Researchers examining the roughly $320 million Liquid Network incident have identified an alleged failure in the software’s transaction-validation cache, offering a more specific explanation for how unbacked tokens could be redeemed for real Bitcoin. Accounts also raise a deployment question. Mononaut said the exploited bug had entered Elements’ master development branch the previous week but […]
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CertiK recorded roughly $124.1 million in losses and ransom demands in H1 2026, a measure of exposure rather than criminal profit.
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Reduce-only trading begins Aug. 26, with forced closes possible before exchange services end Sept. 23.
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Together, the court-entered orders restrict marketing across deposit, exchange, investment, withdrawal and trading products, including assisted activity.
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Matching FEC rows name Gemini because it liquidated the same bitcoin, not because the exchange donated another $10 million.
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Spain’s second World Cup title settled the largest sports-related winner markets yet on Polymarket and Kalshi, closing a tournament that brought prediction trading closer to the center of the global sports-betting business. Available data from the two leading platforms show that they recorded about $5.57 billion in cumulative volume on contracts tied to the tournament […]
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ANJ cited Similarweb estimates after operator-level controls were circumvented in practice while the platform's live odds remained visible.
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The Hyperliquid account closed 1,897.74 BTC before its recorded exit trades reached the listed $61,605 marker.
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Claims and unstaking are already closed, leaving liquid balances one final bridge route to Ethereum before 6:00 AM UTC on July 21.
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Investigators reportedly followed Bitcoin-funded gift cards to Uber Eats deliveries, showing both sides of software-mediated wallet risk.
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The adviser reported 12,380 XRPI shares worth $71,059, not $71 million, under the SEC's current nearest-dollar convention.
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The first recipient depends on your provider’s reporting nexus, while tax residence shapes any onward exchange.
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The verifier accepted identity inputs as proof, letting 250 SAUCE support $9.05 million in principal borrowing.
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The $722 million alleged scheme total is separate from recovery, while final terms and a court filing remain unresolved.
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The trust can use disputed documents in its $4 billion-plus case, but the rulings still leave creditor payouts unresolved.
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FBI and IC3 data show how online coercion can end at a kiosk before anyone can stop the transfer.
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Vanguard posted a Head of Digital Assets, Personal Wealth role on July 6, with openings in Dallas, Scottsdale, Charlotte, and Malvern. The posting asks the incoming executive to lead digital assets strategy, build a multi-year roadmap, and run enterprise execution across Vanguard's wealth business. Two years earlier, the same firm refused to list spot Bitcoin […]
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The Black Bull (ANSEM) is up roughly 299% over seven days, trading with $64.9 million in 24-hour volume and a market cap near $173 million, per CoinGecko. That size puts ANSEM in a category that traders treat as a read on Solana's broader risk appetite. Traders are calling the move a sign the trenches are […]
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Strategy’s largest Bitcoin sale in years has put new pressure on the corporate treasury model that made Michael Saylor one of the most closely watched figures in digital assets. On July 6, the company, formerly known as MicroStrategy, revealed that it sold 3,588 Bitcoin for about $216 million between June 29 and July 5. Per […]
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Prediction-market traders are giving the United States a narrow edge over Belgium after FIFA cleared striker Folarin Balogun to play in Monday’s World Cup round-of-16 match, a decision that followed direct lobbying from US President Donald Trump and triggered criticism from European soccer officials. Prices on Polymarket showed the US with about a 39% chance […]
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The roadmap gives institutions a stronger settlement story, but also a clearer checklist for doubt.
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In 2017, a handful of developers with a whitepaper and a GitHub repository could launch a token or a crypto startup in a matter of days. Capital requirements were low, licensing was either non-existent or seen as an afterthought, and a compelling idea was usually enough to draw thousands of retail buyers into an ICO […]
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A stablecoin built around a giant partner list now faces the question every coalition coin must answer: who is actually committed, and what does participation mean?
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France’s response shows why visible crypto wealth now demands offline threat planning, data controls, and faster law-enforcement coordination.
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A pseudonymous respondent has appeared in New York court to challenge a lawsuit seeking control of over $200 billion worth of long-dormant coins tied to the network’s earliest days, including those linked to Satoshi Nakamoto, Bitcoin's pseudonymous founder. The respondent, using the name John Doe 33, filed a notice of appearance on June 30 in […]
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Allaire says the stablecoin fight will hinge on liquidity, integrations and regulated usage once OUSD goes live.
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Large channels still look big by audience size, but recent view velocity shows a thinner and more selective market.
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The EU deadline is not a direct UK cutoff, but account entity and platform notices still matter.
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OpenAI introduced GPT-5.6 on June 26 as a limited-preview family of frontier models with three tiers: Sol as the flagship, Terra as the balanced mid-range option, and Luna as the fast, low-cost tier. OpenAI says Sol performs competitively with Anthropic's Mythos Preview on ExploitBench using roughly 33% of the output tokens, at $5 per million […]
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Ripple secured preliminary approval as a Crypto-Asset Service Provider from Luxembourg's financial regulator, the CSSF, on June 23. The approval was delivered as a “Green Light Letter,” which the company is pairing with the EMI license it finalized in the same jurisdiction in February. Together, the two approvals put Ripple inside MiCA's perimeter, where one […]
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