Hut 8, a bitcoin miner-turned-AI firm, priced $4.25 billion in senior secured notes to fund its Texas data center project.
Protocol prints ~$20M daily fee surge as volatility drives borrowing, liquidations, and revenue, TVL holds at ~$13B.
A critical vulnerability in Zcash's Orchard transaction pool was discovered, allowing for the potential creation of unlimited counterfeit ZEC. The bug has been patched, but the extent of any potential exploits is unknown.
Exchange suspends Trump-linked stablecoin and token after World Liberty Financial freezes HTX-related addresses, converting user USD1 to USDT.
Arbitrum compute-backed stablecoin facility funds 288 NVIDIA B300 servers (2,304 GPUs) at 12% APR, with $84.1M escrowed at 7% yield pre-deployment.
DeFi fund exits positions with Felix and Native Markets as USDH sunsets, returning 800K HYPE to treasury for redeployment.
Base DEX announces mainnet launch, targeting Uniswap with capital-efficient liquidity and AI agent integrations.
DeFi single-margin protocol secures funding led by yZi Labs, with SNZ, Inception, Finality, L2 Iterative, and Contribution Capital participating.
K25, a live streaming and real-time prediction markets platform, raised $4 million in a strategic round led by NewGenIVF Group.
The episode dissected recent Zcash issues, focusing on a shielded‑pool bug, the upcoming Tachon upgrade with formal verification and quantum‑proof aims, and the potential financial impact of an Orchard pool exploit, while also touching on NEAR’s buy‑back strategy.
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