DeFi losses surpass $800M in April 2026 as attacks shift to key management, admin control failures, and bridge vulnerabilities despite stronger smart contracts.

One of the Trump administration’s very first executive orders (No. 14178), issued January 23, 2025, titled “Strengthening American Leadership in Digital Financial Technology,” was aimed at promoting ...

Smart contracts enable automated, trustless transactions without intermediaries. However, the security of these contracts is paramount, especially when dealing with valuable digital money and property ...

SINGAPORE, Feb. 18, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- The OWASP Smart Contract Security Project has released the OWASP Smart Contract Top 10 2026, a risk prioritization framework developed from structured analysis ...

Contract analysis once required weeks of manual audits and specialized review, but AI tools can now surface issues in seconds. However, as AI’s capabilities expand ...

OpenAI said it is becoming increasingly important to evaluate the performance of AI agents in “economically meaningful environments” as their adoption grows. OpenAI has launched a new benchmark that ...

Ethereum is unique among cryptocurrencies in that it is as much a commodity to be converted from ETH to USD as it is a global software platform that operates on blockchain technology. The ecosystem ...

Bitcoin development firm Blockstream has unveiled "Simplicity," a programming language for smart contracts built on the layer-2 network Liquid. Co-founded by cryptographer and early Bitcoin ...