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31 May 2026, 00:00
$1.88M Wiped Out As Sui Blockchain Suffers Third Outage Before Recovery
Leveraged traders betting on a price recovery got hit hardest when the Sui blockchain went down for the third time in under 48 hours. Data from CoinGlass shows that long positions accounted for $1.72 million of the $1.88 million in SUI liquidations recorded during the latest disruption. The Ripple Effect On Price SUI fell to $0.9035 on Binance following the third stall, extending a slide that has now reached roughly 8% since the trouble began on May 28. The $1.00 support level — one that held for much of 2024 — was broken during the selloff, with the token down around 16% over the past week. The third outage hit during an epoch transition on May 29 at approximately 4:30 PM EDT. Validators were up and generating system transactions, but user transactions stopped flowing entirely. Sui mainnet stopped accepting user transactions due to an issue during the epoch change beginning at ~1:30PT. Validators are up and creating system transactions, but user transactions are not currently being accepted. The Sui Core Team is investigating, and updates will be shared… — Sui (@SuiNetwork) May 29, 2026 The Sui team later traced the failure to a latent bug in how a specific failure state is preserved across validator restarts, which prevented the network from completing its move to the next epoch. Validators deployed a fix addressing both the bug and the affected epoch, and the network came back online shortly after. Is this for real $SUI ? After 2 major Outages and almost 10 hours of downtime, SUI faced a Partial Outage. This is the 3rd Outage in 2 days… https://t.co/pmMCYX7nnc pic.twitter.com/GLsCqnfrBq — Fabio (@Zero2HeroZombie) May 29, 2026 How Three Outages Unfolded The problems started on May 28 when a crash bug in the gas charging logic — introduced in version 1.72 of Sui’s software — brought the mainnet to a halt for roughly five hours and 55 minutes. Sui mainnet is back online and transactions are flowing normally. The end of epoch halt was triggered during the rollout of yesterday’s long-term fix. As validators restarted to deploy the new binary, the randomness initialization that runs at the start of each epoch was unable… — Sui (@SuiNetwork) May 30, 2026 No new checkpoints were recorded during that window. After more than two-thirds of the validator stake upgraded to a patched version, the network came back online on May 29 at around 8:32 PM UTC. No user funds were lost. Relief was brief. A second stall was reported hours later, around 12:19 PM UTC on May 29, with the status page flagging it as a major outage. The Sui team acknowledged the interim fix had only addressed part of the problem, and the network hit a variation of the same underlying issue. Service resumed at around 11:34 AM EDT before the third and final disruption arrived that same afternoon. Reports indicate the root cause across all three outages connects back to changes in the gas charging logic introduced to support zero-fee stablecoin transfers on the network. A Pattern Worth Watching This is the third significant disruption Sui has faced in 2026 alone. A six-hour consensus divergence event struck in January, and a congestion-related outage hit in November 2024. The Sui team has said a detailed incident review is coming. Featured image from Driver Easy, chart from TradingView
30 May 2026, 20:27
Expert Says Bitcoin Miners Are Expanding Beyond Mining Into Energy Infrastructure
The Bitcoin network received a fresh difficulty bump this week at block height 951552, with the protocol dialing things up by 1.72%. Meanwhile, the network’s hashrate kept flexing its muscles, climbing past the 1,000 exahash per second (EH/s), or 1 zettahash per second (ZH/s) threshold. Bitcoin Difficulty Nears 139 Trillion and Sees Industry Transformation Bitcoin’s
30 May 2026, 20:10
Circle freezes Zama's cUSDC contract after Overnight Finance funds flow into privacy wrapper
Zama’s co-founder Rand Hindi, has clarified that the blacklist placed by Circle on the protocol’s contract address had nothing to do with Zama at all. Reports show that approximately $12.6 million in user funds were locked in Zama’s confidential USDC token on Ethereum. Why was Zama’s contract frozen? Following reports that $12.6 million in user funds on Zama have become inaccessible, the company’s co-founder, Rand Hindi, took to X to give an explanation. He also gave credit to on-chain investigator ZachXBT for his role in identifying the source of the problem. The story goes that an address linked to the Overnight Finance hack had deposited more than $12.5 million USDC into Zama’s cUSDC wrapper. However, as the wrapper was not so popular at the time, that single deposit represented nearly 100% of all the funds in the contract. “This has nothing to do with Zama, or privacy,” Hindi insisted on X. “The issue stems from an address related to the Overnight Finance hack.” The USDT/USDC Ban List Telegram tracker shows that Zama’s contract address was frozen at 01:08 UTC on Friday. The targeted address, 0xe978…72B2, is publicly labeled on Etherscan as “Zama: cUSDC Token.” Why did Circle’s ban affect uninvolved users? Circle’s compliance system flagged the depositor’s wallet, but because those funds sat inside Zama’s cUSDC contract, a standard holding freeze was applied to the entire contract address rather than just the individual depositor. ZAMA’s token dropped by 18.2% intraday, falling from around $0.039 to $0.032 over roughly five and a half hours. Trading volume spiked to 61% in 24 hours to $73.9 million, nearly matching the token’s $77.5 million market cap. The token partially recovered to $0.035, but that’s still less than its value prior to the freeze. Hindi emphasized that the protocol “is not a mixer” and does not obscure senders or recipients, only balances and amounts. He pointed out the depositor’s cUSDC transaction history on Blockscout as evidence that transactions remain traceable. As an immediate precaution, Zama paused its cUSDC, cUSDT, and cWETH contracts pending a full investigation. Hindi said the team would publish a post-mortem and a framework for handling future freeze requests. If Zama’s legal team fails to convince Circle or the court that issued the restraining order to narrow the freeze to the specific flagged depositor, legitimate users who deposited USDC into cUSDC will remain locked out. If you're reading this, you’re already ahead. Stay there with our newsletter .
