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Asset management giant Vanguard is hiring its first head of digital assets to evaluate strategies including tokenization and stablecoins.
PANews reported on July 8th that, according to Bitcoin Magazine, Vanguard, the world's second-largest asset manager (with approximately $12 trillion in assets under management), has created its first-ever Head of Digital Assets position, responsible for developing the company's long-term crypto and blockchain strategy. This role will evaluate areas such as tokenization, stablecoins, digital wallets, custody, and blockchain settlement, and determine whether Vanguard should build its own capabilities, partner with external entities, or postpone entry into certain markets. The position will involve developing multi-year roadmaps and designing governance and risk frameworks. Vanguard stated that this hiring does not indicate an upcoming launch of crypto products and that it currently has no plans to issue its own crypto investment vehicles.
Aptos blockchain was found to have a critical vulnerability, with an attack cost of only a few hundred dollars; the team has promptly fixed it.
PANews reported on July 5th that, according to Coindesk, white-hat hackers at security firm Hexens discovered a vulnerability in the Aptos blockchain, which has since been patched. If maliciously exploited, this vulnerability could have put up to $70 billion in digital assets at systemic risk, including stablecoins and cross-chain bridges. In late February, Hexens researchers reported a critical vulnerability in the Move virtual machine (the execution environment for handling on-chain smart contracts) to the Aptos development team. They described it as an "expiration cache vulnerability" that could lead to type confusion, meaning the software could be tricked into mistaking one on-chain resource for another. Researchers simulated the attack in a real network environment with a success rate exceeding 90%.
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