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Self-exiled Chinese billionaire sentenced to 30 years for fraud involving crypto
Guo was arrested in 2023 for orchestrating a more than $1 billion fraud conspiracy involving cryptocurrency.
SEC wraps up NanoBit crypto fraud case in final judgment, ordering over $5 million in fines
The SEC resolved its case against NanoBit after alleging the crypto platform lied to investors and stole their money.
Bitcoin’s broken production cost floor is splitting miners into survivors and sellers
Bitcoin is trading just above $60,000 right now, and the network's estimated all-in cost to produce a single coin is …
Base suffers second mainnet stall in two days
Base block production resumed as of 16:11 UTC, following an alert to another mainnet chain stall at 15:33 UTC.
Base delays Beryl hard fork over B20 registry timing issue
Base delayed its Beryl mainnet upgrade to June 26 to give the B20 Activation Registry time to become fully operational.
Polymarket hit by $2.9M theft, users to be refunded
Polymarket said it contained the compromise and removed the affected dependency after attackers injected a malicious …
Coinbase's Base resumes block production after 2-hour outage
Coinbase's blockchain Base says a consensus problem knocked its network offline for around two hours on Thursday befo…
Russia creates crypto sanctions loophole, but cash-out routes remain ringfenced
The ELR gives selected firms a legal route, but wallets, exchanges, counterparties, and issuers still face pressure. …
Coinbase-incubated Base blockchain suffers ‘Unsafe Head Stall’ interrupting block production
Deposits and withdrawals have also been affected, while transactions are delayed or stalled, according to Base's stat…
Thailand issues arrest warrant for Chinese businessman tied to $28 million illegal crypto mining probe: report
Chinese businessman Wang Yicheng was accused of involvement in illegal crypto mining operations that used $28 million…
Bitcoin miners face deepening margin squeeze as revenue falls below production costs
An estimated 20% of miners are now unprofitable at current prices, and the stress shows up at the network level, too.
DeFi TVL drops 39% in 2026 amid market downturn and record hack activity
DeFi TVL fell 39% in 2026 as a broader market downturn and fallout from major exploits, including the Kelp DAO hack, …
SecondFi traces Cardano wallet exploit to address-level issue
Cardano wallet SecondFi traced the incident to an address-level issue and secured 129 million ADA after attackers dra…
Mark Cuban, Dallas Mavericks face appeal over dismissed Voyager crypto case
Voyager investors appealed the dismissal of their claims against Mark Cuban and the Dallas Mavericks to the Eleventh …
CZ called Hyperliquid’s no KYC model “awesome” – Then mentioned lawyers
CZ praised the product, but his Galaxy remarks put the access model at the center of the next regulatory fight. The p…
Crypto users told to pull funds after Ethereum L2 bridge failure exposes rollup exit risk
The incident turned bridge security from an abstract trust model into an immediate withdrawal test for users. The pos…
New York man sentenced for $1.4 million crypto fraud scheme using bogus influencer accounts
A New York man who posed as crypto influencers on Telegram and used false promises of staking rewards was sentenced t…
DOJ seizes Huione Group cloud computing account used to launder billions in fraud proceeds
Last year, FinCEN designated Huione Group as a primary money laundering concern under the USA Patriot Act.
New DeFi Education Fund coalition seeks to harden crypto against cybersecurity threats
The DeFi Education Fund launched a cybersecurity coalition as part of an effort to bolster itself against bad actors …
THORChain resumes trading more than a month after $10M exploit
THORChain resumed all network activity after implementing multiple security upgrades and a vault migration to fix the…
Crypto lobby urges Congress pass staking and mining tax bill as is
A trio of crypto lobby groups says a bill allowing staking and mining rewards to be taxed when they’re sold should …
Crypto's second U.S. lobbying front — tax policy — sees industry push on mining, staking
The crypto sector's leading U.S. advocacy groups asked the U.S. House's tax committee to advance a bill to clarify tr…
Q2 2026 emerges as most-hacked quarter on record with 83 incidents
Crypto hackers stole $755 million across 83 cybersecurity incidents, as cross–chain bridges remained the most costl…
CryptoBandits malware lets criminals use your USB drive to access crypto wallets – Microsoft warns
Microsoft’s latest crypto malware research points to crypto wallets, one of several places a transaction can fail, …
Taiko urges users to withdraw as bridge exploit drains $1.7M
Taiko’s bridge and ERC20 Vault on Ethereum suffered a compromise in its chain state verification mechanism, allowin…
Secret Network bridge exploited for $4.7M with ‘infinite mint’ bug
An exploit of the Secret Network went undiscovered for a week as the hacker moved the loot into Ethereum and then to …
Kraken Fed account fight could shape how crypto firms get direct payment access
ICBA is pressing the Kansas City Fed to reassess the limited account before its first-year term expires. The post Kra…
Crypto perps’ US future will now be defined by what regulators decide to call them
The agencies' request turns product definitions into a public contest over perps, event contracts, and alternative co…
Fentanyl-linked Chinese network tied to crypto fraud from Japan involving fake ‘Zksync.jp’ token: Nikkei
The linked criminal group allegedly distributed a scam token under the name "zksync.jp" to deceive crypto users world…