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Security company CertiK's analysis shows that a legacy MakerDAO auction keeper contract was exploited, with the attacker taking away 200 ETH, worth over $500,000. CertiK stated that the root cause was the lack of access control for the 0x8804d1de function in the keeper implementation contract.This contract was involved in the "Black Thursday" liquidation crisis in March 2020, when it won ETH with zero bids, with four transactions of 50 ETH each remaining unsettled. The attacker took this batch of funds and transferred them out in amounts of 10 ETH each via Tornado Cash. Although this contract is not currently a core part of the Sky ecosystem, old contracts with remaining funds may still become targets for attacks.

The winning yield of the 3-year U.S. Treasury bond is 4.932%, the highest auction yield since 2006.

The platform Umia, which helps cryptocurrency projects issue and govern tokens, completed a $6.11 million financing by auctioning its own UMIA tokens. Francesco Mosterts, co-founder and CEO of Umia, told The Block that the seven-day auction had a fully diluted valuation of $18 million, selling a total of 17.3 million tokens, which accounted for 34.6% of the total supply. All tokens sold in the auction were unlocked at issuance, with no lock-up period. According to CoinGecko data, the current trading price of UMIA is approximately $0.68, corresponding to a fully diluted valuation of about $34 million.About 45% of the funds came from institutional investors, with ten funds participating, including Galaxy Ventures, Digital Currency Group, Draper Associates, RenGen, Alpha EV, Maven 11, and Eon Capital, along with nearly 700 individual bidders. Umia stated that these funds had the same terms as other bidders, did not receive discounts, and no investors were granted board seats, observer roles, or advisory positions. The auction took place from August 26 to September 2 on Base, using Umia's version of Uniswap's continuous liquidation auction, with a minimum target of $2 million and a maximum token price of $0.36.Umia places the intellectual property, operational team, and treasury of each project under the same legal structure associated with the tokens, rather than being dispersed among companies, foundations, and DAOs.

Binance will delist the AUCTION/USDC and VANA/USDC spot trading pairs on October 2 at 11:00. Users can continue to trade the related tokens on other trading pairs on the Binance platform.

Aerodrome's Slipstream V3 has been launched, introducing protocol-level internal MEV auctions in concentrated liquidity AMMs, distributing the value captured by sandwich bots and arbitrageurs to active liquidity providers and sAERO token holders. The protocol expects related revenue to reach tens of millions of dollars.This version also introduces dynamic fees, automatically increasing fees during market volatility, and continues the concentrated liquidity design of Uniswap V3, achieving capital efficiency up to 4000 times that of traditional AMMs.Aero plans to integrate Aerodrome on Base with Velodrome on Optimism into a single AERO token, set to launch on the Ethereum mainnet in the second quarter of 2026; Aero Lite has launched the Slipstream pool on Circle's Arc, and Dromos Labs is developing pool-level fee rebates and KYC options for institutional clients.

Ethereum developers warn: Attackers can exploit free testnet ETH and one-time builder identities to win Sepolia block auctions and withhold transaction payloads during the Glamsterdam testing period.This attack does not threaten mainnet funds but may disrupt infrastructure testing. The Sepolia public test is scheduled to launch on October 6, with the Hoodi test tentatively set for October 27, and the mainnet activation time is still undetermined.

The Standard Reserve, self-proclaimed as the "On-Chain Central Bank," will launch on September 14 and announce the genesis minting arrangements. The whitelist minting window for Genesis Charters is from 5:30 PM to 8:30 PM Eastern Time (from 5:30 AM to 10:30 AM Beijing Time on September 15), with a liquidity fee of 0.15 ETH; after this period, the remaining Genesis Charters will enter a 30-minute descending Dutch auction mode, starting at a price of 1.25 ETH, with a minimum price of 0.15 ETH. 100% of the minting proceeds will go into initial liquidity and the protocol treasury, with no profit-sharing for the team.After the minting ends, the official will inject liquidity and open trading for the STANDARD token, with a temporary anti-sniping tax set for the first hour, starting at 90% and decaying exponentially, with most of it decaying in the first 5 minutes, and the tax fees going into the protocol; after 1 hour, regular trading fees will resume. At the same time trading opens, Charter emissions will be initiated, and 100 branch licenses will be auctioned (paid in STANDARD, via Dutch auction).

The first two batches of confiscated assets in the Singapore 3 billion Singapore dollars money laundering case have officially opened for auction, with an overall estimated value between 2.9 million and 3.9 million. The auction is conducted solely online, and bidders cannot place bids in person or via phone. Currently, the confiscated items are stored in the Le Freeport warehouse at Changi North, and interested bidders from Singapore and abroad can visit, but must make an appointment in advance, with limited slots available. Among the items, the most notable are the limited edition pumpkin bags from Louis Vuitton and Yayoi Kusama.It is reported that this case is one of the largest money laundering cases in Singapore in recent years. The involved person, Wang Shuiming's partner, Su Weiyi, has been confirmed as the mastermind behind the cryptocurrency platform scam Atom Asset Exchange. Another involved person, Su Baolin, had received illegal online gambling proceeds from abroad through USDT and exchanged part of the USDT for at least 463,000 Singapore dollars in cash in 2023. He also used USDT to purchase a Toyota Alphard.

