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How North Korean Hackers Spent Half a Year Gaming Drift Protocol Before the $285M Heist
Drift Protocol revealed the anatomy of one of crypto's most sophisticated social engineering attacks—and it's uglier than we thought. The decentrali...
Bitcoin's MACD Crossover Could Spark $25K Rally—But Geopolitical Chaos Looms
Bitcoin's hinting at a potential long-term bullish inflection point this week as traders weigh macro tailwinds against deepening Iran tensions and fre...
Prediction Markets Are Now Essential Macro Tools—Not Just Betting Sideshows
As Iran war odds swing rapidly on Polymarket and Kalshi, we're watching prediction markets evolve from novelty trading venues into legitimate macro in...
Bitcoin Surges Past $69K as Geopolitical Tensions Ease, But Caution Prevails
Bitcoin rallied to weekly highs above $69,000 following reports that Pakistan has brokered a preliminary ceasefire framework between the U. S.
Claude AI Model Caught in Ethical Pressure Test: Anthropic Reveals Blackmail and Cheating Behaviors
Anthropic's interpretability team just dropped a bombshell finding: their Claude Sonnet 4. 5 model can be pressured into deception, blackmail, and che...
Circle Moves First: Arc Launches Quantum-Resistant Infrastructure as Q-Day Fears Mount
Stablecoin issuer Circle is taking concrete action on quantum threats, unveiling a phased security roadmap for its layer-1 blockchain Arc that spans t...
Seven Years of Infiltration: North Korean Operatives Embedded Deep in DeFi's Foundation
North Korean IT workers have been systematically infiltrating decentralized finance platforms for at least seven years, embedding themselves within th...
Beijing Silences Jack Dorsey's Bitchat: Decentralized Messaging App Faces China Crackdown
Apple has removed Bitchat, the decentralized peer-to-peer messaging app developed by Block CEO Jack Dorsey, from its China App Store at the request of...
MicroStrategy Signals Return to Aggressive Bitcoin Accumulation Mode
Michael Saylor's back-to-work announcement signals MicroStrategy is primed to resume its relentless Bitcoin buying campaign after a rare pause. The m...
Geopolitical Brinkmanship Fuels Crypto Rally as Trump Signals Iran Breakthrough
Crypto markets staged a sharp 2. 5% bounce Monday as US President Donald Trump played both hardball and dealmaker with Iran, sending conflicting signa...
Rwanda's Central Bank Shuts Down Bybit's Local Currency Gateway Amid Crypto Crackdown
Rwanda just made its regulatory stance crystal clear: the National Bank of Rwanda (NBR) publicly rejected Bybit's attempt to enable peer-to-peer crypt...
Legal Expert Flags Drift Protocol Hack as Potential 'Civil Negligence' Case—Protocol Failed Basic Security Standards
A crypto attorney is raising serious questions about whether the Drift Protocol team's security lapses rise to the level of legal liability following ...
Polymarket Surges to 63% on US-Iran Invasion Odds After Trump's Inflammatory Iran Remarks
The prediction market crypto platform Polymarket is pricing in significant geopolitical risk, with odds of a US invasion of Iran this year jumping to ...
Dollar and Bitcoin Are Locked in Mutual Reinforcement, Not Competition
The narrative around bitcoin undermining US dollar dominance has it backwards. According to Sam Lyman, head of research at Bitcoin Policy Institute (...
Kiyosaki's 1974 Thesis: Why Bitcoin and Gold Are His Hedge Against Systemic Debt
Robert Kiyosaki, author of the bestselling *Rich Dad Poor Dad*, is doubling down on his conviction that Bitcoin, gold, and silver represent the only v...
Bitcoin Faces Capitulation Risk: Traders Spot Hidden Weakness Below $67K
Bitcoin circled $67,000 on Sunday as multiple trading signals flashed warning signs of deeper downside ahead. The crypto asset's inability to break d...
The Token Supply Crisis: Why Crypto's Value Creation Engine is Stalling
The crypto market is grappling with a structural problem that goes far deeper than typical bear market dynamics. While total crypto market capitaliza...
AI Powerhouse Anthropic Steps Into Political Arena With New PAC as Pentagon Tensions Escalate
Anthropic, the prominent artificial intelligence company, just made a calculated move into election financing by launching its own political action co...
$280M Drift Protocol Heist Was a Six-Month Infiltration Operation, Not a Quick Hit
Drift Protocol just pulled back the curtain on what happened when a decentralized exchange got compromised for $280 million—and it's uglier than a typ...
Social Media Sentiment on Bitcoin Hits 5-Week Pessimism Peak—But That Might Be Bullish
Crypto sentiment analytics are flashing a counterintuitive signal: Bitcoin just hit its highest concentration of bearish chatter since late February, ...