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ZetaChain announced that the GatewayEVM contract was attacked, but it only affected the internal team wallets of ZetaChain. The team has blocked the attack vector to ensure that no further funds are at risk and will release a detailed post-mortem analysis report after completing the investigation.Currently, as a precaution, ZetaChain has suspended cross-chain transactions. The investigation is still ongoing, and so far, no user funds have been affected by this attack. The current status can be tracked on the relevant page.

According to The Street, the lending protocol Purrlend was attacked on the MegaETH and HyperEVM networks, resulting in a loss of approximately $1.52 million.The attacker extracted about $1.2 million in assets from the HyperEVM network, including 449,683 USDC, 214,125 USDT, 194,745 USDH, as well as some UBTC, wstHYPE, UETH, kHYPE, and WHYPE. The attacker also extracted about $324,000 in assets from the MegaETH network, including USDT, WETH, and USDm.Currently, Purrlend has suspended the protocol and launched an investigation, and the attacker's address has been identified in the block explorers of both networks.

ChainCatcher reports live from the 2026 Hong Kong Web3 Carnival, where Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin delivered a keynote speech. He defined Ethereum by two core functions: first, as a public bulletin board for applications to publish messages and data; second, as shared digital objects controlled by code, encompassing assets, NFTs, ENS, and DAOs. He emphasized that Ethereum's goal is not to compete with high-frequency trading platforms on speed, but to become the most secure, decentralized, and always-online trusted chain.Regarding the short-term roadmap, he introduced the account abstraction proposal EIP-8141, which natively supports smart contract wallets, quantum-resistant signature algorithms, and privacy protocols; in terms of quantum resistance, there are currently two signature schemes based on hash and lattice, and the team is significantly enhancing their efficiency through EVM vectorization.He revealed that ZKVM is fast enough to prove real-time EVM execution, with this year's goal being to ensure its security, planning to start deployment from a small proportion of the network, aiming to become the primary method of validation by 2028, allowing Ethereum to scale significantly without sacrificing decentralization. In terms of long-term vision, Ethereum is actively utilizing AI to generate mathematical proofs to formalize software security verification, pursuing complete quantum safety and maximum simplicity to ensure platform security does not rely on the continuous existence of any single team.

According to official news, the TRON network has officially passed Proposal No. 106 at 20:00 on April 10.According to the proposal, the mainnet has completed adjustments to the behavior and execution cost of the SELFDESTRUCT instruction: the contract will only be truly deleted from the chain when the instruction is called in the same transaction as the contract creation; in other cases, executing the instruction will only transfer the assets within the contract to a designated address, and the contract itself will not be deleted. At the same time, the energy consumption of SELFDESTRUCT has been adjusted from 0 to 5000.This adjustment means that TRON further aligns its relevant mechanisms with Ethereum, helping to continuously enhance the compatibility of TVM (TRON Virtual Machine) and providing more stable underlying support for multi-chain development and ecological adaptation.

The TRON network super representatives (SR) have initiated Proposal No. 106 and entered the committee voting phase. If the proposal passes the vote, it is expected to take effect on April 10 at 20:00 (Singapore time). The proposal aims to adjust the execution behavior and cost of the SELFDESTRUCT instruction: the contract will only be truly deleted if the instruction is called in the same transaction that creates the contract; in other cases, only the contract assets will be transferred, and the contract itself will not be deleted. At the same time, the energy consumption of SELFDESTRUCT will be adjusted from 0 to 5000.If the proposal passes, the relevant mechanism will further align with Ethereum, helping to enhance TVM compatibility. TRON reminds developers who have used SELFDESTRUCT to closely monitor the progress of the proposal and prepare for adaptation in advance. If nodes experience synchronization issues, it is recommended to first check whether they have been upgraded to v4.8.1.

According to monitoring by the on-chain security agency PeckShield, HyperEVM is suspected to be experiencing a major failure, as the block explorer page shows that the latest block and transactions have been stuck at "1 hour ago," with some blocks showing zero transactions, and on-chain data appears to have stopped updating.However, according to user replies, the aforementioned anomaly is actually a data delay issue with the block explorer itself, rather than a failure of the HyperEVM underlying chain------the top of the browser page even has a banner indicating "block data may be delayed," and other third-party explorers (such as Hyperscan) still show normal on-chain activity.

EY announced the launch of the Blockchain Privacy Sandbox, a web-based development environment designed to help businesses and developers experiment with privacy-preserving smart contracts on public chains compatible with the Ethereum Virtual Machine. It is reported that this sandbox environment is based on the open-source technology Starlight, allowing developers to convert standard Solidity smart contracts into applications with privacy protection features while retaining the original contract logic, and providing exploratory, replicable, and modifiable sample projects to accelerate proof of concept development.Currently, the Blockchain Privacy Sandbox is mainly used for experimentation and validation, supporting businesses in assessing the feasibility of privacy smart contracts, testing functionalities, and validating application scenarios before officially integrating Starlight. EY stated that this tool lowers the technical barrier for conducting privacy experiments on public chains by providing an easy-to-use web environment. Starlight, as the underlying ZKP compiler, has been open-sourced, allowing developers to integrate privacy features through its GitHub repository. As businesses' demand for data privacy protection on public chains increases, the attention on zero-knowledge proof technology continues to rise. Relevant reports indicate that the global ZKP market is expected to reach approximately $7.6 billion by 2033.

