https://leviathannews.xyz/296234/i-once-stayed-in-stari-grad-croatia-for-some-weeks-i-was-alone-in-a-little-stone-home-facing-the-city-square-and-adjacent-to-tvrdalj-castle-every-day-i-would-wake-up-open-the Leviathan News en 2026-08-24T08:11:58.076184+00:00 Zcash's Genius Loci: A reflection on place, community, and the engineering meritocracy shaping the privacy project's evolution https://leviathannews.xyz/296233/new-openai-ceo-sam-altman-says-the-ai-industry-hasnt-done-a-good-job-explaining-its-benefits-with-talk-of-destroying-the-world-and-wiping-out-jobs-making-it-all-sound-scary Leviathan News en 2026-08-24T08:11:36.459660+00:00 OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says AI industry has failed to explain benefits amid fears of job losses and existential risk https://leviathannews.xyz/296229/just-in-tethers-120-million-btc-mining-bet-in-uruguay-has-gone-dark-a-dispute-over-unpaid-power-bills-and-a-revised-electricity-contract-led-state-owned-utility-ute-to-cut-e Leviathan News en 2026-08-24T08:11:27.770386+00:00 Tether abandons $120M Bitcoin mining project in Uruguay after power dispute with state utility UTE led to sites being disconnected in July 2025 https://leviathannews.xyz/296228/ledger-cto-confirms-fix-for-ethereum-app-signing-flaw-found-by-internal-team Leviathan News en 2026-08-24T08:11:21.577704+00:00 Ledger CTO confirms fix for Ethereum app signing flaw found by internal team https://leviathannews.xyz/296208/everything-solves-defi-with-a-single-protocol-20260824 Leviathan News en 2026-08-24T08:11:14.489391+00:00 Everything Protocol whitepaper proposes one liquidity reserve to power swaps, lending, leverage and limit orders https://leviathannews.xyz/296200/stablecoin-neobank-fasset-lands-1-billion-valuation-as-sbi-backs-its-payments-push-20260824 Leviathan News en 2026-08-24T05:58:31.755627+00:00 Stablecoin neobank Fasset reaches $1 billion valuation with SBI backing for payments expansion https://leviathannews.xyz/296185/standard-reserve-unveils-experimental-onchain-central-bank-whitepaper-it-uses-a-uniswap-v4-pool-to-track-eth-flows-and-adjust-its Leviathan News en 2026-08-24T05:58:20.013470+00:00 Standard Reserve publishes whitepaper for experimental onchain central bank, using a Uniswap v4 pool to track ETH flows and adjust its operations. https://leviathannews.xyz/296132/phantom-and-sui-have-decided-to-end-sui-support-on-phantom-on-september-24-and-leave-open-the-opportunity-to-explore-other-collaborations-in-the-future-your-funds-remain-safe-and-f Leviathan News en 2026-08-24T05:58:13.160500+00:00 Phantom to drop Sui support on September 24, with fee-free swaps and wallet migration guide for users. https://leviathannews.xyz/296090/this-wild-defcon-talk-is-finally-out-researchers-created-a-fake-defi-startup-hired-lazarus-it-workers-put-them-into-a-sandbox-and-recorded-their-tooling-workflows-and-faces-from-in Leviathan News en 2026-08-24T05:36:37.946642+00:00 Researchers pose as fake defi startup, hire and monitor Lazarus IT workers in sandbox https://leviathannews.xyz/296053/nobody-loses-their-bitcoin-twice-read-that-again-there-is-no-second-chance-in-self-custody-no-password-reset-no-support-ticket-one-failure-and-the-balance-goes-to-zero-foreve Leviathan News en 2026-08-23T16:36:53.953254+00:00 Keystone warns that self-custody security can fail through three single points: the seed, hardware vendor and storage location, making multisig and redundancy essential https://leviathannews.xyz/296051/a-policy-effort-fostered-by-paul-brigner-and-supported-by-zodl-is-becoming-an-independent-501c4-dedicated-to-zcash-pgpz-is-seeking-750000-from-zcash-community-grants-to-fund Leviathan News en 2026-08-23T16:36:47.992655+00:00 Zcash launches PGPZ, an independent 501(c)(4) focused on privacy policy and advocacy, seeking $750K from Zcash Community Grants for its first year https://leviathannews.xyz/296049/term-labs-suffers-85m-governance-exploit-affecting-vaults-defi-lending-protocol-term_labs-suffered-a-governance-exploit-affecting-its-vaults-according-to-peckshieldalert-and Leviathan News en 2026-08-23T16:36:43.615976+00:00 Term Labs suffers $8.5M governance exploit as attacker drains vaults and accumulates 2,843 ETH plus $1.6M DAI https://leviathannews.xyz/295962/solana-cuts-mainnet-slot-time-to-350-milliseconds-in-first-step-toward-200ms-goal-20260822 Leviathan News en 2026-08-22T22:13:55.671437+00:00 Solana reduces mainnet slot time to 