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Mantle tokenholders backed a proposal authorizing a credit facility of up to 30,000 Ether (ETH), worth about $68 million, for Aave DAO, advancing remediation tied to bad debt from the April rsETH exploit.The proposal, MIP-34, passed in a seven-day Snapshot vote that ended Friday, according to DAO governance platform Snapshot. The measure authorizes the Mantle Foundation to negotiate and execute definitive agreements with Aave DAO for a loan from the Mantle Treasury, though the facility remains subject to Aave implementing its recovery plan and the parties finalizing terms.The credit facility is intended to help address the impact of the rsETH incident on Aave V3. The proposal said the attacker deposited 89,567 unbacked rsETH on Aave and borrowed about $190 million in WETH, wstETH and stablecoins, creating potential bad debt estimated at between $123.7 million and $230.1 million.The vote comes as the fallout from the rsETH exploit has moved beyond the initial liquidity shock into a broader remediation phase, with Mantle positioning its treasury as a backstop while Aave works to address bad debt and restore confidence in its lending markets. Source: AaveAave WETH market cools after post-exploit squeeze The Mantle credit facility would address the shortfall that also created liquidity stress across Aave’s lending markets. Galaxy Research said in a Thursday report that the rsETH exploit pushed Aave’s Wrapped Ether (WETH) market into a prolonged squeeze, with WETH utilization staying above 99% for 12.7 days after the incident. “Across the full analysis horizon, WETH utilization stayed structurally elevated and close to the 100% ceiling, with an average around 99.6% and only easing to about 98.47% by the end of the snapshot period,” Galaxy said. Related: Aave asks Arbitrum to send 30K ETH from Kelp exploiter to ‘DeFi United’High utilization means most of the supplied asset has already been borrowed, leaving little idle liquidity available for immediate withdrawals. In Aave’s case, Galaxy said the WETH market remained strained because supply contracted faster than borrows declined, keeping utilization near full capacity even after the initial shock. 30-day WETH utilization rate chart. Source: AavescanThe market has since cooled from the near-100% levels described in Galaxy’s analysis. Aavescan data showed Aave’s Ethereum V3 WETH market at about 91.6% utilization on Friday, with roughly 2.02 million WETH supplied and 1.85 million WETH borrowed. Magazine: North Korea denies crypto hacks, Upbit’s bank tests Ripple: Asia ExpressCointelegraph is committed to independent, transparent journalism. This news article is produced in accordance with Cointelegraph’s Editorial Policy and aims to provide accurate and timely information. Readers are encouraged to verify information independently.

Core Scientific (CORZ) reported a $347.2 million first-quarter net loss as its Bitcoin self-mining revenue fell sharply and high-density colocation became its largest revenue source. In its earnings report published Wednesday, the company reported a net loss of $1.06 per diluted share for the quarter. A year earlier, Core Scientific reported diluted earnings of $1.24 per share.Core Scientific said the loss included $266.5 million in non-cash impairment charges and a $30.8 million non-cash loss from changes in the fair value of warrants and contingent value rights.Revenue rose to $115.2 million from $79.5 million a year earlier, but fell short of analyst expectations. Zacks Equity Research said analysts expected $120.2 million in revenue, with Core Scientific’s results coming in about 4.1% below expectations.The results show Core Scientific’s transition from a Bitcoin miner into an AI infrastructure company, with high-density colocation now generating most of its revenue. The shift gives the company a larger business, but it also highlights how its legacy mining operations have weakened.Bitcoin mining revenue fallsCore Scientific’s digital asset self-mining revenue fell to $30.1 million from $67.2 million a year earlier, with the company mining 279 Bitcoin (BTC) during the quarter, down 45% from the same period in 2025. According to its 10-Q filing, Core Scientific sold 2,385 Bitcoin during the quarter for $208.3 million to fund planned capital expenditures and other cash needs.Core Scientific’s six-month price chart. Source: Yahoo FinanceDespite the weaker mining results, Core Scientific’s shares have gained over the past six months. Yahoo Finance data shows CORZ closed at $24.63 on Wednesday, up about 19.6% over six months, before falling 7.43% to $22.80 in pre-market trading at the time of writing.In a separate announcement, Core Scientific said it plans to scale its Muskogee, Oklahoma, campus to about 1.5 gigawatts of gross power, or about 1.0 gigawatt of leasable power, partly through the planned acquisition of Polaris DS. The company has also started construction on a second, unleased 82.5-megawatt building at the campus.Related: Trump-linked American Bitcoin reports $82M Q1 loss, revenue missCore Scientific expands AI-linked colocation business Core Scientific’s first-quarter growth came from high-density colocation rather than Bitcoin production, with the company’s mining revenue and Bitcoin output falling while its AI-linked hosting business generated most of its revenue.The company said its colocation revenue rose to $77.5 million in the first quarter from $8.6 million a year earlier, driven by additional billable customer power capacity delivered during the quarter.The company said it was billing for 243 megawatts of capacity as of March 31, representing about $350 million in average annualized colocation revenue.The revenue shift follows a series of hosting agreements with CoreWeave. In June 2024, Core Scientific said it signed 12-year contracts to deliver about 200 megawatts of infrastructure to host CoreWeave’s high-performance computing operations. The companies later expanded the relationship. In an SEC filing in February 2025, the companies said CoreWeave’s total contracted high-performance computing infrastructure with Core Scientific had increased to about 590 megawatts across six sites.Magazine: Guide to the top and emerging global crypto hubs: Mid-2026Cointelegraph is committed to independent, transparent journalism. This news article is produced in accordance with Cointelegraph’s Editorial Policy and aims to provide accurate and timely information. Readers are encouraged to verify information independently.

