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Liquid Network phát hành cập nhật mới nhất cho biết, phiên bản khẩn cấp Elements v23.3.4 hiện đã được ra mắt, các nút Functionary đã ngay lập tức bắt đầu nâng cấp và khuyến nghị tất cả các nhà điều hành nút Liquid đồng bộ cập nhật. Phiên bản này sửa chữa lỗ hổng bộ nhớ cache xác thực Proof được phát hiện trước đó, củng cố khóa bộ nhớ cache sử dụng cho Range Proof.Về việc phục hồi mạng, Blockstream cho biết hiện vẫn đang xây dựng kế hoạch phục hồi, dự kiến sẽ tiến hành theo ba giai đoạn: phục hồi việc tạo khối nhưng tiếp tục tạm dừng hoạt động Peg; phát lại các giao dịch đã được xác thực là hợp lệ; khôi phục hoạt động Peg sau khi trạng thái mạng hoàn toàn phục hồi và xác nhận hoàn trả tiền. Hiện tại, hai giai đoạn đầu tiên đang được thử nghiệm song song, bất kỳ giai đoạn nào chỉ được tiến hành khi đã xác nhận an toàn. Liquid Network cho biết, Elements v23.3.4 đã hoàn thành nhiều vòng kiểm tra nội bộ và bên ngoài, các bên tham gia bao gồm Bitcoin Red Team, Alpen Labs và các đội khác.Đồng thời, Liquid Network nhắc nhở người dùng cảnh giác với các trang web nâng cấp giả mạo lợi dụng sự kiện này để thực hiện lừa đảo, chỉ nên nhận thông tin qua các kênh chính thức của Liquid Network và Blockstream, tuyệt đối không gửi tiền cho người lạ hoặc tiết lộ khóa riêng, cụm từ khôi phục.

ChianCatcher thông báo, studio trò chơi chuỗi và công ty công nghệ chuỗi Proof of Play đã công bố vào ngày 4 tháng 8 rằng sẽ ngừng hoạt động. Công ty cho biết, ban đầu tin rằng việc ứng dụng công nghệ blockchain vào trò chơi có tiềm năng mở ra một internet phi tập trung mới, nhưng cuối cùng không thể tạo ra sản phẩm có thể quy mô hóa để xác thực ý tưởng này và một doanh nghiệp bền vững.Proof of Play sẽ cố gắng mở mã nguồn và tài sản nghệ thuật, để các nhà xây dựng trong tương lai sử dụng, bao gồm các ứng dụng liên quan đến Pirate Nation, hợp đồng thông minh, NFT của người sáng lập và IP (sử dụng giấy phép CC0) v.v. Quỹ Pirate Nation độc lập với Proof of Play sẽ tiếp tục hỗ trợ token $PIRATE, trang web của quỹ vẫn hoạt động; điểm Proof of Play không thể đổi lấy. Ngoài ra, Shiba Story Go! đã được bên thứ ba mua lại và hoạt động độc lập.

According to First Financial News, recently Futu and ChangQiao have both started to clean up accounts that opened with false documentation, as well as empty accounts with no assets or positions, processing the closure of these two types of accounts.At the same time, the Futu NiuNiu APP has added a new quick access entry for "Update Identity Information" in the "Account" section, along with a document titled "Instructions for Updating Identity Information," reminding customers that if they hold valid foreign identity proof, the completion of the information update will not affect any account transactions, fund deposits, or withdrawals, and other business functions.

Slow Fog's Yu Xian posted on the X platform stating that the reason for the Verus theft may be that the attacker constructed a forged Merkle proof, which passed the verification of the Verus Ethereum bridge (not open source), thus successfully withdrawing funds (ETH/tBTC/USDC). Specific details need to be further verified.

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin commented on the issue of Ethereum state storage, stating that even if users store data themselves, the blockchain only stores hashes, and transactions only include proofs, it still requires storage and updating of the data used to verify the proofs, and this data ultimately becomes almost as large as the state itself; Vitalik mentioned that there are solutions to the relevant issues, but they involve a large number of components and require trade-offs compared to the current Ethereum.Previously, DeFi content writer marilyn100x.eth stated that Ethereum has a state storage problem, where developers pay a one-time fee to write data, while nodes bear the long-term storage costs. However, EIP-8037 does not involve time-weighted rent or ongoing fees, but significantly increases the upfront gas costs for new contracts, accounts, and storage slots to control state growth during the scaling process.

