A string of wallet-related security incidents over the past month has sharpened attention on a wider shift in crypto security: the attack surface is expanding well beyond private keys, and AI is making every stage of the attack chain cheaper to run. The article links three separate cases — Coldcard’s random number generation flaw, Trezor’s exposure tied to a third-party logistics service, and SafePal’s risks involving order systems and plugin permissions — to a broader pattern in which code review, phishing generation, target selection and social engineering can all be automated at a much larger scale. It argues that wallet security can no longer be reduced to whether a seed phrase was stolen. Risks now span key generation, hardware, supply chains, user identity data, dApp connections, approvals, support channels and even AI agents. The piece also revisits earlier discussions from imToken on “AI × Web3 security,” outlining a more active defense model in which wallets use AI to review code dependencies, analyze suspicious dApps, simulate transaction outcomes before signing and build dynamic risk models around user behavior. Even so, it stresses that critical actions such as large transfers, new approvals and sensitive contract interactions still need clear user confirmation, least-privilege controls and explainable warnings.

Web3 infrastructure provider Ankr has launched Agent RPC, a new service designed to reduce data-reading costs for onchain agents while expanding what those agents can do. According to the announcement cited by Techub, the service uses the TORPC compression format, which Ankr said can lower token consumption by roughly 50%. In testing, the company also said model accuracy improved by 21 percentage points. Agent RPC supports cross-chain tools across 29 networks, allowing agents to read onchain data and manage Ankr accounts through a single connection. Ankr said the service’s data plane includes 16 tools for tasks such as checking balances and token holdings. Agents can also review spending and carry out account actions on their own, without human intervention. The rollout positions Agent RPC as an infrastructure product aimed at making autonomous onchain operations cheaper and more capable across multiple networks.

fomo co-founder Se Yong said in an Aug. 12 interview that the social meme trading platform has reached about 1.3 million users and is adding roughly 30,000 new users a day. He said the company is not trying to become a traditional pro-grade meme trading terminal. Instead, it wants to simplify cross-chain trading, make trust visible through public rankings, and turn trading into a social product that can reach users beyond crypto-native circles. In the interview, Se Yong also described how he first entered crypto through trading on Avalanche in 2021, how painful cross-chain flows on Base helped shape the product idea behind fomo, and why he sees mobile trading and social trading as the two core directions for the platform. He said the team wants users to think less about whether funds sit on SOL, ETH, or BNB and more about having a single usable balance. Se Yong added that fomo recently launched Clans, a new social feature that lets users join groups, view holdings, and compete on public leaderboards. Over time, he said, the feature could expand into internal chat, recruiting, subscriptions, shared treasuries, and even public clan addresses for airdrops. On competition, he said rival products are healthy and that fomo’s goal is to grow the overall market rather than protect a narrow slice of existing crypto users.

Harmony Protocol has confirmed an unauthorized minting of its ONE token after an attacker exploited a cross-shard receipt replay vulnerability. The flaw let already-processed cross-shard receipts be executed again, minting ONE inside empty blocks. Early analysis pointed to an initial 4 billion ONE minted, while a fresh on-chain reconstruction shows about 3.01 trillion ONE issued via six forged cross-shard transactions to four attacker wallets. Harmony also confirmed the initial mint came in two empty-block batches of 1 billion and 3 billion, with 2.8 billion subsequently moved to other attacker addresses. The project has patched the receipt validation and pre-staking committee quorum verification issues, and deployed Mainnet v2026.1.1. Bridge services are paused while it coordinates with validators, exchanges and LayerZero to freeze funds. The network is being rolled back to block 92,730,034; Shard 0 is halted at block 92,753,555, which may cause the official RPC to return 502 errors.

Gate Research says Robinhood Chain is emerging as one of the most closely watched examples of a traditional finance firm building its own public blockchain, but the network’s early traction has come from Meme tokens rather than tokenized securities. In the report, Robinhood Chain is described as an Arbitrum-based, EVM-compatible Layer 2 built for tokenized stocks, ETFs, private assets, stablecoins and other real-world assets, with a long-term goal of linking issuance, wallets, trading, liquidity and applications in one system. The study argues that the chain’s first wave of growth has instead been led by Meme tokens, Launchpads and active DEX trading. As of July 23, the report says Robinhood Chain had 101 RWA assets on-chain with a combined value of about $21.84 million, while more than 40,000 new tokens were being created in a single day during the same period. That gap, according to Gate Research, reflects the much lower supply threshold for Meme assets compared with regulated financial products. The report also highlights Gate DEX’s full integration with Robinhood Chain. Gate Alpha, Gate Wallet and Gate DEX Swap now support ecosystem asset discovery, wallet interaction, on-chain trading and cross-chain swaps, expanding the network’s distribution channels and external capital access. Gate Research’s core view is that Robinhood Chain currently operates in a two-layer structure: RWA as the long-term asset destination, and Meme as the short-term liquidity engine.

FOMO co-founder Se Yong used a 43-minute interview with host Maurits to lay out what the mobile social trading app is trying to build, why it took longer than outsiders think to find product-market fit, and why he believes public trading records can turn traders into public figures. He said FOMO has grown to more than 1.3 million users in 18 months, is adding about 30,000 users a day recently, generated more than $2 million in fees this week, and is now valued at $550 million. Se Yong described FOMO not as another crypto terminal but as “a trading app for the rest of us,” built around a broader ambition to become the social graph of finance. He linked that vision to a product design philosophy centered on trust, simple cash-denominated balances, fast cross-chain execution, and social transparency through leaderboards and public P&L. The interview also covered his own trading background, the missed Base memecoin trade that helped spark the idea for FOMO, his list of top traders and creators, the early beta rollout of Clans, and his view that crypto onboarding is shifting away from Crypto Twitter toward TikTok, Instagram, and word of mouth. Across the conversation, Se Yong returned to the same point: users, influence, and public transparency matter more to FOMO than status metrics alone.

Ankr, a Web3 infrastructure provider, has launched vRPC, a verifiable RPC service designed to prevent compromised nodes from feeding forged data to systems. The team warned that hacked RPC nodes can return responses that are indistinguishable from genuine data, while the code itself cannot detect the difference. vRPC signs every response inside an Intel TDX trusted execution environment (enclave), supporting local verification and rejecting any tampered data. Ankr stressed that users should verify RPC node responses rather than trust them blindly.

Canary XRP ETF, listed on Nasdaq under the ticker XRPC, reported a sharp decline in net assets during the first half of 2026 despite continued inflows through capital share activity. According to an SEC filing dated Aug. 7, the fund’s net assets fell by $81.6 million to $241.2 million over the period. The filing said the ETF still recorded $82.36 million in net inflows from capital share activity, but that support was outweighed by $159.7 million in unrealized depreciation tied to XRP’s price decline. As of June 30, the fund’s XRP holdings had risen 31.7% to 231.3 million tokens. Even so, the ETF’s net asset value dropped 42.84% as XRP fell 43.27% over the same period. The filing also said authorized participants can create and redeem shares using either in-kind XRP or cash, indicating that the $82.36 million in capital share activity did not come entirely from retail cash subscriptions. The report was carried by Techub, citing crypto.news.