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At first, the team described what happened as an “unexplained incident.” That didn’t last long. MANTRA later said an attacker had attempted to exploit a vulnerability in an upstream dependency software the chain relies on but doesn’t directly control.

On July 26, Michael Saylor posted Strategy's Bitcoin acquisition chart on X with a vague caption "We're gonna need another color." It was his fifth version of that post since June 22, the company's longest stretch without a confirmed Bitcoin purchase in two years.

Secret Network has been running privacy-preserving smart contracts on Cosmos since 2020, as the ecosystem had strong momentum back then, but the “environment has changed,” the team said Tuesday.

Polymarket's turbulent June just reached a new low on Thursday when the prediction market confirmed that a compromised third-party vendor allowed attackers to add malicious JavaScript into its frontend, draining an estimated $2.94 million from at least 11 user wallets in a single morning.

The list of commentary were endless, but one number explained the urgency better than anything else on how euro stablecoins account for less than 1% of the global stablecoin volume, according to DeFiLlama data despite Euro's commanding role in world trade.