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The next DeFi drain could come from legacy contracts everyone forgot
The Raydium AMM V3 exploit drained roughly $1.34 million from a phased-out program tied to five pools outside the cur…
DOJ charges two in $389 million AudiA6 crypto laundering case
DOJ charges two men over alleged AudiA6 crypto laundering service tied to more than $389 million in transactions.
Solana infrastructure firm Helius acquires Light Protocol to expand onchain privacy
The acquisition comes amid a moment of consolidation in the crypto industry and during a resurgent interest in onchai…
Humanity Protocol’s H crash exposes the private keys behind its ZK identity pitch
The incident points to bridge-admin custody while leaving H down 76% and key-control questions unresolved. The post H…
Ethereum could become a fully zero-knowledge proof-based protocol in 3 to 5 years, Joe Lubin says
Ethereum needs infinite capacity to meet the infinite demands of being a World Computer, making L2s necessary, Joe Lu…
Washington man gets 5 years for helping $100 million crypto money laundering scheme
Geoffrey K. Auyeung helped overseas fraudsters launder $100 million in scam proceeds through crypto and bank accounts…
Lamborghini Bitcoin carjacking puts crypto’s wrench-attack crisis in a US courtroom
A Missouri man's guilty plea links a Danbury kidnapping to the same human-targeting pattern already visible in France…
Humanity's $36 million exploit tied to compromised laptop hosting a 'multisig' wallet
The compromised laptop held enough multisig keys to take over the project's bridges on two chains, a basic security f…
Starknet rolls out ZK privacy layer for ERC20 balances and transfers
STRK20 went live on Starknet, bringing private ERC20 transfers and balances with targeted disclosure mechanisms for r…
Wallets linked to Humanity Protocol drained for over $32 million, token plunges 89%: onchain analyst
Out of the stolen amount, $23.7 million has been swapped for Ethereum, while around $7.9 million remains in H tokens.
Brazen bitcoin kidnapping and carjacking co-conspirator pleads guilty, faces up to 20 years in prison: DOJ
Six men from Florida carjacked Sushil and Radhika Chetal's Lamborghini Urus, beat the couple and briefly detained them.
Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried officially files for a presidential pardon from Trump
Sam Bankman-Fried is pressing ahead with his bid for a presidential pardon, even after President Trump said he has no…
MetaMask debuts Agent Wallet giving AI bots self-custody access to Ethereum
Consensys-backed MetaMask is rolling out a non-custodial wallet for AI agents for general availability this summer.
DeFi’s old hack vectors are fading – But the new risk can hit six chains at once
Decentralized finance has gotten a lot safer over the past six years, and a new review of protocol losses from 2020 t…
AI-assisted Zcash flaw exposes the supply integrity gap an emergency fork could not fully close
The exploit that nearly broke Zcash originated inside the zero-knowledge proof circuit that powers Orchard, Zcash's n…
White House crypto adviser Witt defends Clarity Act, calls it ‘pro-law enforcement’ as lawmakers race to pass bill
The White House's top cryptocurrency adviser, Patrick Witt, called the Clarity Act a "pro-enforcement bill," despite …
Chainalysis says ‘top-tier’ gray market peptide vendors turn to bitcoin and stablecoins
“To scale, the gray-market peptide trade adopted cryptocurrency as its backbone,” Chainalysis said in a report.
Travala debuts agentic AI travel protocol with gasless USDC payments on Base
Travala launched an agentic AI travel protocol on Base supporting gasless USDC hotel bookings and AI-assisted payment…
Immunefi says DeFi is ‘getting safer’ as exploit losses fall 74% from 2022 peak amid AI-driven security arms race
DeFi exploit losses fell 74% from the 2022 peak to $680 million in 2025, according to Immunefi, amid structural secur…
Cosmos Labs acquires block explorer Mintscan, forms Korea subsidiary to expand ecosystem
Cosmos Labs has acquired Cosmos block explorer Mintscan and formed a new Korea-based subsidiary, Cosmos Labs Korea.
Coinbase, SpaceX, Meta join DOJ anti-scam operation that froze $3.8 million in crypto
Private-sector firms joined the DOJ's "Disruption Week," freezing $3.8 million in crypto and disrupting 1.4 million s…
Mt. Gox-linked wallets moved 10,422 BTC, worth roughly $739 million as BTC price slides
Mt. Gox moved more than $700 million worth of Bitcoin while the market was already under stress, giving traders a fam…
DOJ, CFTC probe George Santos over Kalshi trades tied to State of the Union appearance: report
DOJ and CFTC are investigating George Santos after Kalshi flagged trades where he allegedly bet against his own State…
Following token-dumping scandal, Movement seeks new life as a Layer 1
Move Industries has partnered with several firms, including Circle, as it relaunches Movement as a Layer 1 and refocu…
UK treats crypto network like a sanctioned bank after claims it processed $90B for Russia
Western governments spent three years building what they believed was an airtight financial blockade around Russia, s…
The US says it grabbed Iran’s crypto in a $1B seizure – will it end up in Trump’s Bitcoin Reserve?
reasury Secretary Scott Bessent said at the Reagan National Economic Forum that the US had seized roughly $1 billion …
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…
US charges Google engineer with using internal search data to pocket $1.2 million on Polymarket
Prosecutors charged Spagnuolo with fraud and money laundering, while the CFTC filed a complaint alleging insider trad…