350 milliseconds, advancing toward 200ms target https://leviathannews.xyz/295964/zachxbt-may-reject-crypto-victims-from-certain-jurisdictions-according-to-onchain-investigator-zachxbt-based-on-his-personal-experience-handling-cases-involving-crypto-victims Leviathan News en 2026-08-22T22:13:50.224514+00:00 ZachXBT says he may reject crypto victim cases from Nigeria, Canada, UK, India and other “low quality” jurisdictions based on past case-handling experiences https://leviathannews.xyz/295965/tell-me-you-dont-hold-your-own-keys-without-telling-me-you-dont-hold-your-own-keys-were-writing-to-inform-you-of-changes-to-available-services-in-your-region-avoid-that-g Leviathan News en 2026-08-22T22:13:45.917642+00:00 Ledger ad warns against regional service restrictions, pitches touchscreen signer as self-custody alternative. https://leviathannews.xyz/295966/introducing-fomo-copytrading-copytrade-any-fomo-user-by-simply-pasting-their-fomo-handle-execute-as-soon-as-your-favourite-creator-does-ahead-of-everyone-else-follow-rt-for-b Leviathan News en 2026-08-22T22:13:41.721254+00:00 Verus launches copytrading, letting users mirror any Fomo trader by pasting their handle and execute trades as soon as their favorite creator does https://leviathannews.xyz/295920/introducing-graphs-on-backpack-compare-stocks-across-hundreds-of-financial-and-market-metrics-in-one-view Leviathan News en 2026-08-22T16:11:06.648411+00:00 Backpack launches Graphs tool for comparing stocks across hundreds of financial and market metrics. https://leviathannews.xyz/295919/rialo-points-are-now-live-users-will-be-rewarded-with-20-rialo-points-upon-sign-in-early-ecosystem-contributors-and-existing-community-roles-will-also-receive-retroactive-rewards-a Leviathan News en 2026-08-22T16:10:58.159277+00:00 Rialo launches points system with 20-point sign-up reward and retroactive incentives for early contributors https://leviathannews.xyz/295913/threews-partners-with-the-university-of-southern-california-usc-to-build-the-agent-economy-on-campus-and-on-chain-powered-by-solana-and-secured-by-ibm-and-built-for-the-next-genera Leviathan News en 2026-08-22T15:06:42.330098+00:00 three.ws and USC partner to build an on-campus agent economy on Solana with IBM security https://leviathannews.xyz/295912/the-post-human-firm Leviathan News en 2026-08-22T15:06:30.584385+00:00 Agent-run companies face a new challenge: firing workers is easy, but their obligations endure. https://leviathannews.xyz/295911/megarouter-advances-ai-agent-infrastructure-enabling-intelligent-model-coordination-for-the-agent-economy Leviathan News en 2026-08-22T15:06:21.728321+00:00 MegaRouter expands AI routing infrastructure for multi-model agent coordination and cost controls https://leviathannews.xyz/295904/aligned-launches-align-the-native-token-of-its-full-ethereum-stack-20260822 Leviathan News en 2026-08-22T14:26:12.508560+00:00 Aligned launches $ALIGN token for Ethereum financial infrastructure stack https://leviathannews.xyz/295896/trezor-now-enables-support-for-hyperevm-allowing-hype-and-hyperevm-assets-to-be-stored-on-a-trezor-device Leviathan News en 2026-08-22T14:26:01.023951+00:00 Trezor adds HyperEVM support, enabling offline storage of HYPE and HyperEVM assets on its hardware wallets. https://leviathannews.xyz/295874/extended-announces-regulated-framework-push-for-europe-ahead-of-tge-traders-reacted-with-a-mix-of-frustration-over-perceived-delays-for-tge-in-2026 Leviathan News en 2026-08-22T12:00:32.529715+00:00 Extended announces regulated framework push for Europe ahead of TGE. Traders reacted with a mix of frustration over perceived delays for TGE in 2026. https://leviathannews.xyz/295865/kraken-test-dex-activates-us-style-compliance-controls-on-hyperliquid Leviathan News en 2026-08-22T11:59:57.280652+00:00 Kraken test DEX activates U.S. style compliance controls on Hyperliquid. Observers link it to regulatory progress, though skeptics note anyone can name a testnet deployer. https://leviathannews.xyz/295840/sandbox-sand-token-faces-large-scale-minting-exploit-on-base-blockaid-and-peckshield-detected-hackers-using-layerzero-permissions-to-create-roughly-149-billion-sand-tokens-across-h Leviathan News en 2026-08-22T09:50:14.117866+00:00 Sandbox SAND token faces large-scale minting exploit on Base. Blockaid and PeckShield detected hackers using LayerZero permissions to create roughly 14.9B SAND tokens across hundreds of transactions.