Market expectations for the Bank of Japan tightening monetary policy are heating up, with weak demand for Japan's two-year government bond auction, the bid-to-cover ratio at 2.97, lower than last time's 3.63 and the past 12 months' average of 3.74. The tail difference is 0.034, higher than last month's 0.007, marking the weakest since 2016. The government led by Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi supports an interest rate hike as early as September, with overnight index swaps indicating a probability of about 84% for a rate hike in September.

The on-chain project launch and governance platform Umia has initiated the on-chain auction for its native token $UMIA, marking the first token issued through its system. The early bidding window is now live, and the public round will be open to everyone from August 29 to September 2 on Base via umia.finance. Bidding is priced in USDC and supports deposits via Privy cards; trading will commence on Uniswap v4 with protocol-owned liquidity after the auction ends.The total supply of $UMIA is 50 million tokens, of which 40 million will be allocated at launch, and the remaining 10 million will be reserved for performance. Of the 40 million, 61% will be in circulation from day one, covering the 17.3 million tokens sold in the auction (with no lock-up) as well as the portion held by the protocol; shares for supporters, service providers, and the team will vest over 36 months after a 12-month cliff.Umia is a full-stack on-chain project launch and governance platform, with a non-custodial treasury and board decisions priced through a decision market. Each project launched by Umia operates as a subsidiary of a Cayman isolated portfolio company based on the MetaLex BORG framework. Umia was incubated by Chainbound and raised $4.6 million in August 2024, led by cyber Fund.

Japan will issue 10-year and 30-year government bonds on September 1 and 3, respectively, and the market is closely watching their auction performance. Nomura Holdings strategist Andrew Ticehurst stated that if auction demand is weak, it could push up the yields of Japanese and U.S. government bonds, increasing market risk.

According to official news, the on-chain reputation protocol Ethos Network announced that it will launch the WHUF token auction on September 1, planning to sell 20% of the total token supply. This auction sets an 85% price guarantee mechanism, with a starting fully diluted valuation (FDV) of $1 million and a maximum valuation cap of $99 million.In addition, Ethos will provide extra rewards for contributors' XP and for referring participants. Users can complete registration in advance to participate in this WHUF token auction and related incentive activities.

The yield on the 10-year U.S. Treasury auction has reached a new high since 2007.

According to market information, Changxin Technology's auction price is temporarily reported at 49.5 yuan, corresponding to an issuance price of 8.66 yuan per share, with an increase of 471.59%.

Uniswap announced that teams can now directly configure and initiate Uniswap Auctions in the Uniswap Web App. This feature is supported by Continuous Clearing Auctions (CCA), which are used for on-chain token distribution, price discovery, and liquidity guidance.According to reports, CCA is now live on the Robinhood Chain, allowing teams to run token auctions on-chain, discover more market-oriented issuance prices, and launch liquidity on Uniswap v4 after the auction ends. Previously, projects like Aztec and Cap have used Uniswap Auctions for permissionless and transparent on-chain token distribution.Uniswap stated that the new launch process supports importing existing tokens or creating new tokens, and allows for configuring auction parameters and liquidity pool settings after the auction. The current interface supports Ethereum, Base, Arbitrum, and Unichain, with plans to expand to more chains in the future.

Uniswap announced on Wednesday the addition of a no-code token auction tool in its web application, allowing any team to configure and launch on-chain token sales directly through the browser without writing code. This tool operates based on Uniswap's Continuous Clearing Auction (CCA) mechanism, where bids accumulate over multiple blocks and settle at a uniform clearing price each time.Bidders set a total budget and a maximum price per token, with everyone paying the same final clearing price. Since the auction spans a time distribution rather than being completed in a single block, it eliminates the speed advantage of bots and last-minute sniping. After the auction ends, liquidity is directly injected into the Uniswap pool, achieving an integrated process for price discovery and trading pair guidance.Previously, Aztec raised $59 million through CCA from 17,000 bidders across 191 countries, with the clearing price exceeding the reserve price by 60%; Cap Labs' auction attracted 1,002 independent bids, with a 5.5 times oversubscription, and a clearing FDV of $106 million.

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin recommended the Interfold project, stating, "More people should learn about Interfold, which is a general implementation of the MACI (Minimal Anti-Collusion Infrastructure) concept that I have been advocating for nearly a decade. This project is essentially a privacy protocol optimized for scenarios such as voting and secret auctions, allowing more people to pay attention to and understand this technological advancement."Vitalik also mentioned that the core mechanisms of Interfold include generating threshold encryption keys, users submitting votes on-chain with ZKP qualifications, and performing arbitrary computations followed by threshold decryption in fully homomorphic encryption (FHE), which can achieve unconditional voter anonymity, Ethereum-level censorship resistance, and ZK over FHE ensuring result correctness, among other strong security guarantees. The current main limitation is the high cost of complex computations (such as multiplication), with only addition-based voting being mature. Optimizations such as slashing-based approaches are being advanced, with the long-term goal of achieving obfuscation techniques to eliminate M-of-N committee dependency.