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        "id": "https://news.800.works/news/2026-07-22/balance-coin-oracle-exploit-blc-depeg/",
        "url": "https://news.800.works/news/2026-07-22/balance-coin-oracle-exploit-blc-depeg/",
        "title": "Balance Coin Depegs After $912K Oracle Exploit",
        "summary": "Balance Coin fell more than 99% after an attacker manipulated a BTCB oracle and liquidated vaults tied to 42DAO.",
        "content_html": "<p>Balance Coin, the dollar-pegged stablecoin used by 42DAO's Balance Protocol, fell to near zero after an oracle manipulation attack on BNB Chain.</p>\n<p>CoinDesk reported that the token traded close to $1 a day earlier before dropping more than 99% to roughly $0.0014. CryptoTimes separately described the move as a collapse to about $0.0013. The conservative read is simple: BLC effectively lost its peg after a single exploit rather than through ordinary market selling.</p>\n<p>The incident appears to center on BTCB, the Binance-pegged bitcoin asset used as collateral in the system. According to CoinDesk's summary of security firm SlowMist's analysis, the attacker pushed an abnormally low bitcoin price into the protocol's oracle path. The lending contract then accepted that price without sufficient range checks or a liquidation delay.</p>\n<p>That let the attacker liquidate vaults that should not have been eligible, seize collateral and swap the proceeds. CoinDesk put the profit at about $912,000, while the article's linked BscScan transaction confirms the relevant transaction executed successfully on July 21 UTC.</p>\n<p>The loss is modest compared with the largest DeFi hacks, but the failure mode is important. Stablecoin systems that depend on collateral pricing need oracle bounds, delay mechanisms and circuit breakers, especially when a single bad price can turn healthy vaults into forced liquidations.</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2026-07-22T10:37:00.000Z",
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        "id": "https://news.800.works/news/2026-07-22/digital-chamber-illinois-crypto-tax-lawsuit/",
        "url": "https://news.800.works/news/2026-07-22/digital-chamber-illinois-crypto-tax-lawsuit/",
        "title": "Digital Chamber Sues Illinois Over Crypto Tax",
        "summary": "The Digital Chamber filed a Sangamon County lawsuit seeking to halt Illinois' new Digital Asset Tax Act before it starts applying to crypto businesses.",
        "content_html": "<p>The Digital Chamber has taken Illinois' new crypto tax fight to court, filing a lawsuit in Sangamon County that asks a judge to stop the state's Digital Asset Tax Act before it reaches exchanges, custodians, wallet providers, and other firms serving Illinois customers.</p>\n<h2>What changed</h2>\n<p>The trade group says the tax provision was added to Illinois' state budget at the last minute and unfairly singles out blockchain-based activity. Its complaint argues that the measure violates the U.S. and Illinois constitutions and is preempted by federal tax law.</p>\n<p>The filing frames the dispute around how ownership is recorded and transferred. According to The Digital Chamber, the tax does not turn on whether a user made money, whether a transaction produced a realized gain, or whether ownership actually changed hands. The group argues that this structure treats traditional financial rails differently from blockchain infrastructure.</p>\n<h2>Why it matters</h2>\n<p>This is now more than an industry objection to a new state tax. If the court allows the law to move forward, crypto businesses may have to build Illinois-specific compliance systems around a category of activity that the plaintiff says is broader than trading.</p>\n<p>The case also gives other states a live test of how far they can go when taxing digital-asset services. The conservative read is that Illinois' law is still untested, but the lawsuit has turned a budget provision into a constitutional and preemption challenge that crypto policy teams will track closely.</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2026-07-21T22:45:00.000Z",
        "date_modified": "2026-07-21T22:45:00.000Z",
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        "id": "https://news.800.works/news/2026-07-22/movement-labs-chapter-11-bankruptcy/",
        "url": "https://news.800.works/news/2026-07-22/movement-labs-chapter-11-bankruptcy/",
        "title": "Movement Labs Files for Chapter 11 After MOVE Token Fallout",
        "summary": "MVMT Labs filed for Chapter 11 in Delaware after months of governance turmoil and scrutiny over the MOVE token launch.",
        "content_html": "<p>MVMT Labs, the company associated with the Movement blockchain project, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in Delaware, adding a formal court process to a year of internal and market pressure around the network.</p>\n<p>PacerMonitor lists the case as <code>MVMT Labs, Inc. Bankruptcy (1:26-bk-11113)</code> in the Delaware Bankruptcy Court, with a July 15 filing date. The docket identifies the case as Chapter 11 and shows follow-on notices for creditor deadlines and upcoming hearings.</p>\n<p>CoinDesk reported that the company disclosed fewer than 1,000 creditors, assets between $100,000 and $500,000, and liabilities above $1 million. The filing follows a difficult stretch for Movement, an Ethereum layer-2 network built around the Move programming language, after controversy over the launch of its MOVE token.</p>\n<p>That controversy centered on a market-making arrangement that CoinDesk previously reported allowed 66 million MOVE tokens to be sold shortly after the token debuted. The sale contributed to a price decline, prompted internal review, and led Binance to ban a market-making account tied to the launch. Movement also began a token buyback program and brought in outside investigators.</p>\n<p>The bankruptcy filing does not by itself resolve what happens to Movement's broader ecosystem or to separate entities using the Movement name. It does, however, put MVMT Labs' obligations into a court-supervised restructuring process while the project tries to move past the token-launch fallout.</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2026-07-21T18:39:00.000Z",
        "date_modified": "2026-07-21T18:39:00.000Z",
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