The Tornado Cash protocol continues to execute on Ethereum because the protocol is built entirely on immutable smart contracts

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The FBI attributed the October 29, 2026 Binance theft to TraderTraitor, a North Korean state-linked hacking operation, and identified 608 Ethereum, 19 Bitcoin, and one Solana address used by the attackers

Ethereum Improvement Proposal 7702 allows a standard externally owned account to temporarily borrow smart contract code

During the October 29 Binance hack, the attacker pre-signed 50 transactions with differing nonces to execute a transaction on the Binance hot wallet

The attacker behind the October 29 Binance hack borrowed approximately 20,000 Ether against collateral on the Aave lending protocol

On the Saturday following the October 29, 2026 Binance hack, THORChain node operators halted trading across multiple chains after an Ethereum block reorg caused THORChain to pay out 10 Ether that its vault had not received

During the October 29 Binance hack, the attacker used Ethereum Improvement Proposal 7702 to convert the Binance Ethereum hot wallet into an account controlled by an external smart contract

The Ethereum Improvement Proposal 7702 smart contract upgrade allowed the attacker to automatically sweep incoming customer deposits directly out of the Binance hot wallet during the October 29 Binance hack

Unlike THORChain's node operators, Roman Storm cannot unilaterally stop individuals from interacting with the deployed Tornado Cash smart contracts

Aztec smart contracts can store and query reusable compliance credentials issued through zero-knowledge identity systems

The Aztec Tierra upgrade implements soft transaction finality checkpointed to Ethereum within 6 to 12 seconds

Aztec is a privacy-preserving smart contract blockchain network

zk.money is a privacy application operating within the Aztec blockchain ecosystem

Applications built on Aztec can optionally implement viewing keys directly at the application layer

Aztec is designed as a Stage 2 decentralized rollup on Ethereum

Nix.xyz is a decentralized finance application built for private yield and financial operations on Aztec

Aztec enables smart contracts to store and process encrypted data directly on-chain

The Ethereum improvement proposal EIP-7702 added a delegation feature enabling standard Ethereum accounts to behave like smart contracts

The exploit enabling the $6.3 billion Binance security hack utilized Ethereum's EIP-7702 account delegation mechanism

In September 2024, Telegram trading bot Banana Gun reported an exploit where 11 users lost approximately $3 million in Ether.

Allium resumed data distribution to Snowflake, Databricks, and Google BigQuery by October 28, 2026, while continuing to verify and backfill missing records for Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, Base, and Hyperliquid.