XRP Ledger Foundation has confirmed it has patched a critical vulnerability found in an yet-to-be-enabled amendment of Ripple’s XRP Ledger, averting a potentially major exploit. On February 19, a security engineer at cybersecurity firm Cantina, Pranamya Keshkamat, and the Cantina AI security bot identified a “critical logic flaw” in the signature-validation logic of Ripple’s blockchain,…
Update (Feb.27, 1:25 Am UTC): This article has been updated to include more information on Block’s job cuts and earnings results. Jack Dorsey’s payments company Block is set to cut around 40% of its staff in a major shake-up, a decision the co-founder attributed to the rapid acceleration of AI at the company. “We’re already…
Bitcoin is on the verge of surpassing 20,000 wallets with at least 100 Bitcoin, an indicator that could signal healthy market dynamics, according to crypto analytics platform Santiment. As of Thursday, there were 19,993 unique wallets holding 100 BTC or more, worth roughly $6.71 million per wallet at the time of publication, Santiment said in…