30 May 2026, 19:11
Circle freezes $12.6M of USDC linked to privacy protocol Zama
The $12.6 million in USDC was likely frozen in connection with an ongoing but unrelated civil court case, according to onchain sleuth ZachXBT.
30 May 2026, 16:40
Ripple (XRP) & Stellar (XLM): The Emerging Duopoly Eying a Visa-Mastercard Style Takeover in Global Payments
XRP and XLM: The Emerging Duopoly for the Future of Global Payments Crypto market observer SMQKE suggests that the next structural phase of global finance may not be defined by a single dominant blockchain, but by a duopoly , most notably Ripple and Stellar (XLM), functioning in parallel much like Visa and Mastercard within traditional payments. Rather than competing for total market dominance, both networks are positioned as complementary settlement rails serving the same core need when it comes to fast, low-cost cross-border value transfer. At the foundation of this view is a shared design philosophy. Ripple and the Stellar ecosystem, developed by the Stellar Development Foundation, were both built specifically for payments infrastructure rather than general-purpose smart contracts. Well, their focus is consistent since it entails reducing friction in correspondent banking, improving liquidity efficiency, shortening settlement times, and enabling interoperability between financial institutions and global payment corridors. From Competition to Coexistence: How XRP and XLM Could Define a Multi-Chain Institutional Financial Stack The broader thesis also reflects a shift in how digital assets are being evaluated. Early crypto cycles were largely driven by retail speculation and momentum trading. In contrast, the current environment shows deeper institutional participation from banks, payment providers, and infrastructure-focused capital. This changes the lens through which assets like Ripple’s XRP and XLM are assessed, from speculative instruments to functional components of financial infrastructure. In this context, utility increasingly outweighs narrative. Institutional actors tend to prioritize settlement finality, regulatory alignment, integration with existing financial rails, and operational efficiency over short-term price volatility. SMQKE argues that the XRP–XLM thesis is a utility-first framework that could allow both networks to exceed expectations shaped during earlier Bitcoin- and Ethereum-led speculative cycles, where price discovery dominated valuation logic. A frequently cited example in this discussion is growing institutional engagement around tokenized settlement systems, including developments involving the DTCC and the Stellar ecosystem. While some interpret such moves as competitive positioning, a more structural reading points toward an emerging multi-chain financial architecture, one in which different networks specialize in distinct roles such as liquidity bridging, token issuance, cross-border settlement, and compliance-driven infrastructure. This perspective weakens the framing of XRP versus XLM as direct competitors. Instead, Ripple is often associated with institutional-grade cross-border banking corridors and liquidity optimization, while Stellar is linked to lightweight issuance systems, remittances, and financial inclusion use cases where accessibility and cost efficiency are critical. XRP and Stellar in the Emerging Multi-Chain Financial Infrastructure Era Increasing global recognition of Ripple and Stellar by the United Nations (UN) as significant building blocks of a future financial system reinforces the idea that financial infrastructure is gradually evolving toward distributed, interoperable systems rather than a single dominant network. Ultimately, SMQKE’s thesis is not a short-term price narrative but a structural interpretation of where global finance is heading. It suggests an infrastructure phase in which multiple blockchain networks operate simultaneously within institutional systems. In that future, Ripple and Stellar are less likely to be rivals and more likely to function as parallel settlement layers within a broader, multi-chain financial ecosystem based on the fact that they both landed on FXC Intelligence’s 2026 top 100 cross-border payments giants.
30 May 2026, 15:07
Zama Users Lose Access to $12.6M USDC After Circle Executes Court-Ordered Blacklist
Circle blacklisted a publicly labeled Ethereum smart contract tied to Zama’s privacy protocol on Saturday, freezing approximately $12.6 million in USDC following a U.S. federal court order connected to a civil lawsuit against Overnight Finance founder Maxim Ermilov. Circle’s Zama Blacklist Freezes $12.6M, Raising Questions About USDC Use in DeFi Contracts The frozen address, 0xe978F22157048E5DB8E5d07971376e86671672B2,
