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According to The Defiant, the V2 version of Privacy Pools has been deployed to the BNB Chain, providing BNB Chain users with payment and yield shielding features.This deployment supports BNB as well as stablecoins including USDT, FDUSD, and U. However, users still need to go through the deposit screening approval of 0xbow for private consumption.

According to The Block, the modular data availability layer Avail has announced the launch of the privacy perpetual contract trading platform ShieldTX, aimed at helping large traders cut off the public data chain and avoid being tracked by Order Tracking bots on Hyperliquid. ShieldTX is built on Avail's infrastructure, allowing users to deposit USDC from major EVM chains through Nexus and generate a brand new shielded wallet when opening a position, with orders directly routed to Hyperliquid's native order book.When users close their positions, funds will return to their shielded balance. Observers can see the deposits but cannot associate subsequent trading activities with the source wallet of the funds. Avail states that Order Tracking bots can replicate trades within seconds based on public data, and their subsequent trading volume can drive up prices, which is unfavorable for large orders. According to its analysis, ShieldTX can save 15 to 25 basis points per trade by breaking the public data chain, which significantly compounds savings for high-frequency large traders.ShieldTX also launched a wallet scanner that displays the public data relied upon by Order Tracking bots and reveals how trades are affected. Users can scan wallets to see who is copying their trades. In terms of underlying architecture, ShieldTX operates on a zkAppchain called Nightshade, where users deposit USDC into an Arbitrum settlement contract and receive equivalent receipts within Nightshade.However, currently, receipt management is handled by the sorter, which can see the receipt pre-images and user states; the positions on Hyperliquid remain publicly visible, and designated solvers are also aware of the position addresses they need to fund.

According to monitoring by PeckShield, the address labeled as the X100 exploit has deposited 821.2 ETH into Tornado Cash, worth approximately 1.89 million USD.X100 ($X) suffered a flash loan governance attack on October 24, 2026, resulting in a loss of about 4.75 million USD, and the price of the $X token dropped 96% within 24 hours.

According to Axios, Starlink and Starshield services in Ukraine are still restricted.

According to on-chain analyst PeckShield (@PeckShieldAlert), the address marked as the Cysic attacker has deposited 300 ETH (approximately $721,140) and 30.4 BNB (approximately $22,590) into Tornado Cash.According to the Cysic Foundation, a security incident occurred on October 17 involving the Cysic cross-chain bridge, where the attacker unauthorizedly minted 10 million CYS on the BNB Chain.

The Starknet Foundation announced the launch of the Bramble wallet, which integrates STRK20 shielding features, allowing users to hold private balances. Currently, Bramble only offers a Chrome browser extension version, with plans to support a broader ecosystem in the future.

The cryptocurrency exchange OKX has launched OKX Shield in the United States. OKX stated that this mechanism can provide up to $500,000 in protection if a customer's account is hacked.Andrew Cuomo, a member of the OKX board and former governor of New York, said: "This is the level of trust we have in our own system. It's like putting your money where your mouth is, right? What we are doing is exactly that."

The Starknet Foundation announced the launch of the Bramble wallet, which integrates the STRK20 shielding feature, allowing users to hold privacy balances.Bramble is a wallet that only supports the Chrome browser, integrating privacy balances, Ledger hardware signing, and multi-signature account features, and provides recovery mnemonic phrases for backup.

Insiders revealed that the order to restrict Ukraine's access to the Star Shield system came from within the White House.

Elon Musk stated that the Starlink system is owned and controlled by the U.S. government, and any speed or usage restrictions are determined by the U.S. military, with the final decision resting with President Donald Trump.

NEAR co-founder @ilblackdragon revealed on the X platform that the recovery of stolen funds from NEAR Intents was mainly due to the AI security layer SHIELD on Intents, as well as some proactive investigative work.The Intents team identified the responsible party and established communication within less than 24 hours of the hack, successfully recovering the funds in full today at 14:30 UTC.@ilblackdragon also stated that NEAR will continuously strengthen its security systems and further adapt to the ever-changing cybersecurity landscape. While AI may accelerate the exploitation of vulnerabilities, it can also help us defend against them. It is hoped that the entire industry will respond with vigilance and feel the same sense of urgency to collaborate together.

Cross-chain trading protocol NEAR Intents stated in a post on X that on September 24, Bitget was attacked, resulting in approximately $387.5 million in funds being stolen, most of which were aggregated into Ethereum and converted to ETH. The hacker attempted to transfer over $50 million through NEAR Intents, but ultimately only $166,000 was successfully transferred, while $503,000 was intercepted during the execution process.NEAR Intents indicated that the relevant data comes from on-chain tracking tools, Arkham, internal logs, and risk control layer SHIELD, among other sources. The figures listed are rounded estimates, with an assessment deviation of no more than 10%. SHIELD identified over $50 million in money laundering attempts and has filtered out duplicate flows, of which $166,000 has been successfully transferred, while another $503,000 was frozen midway through execution and remains restricted, pending legal and recovery procedures.NEAR Intents stated: permissionless does not equal neutral, the team refuses to assist in cashing out stolen assets and will forgo the bounty from this incident to allow Bitget to recover funds as much as possible. Bitget previously established a 5% + 5% bounty arrangement. NEAR Intents also mentioned that the protocol will remain permissionless but set boundaries, and will combat money laundering of stolen funds, while suggesting Bitget contact legal and law enforcement channels to handle the frozen funds.

