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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…
CLEAR token tanks 48% as Everclear winds down protocol, foundation and labs unit
Everclear achieved $500 million in monthly volume, but "never developed the commercial depth," the team said on Thurs…
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.
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…
Wife of Sandbox co-founder Sebastien Borget targeted in kidnapping attempt at home in France: report
The wife of Sandbox co-founder Sebastien Borget was targeted in a kidnapping attempt as France logs over 41 crypto ki…
Kik founder’s latest app Flipcash first to tap Coinbase’s stablecoin-as-a-service platform
Coinbase rolled out its Custom Stablecoin platform in late 2025 to enable companies to launch branded stablecoins.
Zcash Foundation ends Q1 with $36.69M in liquid assets and operating expenses of $817K
Zcash Foundation Q1 operating expenses came in at about $817,000, with team compensation as the largest category.
Deloitte absorbs Blocknative team as crypto infra firm winds down APIs and Gas Network
The Blocknative website now returns a post noting that the firm is “now in the process of ceasing operations."
BTCFi protocol Echo exploited, targeting eBTC market on Monad: onchain analysts
BTCFi protocol Echo was exploited, with the attacker minting 1,000 eBTC on Monad and using it as collateral to borrow…
Ohio man sentenced to 9 years for running $10 million crypto Ponzi scheme
The CFTC filed an enforcement action against Rathnakishore Giri in August 2022 for running the fraudulent investment …
Zerohash secures first EMI license under MiCA for stablecoin and brokerage services in Europe
Zerohash Europe is the first firm licensed under Europe’s flagship MiCA crypto regulation to also hold full EMI sta…
Ongoing exploit drains $11.6 million from Verus-Ethereum bridge: Blockaid
Peckshield flagged that the Verus-Ethereum bridge has been drained for 103.6 tBTC, 1,625 ETH, and 147,000 USDC.
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…
It’s a ‘new era’ for crypto users who ‘trade anything and everything’ as Jito goes consumer, CEO Bruder says
Jito founder Lucas Bruder told The Block that there's a new class of users coming onchain who "want to trade anything…
THORChain pauses trading as security researchers flag suspected $10M multi-chain exploit
THORChain halted trading after security researchers flagged a suspected exploit spanning Bitcoin, Ethereum, BNB Smart…
‘It’s an unfair game’: CertiK CEO says DeFi attackers using AI to outspend defenders
CertiK says DeFi attackers are increasingly targeting operational security and supply-chain weaknesses instead of sma…
Chainlink CCIP gains over $2.5 billion in TVL from protocols migrating from LayerZero, with Kraken Bitcoin the latest to join
Kraken Bitcoin is at least the fourth product to deprecate its LayerZero cross-chain tech following the Kelp DAO attack.
Ripple insider warns XRP holders as fake airdrop scams surge across XRPL
The XRP Ledger (XRPL) is seeing a drastic rise in fraud attempts targeting its users as the network draws more instit…
CoinList expands into tokenized asset distribution with ‘Passage’ as token sales slow
CoinList has launched Passage. The move marks its expansion beyond token sales, which have slowed across the crypto i…
Tether, TRON and TRM Labs-backed T3 Financial Crime Unit tops $450 million in frozen illicit crypto assets
T3 FCU says it has now frozen over $450 million in illicit crypto assets, reporting a 43.9% annual increase in interc…
BitGo doubles revenue to $3.8 billion but net loss widens in Q1
The NYSE-listed crypto infrastructure firm generated $3.8 billion in revenue in the first quarter, up 112.6% year-on-…
Immunefi to absorb Code4rena bug bounty customers after shutdown decision
Immunefi said it will help migrate Code4rena’s bounty programs, rewards and researchers onto its platform.
Stork promises ‘true’ 24/7 price discovery for stocks and gold tapping Binance and other perps markets
Stork launches the first 24/7 oracle that switches to perpetual futures markets for 'true' price discovery.
Kelp DAO, Aave to resume rsETH operations as recovery from $292 million exploit progresses
Kelp was exploited on April 18 for $292 million from attackers suspected to be part of North Korea's Lazarus Group.
Ethereum Foundation rolls out support for Clear Signing crypto security solution
Clear Signing is a crypto security feature that aims to simplify transaction descriptions so humans can understand wh…
OpenAI’s new cybersecurity push has a lesson for crypto: stop waiting for the hack
OpenAI introduced a new cybersecurity initiative, Daybreak, on May 11, designed to find, validate, and help fix softw…
Binance says AI security systems prevented $10.5 billion in user losses from crypto scams, phishing
In Q1 2026 alone, Binance claims to have safeguarded $1.98 billion in funds protected from 22.9 million scam and phis…
IRL crypto threats: Physical “wrench attacks” have led to over $100 million in losses since January alone
Crypto investors have lost more than $100 million to physical extortion in the first four months of 2026, according t…
After the $16.5 billion in exploits, DeFi is now being forced toward the controls it once resisted
The rsETH crisis resulted in $200 million in bad debt on Aave's books, despite not a single line of its contracts mis…
Crypto ‘wrench attacks’ on the rise, with victims’ family members increasingly at risk: CertiK
There has been 34 verified incidents globally, a 41% increase from the same period in 2025, CertiK said in a report p…