TrustedVolumes, an independent market maker and resolver used by 1inch Fusion, confirmed it was exploited and said about $6.7 million in stolen funds are being held across three Ethereum addresses.In a Thursday X post, the market maker said the stolen funds were split across three wallets, with two addresses each holding about $3 million and a third holding about $700,000. TrustedVolumes said it was open to “constructive communication” over a bug bounty and a “mutually acceptable resolution.”The confirmation came after Web3 security company Blockaid said its exploit detection system had identified an ongoing Ethereum exploit targeting TrustedVolumes. Blockaid said the attack involved a TrustedVolumes-controlled custom swap infrastructure. Blockaid initially estimated that about $5.87 million had been extracted, including Wrapped Ether, USDT, Wrapped Bitcoin and USDC. Blockchain security company CertiK said the attacker registered as an allowed order signer through a public function, then used that authorization to execute orders that transferred funds from the targets.The incident highlights the risks around third-party infrastructure used in decentralized exchange execution, where resolvers and market makers can operate their own contracts even when the core protocol and ordinary users are not directly affected. TrustedVolumes operates independently as a liquidity provider for multiple protocols, including 1inch, which said its own systems, infrastructure and user funds were not affected. Cointelegraph reached out to TrustedVolumes for additional comment but had not received a response by publication. Source: TrustedVolumes1inch says none of its protocols were breachedIn an X post, 1inch said reports linking it directly to the TrustedVolumes exploit were “misleading,” adding that “neither 1inch nor any of the 1inch protocols are involved.” The platform said there was “no impact on 1inch systems, infrastructure or user funds.”1inch co-founder Sergej Kunz also said TrustedVolumes operates independently and is not exclusive to 1inch. “While it is true that 1inch uses TrustedVolumes as a resolver, we are one of many,” Kunz said.Kunz said the framing of the exploit as a 1inch-related incident was “confusing and harmful,” adding that 1inch is monitoring the situation with security partners and will assist where appropriate.Related: Andre Cronje says DeFi is ‘no longer DeFi’ as builders debate circuit breakersSecurity researcher Vladimir Sobolev, known as Officer’s Notes on X, also told Cointelegraph there was “no risk for 1inch users,” adding that the exploit was related only to TrustedVolumes. Sobolev said the exploit points to broader weaknesses in crypto security practices, where vulnerabilities can quickly produce immediate losses. “We lack security in general. Blockchains just tend to have an immediate payoff,” Sobolev told Cointelegraph. “We need to pay more attention to kill switches, monitoring, circuit breakers, etc.”Both Blockaid and Sobolev noted that the attack was carried out by the same operator responsible for the March 2025 1inch Fusion V1 resolver exploit. However, Blockaid said the latest attack involved a different vulnerability.In March 2025, 1inch said a vulnerability affected resolvers using an outdated Fusion v1 implementation in their own contracts, while end-user funds remained safe. SlowMist later traced about $5 million in stolen assets, including USDC and Wrapped Ether.1inch and the affected resolver negotiated with the attacker, who returned most of the stolen funds under a bug bounty agreement, according to 1inch and Decurity’s postmortem.Magazine: North Korea denies crypto hacks, Upbit’s bank tests Ripple: Asia ExpressCointelegraph is committed to independent, transparent journalism. This news article is produced in accordance with Cointelegraph’s Editorial Policy and aims to provide accurate and timely information. Readers are encouraged to verify information independently.

