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ForkLog 64 02.12.2025

AI Models Uncover $550.1 Million in Smart Contract Vulnerabilities

Anthropic used AI models to find vulnerabilities in smart contracts, uncovering exploits worth $550.1 million.

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ForkLog 116 04.09.2025

Hackers Conceal Malicious Links in Smart Contracts

Researchers identified malicious packages in the NPM repository. They employ Ethereum smart contracts to hide commands and download malware.

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ForkLog 81 20.08.2025

Federal Reserve Explores Smart Contracts and AI

The United States Federal Reserve is examining the impact of innovations on payment processes, including smart contract and artificial intelligence technologies.

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ForkLog 24 04.08.2025

A Bridge in Need of a Hero

Bridging functions like quantum teleportation: the coin does not physically move anywhere—it is locked in the source network, while an equivalent amount appears in the destination network. For this to happen, both sides must be perfectly synchronized. Messaging comes to the rescue here, allowing the bridge to inform the destination network of events in the […]

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ForkLog 9 16.05.2025

BIS and New York Fed Test Smart Contracts for Monetary Policy

The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) and the New York Federal Reserve’s Innovation Center have tested smart contract tools for managing monetary policy within tokenized systems, according to a report by BIS. The experiment was conducted under Project Pine, utilizing the ERC-20 standard and an access control system. In hypothetical scenarios, central banks adjusted collateral […]

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ForkLog 10 15.05.2025

Over 11,000 Smart Wallets Authorized Post-Pectra Upgrade on Ethereum Network

A week after the significant Pectra upgrade, the number of smart account authorizations in line with EIP-7702 has surpassed 11,000. This indicates a strong interest in the new features from exchanges, wallets, and dapps.

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ForkLog 10 04.04.2025

Paradigm’s CTO Advocates Moving Away from Solidity for Ethereum

Solidity is currently in a “problematic state,” raising questions about its improvement or the shift to an alternative. This was stated by CTO of Paradigm, Georgios Konstantopoulos. How should we program Ethereum? Solidity is in a problematic state right now, IMO. Do we make Solidity good? Do we drop Solidity? If we drop Solidity, do […]

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ForkLog 8 14.11.2024

Ethereum Developers Unveil ‘Smart Transactions’

Ethereum developers Vlad Zamfir, Anuja Dasa Gupta, and Boris Mamlyuk have introduced the concept of ‘smart transactions,’ advancing the realization of the ‘World Computer.’ This was reported by The Block. Smart Transactions (STXN) will significantly expand the range of applications and protocols that can be created through a more dynamic set of features. This will […]

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ForkLog 41 01.10.2024

“Code Is Law”: harmful myth or workable concept?

In the crypto industry, the Code Is Law principle is seen by many as foundational. According to the concept proposed by activist Lawrence Lessig back in 1999, applied to blockchain, autonomously running smart‑contract code defines the essence of the deal, the rules of its execution and the relationship between the parties. If it permits something, […]

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ForkLog 13 04.09.2024

Hacker Compromises DAI Deployment Address Across Most L2 Networks

The wallet responsible for deploying the DAI smart contract has been compromised in all L2 networks except Arbitrum and Optimism. This was highlighted by cybersecurity researcher Christopher Mooney. ? DAI Security PSA for wallet providers, block explorers, and users. The L2 DAI deployer (0x075da589886BA445d7c7e81c472059dE7AE65250) for the DAI vanity address (0xDA10009cBd5D07dd0CeCc66161FC93D7c9000da1) has been compromised. (1/7) — […]

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ForkLog 10 16.07.2024

LI.FI Protocol Suffers $8 Million Loss in Security Breach

On July 16, Cyvers Alerts identified suspicious transactions within the LI.FI protocol. At the time of writing, the incident is ongoing, with losses amounting to $8 million. ?ALERT?@lifiprotocol, Our system has raised suspicious transactions involving your https://t.co/3LzbDK99Ed We recommend users to revoke their approvals for: 0x1231deb6f5749ef6ce6943a275a1d3e7486f4eae More than $8M have been drained so far from […]

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ForkLog 12 03.04.2024

$25 Million in stSOL Trapped in Lido’s ‘Broken’ Smart Contract

Approximately $25 million in stSOL has been inadvertently locked in a Lido Finance smart contract on the Solana network, causing concern among some users about the security of their funds. the solana channel of the lido discord is a mess stSOL holders trying to unstake completely lost and abandoned, CLI tooling broken. there is over […]

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