Binance released the May reserve proof update. As of May 1, the user's net BTC balance is 606,742.388 coins, and the Binance wallet balance is 608,067.979 coins, with a BTC reserve ratio of 100.22%.In addition, the user's net ETH balance is 3,762,321.834 coins, and the Binance wallet balance is 3,762,328.82 coins, with an ETH reserve ratio of 100%. The USDT reserve ratio is 104.27%, and the BNB reserve ratio is 101.68%.

According to The Bitcoin Historian, billionaire Jack Dorsey's cryptocurrency financial application platform Cash App officially launched its Bitcoin reserve proof feature this week, verifying that over 60 million users' Bitcoin holdings on its platform are fully backed 1:1.The market views this move as an important step for the cryptocurrency industry in terms of transparency, user trust, and self-custody standards, and it is also seen as a positive signal for promoting the long-term healthy development of the industry.

According to Cointelegraph, Aptos recently launched the privacy token Confidential APT on its mainnet, which is pegged to APT at a 1:1 ratio. It uses zero-knowledge proofs to hide token balances and transfer amounts while maintaining wallet address visibility and transaction verifiability.Sherry Xiao, founding engineer of Aptos Labs, stated that the token aims to address the long-standing contradiction between blockchain privacy and compliance transparency, and can solve issues related to the public exposure of sensitive information such as on-chain salaries, treasury operations, and trading strategies. On the compliance front, the activation of the audit key must be approved through on-chain governance voting. The launch of Confidential APT stemmed from a governance proposal that was nearly unanimously passed. Xiao expects individual user adoption to be faster than that of enterprises, and if the mainnet operates stably for six months with good transaction volume, it will help shorten the sales cycle for enterprises.

According to official news, Block has released a proof of reserves, stating that by the end of the first quarter of 2026, the company holds a total of 28,355.05 bitcoins, valued at approximately 2.2 billion dollars. Among them, customer holdings are 19,357.16 bitcoins (approximately 1.5 billion dollars), and the company's treasury holds 8,997.89 bitcoins (approximately 696 million dollars).

The blockchain interoperability protocol Hyperbridge disclosed details of the previous DOT attack incident, resulting in a loss of approximately $237,000. The root of the vulnerability lies in the HandlerV1 contract's VerifyProof() function, which lacks input validation and does not verify the leaf_index leafCount, allowing attackers to forge Merkle proofs.Using this, the attacker gained administrator privileges for the DOT token bridging contract on Ethereum, subsequently minting 1 billion bridged DOT (which is about 2800 times the legitimate circulation of approximately 356,000) and cashing out on decentralized exchanges. Hyperbridge stated that it is currently working with security partners to trace the funds, and cross-chain functionality will remain suspended until the investigation is completed.

According to monitoring by BlockSec, the HandlerV1 contract managed by Hyperbridge has a Merkle Mountain Range (MMR) proof replay vulnerability on the Ethereum network, resulting in a loss of approximately $242,000. The vulnerability arises from the proof not being bound to the request, allowing attackers to replay historically valid proofs and combine them with new forged requests to perform actions such as changing administrator permissions.In a specific case, the attacker changed the administrator of the Polkadot (DOT) Token and then exploited the permissions to mint additional DOT for profit. Related attack transactions have been observed, including changing the administrator and minting of DOT Token (loss of approximately $237,400), changing the administrator and minting of ARGN Token (loss of approximately $3,800), and host withdrawals, among others.Previously, it was reported that the Hyperbridge gateway contract was attacked, resulting in the minting and dumping of 1 billion DOT on Ethereum.

Cysic officially announced the open-source Graph-First zkVM proof framework Venus. Venus is built on top of ZisK, abandoning the traditional HAL model that treats the proof process as a series of isolated backend functions, and encoding the entire ZK proof process into a global computation graph, decoupling logic from hardware execution.Tests show that Venus improves end-to-end proof time by over 9% compared to the existing ZisK 0.16.1, significantly reduces CPU-GPU synchronization overhead, and is compatible with GPU, FPGA, and even ASIC.Cysic has been listed as an integration partner of Ethproofs and will directly operate as an Ethereum zkEVM node. The ZisK zkVM that Venus is based on uses a custom instruction set and is one of the five major zkVMs explicitly listed as candidates in the official discussion of the Ethereum EIP-8025 upgrade, allowing Cysic to directly enter the core track of the Ethereum L1 proof market.

