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Apex Group Buys Majority Stake in Tokenization Specialist Tokeny as RWA Trend Soars
Apex Group said it plans to fold Tokeny’s team and tech into its services as it pushes tokenized finance to the mai…
Apollo’s Tokenized Credit Fund Set for Solana DeFi Debut as RWA Trend Expands
Kamino Finance and Steakhouse Financial are teaming up to bring Securitize's ACRED token to the fast-growing Solana D…
RWA Platform TokenFi Is Tokenizing the Floki Minibot
A presale for the Floki Minibot M1 AI robot, made by Rice Robotics, starts May 23, the same day TokenFi’s real-worl…
Immunefi launches ‘All Stars’ elite whitehat program amid record $1.4 billion Bybit hack and rising onchain losses
The program kicks off with 10 top-tier researchers starting with LonelySloth — who has generated $3.6 million in ea…
Binance, Kraken successfully thwart phishing attacks similar to Coinbase hack: Bloomberg
Binance and Kraken were also targets of social engineering attacks targeting Coinbase customer service representatives.
Federal prosecutors charge 12 individuals in $263 million crypto scheme targeting early Genesis investor
The defendants allegedly spent $4 million at nightclubs and $9 million on exotic cars, among other luxury items, pros…
The Daily: Coinbase battles extortion attempt as data breach costs could hit $400 million, JPMorgan sees more upside for bitcoin than gold, and more
Never miss a beat with The Block's daily digest of the most influential events happening across the digital asset eco…
France’s interior minister to meet with crypto leaders after wave of violent ‘wrench attacks’
There have been at least five attempted assaults on public and private crypto figures in France, out of 25 reported i…
Cathie Wood’s Ark Invest buys $9.4 million worth of eToro shares on Nasdaq debut, sells $7.9 million of its own Bitcoin ETF
Ark also bought $7.6 million of 3IQ's Solana staking ETF and sold shares in Jack Dorsey's Block as it rebalanced its …
World’s largest illicit online marketplace Haowang shuts down after Telegram intervention
Blockchain analytics firm Elliptic said Haowang processed over $27 billion in USDT transactions that facilitated ille…
Banks Exploring Stablecoin Amid Fears of Losing Market Share, BitGo Executive Says
BitGo’s stablecoin-as-a-service has drawn significant interest from U.S. and international banks, Ben Reynolds said.
JPMorgan, Chainlink and Ondo Finance test cross-chain settlement of tokenized treasury fund
JPMorgan's blockchain unit Kinexys, Chainlink and Ondo Finance teamed up to test cross-chain settlement of a tokenize…
VeChain’s Sunny Lu Wants to Tokenize Sustainable 'Human Behavior' Like Driving a Tesla
At Consensus Toronto, VeChain is debuting new infrastructure that combines RWAs, AI agents, and NFT staking to make c…
Asset Manager VanEck Joins Tokenization Race With U.S. Treasury Fund Token
The tokenized U.S. Treasury fund was developed with tokenization firm Securitize and has launched on the Avalanche, B…
Robinhood to acquire Canadian crypto trading platform WonderFi for around $179 million
The $179 million offer by Robinhood Markets represents a 71% premium to WonderFi's 30-day average share price.
Curve Finance’s front-end targeted in DNS attack on website
DeFi DEX Curve Finance alerted users to a DNS exploit on its website, its second domain issue in three years.
Jump Crypto secures ‘strategic’ equity stake in Securitize to deepen institutional tokenization access
Jump Crypto declined to disclose the dollar value of the deal, which aims to accelerate institutional adoption of tok…
Crypto for Advisors: Trends in Tokenizing Real-World Assets
Tokenization turns real-world assets into blockchain tokens, boosting efficiency, liquidity and accessibility. Learn …
Superstate Expands Into Tokenized Equities; SOL Strategies to Be First Listing
The company's "Opening Bell" platform lets SEC-registered shares trade on-chain, bridging crypto and public equity ma…
Skale launches BITE Protocol to eliminate malicious MEV attacks
BITE encrypts data to prevent MEV bots from front-running, sniping or excluding transactions for their personal gain.
‘Don’t do crime, crime is bad’ — Hack on ransomware gang LockBit exposes 59,975 Bitcoin addresses and thousands of victim negotiations: report
Ransomware gang LockBit, known for demanding cryptocurrency payments, has been hit by a data leak of its own followin…
G7 leaders weigh discussing North Korean crypto hacks in June summit: Bloomberg
North Korea was behind some of the largest crypto heists in history, including the $1.4 billion exploit on Bybit exch…
Citi, Switzerland’s SDX Join Forces to Tokenize $75B Pre-IPO Shares Market
Citi will act as a custodian and issuer agent for tokenized assets on SDX’s digital Central Securities Depository (…
Kraken feigns interest in hiring North Korean hacker in order to ‘study’ their tactics
"Instead of tipping off the applicant" Kraken advanced the candidate through the recruitment process in order to lear…
Tether Finalizes Buying 70% of Adecoagro Stake, Securing Tokenization Ambition
The USDT issuer expands beyond crypto with a controlling stake in Adecoagro, a major Latin American producer.
The Daily: Arthur Hayes doubles down on $1 million bitcoin call, FIFA to launch EVM-compatible blockchain and more
The following article is adapted from The Block’s newsletter, The Daily, which comes out on weekday afternoons.
Crypto industry losses reach $92 million in April due to DeFi exploits: Immunefi
The ecosystem has now witnessed $1.74 billion in losses year-to-date, though Bybit's $1.46 billion exploit accounts f…
Telegram’s TON Takes On Real World Assets With Libre’s $500M Tokenized Bond Fund
Libre’s Telegram Bond Fund ($TBF) will offer accredited investors institutional-grade yield products that will also…
Loopscale’s exploiter willing to accept bounty offer following $5.8 million hack
The Solana-based DeFi protocol said it heard from the exploiter, who is willing to return the exploited funds for a 3…
Term Finance recovers $1 million of $1.6 million loss to oracle configuration error
Another DeFi protocol, Impermax, was also attacked on Saturday, adding to a recent spate of damaging hacks, exploits,…