Hinkal2026-09-10 06:29:44Hinkal rolls out deposit addresses for standard transfers into private balancesDecentralized privacy protocol Hinkal has introduced a Deposit Address feature designed to let senders transfer funds in the same way they would to a regular wallet address. According to the project, the new address format looks like a standard wallet address, which means the sender does not need to use the Hinkal interface or connect to a contract to complete the transfer. Hinkal said each incoming deposit is screened before it can move into a private balance. Funds that meet the criteria are automatically credited to the recipient’s private balance, while funds flagged as high risk remain outside that private balance. The project added that those higher-risk funds can either be returned or sent to another wallet. Hinkal said the setup is intended to prevent a single high-risk incoming transfer from affecting the risk profile of a public address.760
Vitalik Buter2026-09-06 13:14:50Vitalik Buterin: Poseidon Hash Series Has Generated Real Value, STARK Proof Costs Could Drop to Double DigitsEthereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin stated that the Poseidon hash function series, after years of development, has generated significant practical value in Ethereum and other fields and will continue to play a role for years. Poseidon is a key reason modern privacy protocols can quickly generate SNARK proofs on the client side. Buterin also noted that general-purpose STARKs have achieved extremely high performance, with proof costs for batch computations reduced to three digits, and expected to drop to double digits or even lower, exceeding early-2020s expectations.940
Vitalik Buter2026-08-25 03:40:05Vitalik’s first public bet in two years helped push The Interfold toward a $100 million valuationThe Interfold, an open-source privacy protocol developed by Gnosis Guild, has drawn sharp market attention after Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin publicly backed the project and put capital into its first CCA auction on Uniswap. Last month, Buterin spent 16 ETH, roughly $28,000 by the source’s estimate, marking his first sizable public purchase of a new project token or related asset in two years. After $FOLD held its token generation event on Aug. 19, the token climbed more than sevenfold at its peak. Before Upbit listed $FOLD on Aug. 23, the token’s market value had already risen from about $28 million to roughly $140 million, largely on the back of the “Vitalik bought it” trade. The Upbit listing then briefly doubled the price again and pushed market capitalization to around $230 million before the token fell back to its pre-listing level. The source argues that the current valuation largely reflects that core narrative, while the protocol’s privacy-computing design and staking model remain harder for the broader market to grasp.1360
Vitalik Buter2026-08-25 03:15:23Vitalik’s rare public bet on FOLD put The Interfold back in focus after a sharp post-TGE rallyVitalik Buterin’s 16 ETH participation in The Interfold’s first CCA public auction on Uniswap has become a central talking point around FOLD, the project’s token, after its token generation event and rapid market repricing. According to the source article, this was Buterin’s first sizable public allocation to a new project token or related asset in roughly two years, following a 32 ETH purchase in Truemarkets’ NFT public sale in November 2024. FOLD launched its TGE on Aug. 19 and later climbed more than sevenfold at its peak. The article splits that move into two phases: an early repricing driven largely by the market narrative that 「Vitalik bought」, and a second leg on Aug. 23 when Upbit listed FOLD, briefly pushing the token’s valuation to about $230 million before it fell back. The source describes The Interfold as an open-source privacy protocol developed by Gnosis Guild that lets independent parties run verifiable joint computation without exposing private inputs, relying on a cryptographic execution environment called E3 and requiring nodes to stake FOLD to qualify for encrypted computation and decryption tasks.3750
Tornado Cash2026-08-03 18:52:38Tornado Cash Posts 968 Deposits in Its Busiest Day of 2026Tornado Cash recorded 968 deposits on July 23, marking its busiest day of 2026, according to L2Beat data. Onchain records show 29,573 ETH, worth about $57.2 million at that day’s prices, moved into the protocol’s Ethereum pools from 110 addresses. A single address labeled Drift Exploiter 4 accounted for 245 deposits totaling 23,095 ETH, or roughly $44.4 million, in less than two hours, representing 78% of the day’s inflows. Lookonchain and PeckShield both flagged the transfers, with PeckShield adding that the exploiter also sent 0.85 ETH to Bybit. The movement was the first involving funds tied to the April 1 exploit of Drift, the Solana perpetuals DEX that lost roughly $285 million in the largest DeFi hack of 2026. TRM Labs and Elliptic have attributed that attack with medium-to-high confidence to UNC4736, a North Korea-linked cluster also tied to the $1.5 billion Bybit hack. The jump in activity comes as Tornado Cash usage keeps recovering after the U.S. Treasury lifted sanctions in March 2025, while developer Roman Storm still faces a pending retrial fight.2070
Vitalik Buter2026-07-22 15:25:13Vitalik Backs Interfold as ZK and FHE Enable Anonymous Onchain VotingVitalik Buterin has praised Interfold, calling it the generalized form of the MACI vision he has pushed for nearly a decade. The protocol combines ZK-SNARKs, FHE, and threshold cryptography for private yet verifiable coordination.580
Privacy Cash2026-07-21 04:02:11Privacy Cash adds support for BNB ChainDecentralized privacy protocol Privacy Cash has added support for BNB Chain, according to a post from the project on X. The update allows users to access privacy features directly in a browser. Privacy Cash also said users can carry out private cross-chain transactions through the protocol. No further technical details were disclosed in the source text. The announcement centers on two points: BNB Chain network support is now live, and browser-based privacy use is available alongside private cross-chain functionality. The source cited for the update is the project’s X post linked in the original item.1780
Litecoin2026-07-10 14:26:13Litecoin Exploited via MWEB Vulnerability and Block ReorganizationA security exploit targeting Litecoin's MWEB and consensus layer allowed attackers to profit through block reorganization. LTC price dropped 0.57% while MWC surged 4.65%. The incident highlights privacy integration risks.460
