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Failed Ethereum ICO from 2016 just unlocked 1,003 ETH by exploiting itself
A whitehat and HongCoin's original multisig used a preserved overflow bug to reopen refunds trapped since 2016. The p…
Aave now has a regulated path from bank accounts to DeFi lending – The hard part is keeping users there
On May 28, Aave Labs announced that its UK subsidiaries Push Labs Ltd. and Push Virtual Assets Ltd. received FCA regi…
The Funding: How crypto hedge funds are navigating weak markets
As crypto markets remain weak, fund managers say asset selection, fundamentals, and alpha matter more than ever.
Cosmos-based Gravity Bridge drained of $5.4 million in suspected key compromise, researchers say
The attacker took USDC, ether, tether and PAYG tokens before laundering a portion through ChangeNow and Binance.
Base launches Azul on mainnet, pushing Coinbase’s Ethereum L2 toward full decentralization
Base has deployed its Azul upgrade on mainnet, with multiproofs and a new client stack advancing decentralization.
Have AI agents made the entire $148 billion DeFi sector unsafe?
A warning from one of decentralized finance’s (DeFi) early security figures has turned a difficult stretch of hacks…
Hyperliquid-based prop trading platform Hypernova raises $3 million in pre-seed funding
Hyperliquid-based prop trading platform Hypernova says it offers "instant payouts" and plans to publicly launch withi…
Stablecoins were supposed to bypass credit cards, but now Visa is winning crypto card payments
Stablecoins were built on the premise that removing intermediaries between sender and recipient would erode the relev…
Mastercard secures New York State Bitlicense as it continues to expand crypto services
New York has now officially granted three Virtual Currency Business Activity Licenses (aka BitLicenses) in 2026.
Tiny x402 payments expose the approval gap holding AI agents back
Agentic payment protocol x402 volume collapsed roughly 77% from its November 2025 peak of $5.15 million to $1.19 mill…
SoFi rolls out SoFiUSD stablecoin to banking app users
SoFi rolls out bank-issued SoFiUSD stablecoin to 14.7 million members inside its app on Ethereum and Solana.
OpenZeppelin founder says he now considers ‘all of DeFi’ unsafe
OpenZeppelin's Manuel Aráoz said he has been privately advising friends and family to exit all DeFi positions.
Coinbase-incubated Base blockchain rolls out MCP gateway to AI interfaces like Claude, ChatGPT
With the integration, users will now be able to use natural language prompts to swap tokens, transfer funds, and inte…
Ripple, North Island Ventures back $6 million round for cross-chain platform Squid
Squid is preparing to launch a new consumer product aimed at making it easier to access and manage crypto assets, Fig…
Polymarket suffers live POL drain as team rules out feared contract exploit
Polymarket faced what many users interpreted as a possible hack on May 22 after public alerts described a rapid POL d…
Verus bridge exploiter returns 4,052 ETH, retains $2.8 million bounty: onchain analyst
An attacker transferred 4,052.4 ETH worth $8.5 million back to Verus on Friday after the team proposed a bounty frame…
MoonPay announces fourth acquisition of the year with Decent, as it launches MoonPay Trade
This Decent deal comes on a wave of acquisitions by MoonPay, including DFlow and Sodot, which all support MoonPay Trade.
Boerse Stuttgart adds Societe Generale, SG-FORGE, and flatexDEGIRO to ‘pan-European’ tokenized settlement network
Nasdaq’s European trading venues will connect to Seturion to facilitate trading and settlement of tokenized securit…
Cosmos co-founder’s new multilateral clearing startup Cycles raises $6.4 million
The round, led by Blockchange Ventures, with support from Coinbase Ventures, among others, brings Cycle's total fundi…
Foundation raises $6.4 million to expand from bitcoin hardware wallets into AI agent authorization
The firm also announced the general availability of its flagship Passport Prime device and expanded access to its Key…
Arbitrum-based derivatives venue Variational raises $50 million Series A led by Dragonfly
Variational is positioning itself as a retail-friendly brokerage via its in-development Omni app, which will offer "z…
MoneyGram named ‘anchor remittance validator’ for Stripe-backed Tempo blockchain
MoneyGram will help validate remittance transactions on the Layer 1 blockchain and integrate stablecoin settlement fo…
Catena Labs lands $30 million Series A, files for national trust bank charter to underpin agentic finance
Sean Neville's Catena Labs closed a $30 million Series A to build governed infrastructure for AI agent financial tran…
AllUnity plans Swedish krona stablecoin, launches agentic payments infrastructure
AllUnity plans a Swedish krona stablecoin for June and launches x402-based agentic payments for European businesses.
Tether, Gnosis co-lead $4.4 million seed round for lightweight mobile-friendly Sorted Wallet
With the additional funding, Sorted intends to expand geographically, particularly targeting Sub-Saharan Africa and S…
Stablecoin infrastructure startup Checker raises $8 million from Galaxy Ventures and others
Stablecoin infrastructure startup Checker has raised $8 million in funding from a range of investors including Galaxy…
Revolut unveils first physical crypto card as industry-wide card usage grows
The card will be usable anywhere Visa and Mastercard are accepted, and will first roll out firm in the UK and EEA.
AEON raises $8 million led by YZi Labs to build settlement layer for AI agents
With the new funding, AEON said it aims to build a settlement layer designed to support AI agent-to-agent interactions.
The Funding: As SpaceX’s listing nears, are pre-IPO perps crypto’s next big market?
Pre-IPO perpetual futures just had their proof of concept moment with the Cerebras market on TradeXYZ. Here's where t…
THORChain exploit turns emergency chain halt into a DeFi trust test
THORChain’s suspected multichain exploit and emergency halt on May 15 has turned into another DeFi security inciden…