Six white hat actors recovered $3.86 million during the attack, but some declined to receive bounties as they do not want to be identified.
Jupiter launches Refinance feature for seamless token migration on Solana with better rates and secure transfers.
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The following article is adapted from The Block’s newsletter, The Daily, which comes out on weekday afternoons.
Infinex has unveiled its Sonar token sale ahead of a January Token Generation Event, expanding access to INX beyond its $67.7 million Patron NFT sale.
Ethereum increased its block gas limit to 60 million after securing majority validator support days before the Fusaka upgrade.
Crypto industry figures welcomed pro-entrepreneur measures but warned that wider tax and regulatory pressures could hurt UK competitiveness.
Despite a sharp $55 billion decline in total value locked since October, the DeFi sector remains structurally strong, with rising DEX activity and steadily growing protocol fundamentals.
In this week’s Crypto Long & Short Newsletter, Martin Gaspar shares a snapshot of where we are post 10/10 and where potential opportunities from dislocations may lie. Then, we take a look at investor sentiment in the wake of the relentless market selloff — confusion, resolve and humility — with Andy Baehr’s “Vibe Check.
The network introduces intent-based routing and multi-source liquidity, with unified verification expected later through Avail DA.
Coinbase has released its 2026 investment priorities, focusing on RWA perpetuals, specialized trading, DeFi innovations, and AI and robotics.
In the dynamic and often volatile landscape of digital assets, Bitcoin’s position as the premier store of value in the digital asset space remains firmly intact, even as the broader crypto ecosystem evolves. Its unmatched network strength, fixed supply, and resilient global infrastructure continue to make it the benchmark against all digital assets. Unmatched Network Security Keeps Bitcoin In The Lead Bitcoin remains the largest and most secure store of value in the crypto ecosystem, with a market capitalization surpassing $1.7 trillion and increasingly unmatched institutional adoption. However, analyst Ted has noted on X that the BTC base layer was never built for decentralized finance (DeFi). Related Reading: Historic Downturn: Bitcoin Nears Worst Weekly Performance In Over A Year Most of BTC’s capital sits idle and is unable to support the complex financial applications. This is where the BTCFi emerges, and it’s rising because it activates this dormant capital without forcing users or liquidity away from BTC’s security. Ted highlighted that Arch Network is a utility layer that enables the development of expressive rush in smart contracts directly to BTC for high performance. It offers real-time state management, true interoperability, and fast parallel execution, while remaining fully aligned with the BTC UTXO model. This ensures that all settlements and final state changes remain anchored directly to BTC for maximum security. The applications on ArchVM generate Zero-Knowledge (ZK) proofs for each batch of transactions, and BTC nodes verify those proofs on-chain; a design that enables fast trading, money lending, credit markets, and real-world asset (RWA) applications with the L1-level trust. Furthermore, Ted describes the Arch Network as aiming to become a core piece of the infrastructure pillar for the emerging BTCFi ecosystem. Bitcoin Stabilizes As Market Volatility Cools Off The cryptocurrency market is now showing signs of stabilization, positioning Bitcoin for a potential resurgence. According to CryptosRus, last Friday, BTC appeared to have firmly bottomed just above the $82,000 level, a crucial development that analysts are pointing to as a potential renewed market strength. While the selling pressure is fading, these key developments could trigger a near-term bounce for BTC. Related Reading: Bitcoin Price Recovery Loses Strength, Traders Watch $90K as Last Line of Defense Swissblock outlines a sharp risk-off signal, suggesting that the worst phase of capitulation may be over. The market might still experience a second weaker wave of selling pressure, which would mark the exhaustion of any remaining sellers, and shift the market towards the bulls. Fed rate cuts are surging, as the December cut probability is climbing back to 70%, fueling optimism for liquidity support. Furthermore, liquidity injection is possible, and market analysts are highlighting that the actions from the Fed could expand reserves, which have historically proven to be bullish for the crypto market. With selling pressure easing and policy tailwinds building, BTC’s climb may continue signaling a potential recovery. Featured image from Pngtree, chart from Tradingview.com
The sharp TVL contraction appears largely driven by the unwinding of leveraged looping strategies that proliferated across DeFi protocols.
CEO Vladimir Novakovski explains the infrastructure powering the perp DEX, and why Lighter opted for a zero-fee structure for retail users.
On Nov. 21, Cardano’s mainnet bifurcated into two competing histories after a single malformed staking-delegation transaction exploited a dormant bug in newer node software. For roughly 14 and a half hours, stake pool operators and infrastructure providers watched as blocks piled up on two separate chains: one “poisoned” branch that accepted the invalid transaction and […]
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Fordefi offers an institutional-grade multi-party computation wallet solution that safeguards over $120 billion in monthly transaction volume.
World Liberty, the crypto project linked to President Donald Trump’s family, said it would invest in the SPSC memecoin.
Coinbase’s first token-sale test drew broad retail participation, with nearly 86,000 buyers receiving near-full fills of MON tokens.
Magma is launching with major validator partners and early DeFi integrations, positioning gMON to become one of the first liquid assets circulating on Monad’s new ecosystem.
According to the project’s tokenomics plan, 50.6% of the locked MON supply will gradually vest until the end of 2029.
Coinbase spent 2025 positioning itself as the infrastructure layer for retail crypto access, absorbing teams and technology that could accelerate its “everything exchange” vision. A Nov. 21 announcement that it acquired Vector.fun, Solana’s fastest-moving DEX aggregator, fit the pattern: acquire the rails, sunset the product, integrate the speed. But the deal carved out an unusual […]
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The compromise comes nearly two years to the day after a similar attack took down their front-ends in November, 2023.
Digital wallets won the payments war. By mid-2025, around 65% of US adults used them, accounting for 39% of e-commerce and 16% of in-store transactions. Apple Pay and PayPal are boring infrastructure now, the default way millions move money without thinking about it. Web3 wallets are not. A September Mercuryo and Protocol Theory study of […]
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Vector’s tech will plug into Coinbase’s DEX integration, while Tensor Labs shifts its NFT marketplace and TNSR token to Tensor Foundation.
Andrew Tate deposited $727,000 into Hyperliquid over the past year, took no withdrawals, and lost the entire stack through a relentless series of leveraged liquidations that culminated on Nov. 18, when his account hit zero. Per Arkham’s on-chain ledger, even the roughly $75,000 in referral commissions Tate earned from bringing traders onto the platform was […]
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The following article is adapted from The Block’s newsletter, The Daily, which comes out on weekday afternoons.
The ARC token could strengthen India's financial autonomy, stimulate local investment, and reduce reliance on foreign digital currencies.
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Coinbase now allows users to borrow up to $1 million in USDC against ETH, expanding its onchain loan product offered via Morpho.
RippleX developer J. Ayo Akinyele and outgoing Ripple CTO David Schwartz outlined how native staking could work on XRPL.
GANA crashed over 90% after hackers reportedly stole $3.1 million from the BNB Smart Chain-based protocol.
Core claims that Maple used confidential information in their partnership to develop a competing product, violating the exclusivity clause.