According to The Information, AI drone company Shield AI is in talks for a new round of financing at a valuation of at least $20 billion. This comes just six months after its $2 billion Series G funding round closed, which had a valuation of $12.7 billion.The company expects revenue growth of over 80% this year, reaching at least $540 million.

Spain's largest cryptocurrency exchange Bit2Me announced the establishment of an independent company Bit2Shield (registered name CryptoShield S.L) to assist courts, police, and financial institutions in tracking, seizing, storing, and selling cryptocurrency assets. This department will support investigators in extracting wallet data, locating cryptocurrency assets, and issuing digital signature forensic reports that can be used in court, while also being responsible for fraud investigations, source of funds verification, and providing training for police, judges, and banks.This move formalizes the work Bit2Me previously conducted for public institutions. In 2025, Bit2Me handled seized cryptocurrency assets worth 1.5 million euros (approximately 1.74 million dollars) for Interpol, Europol, and the Spanish police, using blockchain analysis company Chainalysis to track the assets. Bit2Shield will store seized assets in cold wallets that require multiple signatures and arrange for their sale when ordered by authorities, with proceeds transferred to government bank accounts in euros.Bit2Shield is part of Bit2Me's expansion from retail trading to banking and public institution infrastructure, with investors including Bankinter, Unicaja, Cecabank, Telefónica, and Tether. Since Bit2Shield focuses on investigations, forensics, and training, it is not considered a cryptocurrency service provider under the EU's Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA); any operations involving the exchange of cryptocurrency for euros will be handled by Bitcoinforme S.L., an entity authorized by the Spanish securities regulator MiCA under Bit2Me.

ZEC financial company Cypherpunk disclosed on platform X that Ironwood has surpassed Orchard to become the largest shielded pool on Zcash.The latest data shows that the Ironwood shielded pool has locked a total of 1,976,378 ZEC, worth over 1 billion dollars.

According to monitoring by PeckShield, the cryptocurrency industry experienced 30 significant hacker attacks in July, with total losses reaching $210.3 million, a 177.2% increase compared to June's $75.87 million. The COLDCARD incident resulted in losses of approximately $70 million, making it the third-largest cryptocurrency theft case so far this year.The specific security incidents are as follows:COLDCARD: approximately $70 million;AFX Trade on the Arbitrum platform: approximately $24 million;Ostium: approximately $24 million;BONK: approximately $21.2 million;Wanchain: approximately $13 million;Triple-A: approximately $10 million;Bonzo Lend: approximately $9.05 million;Verus: approximately $7.5 million;WEMIX: approximately $6.25 million;Summer.fi: approximately $6 million.

According to official news, a total of 129,396 ZEC have been migrated to the Ironwood shielded pool, valued at over 60 million dollars at current prices.The official statement said that Ironwood, as the latest shielded pool for Zcash, has completed formal verification, supports independent audits, and is currently carrying an increasing proportion of shielded funds in the network.

Zcash activated the Ironwood NU6.3 network upgrade at block height 3,428,143, launching a new shielded pool to enhance network security and allow for the independent verification of ZEC circulating supply.After the upgrade, the original Orchard pool was restricted, and new funds are not allowed to enter. Existing funds must be migrated out through a turnstile before re-entering Ironwood, ensuring at the protocol level that pool expenditures do not exceed verifiable income. Ironwood is based on a revised protocol that has been formally verified and independently audited, aimed at preventing similar risks to the previous Orchard declarative vulnerabilities. Wallets supporting Ironwood (such as Zodl 3.8.0) have provided migration paths, allowing users to transfer funds from Orchard to the new pool without changing addresses.

According to monitoring by PeckShield, there were a total of 40 major hacking incidents in the cryptocurrency sector in June 2026, with total losses reaching 75.87 million USD, a decrease of 7.13% compared to May's 81.70 million USD.Among them, Humanity Protocol suffered an attack of 31 million USD, ranking first; Syscoin Bridge and JaredFromSubway.eth MEV bot lost 10 million USD and 7.5 million USD respectively.It is worth noting that the attackers of Humanity Protocol are laundering money through multiple chains such as BTC, Solana, Hyperliquid, and BNB Chain, and the funds are mixed with the earnings of the KelpDAO attackers, suggesting a possible connection. In addition, Aztec Bridge and Aztec Connect were attacked in the same month, with total losses of approximately 4 million USD.

According to PeckShield, the structured product protocol ThetanutsFi was attacked, resulting in a loss of approximately $2.1 million, of which about $2 million in option tokens have been recovered by a white hat address.The attacker has exchanged $105,000 USDC for about 60 ETH and still holds option tokens worth approximately $34,000 USDC.