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  cryptopolitan.com26 September 2026 17:17, UTC

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Thousands of NFTs just got pulled out of harm’s way by whitehats… all because of a bug in an old payment contract.

A whitehat moved 3,832 NFTs from hundreds of wallets on Friday into a single receiving wallet, after concerns surfaced about a vulnerability at the NFT marketplace Magic Eden. The transfer was meant to keep the assets safe while a fix was arranged.

A bug in Limit Break’s Payment Processor V2 was exploited to steal NFTs before security researchers identified the issue and launched a whitehat rescue operation, as reported by 0xQuit, also known publicly as Quit, the pseudonymous vice president of blockchain at Yuga Labs.

Back in 2022, at the peak of NFT mania, I co-authored a paper for the International Conference on Blockchain Technology and Applications called “NFT Scoring: An Analysis of the Considerable Features.” The goal was simple: most people were buying NFTs based on floor price and vibes, and almost nobody had a repeatable way to actually…

Jeet Singh BaisPublished: September 17, 2026

Minting your own non-fungible tokens (NFTs) on Polygon has just gotten a whole lot easier. The Polygon team released a redesigned version of its NFT Minter that lets anyone create NFTs with custom utilities and pay zero gas fees doing it.

OpenSea has restored support for Solana NFTs, widening access to collectibles from a network it previously exited. The development changes distribution and trading convenience, but it does not by itself establish that the NFT market has returned to sustained growth.

Sky has today announced a new apprenticeship programme, with applications opening today, giving two aspiring creatives the chance to get behind the scenes at one of the UK’s leading entertainment broadcasters. The programme, beginning in January 2027, combines paid, hands-on experience with expert training across Sky Entertainment.