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BitGo plans to go public via IPO as early as this year: Bloomberg
Major U.S.-based crypto custodian BitGo plans to go public via an initial public offering as early as Q2 2025, accord…
BNB Chain’s Memecoin launchpad Four Meme hit by $200k exploit, suspends liquidity
Four.Meme, a memecoin launchpad on the BNB Chain, has suspended its Liquidity Provider (LP) on PancakeSwap after dete…
Lido unveils V3, introducing customizable ‘stVaults’ that support advanced Ethereum staking strategies
The upgraded protocol could bring institutions with the need for compliance and provide operational controls into the…
Crypto Investors Lost Over $500M in Memecoin Rug Pulls and Scams in 2024
The majority of scams involved gaining access to notable people's social media accounts through social engineering.
Uniswap Labs releases Unichain on mainnet: ‘We’re entering a cross-chain world’ says Hayden Adams
Unichain will features technological innovations like a new block builder and validator network to improve network se…
Tether CEO willing to explore quantum computing initiative to recover lost Bitcoin
Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino has shown interest in a proposal for a quantum-powered initiative aimed at retrieving lost B…
Solana DEX aggregator Jupiter’s X account hacked, promotes fake memecoin
In a series of now-deleted posts, Jupiter’s X account promoted what appeared to be a scam memecoin with the ticker …
Token trading infrastructure provider Reservoir raises $14 million in Series A funding
Union Square Ventures led the round, with participation from Coinbase Ventures, Variant, Archetype, 1kx and others.
Ransomware extortion drops 35% in 2024 amid crypto exchange crackdowns and increasing refusal to pay: Chainalysis
Sanctions on dozens of Russian centralized exchanges and a decline in onchain payments made by victims helped reduce …
XRP Ledger’s hour-long halt sparks debate over consensus tradeoffs
Ripple CTO David Schwartz confirmed the XRP Ledger network is now back up and running, with no loss of user funds.
WazirX creditors to decide on recovery plan or risk lengthy liquidation
WazirX creditors will decide in the coming weeks whether to begin receiving compensation for their lost crypto as ear…
Crypto phishing scams drained $10.25 million in January
Blockchain security firm Scam Sniffer reported that crypto phishing scams drained $10.25 million from 9,220 victims i…
Olas raises $13.8 million to launch Pearl, an ‘app store’ for autonomous AI agents in crypto
The app store will allow users to directly own and control their AI agents on-chain for various use cases, including …
KyberSwap exploiter gets five-count criminal indictment after stealing $65M
A federal court in New York unsealed on Feb. 3 a five-count criminal indictment against Andean Medjedovic for alleged…
Coinbase users reportedly lose over $300M yearly via social engineering scams
On-chain investigator ZachXBT recently shared data revealing that Coinbase users lose more than $300 million annually…
The Daily: What’s next for crypto after the Trump tariff tantrum, South Korea’s ‘kimchi premium’ soars to 10-month high and more
The following article is adapted from The Block’s newsletter, The Daily, which comes out on weekday afternoons.
Weekend Wrap: Ether Strategy’s wrong address, El Salvador’s Satoshi statue and more
A project that describes itself as an onchain MicroStrategy for Ethereum blamed a UI fault that caused users to send …
Crypto gang jailed for over 76 years after kidnapping and torture in a $124,000 extortion plot
A gang who extorted a vulnerable man for £100,000 in cryptocurrency over several months has been sentenced to over 7…
Ethereum client Geth releases ‘Schwarzschild’ update to fix a vulnerability in previous version
This Geth update addresses an issue in the peer-to-peer (p2p) layer that could potentially lead to denial of service …
Bad actors steal $80 million in January, CEXs hit hardest
Cryptocurrency-related hacks resulted in nearly $74 million in losses in January 2025, marking a staggering ninefold …
Bitcoin Suisse, Steakhouse Financial and Block Analitica join as validators for oracle provider Chronicle Protocol
Chronicle, which was spun out of MakerDAO’s “oracle team,” secures about 23% of total value locked on Ethereum.
Paradigm co-leads $24 million Series A for ZKP infrastructure startup Irreducible
Irreducible provides zero-knowledge proof (ZKP) generation services powered by FPGA chips.
Crypto kicks off 2025 with $74 million lost to hacks in January: Immunefi
The crypto industry lost a further $73.9 million in January due to exploits, representing a ninefold increase month-o…
DCG spins out new ‘self-mining’ subsidiary, Fortitude Mining, from Foundry bitcoin mining unit
The unit, originally a part of the largest Bitcoin mining pool Foundry, will focus on mining bitcoin and other "high-…
Paradigm commits $1.25 million to aid Tornado Cash co-founder in continued legal battle
Storm faces a maximum prison sentence of 45 years for money laundering related charges in his part in developing cryp…
Blockchain Startup BTQ Proposes More Energy Efficient Alternative to Crypto's Proof of Work
A new paper proposes using a method called "coarse-grained boson-sampling" to validate the proof of work process and …
New Layer 1 network developer Pod raises $10 million in seed funding
Pod aims for transaction speeds as fast as a Google search. Investors in the seed round include a16z CSX, 1kx and Fla…
Scammers hijack Visa, Dean Norris social media accounts to promote fake Solana tokens
Over the weekend, hackers targeted the social media accounts of Visa and Hollywood actor Dean Norris to promote fraud…
NoOnes CEO Ray Youssef discloses $8 million exploit weeks after the fact, confirming crypto sleuth ZachXBT’s investigation
The disclosure was made after crypto sleuth ZachXBT wrote about the exploit in his “Investigations by Zach” Teleg…
Noones acknowledges $8 million exploit after ZachXBT raises concerns
Noones, a peer-to-peer crypto marketplace, suffered a security breach resulting in approximately $8 million in losses…