North Korea

The bureau named TraderTraitor and sought blocks on the laundering trail, while Binance kept Nov. 1 as its withdrawal restart target.

NEWS_THEDEFIANT · INFO

Jupiter Lend USDC Withdrawal Liquidity Rebounds to 27.9 Million

An Oct. 31 API snapshot showed 6.3% of the vault's 441 million USDC in deposit claims immediately withdrawable.

NEWS_THEDEFIANT · INFO

Morpho Borrow Rates Hit Roughly 40% as PT Market Liquidity Dries Up

Available liquidity in one reUSD-backed market vanished in two hours; rates across four tracked markets eased to roughly 9%–13% by Oct. 31.

NEWS_THEDEFIANT · INFO

Threshold Says tBTC Is Fully Backed as Bridge Pause Continues

Aave’s Ethereum Core tBTC reserve remains frozen, while Gauntlet says roughly 640,000 USDC remains supplied to a tBTC-backed Morpho market.

NEWS_COINDESK · INFO

Bitcoin's white paper turns 18, and small businesses are still paying for the bailouts it answered

Eighteen years after Satoshi published the Bitcoin white paper, business owners are still covering the cost of a system built on bailouts, and they can protect part of their surplus by keeping it in bitcoin, argues Onramp CEO Michael Tanguma.

NEWS_THEDEFIANT · INFO

THORChain Swaps Remain Paused on 12 Chains After Reported Refund Error

Outbound signing is enabled on most affected chains, allowing payments to proceed even while new swaps remain blocked.

NEWS_THEDEFIANT · INFO

Intersect Urges Cardano Operators to Patch Critical Linux Flaw

Ubuntu fixes were still in progress in its Oct. 30 tracker update, while AlmaLinux had patched kernels available for testing.

NEWS_THEDEFIANT · INFO

Tydro Restores $75 Million USDC Borrow Cap After Freeze

The reserve has about $24.5 million of room below the cap, but its $18.6 million in available liquidity sets a lower ceiling on immediate new lending.

NEWS_THEDEFIANT · INFO

b14g Says 97 Million CORE Drained, Pauses Contracts

The Bitcoin staking protocol says exchanges froze about 9 million CORE and that staked BTC was unaffected.

NEWS_THEDEFIANT · INFO

Binance Confirms 7,499 BTC SAFU Transfer After Hack

The exchange says it has replenished 90% of the amount lost and pledges to rebuild its emergency fund to about $1 billion.

NEWS_COINDESK · INFO

A stolen iPhone, $14,000 in losses and London's crypto theft problem

Two strangers befriended Magnus Ahmad outside a London bar. Hours later, thieves had emptied his crypto wallets, accessed his bank accounts and disabled his laptop.