Samsung SDS, Samsung’s information technology services subsidiary, will reportedly build a token securities platform for the Korea Securities Depository (KSD), moving South Korea’s central securities depository closer to operating blockchain-based securities infrastructure as the country prepares a legal framework for tokenized assets. Samsung SDS won a contract to build and operate the platform for KSD, according to local reports from Yonhap News Agency and The Korea Times. The project is expected to be completed by February 2027 and will convert a technology verification testbed into a formal system capable of stable service operations. KSD plans to link its existing electronic securities account system with blockchain-based distributed ledger data to strengthen tokenized securities issuance and rights management, according to the reports. Samsung SDS previously worked on KSD’s tokenized securities efforts, including function-analysis consulting in 2024 and testbed platform construction in 2025, Seoul Economic Daily reported. The news comes as South Korea is preparing the market infrastructure needed to support tokenized securities once its incoming legal framework takes effect.South Korea prepares its tokenized securities frameworkOn Jan. 15, the Financial Services Commission (FSC) said amendments to the Electronic Registration Act and the Financial Investment Services and Capital Markets Act had passed the National Assembly, paving the way for the issuance and circulation of security tokens.The FSC said the amended Electronic Registration Act legally recognizes blockchain-based distributed ledgers as securities registries. The regulator also said token security issuers will be required to follow legally mandated procedures and apply for electronic registration with KSD, placing the depository at the center of South Korea’s future token securities infrastructure. Related: South Korea crypto sector warns AML proposal goes too far: ReportOn March 4, the FSC launched a public-private consultative body on security tokens. The consultative body will work on rules and infrastructure for security tokens across four areas: technology and infrastructure, issuance, circulation and payment and settlement. In the announcement, the FSC also said that the framework is scheduled to take effect on Feb. 4, 2027, after updates to subordinate rules and the setup of relevant infrastructure. That timing closely matches Samsung SDS’s reported February 2027 target for completing the KSD platform.Magazine: North Korea denies crypto hacks, Upbit’s bank tests Ripple: Asia ExpressCointelegraph is committed to independent, transparent journalism. This news article is produced in accordance with Cointelegraph’s Editorial Policy and aims to provide accurate and timely information. Readers are encouraged to verify information independently.

Linea Consortium has joined Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust (LFDT) as a premier member and contributed the open-source zero-knowledge (ZK) rollup stack powering Linea as a new code project called Lineth.The contribution places Linea’s core layer-2 technology under LFDT’s open-source governance framework, rather than the control of any single company, Linea Consortium said in a release on Tuesday, positioning the move as a step toward decentralization. However, the contribution concerns governance of Linea’s open-source technology stack, not necessarily the decentralization of the Linea network itself.Linea Consortium board director Declan Fox will join the LFDT governing board alongside representatives from companies like Consensys, Hedera, Kaleido, OpenAssets and Shielded Technologies.Linea Consortium is a nonprofit that guides Linea’s ecosystem growth, protocol strategy and decentralization, while LFDT is the Linux Foundation’s open-source organization for blockchain, ledger, identity and related decentralized technologies.Lineth includes Linea’s core ZK rollup components, including its execution, consensus and proof systems, as well as L1 and L2 smart contracts. Linea said the project aims to expand its maintainer base, attract enterprise and institutional users, and support long-term sustainability beyond any single company.Cointelegraph reached out to Linea Consortium for additional information, but did not receive a response by publication. Open-source move does not decentralize Linea networkThe move gives Linea’s ZK rollup stack a foundation-governed home for maintainers, contributors and potential enterprise adopters. However, key parts of the network remain centralized, including its sequencer, prover, upgrade controls and validator participation.In the announcement, Fox highlighted one of Ethereum’s core value propositions: credible neutrality. He said that joining LFDT and contributing Lineth are “deliberate steps in Linea’s progressive decentralization.” He added that the move gives the technology powering the L2 ecosystem a “neutral home that no single company controls.”Related: DeFi can freeze stolen funds, but not everyone agrees it shouldAccording to Linea’s risk disclosures, its Mainnet Beta still includes centralized components such as the sequencer, prover and Security Council, which are maintained by the team. The sequencer can also postpone transaction inclusion and reorder transactions.Linea’s information page at L2Beat. Source: L2BeatL2 analytics tracker L2Beat classifies Linea as a Stage 0 rollup, a category used for networks that still rely heavily on operators or other trusted actors. The distinction comes amid a broader Ethereum debate over the role of L2 networks. Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin said in February that L2 progress toward Stage 2, where networks are mostly controlled by smart contracts and permissionless mechanisms rather than by the core team, had been slower and harder than expected.Magazine: AI-driven hacks could kill DeFi — unless projects act nowCointelegraph is committed to independent, transparent journalism. This news article is produced in accordance with Cointelegraph’s Editorial Policy and aims to provide accurate and timely information. Readers are encouraged to verify information independently.