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According to official news, Syndicate Labs disclosed that its cross-chain bridge contract was maliciously upgraded on two chains due to a private key leak. The attacker transferred and sold approximately 18.5 million SYND (about $330,000) and around $50,000 worth of user tokens. The incident only affected specific chains, while others were not impacted.Syndicate Labs stated that this attack involved multi-stage reconnaissance, infrastructure mapping, and careful execution, demonstrating a high level of technical complexity, and ruled out the involvement of internal personnel. The root cause was that the private key was stored in a password management tool without an additional layer of encryption, and the upgrade process did not utilize multi-signature or hardware signature mechanisms, nor did it have early warning and circuit breaker measures for contract upgrades.Syndicate Labs announced that it will fully compensate all affected users, including returning 18.5 million SYND and providing additional compensation, while also fully compensating affected application chain clients. The company has initiated security upgrade measures, including strengthening private key encryption, tightening access permissions, and plans to introduce hardware or multi-signature mechanisms and upgrade path monitoring to prevent similar incidents from occurring again.

The latest report from blockchain intelligence agency TRM Labs shows that approximately 76% of global cryptocurrency hacking losses are related to organizations associated with North Korea, with a total stolen amount of about $577 million.North Korea's share of global crypto theft continues to rise: 22% in 2022, 37% in 2023, 39% in 2024, rising to 64% in 2025, and further increasing to 76% in 2026. Since 2017, the total illegal profits have exceeded $6 billion. The report points out that these losses mainly stem from two major incidents in April: a $292 million attack on KelpDAO and a $285 million theft from Drift Protocol, with the two attacks accounting for about 3% of all hacking incidents during the same period.

Category Labs today announced that it is expanding its potential public market purchase authorization limit to $80 million and extending the repurchase period until the end of 2026.Category Labs stated that any repurchase actions will be carried out opportunistically based on market conditions and may be initiated, suspended, or terminated at the company's discretion, while strictly adhering to relevant laws and regulations. This update does not constitute a commitment to repurchase any specific number of tokens but reflects the company's intention to consider opportunistic purchases under favorable market conditions.

According to official disclosure from 0G Labs, 0G Private Computer has officially launched, providing privacy inference services based on TEE (Trusted Execution Environment) for AI agents and developers. Users can access the service through pc.0g.ai.The official statement indicates that the product utilizes a hardware isolation environment composed of Intel TDX CPU and NVIDIA H100/H200 GPU, with all inference requests completed within the TEE. Input content is transmitted in an encrypted manner, and output results will undergo signature verification, ensuring that service providers cannot directly view user data.Currently, the platform supports models such as DeepSeek DeepSeek Chat V3, Alibaba Qwen3.6 Plus, Zhipu AI GLM-5-FP8, Qwen3-VL-30B, OpenAI Whisper-large-v3, and z-image, and provides an interface compatible with the OpenAI API, allowing developers to complete migration by modifying the base URL.

According to Tencent News' "Periscope," during the 2026 Hong Kong Web3 Carnival, He Yi revealed in a small KOL meeting that her family office YZi Labs, in partnership with Zhao Changpeng, has invested in a Chinese AI large model company, but did not disclose the specific name of the invested company.

AI laboratory Sooth Labs, founded by former Meta employees, is raising approximately $50 million in funding, led by Felicis Ventures, with a post-money valuation of about $335 million.The company plans to develop AI models to predict the likelihood of specific geopolitical events and market events, providing related capabilities to enterprises. Sooth Labs has also received support from Yann LeCun and Google Chief Scientist Jeff Dean, with Meta Chief Technology Officer Andrew Bosworth serving as an advisor.

ChainCatcher reported live that Adeniyi Abiodun, co-founder and Chief Product Officer of Mysten Labs, delivered a keynote speech at the 2026 Hong Kong Web3 Carnival. He stated that the core team members come from Facebook and were responsible for launching the global payment network Libra, aiming to make fund transfers as simple as sending messages. He announced that Sui will be the first high-speed public blockchain to achieve zero transaction fees for transfers across the network, regardless of the transfer amount ranging from $0.0005 to $1 billion, covering all stablecoins such as USDC, USDT, and Sui Dollar.In terms of privacy, Sui will provide bank-grade on-chain privacy, utilizing advanced cryptography to ensure that transaction history and balances are not visible to third parties, while fully compliant with regulatory requirements. Regarding yields, he introduced the Sui Dollar launched in collaboration with Stripe, which generates approximately 3.5% returns that will be directly reinvested into the network ecosystem and users, rather than flowing to intermediaries.He also announced the launch of the Bitcoin DeFi protocol Hashi aimed at institutions, allowing sovereign wealth funds, hedge funds, and ETF holders to deploy Bitcoin into DeFi for yields without triggering taxable events, supported by legal opinions from top U.S. law firm Fenwick & West. Additionally, Sui's on-chain deep order book DeepBook supports large transactions with extremely low slippage for instant on-chain exchanges between assets such as BTC, gold, USD, and EUR.In the AI agent economy, he pointed out that Stripe estimates a need for processing capacity of 1 billion transactions per second in the future, while Sui employs a horizontally scalable architecture similar to that of Google Search and Facebook infrastructure, capable of scaling on demand to millions or even tens of millions of TPS. The full-stack atomic composability provided by Sui is its core differentiated advantage, allowing agents to execute multiple cross-application transactions simultaneously and settle them in one go, which cannot be achieved on AWS, Google, or any existing Web3 platform. He also announced a partnership with RedotPay, enabling users to spend Sui Dollars at over 130 million merchants worldwide and positioning Sui as an alternative to SWIFT.