The decentralized zero-knowledge proof verification layer Aligned updates the ALIGN token economics, with a total supply of 10 billion tokens and an initial circulation of approximately 16%.Of this, 23.5% will be allocated to the team (40% cliff unlock after 12 months, with the remaining portion unlocking linearly over 18 months), 19.71% will be allocated to investors, 18% will be allocated for the ecosystem (3.23% unlock at TGE, 6 months cliff unlock, with the remaining portion unlocking linearly over 24 months), 16.61% will be used for future reserves (40.24% unlock at TGE, 6 months cliff unlock, with the remaining portion unlocking linearly over 24 months), 11.4% will be allocated to the foundation (37.83% unlock at TGE, with the remaining portion unlocking linearly over 30 months), 8.74% will be used for airdrops (44.36% unlock at TGE), and 2.04% will be used for community sales (32.72% unlock at TGE).

Citi, PwC, and Solana have jointly completed a proof of concept (PoC) for trade finance tokenization—suppliers can issue tokenized payment vouchers to be sold to banks at a discount for instant settlement instead of waiting for months.Traditional financial giants have sent another signal to explore RWA (real-world assets) on the Solana chain.

Binance announced the 40th proof of asset reserves, with a snapshot date of March 1. User assets continue to maintain a reserve ratio of at least 1:1. The BTC assets are approximately 631,000 coins, a decrease of 8,004 BTC from February 1; the ETH assets are approximately 3.87 million coins, a decrease of 307,203 ETH from the last report; the USDT assets are approximately 36.4 billion coins, a decrease of about 360 million USDT from the last report.

Mitsubishi UFJ, with an asset size of $30 trillion in Japan, announced that it will use AI for loan reviews and conduct a joint stablecoin proof of concept with three major banks.

According to The Block, a16z Crypto criticized the colloquial use of the term "ZK" in certain developer environments in a blog post about its Jolt zkVM. The article pointed out that most zkVMs do not actually possess zero-knowledge properties unless expensive "wrapping" programs are applied. The author also mentioned that "zk" often becomes synonymous with "conciseness," meaning "short proofs that verify quickly," rather than true zero-knowledge privacy.As the community's focus on privacy grows, the misuse of this terminology is becoming a real issue. a16z's open-source Jolt zkVM launched a major upgrade on Tuesday, natively supporting zero-knowledge proofs. Jolt employs the NovaBlindFold folding scheme to create blinded proofs to prevent information leakage, making it suitable for privacy applications, with the zero-knowledge proofs generated after the upgrade only increasing by about 3 KB compared to the original non-ZK proofs.

SlovakBitcoin developer and RustBitcoin library maintainer Martin Habovštiak has released a proof of concept that writes a 66 kB TIFF image file to the Bitcoin blockchain through a single transaction without using OP_RETURN, Taproot, or OP_IF. The transaction can be publicly verified on-chain and can be decoded into a complete image file.This experiment is seen as a direct challenge to the "anti-spam" soft fork proposal BIP-110, promoted by Luke Dashjr. BIP-110 is a successor to BIP-444, which aims to limit the scale of on-chain data writing, with some supporters arguing that such data storage practices deviate from Bitcoin's core positioning as a "currency."

At the "Build and Scale in 2026" themed forum held by ChainCatcher in Hong Kong, Michael, co-founder & CEO of the ZK verifiable computing platform Brevis, delivered a keynote speech on "The Infinite Computing Layer Where Everything Can Be Computed," sharing how ZK technology is driving a fundamental transformation in the blockchain computing paradigm.Michael pointed out that the current on-chain computing costs are high and the speed is slow. The "verifiable computing" paradigm proposed by Brevis can offload heavy computations to off-chain, requiring only low-cost verification on-chain, achieving decoupling of computation and verification while supporting privacy protection scenarios.The speech showcased the performance breakthroughs of Brevis's core product, Pico ZKVM: its latest generation, Pico Prism, can complete Ethereum block proofs in an average of 6.9 seconds, with 99.6% of blocks completed within 12 seconds, achieving real-time proof (RTP) for Ethereum for the first time. Currently, Pico ZKVM, as an "on-chain ZK data co-processor," has been applied in various scenarios such as privacy-preserving incentive distribution, high-performance DeFi, and trustless on-chain data computation, providing Rust programming support for developers with zero ZK development experience.Michael predicts that in the next 10 years, 99% of blockchain computing will occur off-chain, verified through ZK proofs. Brevis is driving this process through its verifiable computing infrastructure.