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📌 Ledger reveals how hidden chips stole wallet recovery keys 📊 Ledger has confirmed that an unauthorized hardware implant found inside a cryptocurrency signer sold by Southeast Asian reseller CryptoBilis can capture users’ 24-word recovery phrases and transmit them through a cellular network. ⭐️ Ledger disclosed the findings on October 13, following an investigation by its Donjon security team into cryptocurrency losses reported on October 9. The company confirmed the presence of an implant in one affected customer’s device on October 10 and said every fund loss it has verified in the incident involved devices purchased through CryptoBilis. The reseller has suspended Ledger signer sales while investigators examine the affected hardware. ⚠️ According to the company’s latest findings, the unauthorized component sits inside the wallet’s casing and monitors information displayed on its screen. During the initial setup process, a Ledger signer displays a 24-word recovery phrase that allows users to restore access to their cryptocurrency holdings. The implant contains a microcontroller that can read the information displayed during setup. When it detects recovery phrase screens, it decodes the words and transmits the information through an LTE connection using a provisioned eSIM. Ledger’s findings indicate that the component operates independently of the signer’s normal security systems.

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⚠️ Can XRP price hold $1.40 as U.S. ETFs add $3.14M? 📊 XRP has fallen toward $1.45 after U.S. spot XRP ETFs added $3.14 million on Oct. 6, leaving traders focused on $1.40 support after a sharp market selloff. CoinGecko shows XRP trading around $1.45, down 4.3% over 24 hours and 3.9% during the past seven days. Trading volume stands near $2.24 billion, while roughly 63 billion XRP in circulation gives the token a market capitalization above $91 billion. 🌐 Tuesday’s ETF flows arrived before XRP dropped from roughly $1.52 to $1.46 during a fast crypto selloff early Wednesday. SoSoValue data U.S. spot XRP funds recorded $3.1404 million in net inflows on Oct. 6. Bitwise accounted for $10.5514 million of inflows, while Franklin’s XRPZ recorded a $4.0702 million withdrawal. Bitwise’s positive session lifted its cumulative XRP ETF inflows to roughly $688 million. Franklin’s fund retained approximately $501 million in historical net inflows despite Tuesday’s withdrawal. Other funds collectively accounted for the remaining outflows needed to bring the daily total down to $3.14 million. 🔗 Total cumulative inflows into U.S. spot XRP ETFs reached $1.794 billion, while the funds held roughly $1.697 billion in net assets. SoSoValue placed the XRP net asset ratio at 1.79%. The ETF data preceded the price decline. XRP fell from approximately $1.52 to $1.46 during the early-Oct. 7 market selloff, while Bitcoin slipped below $84,000. The move occurred during a period of heavy crypto long liquidations.

🔔 Can Solana price hit $130 after Forward Industries buys 949K SOL? ➡️ Forward Industries has increased its SOL and SOL-equivalent holdings by 948,601 tokens during fiscal Q4, taking its total to 8.501 million as of Sept. 30, 2026. Forward Industries said the 13% quarterly increase came from a combination of SOL purchases and staking, with the newly added tokens carrying an average cost of $83. Its holdings rose from 7.553 million at the end of June to 8.501 million at the end of September. 📣 The company said the position represented roughly 1.4% of Solana’s circulating supply. Its definition of SOL holdings includes native SOL, fwdSOL and pledged SOL while excluding borrowed tokens. Forward’s treasury dashboard continues to show 8,501,298 SOL and equivalents as of Sept. 30. 📊 At a reference price of $118.06 per SOL on Sept. 30, Forward placed the fair value of its SOL treasury at $1.0037 billion. Other digital assets carried a reported fair value of $26.9 million, while cash stood at $7.3 million. The company calculated total net asset value at approximately $870.4 million after accounting for $167.5 million in institutional debt.

⚠️ Vitalik Buterin says Ethereum is becoming a cryptographic world computer 🔖 Ethereum has begun moving toward what Vitalik Buterin calls a “cryptographic world computer,” with major changes planned to verification, consensus, privacy and state management after Hegotá. He expects future Ethereum architecture to combine blockchain consensus with zero-knowledge proofs, data sampling, privacy technology and decentralized off-chain computation. 📣 “Hegota — the fork planned for next year — is likely to be Ethereum’s last ‘normal’ fork,” Buterin wrote, referring to an upgrade whose technology would remain recognizable to developers familiar with Ethereum in 2015. The Hegotá upgrade remains in planning, and its complete scope has not been finalized. Two proposals are already scheduled. Frame Transactions, or EIP-8141, is the second scheduled feature. It lets Ethereum accounts decide how their transactions are authorized instead of requiring the same fixed signature structure for every user. 📊 One of the largest changes concerns how network participants verify blocks. Traditional blockchain verification requires nodes to download blockchain data and execute transactions themselves. Buterin expects Ethereum to rely increasingly on SNARK verification and PeerDAS data sampling. His comparison of blockchain designs describes the transition as moving from “full re-download and recompute” toward “SNARK verification + PeerDAS for data availability.”