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Circle became a federal trust bank – now lenders warn stablecoins is projected to drain $500 billion
Washington just gave one of the world's largest digital currencies a more official place in the US financial system. …
Trusted Volumes Hacker Returns 1,122 ETH, Keeps $2M Bounty
A hacker tied to the Trusted Volumes exploit has returned 1,122 ETH to the protocol, closing part of a security incid…
How prices from the future fooled a crypto oracle into paying out up to $24 million
Future-dated reports allegedly cleared an authorized signer check, while Ostium has yet to publish final loss account…
US jury indicts South Dakota crypto investor on 29 counts over alleged $20 million investor fraud
DOJ indicted Sioux Falls crypto investor Benjamin Paul Wiener on 29 counts over an alleged $20 million fraud, with a …
California pair charged with laundering crypto proceeds from darknet fentanyl sales
The pair allegedly shipped over 500 drug parcels over a seven-month period and laundered hundreds of thousands of dol…
Circle suspended Tether-backed fund over market manipulation concerns, arbitration filings show
Circle suspended Heka Funds over suspected market manipulation after learning Tether had invested $800 million in the…
NEAR Governance Vote To Scrap Gas Rebates Puts Developer Incentives Under Review
NEAR Governance Vote To Scrap Gas Rebates Puts Developer Incentives Under Review is a useful reminder that crypto cov…
Wall Street turns cautious on Circle as analysts warn USDC economics face mounting pressure
Mizuho downgraded the stock and JPMorgan lowered earnings estimates, citing concerns that USDC is coming under pressure.
Former LASD deputy jailed for obstructing crypto ‘mogul’ Adam Iza extortion probe
A former LASD deputy was sentenced to 18 months in federal prison for lying about an Adam Iza extortion incident.
How a zeroed oracle signature unlocked $9M from Hedera DeFi lender Bonzo Lend
The verifier accepted identity inputs as proof, letting 250 SAUCE support $9.05 million in principal borrowing. The p…
DOJ moves to drop $722M BitClub case before trial as victims wait to learn what they will recover
The $722 million alleged scheme total is separate from recovery, while final terms and a court filing remain unresolv…
Coinbase Smart Wallet Verification Upgrade Targets The Multi-Chain UX Problem
Coinbase is still trying to make on-chain activity feel less like a specialist task. Its latest Smart Wallet verifica…
Stablecoins are moving more money while crypto’s cash pile gets smaller
Adjusted stablecoin transaction volume reached a record $1.79 trillion in June, according to Visa Onchain Analytics, …
Stablecoin FX priced below interbank rates in Q2, with routing now the biggest cost lever: Borderless
Stablecoin payments were priced 3.2 bps below interbank FX rates across 260 corridors in Q2, per Borderless.xyz's ben…
BNB Chain’s AWS-Linked Agent Studio Pushes AI Back Into The Crypto Infrastructure Race
The AI-agent narrative in crypto has gone through plenty of hype, but BNB Chain is trying to move the discussion towa…
One crypto wallet tied to a 20-year-old fraudster processed over $122M before Interpol closed in
The Thailand case shows how cross-chain token swaps can complicate tracing across services, assets and borders. The p…
Convicted scammer’s “seized” crypto moves to unknown wallets while in prison as DOJ failed to secure funds
DOJ’s account separates a forfeiture order from the unresolved question of who could authorize a transfer. The post…
Circle can now open a US trust bank but cannot take ordinary deposits or make loans
Circle National Trust starts with custody for Circle and affiliates, while outside institutional custody and USDC res…
BNB Chain Haber Specs Point To Faster Finality And A More Competitive Network Stack
BNB Chain Haber Specs Point To Faster Finality And A More Competitive Network Stack is the kind of crypto story that …
Why Bitcoin ATMs are becoming the last stop in America’s $11B crypto scam pipeline
FBI and IC3 data show how online coercion can end at a kiosk before anyone can stop the transfer. The post Why Bitcoi…
Stripe-owned Privy and Jito co-develop Solana transaction inclusion tool FullSend
FullSend works by automatically routing every transaction signed in a Privy wallet directly to the current Solana blo…
INTERPOL-led global fraud crackdown arrests over 5,800, uncovers crypto laundering network tied to $122.5 million wallet
The operation uncovered a crypto laundering network using cross-chain swaps to obscure funds, with one wallet process…
Ethereum is losing ownership of crypto payments as Base moves $565B in stablecoins
Visa's adjusted June data shows L2s competing for the dollar flows that could define crypto payments. The post Ethere…
CFTC charges North Carolina man over alleged $14 million crypto, futures fraud
The CFTC charged a NC man and his company after the agency said he swindled about 60 people out of $14 million in a c…
Russia’s legal crypto on-ramp to arrive with a state-owned bank holding the keys
The reported December launch matters because Russia’s new rules may make custody, limits, and compliance the price …
Cardano’s 9.0.1 Hotfix Shows Why Last-Mile Upgrades Matter Before A Hard Fork
Hard forks are usually discussed in big-picture terms, but the final approach is often decided by smaller technical c…
Dogecoin Core 1.14.8 Lands With Security Fixes The Network Cannot Ignore
Dogecoin does not always get taken seriously when the market is in meme mode, but infrastructure updates are where th…
Stripe’s Solana Stablecoin Push Brings Another Real Payments Use Case Into View
Stablecoins keep inching closer to the part of crypto that matters most in the long run: actual usage. Stripe’s mov…
New SummerFi DeFi exploit shows AI automation now sits above smart contract risk
Blockaid estimated about $6 million drained as Summer.fi paused Lazy Summer vaults and investigated the cause. The po…
Vitalik Buterin proposes ‘Extremely Lean’ Ethereum, shrinking the chain to near-zero state with ZK proofs
Buterin outlined a two-step plan to shift Ethereum's state management to validators and replace per-epoch balance upd…