More than $180 million in leveraged crypto positions were liquidated over 12 hours as Bitcoin rose above $111,000. The majority occurred on Hyperliquid, with over $109 million in BTC and $98 million in ETH shorts unwound, according to Coinglass.

A vulnerability in Libbitcoin Explorer's random number generation has exposed over 120,000 Bitcoin private keys. The flaw stems from predictable entropy in the Mersenne Twister-32 algorithm, allowing attackers to reconstruct private keys from timestamps.

Eleven wallets acquired 295,861 ETH valued at $1.19 billion on Wednesday from five exchanges including Kraken and FalconX. This accumulation coincided with Ethereum's price dropping below $4,000, triggering over $100 million in leveraged position liquidations, with some whale traders losing more than $70 million.

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin emphasized that PeerDAS technology in the upcoming December 3 Fusaka upgrade will solve Layer-2 scalability challenges by allowing nodes to verify data without downloading the entire blockchain. The network recently achieved six blobs per block, with Base accounting for 42% of usage, as the upgrade prepares to double blob capacity.

The Philippines has implemented a blockchain-based accountability platform for its Department of Public Works and Highways following demonstrations by over 100,000 citizens protesting corruption in $9.5 billion flood control projects. Launched September 25, the Integrity Chain system creates immutable records of public works contracts on Polygon's network.