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Why a $150M Polymarket bet could pay the side that appeared to lose
A nearly $150 million prediction market has devolved into chaos after the platform Polymarket moved to deny payouts t…
Galaxy Digital opens OTC prediction market trading for institutions, kicks off with $10 million Kalshi trade
Galaxy Digital launches institutional OTC prediction markets trading, executing a $10M Clarity Act trade with Arca on…
Veda brings the vault stack behind Kraken DeFi Earn to Privy’s 2,000-plus developer teams
The same vault stack powering Kraken DeFi Earn and EtherFi's Liquid will be available via a self-serve API for develo…
Mt. Gox moves $739 million worth of bitcoin to two addresses: Arkham
Mt. Gox transferred a combined 10,306 BTC to an unmarked address and its hot wallet early Tuesday, according to Arkham.
Strategy sold bitcoin in late May, and told the market in June. Here's how Polymarket bettors are fighting over when it counts.
A $79 million market hinges not on whether Michael Saylor's firm sold bitcoin, but on whether a sale disclosed June 1…
Unable to recover from roughly $50 million hack, Radiant Capital is winding down
Radiant Capital said it hasn't been able to recover a meaningful amount of funds or raise new capital since the 2024 …
Strategy bitcoin sale timing throws wrench into $20 million Polymarket pool
A Polymarket pool asking whether Strategy would sell any of its bitcoin before May 31 had drawn more than $20 million…
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…
Strategy’s bitcoin sale sparks a $14 million betting chaos on Polymarket
The 8-K filing by Strategy Monday disclosed sales for the period May 26 to May 31, but the disclosure was issued on J…
‘Gnosis will cover all user losses’ amid exploit related to Gnosis Pay, co-founder Koppelmann says
Gnosis co-founder Martin Koppelmann said all user losses will be covered as containment efforts continue following an…
Dev helps rescue $2 million locked in 2016 ICO contract for nine years with whitehat exploit
The developer told The Block that two of 48 eligible investors have already claimed 96.5 ETH that was unfrozen, worth…
How a disputed $1 billion claim became a powerful weapon against prediction markets
On the American Gaming Association's website, a counter has been climbing for months, tallying what the casino-and-sp…
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.
Sui blockchain suffers more downtime following Thursday’s six-hour outage
Sui was offline for 5 hours and 55 minutes on Thursday due to a bug in the blockchain's latest "1.72 release."
Wintermute extends trading infrastructure into prediction markets
Wintermute extends trading infrastructure into prediction markets as multibillion-dollar sector draws institutional l…
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…
Sui blockchain experiences second ‘stall’ in five months
Sui said the blockchain is experiencing a "network stall," as block explorers show the protocol has not produced a bl…
US Strikes Iran In Fresh Attacks, Expert Says Get Your Money Out Of Bitcoin Now!
The US-Iran war has again escalated with fresh strikes from both sides, a development that has now dampened hopes of …
Google engineer insider-traded search results on Polymarket, Feds allege
The charges mark the second major arrest over insider trading on a prediction market.
Aztec Labs acquires ZKPassport, pledges to keep privacy protocol and iOS mobile app open-source
The Obsidion team, including co-founders Michael Elliot and Theo Madzou, will join Aztec Labs to continue developing …
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…
Security researchers flag ongoing Stake DAO exploit after attacker mints trillions of vsdCRV
The attacker minted 5.4 trillion vsdCRV on Arbitrum and is actively swapping tokens for ether, the researchers said.
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.
What happens when crypto traders can bet on CPI, Fed cuts, and oil 24/7?
Hyperliquid launched a prediction market this week tied directly to the May US CPI year-over-year reading. Interconti…
Spain blocks Polymarket, Kalshi for operating without licenses amid widening global crackdown on prediction markets
Spain blocked Polymarket and Kalshi on May 26, the latest in a growing wave of international crackdowns on prediction…
Spain joins growing list of countries shutting out Polymarket and Kalshi
The platforms were blocked for operating without licenses required by Spanish gambling law, citing a lack of safeguar…
Hyperliquid takes a swing at Polymarket with macro outcome bets
The decentralized exchange’s new HIP-4 product lets traders bet on offchain events like inflation and interest-rate…
Indonesia blocks Polymarket, calling prediction market online gambling in disguise
Authorities stated that using crypto or blockchain doesn't change platforms that let users wager on uncertain outcome…
‘We don’t know who deployed this’: Squid distances itself from $3.2 million third-party module exploit
Squid said its core protocol was unaffected after a third-party module named SquidRouterModule was exploited for roug…
Indonesia blocks Polymarket amid crackdown on online betting
Indonesia blocked Polymarket over online gambling concerns as regulators widen global scrutiny of prediction market p…