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Developer Antoine Poinsot and five colleagues have released a letter detailing a new policy for notifying users about vulnerabilities and bugs in Bitcoin Core's code, which is crucial for network node operators.

Victor Ji, co-founder of Manta Network, has described the Polkadot ecosystem as toxic, accusing the team of inefficiency and a lack of genuine decentralization. He asserted that Polkadot adds no real value to Web3.

Matter Labs, the entity behind the L2 network zkSync, has decided not to pursue trademarking the term "ZK" following resistance from the cryptocurrency community.

Bittensor, a decentralized network for AI systems, has reported a hacking incident on July 2 that resulted in the theft of $8 million worth of TAO tokens.

Sources from DLNews reveal that the L2 blockchain ZKsync developers have committed about 0.5% of all issued tokens to the decentralized social network Lens Protocol to ensure its launch on their platform. Although the precise number is undisclosed, it’s estimated to be around 100 million ZK ($22 million at current market value).

Polygon Labs, a crypto company, has acquired the research platform Toposware, which aided developers in creating Polygon Type-1 — a project allowing any EVM network to become an L2 blockchain with zero-knowledge (ZK) proof. The deal is estimated to be worth between $30 million and $50 million, according to various sources.

Europol has executed an international operation to expose and dismantle an ecosystem distributing malware droppers—specialized tools for secretly installing malicious software on victims' computers.