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Whitehat returns $190K to Renegade hours after hacking the protocol
A whitehat hacker exploited Renegade's Arbitrum dark pool, stealing $209,000 in ERC-20 tokens, then returned $190,000 within 45 minutes after the protocol requested 90% restitution via onchain message. The vulnerability stemmed from faulty deployment code and a botched April 2025 migration. Renegade will compensate affected users; only 7% of trading volume used the compromised V1 pool.
Bitcoin, Nasdaq investors are celebrating, while U.S. consumers turn gloomy
Bitcoin and Nasdaq rally 22% and 11.8% respectively while U.S. consumer sentiment hits record lows, creating a Wall Street-Main Street divide. Institutional capital flows into crypto and tech, decoupling Bitcoin from retail sentiment. Consumers face inflation and high living costs despite asset gains, revealing how crypto increasingly mirrors equity markets rather than serving financial democratization.
Bitcoin mining pools with 75% of BTC hashrate join open standard for block construction
Seven major Bitcoin mining pools controlling 75% of global hashrate—Foundry, AntPool, F2Pool, SpiderPool, MARA Pool, Block Inc, and DMND—have joined the Stratum V2 working group. The open-source protocol shifts block construction decisions from pool operators to individual miners, reducing centralization risks. This marks Bitcoin's biggest mining decentralization move in years amid tight operator economics and rising network difficulty.