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In the crypto space, a bridge hack targeting the Midnight token briefly sent its price to an all-time low before a nineteen percent rebound. Charles Hoskinson used the moment to push for a broader industry shift toward zero-knowledge infrastructure, arguing that legacy bridge technology is simply too fragile to trust.
That wasn't the only crypto security story today. SecondFi is shutting down after thieves stole two point four million dollars worth of ADA from its wallets. The breach exploited a flaw in transaction signing software that allowed attackers to derive private keys directly from blockchain transaction data — a reminder that the weakest link is often deep in the plumbing.
On a different front, Jack Dorsey's company Block has launched a product called Buzz, a free open-source workspace built on the Nostr protocol that positions itself as a rival to both Slack and GitHub. The twist is that it's designed specifically for AI agents, giving them their own cryptographic identities and a shared environment to collaborate — which raises interesting questions about what software infrastructure looks like when the primary users aren't human.
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