MBA Mortgage Application Activity Index for the week ending August 8 in the United States

Pump.Fun is a crypto assets platform founded by three young entrepreneurs, quickly becoming a major trading venue for Memecoins. However, founder Dylan Kerler is associated with early Rug Pull activities and has profited through token manipulation. Although the platform claims to protect investors, similar incidents still occur, highlighting the risks of the crypto market.

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Web3 Industry April Security Situation Report: Losses of $364 million, phishing attacks as the main cause The latest data shows that the Web3 industry lost as much as $364 million due to hacker attacks and scams in April 2025, with $337 million coming from phishing attacks. This staggering figure mainly stems from a single incident: a U.S. senior citizen fell victim to a meticulously designed social engineering attack, resulting in the theft of 3,520 bitcoins. On-chain analysis shows that these stolen assets were quickly transferred to multiple exchange platforms and converted into Monero, causing a brief surge in XMR price by 50%. The victim has been identified as an elderly individual who has held these bitcoins since 2017. In addition, several notable attacks occurred in April: 1. A decentralized trading platform was attacked for $7.5 million, with the attacker exploiting a price oracle vulnerability. 2. Project Loops

Discussion on the Technical Principles and Optimization Solutions of DLC 1. Overview Discrete Logarithm Contract ( DLC ) is an oracle-based contract execution scheme proposed by Tadge Dryja from MIT in 2018. DLC allows both parties to make conditional payments based on predefined conditions, executing payments through pre-signatures and oracle-signed results. Compared to the Lightning Network, DLC has significant advantages in privacy, support for complex financial contracts, and reducing counterparty risk. Although DLC has a broad application prospect in the Bitcoin ecosystem, there are still some issues to be resolved, such as key security, oracle decentralization, and fixed denomination change. This article will analyze the principles of DLC and propose some optimization solutions. 2. How DLC Works Taking Alice and Bob betting on the odd or even of the hash value of the n+k-th block as an example, the basic process of DLC is as follows: 1. All parties

Analysis of the Solana Ecosystem Liquid Staking Market: Competition Among Four Major Market Makers With the recovery of the cryptocurrency market, Solana (SOL) has risen to the sixth position by market capitalization, with its staking assets second only to Ethereum among all proof-of-stake (PoS) blockchains. However, the total locked value (TVL) of decentralized finance (DeFi) applications in the Solana ecosystem is relatively low, at only $1.137 billion, approximately 11.3% of its historical peak. In the composition of Solana's TVL, liquid staking projects play a crucial role and are seen as key factors in driving the recovery of TVL. Among them, Marinade and Jito have become leaders with the highest TVL, highlighting the importance of the liquid staking category. This article will delve into the main participants in the Solana liquid staking space, comparing and analyzing their strategies and market performance. S