MetaMask tweeted that it now fully supports the HyperEVM network, allowing users to directly exchange tokens between MetaMask and the HyperEVM network.

The Sonic SVM Foundation announced the acquisition of ForgeX, a developer of on-chain market-making tools for the Solana blockchain, and officially open-sourced its core product, ForgeX CLI.ForgeX CLI is a set of on-chain operation tools for Solana developers, project teams, and AI Agents. It supports token creation based on multiple Launchpads, developer atomic purchases, same-block transactions, multi-wallet collaboration, volume management, and on-chain market-making across DEXs. All commands output structured JSON natively, which can be directly invoked and executed by AI Agents. The Sonic team stated that ForgeX CLI has been validated through multiple real projects, and this open-sourcing aims to lower the threshold for on-chain market-making and promote the evolution of the Solana ecosystem towards agent-driven on-chain operations.

According to Cointelegraph, the supply of HyperEVM's stablecoin has surpassed 1 billion dollars, surging 96% since February.

According to The Block, a16z Crypto criticized the colloquial use of the term "ZK" in certain developer environments in a blog post about its Jolt zkVM. The article pointed out that most zkVMs do not actually possess zero-knowledge properties unless expensive "wrapping" programs are applied. The author also mentioned that "zk" often becomes synonymous with "conciseness," meaning "short proofs that verify quickly," rather than true zero-knowledge privacy.As the community's focus on privacy grows, the misuse of this terminology is becoming a real issue. a16z's open-source Jolt zkVM launched a major upgrade on Tuesday, natively supporting zero-knowledge proofs. Jolt employs the NovaBlindFold folding scheme to create blinded proofs to prevent information leakage, making it suitable for privacy applications, with the zero-knowledge proofs generated after the upgrade only increasing by about 3 KB compared to the original non-ZK proofs.

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin posted on the X platform that Ethereum's scalability is divided into short-term and long-term parts.In the short term, the Glamsterdam upgrade will introduce block-level access lists for parallel validation, ePBS will allow a larger proportion of time slots for block validation, and gas repricing will ensure that operational costs align with actual execution time.The multi-dimensional gas mechanism will be implemented in phases, starting with Glamsterdam, where the "state creation" cost will be separated from the "execution and calldata" cost, with state creation gas not counted towards the approximately 16 million transaction gas limit. The EVM level will introduce a "reservoir" dimension mechanism, which will prioritize the consumption of dedicated dimension gas by default, and when insufficient, will draw from the reservoir. This will eventually transition to multi-dimensional pricing, where different dimensions may have different floating gas prices.Long-term scalability includes ZK-EVM and blob components. In terms of blobs, there are plans to continuously iterate PeerDAS, aiming to achieve approximately 8MB of data processing capacity per second, with future Ethereum block data directly entering blobs.The ZK-EVM aspect will be implemented in phases: by 2026, there will be a validator client supporting ZK-EVM, allowing about 5% of the network to rely on it; by 2027, this will expand to a larger proportion of a few nodes while advancing formal verification; once conditions are mature, it will transition to a five-out-of-three mandatory proof mechanism, ultimately continuously enhancing the security and formal verification level of ZK-EVM, and involving changes to VMs such as RISC-V.

According to sources cited by Blockspace, Magic Eden will shut down its Bitcoin and EVM markets and stop supporting its multi-chain wallet.Sources say that Magic Eden is expected to announce a gradual exit from the related business as early as Friday, and will close its Bitcoin and EVM markets in the first week of March.Shortly thereafter, Magic Eden also plans to stop its cross-chain wallet service, which will enter an asset export-only mode in mid-March and completely cease operations in early April. Sources also clarified that Magic Eden will continue to support NFTs and assets on Solana.

According to The Block, OpenAI has announced a partnership with the crypto investment firm Paradigm to launch EVMbench, aimed at assessing the capabilities of AI Agents in the field of smart contract security, including the identification, patching, and exploitation of high-risk vulnerabilities.Both parties stated that as AI improves its capabilities in code writing and execution, it can be exploited by attackers but can also serve as a defensive tool. Therefore, it is necessary to test the security capabilities of AI systems in environments with real economic significance. EVMbench will provide various testing modes, including vulnerability detection, contract modification, elimination of exploitability, and simulating complete attack processes in a sandbox chain environment.At the launch of this tool, the DeFi protocol Moonwell and the cross-chain liquidity protocol CrossCurve have recently encountered smart contract vulnerability attacks, raising concerns about AI-assisted code security. EVMbench is reportedly built on 120 selected vulnerability samples, covering multiple public audits and competition cases.Industry analysts believe that as AI technology advances, the threshold for identifying smart contract vulnerabilities may further decrease, and the game between security defense and attack capabilities is accelerating.

Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin stated that currently, a large number of newly created EVM chains are simply replicating existing architectures or connecting to Ethereum through optimistic bridges with a one-week delay. This approach is akin to the governance replication seen in Compound; while it is "comfortable," it depletes innovation in the long run, leading the ecosystem into a dead end.If a new chain does not connect to Ethereum's optimistic bridge (i.e., purely a substitute L1), the situation is even worse. What the ecosystem truly needs are projects that can bring new features, such as privacy protection, application-specific efficiency, or ultra-low latency. The form of "Ethereum connection" must match the actual functionality.For example, prediction market applications can issue and settle markets on L1, manage user accounts, but transaction execution occurs in a Rollup or L2-like system, with L1 verifying signatures and market states. A deeply connected L1 architecture should be prioritized, rather than a formal bridge for recognition.Another type of "application chain" can verify algorithm execution on government, social media, or gaming platforms, ensuring updates are authorized and executed according to pre-committed rules through technologies like STARK. Although these chains are not entirely Ethereum, they can provide algorithmic transparency and minimize trust, facilitating economic activities that were previously impossible.New projects should achieve two points: first, truly bring innovation, not just replicate existing EVM chains; second, ensure that the public relations image matches actual functionality. The project's claimed level of connection to Ethereum should genuinely reflect its technical and ecological dependencies, ensuring ecosystem interoperability and long-term value.

GOAT Network officially releases GOAT BitVM2 Testnet V3, taking a key step towards the implementation of native Bitcoin zkRollup. This testnet uses Bitcoin as the final adjudication layer, aiming to allow BTC to participate in real financial activities without relying on custodians, committees, or multi-signature trust assumptions.Unlike most BTCFi solutions that depend on custodians or majority honest assumptions, GOAT BitVM2 utilizes the BitVM2 mechanism, allowing erroneous claims or malicious actions to be challenged in extreme cases, ultimately adjudicated by the rules of the Bitcoin mainnet.Testnet V3 features key optimizations such as off-chain execution, Bitcoin-anchored ordering, and Bitcoin adjudicated withdrawals and dispute mechanisms. It will later introduce BitVM2-GC, significantly reducing challenge costs and making security assumptions verifiably realistic for the first time.

On January 21, Saga discovered and responded to a security incident affecting the SagaEVM chain. The incident involved a coordinated deployment of contract sequences, cross-chain operations, and subsequent liquidity extraction. Based on the principle of prudence, the SagaEVM chain has been paused at block height 6593800, and an active investigation and mitigation work is underway. Approximately $7 million worth of USDC, yUSD, ETH, and tBTC has been transferred to the Ethereum mainnet.The team is collaborating with exchanges and cross-chain bridge platforms to blacklist the attack wallet and recover the stolen tokens, and will repair and strengthen the affected cross-chain and deployment components. This incident did not involve a consensus mechanism failure, validator compromise, or private key leakage.According to previous news from ChainCatcher, the Saga chain was allegedly attacked by hackers, resulting in approximately $7 million in assets being stolen.

The Cosmos application chain Noble, focused on stablecoins, announced its migration from the Cosmos ecosystem to an independent EVM Layer 1 network, planned to launch on March 18. Noble stated that this move aims to leverage the Commonware tech stack written in Rust and the Reth Ethereum client to enhance performance and gain broader support from AI and crypto developers.Since 2023, Noble has processed over 22 billion token transactions, with 30,000 monthly active users. Its native stablecoin, Noble Dollar (USDN), will become a core feature of the new EVM chain, supporting profit distribution to users. During the transition period, the team will continue to support Cosmos-based blockchains, ensuring that existing IBC connections remain unaffected, with the ultimate goal of migrating all liquidity to Noble EVM.

Solayer announced the launch of a $35 million ecosystem fund specifically aimed at supporting high-throughput, real-time on-chain applications built on the infiniSVM architecture. The fund will focus on projects with clear revenue models, strong fundamentals, and a solid technological foundation, prioritizing core areas such as DeFi, consumer applications, payments, and AI-driven systems to leverage the performance advantages of infiniSVM, which boasts 330,000 TPS and 400 milliseconds of finality.Solayer co-founder Jason Li stated that the fund aims to support technically-oriented founders who are solving real-world problems, prioritizing businesses with sustainable fundamentals rather than short-term narratives or hype-driven startups. This initiative builds on its accelerator program, Solayer Accel, which has already onboarded AI trading platform buff.trade, hardware-accelerated MetaDEX DoxX, and asset tokenization platform Spout Finance, all of which are currently actively developing performance-sensitive financial applications on the network.