Indian crypto exchange CoinDCX has suffered a $44 million hack that compromised an internal account used for liquidity operations. 

Ethereum developers plan to roll out the Fusaka hard fork in early November. The update follows Pectra, which was introduced earlier this year and brought account abstraction and changes to staking.

El Salvador has not purchased any new bitcoin since February 2025, according to a letter from the country’s finance leaders included in a recent International Monetary Fund (IMF) compliance report.

Top stories in the Crypto Roundup today:

• CoinDCX Loses $44M in Hack, One Year After WazirX Breach
• Ethereum Targets November for Fusaka Upgrade
• El Salvador Hasn't Bought Bitcoin Since February, IMF Letter Says

CoinDCX Loses $44M in Hack, One Year After WazirX Breach

Indian crypto exchange CoinDCX has suffered a $44 million hack that compromised an internal account used for liquidity operations. 

The company said customer funds were not affected and remain in cold storage. The breach, disclosed Saturday by CEO Sumit Gupta, came to light only after blockchain investigator ZachXBT flagged suspicious activity. 

The attack targeted an operational wallet connected to a partner exchange. Gupta called it a “sophisticated server breach,” and said the exposure was limited due to wallet segregation practices.

CoinDCX has absorbed the full loss from its treasury reserves, according to the statement. The exchange is now working with cybersecurity firms and partners to investigate the exploit and trace the stolen assets. 

The breach occurred one year after Indian cryptocurrency exchange WazirX suffered a $235 million hack.

Ethereum Targets November for Fusaka Upgrade

Ethereum developers plan to roll out the Fusaka hard fork in early November. The update follows Pectra, which was introduced earlier this year and brought account abstraction and changes to staking.

Fusaka will include 11 Ethereum Improvement Proposals (EIPs), notably EIP-7825, which targets increased resistance to malicious attacks while enhancing throughput. 

The devnet for Fusaka is scheduled to go live Wednesday, with public testnets to follow in late September and October.

The update will also raise Ethereum’s gas limit to 150 million. However, some proposals, such as EIP-7907, which would have allowed larger contract sizes and new gas metering, have been cut to keep development on track. The long-discussed EVM Object Format has also been left out.

El Salvador Hasn't Bought Bitcoin Since February, IMF Letter Says

El Salvador has not purchased any new bitcoin since February 2025, according to a letter from the country’s finance leaders included in a recent International Monetary Fund (IMF) compliance report.

The statement appears to contradict President Nayib Bukele’s public claims of daily BTC purchases.

Signed by Central Bank President Douglas Pablo Rodríguez Fuentes and Finance Minister Jerson Rogelio Posada Molina, the letter states that the government’s bitcoin holdings have remained unchanged. 

A supporting document says the IMF has been given access to all government-owned wallets for monitoring purposes.

Since late 2022, Bukele’s administration has promoted its policy of buying one coin every day. The country’s Bitcoin Office claims to hold over 6,200 BTC with transactions traceable to exchange-linked wallets, according to blockchain analytics firm Arkham.

But the IMF report suggests these movements likely represent internal transfers rather than new purchases. “Increases in Bitcoin holdings in the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve Fund reflect the consolidation of Bitcoin across various government-owned wallets,” the report says.

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