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Cronos Chain Rolled Back Two Hours of Blocks to Recover $111M—But Left Millions Stranded
The Cronos blockchain nuked two hours of transaction history to reverse a $111 million DeFi exploit, but the aggressive intervention came with collate...
Visa Leverages Blockchain Lending to Capitalize on Explosive Stablecoin Card Growth
Visa is doubling down on its onchain strategy by integrating blockchain-based lending capabilities into its expanding stablecoin payment infrastructur...
Bitmine Edges Toward 5% Ethereum Dominance With Major $14.8B Treasury Accumulation
Bitmine just made a significant move in the crypto market. The company purchased 28,086 ETH, bringing its total holdings to 5.
Bitmine's Massive ETH Bet Hits Headwinds: 97% of 5% Supply Goal Complete Despite $5.1B Paper Loss
Bitmine has successfully accumulated 28,000 ETH as part of an ambitious strategy to corner 5% of Ethereum's circulating supply—but the crypto intellig...
LAPTOP Token Launch: A Meme Coin Bet Targeting Disgruntled TRUMP Investors
A new meme coin called LAPTOP is set to hit the market this September, and it's explicitly designed with a controversial angle: compensation for trade...
Ledger's CTO Issues Wake-Up Call: AI Security Researchers Must Stop Chasing Clout Over Responsibility
The crypto security landscape is getting messy, and Ledger's top technologist wants researchers to own it. Ledger and Trezor—two of crypto's most tr...
Robinhood's Layer 2 Blockchain Could Hit $160M Annual Fees Within Four Years
The tokenized stock trading boom is eyeing a new frontier, and Bernstein's research team believes Robinhood's blockchain infrastructure could become a...
Ethereum's Quantum Reckoning: 2029 Target for Post-Quantum L1 Security
Ethereum's roadmap just got a lot more urgent. The network is now targeting full post-quantum security by 2029, with the Hegotá upgrade serving as th...
OpenAI's Chief Scientist Pushes for Emergency Brakes on AI Development Race
OpenAI's chief scientist Jakub Pachocki is sounding an alarm that's impossible to ignore: the race to build ever-more-capable AI systems may be moving...
Ethereum Foundation Signals Priority: Two Critical EIPs Locked for Hegotá Upgrade
The Ethereum Foundation has narrowed its focus for the upcoming Hegotá upgrade, officially designating two Ethereum Improvement Proposals (EIPs) as "m...
Middle East Crypto Adoption Explodes to $350B as Geopolitical Tensions Drive Digital Asset Demand
The Middle East is experiencing a dramatic surge in crypto activity, with transaction volumes tripling to $350 billion amid escalating regional tensio...
New Ethereum Proposal Could Eliminate ETH Requirement for Transaction Fees
Ethereum's ongoing evolution just hit another significant inflection point. EIP-8141, languishing in draft status since January, proposes a fundament...
Major Banks Crack the 24/7 Crypto Settlement Code With Tokenized USD Transfers
DBS and Citi just pulled off something that's been a holy grail for institutional crypto infrastructure: settling USD cross-border payments on a weeke...
Bitcoin Thief Liquidates Stolen Coldcard Haul: $7.7M Moved in Systematic Vault Drain
The hacker behind the Coldcard wallet breach is executing a methodical exit strategy. We're tracking a $7.
Coldcard Exploiter Offloads 45% of 'Wave 3' Stolen Funds, Galaxy Research Confirms
The Coldcard vulnerability saga continues to unfold as the attacker behind the "Wave 3" hacks moves a significant portion of their ill-gotten gains. ...
Harmony Abandons Layer 1 Ambitions, Pivots Entire Ecosystem to Ethereum for AI Video Play
Harmony's making a decisive move: they're pulling the plug on their Layer 1 blockchain entirely and migrating the whole operation to Ethereum as an L2...
Institutional Buyers Return: Spot Bitcoin ETFs Rake in $3.52B as August Closes Strong
Spot bitcoin ETFs are showing real signs of institutional appetite returning to the market. Last month pulled in $3.
OpenAI's New Astra Model Proves It's Breaking Away From Text-Only Limitations
OpenAI's latest flagship model, Astra, just dropped this weekend—and early testers are reporting something we haven't seen before: genuine multimodal ...
Quantum Computing's Ticking Clock: Why Crypto Can't Ignore the G7's Encryption Warning
The Group of Seven isn't pulling punches anymore. Financial leaders across the world's largest economies are sounding the alarm on quantum computing ...
Stronger-Than-Expected Jobs Report Triggers Bitcoin's Drop Below $80K
The August nonfarm payroll surprise just rewrote the crypto market's rate-cut narrative—and Bitcoin paid the price. US employers added significantly...