Crypto News. August 17, 2026

SafePal - Crypto Wallet@SafePal

Dear community, While your SafePal wallet, seed phrase, and private keys are secure; we identified a flaw in the order-tracking plug-in that led to unauthorized access to information of a subset of customers. The issue has been fixed with additional security measures

vitalik.eth@VitalikButerin

Bitcoiners deserve a lot of credit for pioneering many of these ideas (see Utreexo). But yes, this is what the current proposed Ethereum scaling strategy looks like in action. We want Ethereum to have the best of UTXO-style state, dynamic state, and everything in between,

Wu Blockchain@WuBlockchain

EU Regulators Warn of MiCA Migration Scams as 1,700 Crypto Platforms Halt EU Services More than 1,700 unlicensed crypto platforms were required to stop serving EU users after MiCA took full effect on July 1, while only 323 firms held valid MiCA authorization at the time,

Cointelegraph@Cointelegraph

🚨 HUGE: CZ will donate his BNB and 币安人生 tokens to Giggle Academy, then abandon the wallet. He says this is to avoid more random memes being sent to the wallet and the resulting over-interpretation when he tries to burn these meme coins

Wu Blockchain@WuBlockchain

Cardano Plans Two-Phase Dijkstra Upgrade With Leios and Peras Cardano has outlined a two-phase rollout for its upcoming Dijkstra era. Phase 1, targeting Q4 2026 code completion, will activate Ouroboros Linear Leios (CIP-164) to increase throughput through supplementary Endorser

Efrat Fenigson@efenigson

❗️Another KYC Data Leak: Israel's Top Crypto Broker "Bits of Gold" Breached This morning the company announced that data of approx. 200,000 customers has leaked, including names, phone numbers, email addresses, ID numbers, IP addresses, bank account details, and public wallet

H.E. Justin Sun 👨‍🚀 🌞@justinsuntron

I have been in communication with Binance. This matter concerns only Binance’s UK and EU users. HTX does not conduct business in the UK or EU, and settlement negotiations with UK and EU regulators are already in progress. Any users affected in the course of these negotiations are

0xngmi@0xngmi

We had been trying to take down a fake DefiLlama app on apple’s store for months, telling Apple about trademark violations, impersonation… Then we loaded a small wallet, downloaded the app, got drained as expected and reported it to Apple. App was taken down in days after that

Cosmostation Wallet@IBCwallet

Cosmostation Wallet Service Discontinuation Notice After careful consideration, we have decided to discontinue Cosmostation Wallet. We sincerely thank everyone who has used the Cosmostation Wallet over the years. Your trust and support have enabled Cosmostation Wallet to grow

ABFinance@abf_finance

ABFinance’s planned launch will not move forward, and we are now winding down in an orderly manner. We are deeply grateful to everyone who built alongside us, to our community, and to our partners for your trust, support, and belief in what we were building. Thank you for being

The Hacker News@TheHackersNews

⚠️ Attackers are exploiting a macOS Screen Sharing flaw to install Monero miners. CVE-2026-65400 is being abused on multiple Macs exposing port 5900 to the internet. Apple patched the flaw in emergency macOS updates. What you need to know:

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Apple macOS Screen Sharing Flaw Exploited on Internet-Exposed Macs to Install Monero Miner

Andrew Curran@AndrewCurran_

Stripe has finalized an agreement to acquire OpenRouter for more than $7 billion, according to a report from Bloomberg. This is more than five times the $1.3 billion valuation from OpenRouter's funding round just 82 days ago.