According to The Block, Yuga Labs announced a management adjustment, with co-founder and CEO Greg Solano transitioning to the role of chairman of the board, and current Chief Product Officer Michael Figge taking over as CEO; Figge joined the company in 2021 and began his duties a few weeks ago. This adjustment comes as the company continues to advance its metaverse project, Otherside.

Aave Labs announced the launch of the AI-driven governance security system Aave Checkpoint, which adds a structured multi-layer review process for each proposal and load before execution.It is reported that the workflow of Checkpoint is divided into two phases: the automatic AI analysis phase, where the system automatically retrieves on-chain data, proposal source code, and IPFS text when a new proposal is submitted, cross-references the parameters with governance specifications, uses Seatbelt to simulate output and check the proposal execution path, runs over 60 specialized security analysis agents for vulnerability detection, DeFi-specific risk analysis, agent upgrade security checks, etc., and generates a structured audit report with pass/fail conclusions; and the mandatory manual review phase, where each AI-generated report must be independently signed off by at least two people before it can be considered reviewed. Checkpoint covers Aave V3, V4, GHO, and Aptos-v3 protocols, including 5 custom Aave governance skills and 52 external security skills.

Paxos Labs has spun off from the stablecoin issuer Paxos and raised $12 million, led by Blockchain Capital, with participation from Robot Ventures, family office Maelstrom, and DeFi developer Uniswap Labs.Paxos Labs co-founder Bhaumik Kotecha declined to disclose the valuation of this funding round. Paxos CEO Chad Cascarilla is also the CEO of Paxos Labs, which will primarily provide services for large enterprises to create and manage their own stablecoins.

Aave DAO passed the first binding proposal of the Aave Will Win framework through Aave Labs on Sunday. The proposal received 522,780 AAVE in support and 175,310 AAVE in opposition, with a support rate of approximately 75%. According to the voting results, Aave Labs will receive a grant of 25 million USD in stablecoins, which includes an immediate allocation of 5 million aEthLidoGHO, as well as a total of 20 million aEthLidoGHO liquidity payments distributed over 6 months and 12 months.In addition, Aave DAO will allocate 75,000 AAVE (approximately 6.8 million USD) from the ecosystem reserve, which will be unlocked linearly over 48 months. The Aave Chan Initiative cast 166,200 AAVE in opposition. Support votes came from addresses such as ParaFi Capital (190,000 AAVE) and luggis.eth (123,580 AAVE). The fund execution is scheduled for Monday afternoon, at which point the funds will begin to flow to the address controlled by Aave Labs.

DWF Labs co-founder Andrei Grachev tweeted that the current market is in a "very boring" phase, where most participants can tweet, play memes, or discuss philosophy, but the truly valuable activities are mostly happening quietly, including financing, trading, investing, and business development.He pointed out that this market environment makes it difficult for large projects, exchanges, and companies to make new listings or significant announcements, as high-profile actions often do not yield good results at this time. He suggested that portfolios should remain patient and wait for better opportunities.Grachev emphasized that the market is not heading towards extinction. For now, it only provides great opportunities for those boring activities, such as buying Bitcoin and holding it long-term, or participating in the hype of altcoins. The final decision is yours, but most people end up buying high and selling low anyway. He concluded that there is still much to do as a builder or investor, while small retail investors should keep learning, not cry in the casino, and enjoy this market we chose to enter.

DeFi solution provider Enhanced Labs announced the completion of a $1 million Pre-Seed round of financing, led by Maximum Frequency Ventures, with participation from GSR, Selini, Flowdesk, and a group of angel investors. The new funds are expected to support product development and operations, while also promoting the expansion of options-based yield strategies to a broader range of on-chain assets, including tokenized real-world assets.

Yili Hua posted on platform X, stating the establishment of the AI fund OpenX_Labs, focusing on investing in and collaborating on AI projects.Jack Yi believes that the golden age of primary investment has arrived, and the AI era provides tremendous opportunities for founders, putting startups and medium-sized enterprises on the same starting line. He plans to use the upcoming time for primary investment to learn from AI founders and expresses his willingness to assist excellent AI projects without compensation, as AI also provides him with opportunities and motivation for a second entrepreneurial venture.

Liquid Capital (formerly LD Capital) founder Yi Lihua announced the establishment of the AI fund OpenX Labs, focusing on investing in and collaborating on AI projects.Yi Lihua stated that he once thought there were no first-tier investment opportunities left, but now he corrects that idea; the golden age of first-tier investment has arrived. The AI era has given top founders a tremendous opportunity, where a few individuals can stand against thousands without the need for management, hiring, salaries, and the tedious tasks of finding clients. As long as you have ideas and strategies, startups in the AI era are on the same starting line as all medium-sized enterprises. I hope that during the upcoming allocation of first-tier investments, I can learn alongside excellent AI founders. I am willing to assist outstanding AI projects without expecting any return; feel free to contact me anytime. AI has also given me the opportunity and motivation for a second startup.

According to The Information, Polygon Labs is seeking up to $100 million in funding for its payment business expansion.

According to the official website of SOL Strategies, SOL Strategies Inc. has signed a final agreement to acquire the assets of Darklake Labs, a native zero-knowledge technology company on Solana, for $1.2 million. The transaction price consists of $200,000 in cash and $1 million in equivalent common stock.Darklake's core product, Zyga, is a dynamic zero-knowledge proof system native to Solana that provides privacy protection at the transaction execution level and eliminates front-running and sandwich attacks.After the completion of the transaction, the core team of Darklake will join SOL Strategies, including CEO Vitor Py Braga (formerly with Meta and IBM), COO Amber Hales (formerly with Coinbase, with nearly a decade of compliance experience), and zero-knowledge research lead Tiago Alves.