Binance listed RAVE. A few days ago, the token crashed 95%, wiping out billions in market cap, triggering manipulation allegations from ZachXBT and forcing exchange investigations. The same exchange has still not listed Pi Network, a project with 18 million KYC-verified users, a functioning mainnet, and institutional-grade identity infrastructure. The contrast has not gone unnoticed, …
Bitcoin traded at $74,335 after Iran reimposed controls on the Strait of Hormuz over the weekend, with the modest 1.6% pullback standing out against a 5.7% jump in Brent and a 1.2% drop in European equity futures.
LayerZero said the attackers compromised two RPC nodes the company's verifier relied on and DDoS'd the rest, with the attack working only because Kelp had ignored multi-verifier recommendations.
Multiple lending and yield protocols are posting double-digit percentage declines in TVL, though token prices are seeing a limited decline.
A major exploit at KelpDAO has rattled the DeFi market, with losses estimated at nearly $293 million, making it one of the year’s biggest incidents. The issue was first flagged after “suspicious cross-chain activity involving rsETH,” prompting the team to pause contracts across the Ethereum mainnet and multiple Layer 2 networks. The protocol, which allows …
David Schwartz, CTO Emeritus at Ripple, had a pointed observation this week after the Kelp DAO rsETH bridge was exploited for approximately $292 million. He had seen this coming. Not this specific attack, but the conditions that made it possible. “I evaluated a lot of DeFi bridging systems for use by RLUSD,” Schwartz wrote on …
Breach tied to compromised AI tool may have exposed credentials used by app frontends, the user-facing layer that connects web3 wallets and trading interfaces to backend services.
2026 is shaping up to be DeFi's "worst year in terms of hacks," Ledger's CTO said, as the Kelp exploit shows how a single point of failure can cascade across systems.
Every year policy discussions get more important, and this year's even more so.
Developers and traders warn of structural risks as a cross-chain exploit spreads fear and prompts billions to flee DeFi platforms.
Firms using stablecoins can reshape margins by cutting costs, unlock credit and earn yield, but not every company needs to issue a token, Paxos Labs' Chunda McCain said.
A memecoin called ASTEROID surged more than 68,000% in a week, crossing a $100 million market cap and generating over $100 million in 24-hour trading volume, driven by one of the most emotionally charged stories the crypto market has seen in years. The token is not based on a dog or a cartoon. It is …
The AAVE token fell 16% and deposits fled the protocol after attackers used drained rsETH as collateral to borrow wrapped ether, leaving Aave to quantify how much bad debt it is now carrying.
The token traded at $1.15 on Sunday, down from a $27.33 peak on Friday, wiping out more than $5 billion in market cap while Binance and Bitget investigations advance.
XRP slipped below $1.46 over the weekend, a level that analysts had flagged as the most critical line for the token heading into the final stretch of April. The move was not entirely unexpected on the charts, but the catalyst that pushed it through was geopolitical rather than technical. The important support to watch now …
France has seen 41 crypto-related kidnappings this year, roughly one every 2.5 days, prompting authorities to step up security.
A new survey from Nomura and Laser Digital shows improving sentiment among institutional investors, as regulatory clarity and new products drive deeper engagement with digital assets.
Co-founders Da Hongfei and Erik Zhang have conflicting restructuring plans, Da wants independent governance and multi-sig protection; Zhang wants accountability investigations and to remain on the board.
XRP is outperforming the market this week and has posted a 6 to 8% weekly gain, reclaiming the number four position by market cap ahead of BNB and Solana. What makes the XRP move interesting is not the size of it but the combination of factors arriving simultaneously. What Is Actually Driving It Three things …
A nearly $300 million exploit targeting Kelp DAO’s rsETH cross-chain bridge has triggered a mass withdrawal event at Aave, with over $5.4 billion in ETH leaving the protocol as users rushed to pull funds following concerns about bad debt accumulating on the platform. The attacker deposited rsETH into Aave to drain ETH, leaving the protocol …
Charles Hoskinson was asked a straightforward question during a recent discussion: even if Ripple keeps all the business value for itself, does it not still benefit XRP holders when the headlines drive the price up during a bull market? His answer was pointed and detailed. “You got to understand that they gave themselves somewhere between …
RaveDAO has collapsed. A token that reached an all-time high of $27.94 just days ago is now trading around $1.50, down 95% from its peak, after on-chain investigator ZachXBT publicly accused insiders of orchestrating a pump-and-dump scheme and both Binance and Bitget confirmed they had opened formal investigations. Approximately $43.68 million in leveraged positions were …
An attacker drained 116,500 rsETH, roughly 18% of circulating supply, from Kelp's LayerZero-powered bridge on Saturday, triggering emergency freezes across Aave, SparkLend, Fluid and Upshift.
Strategy aim to reduce volatility, enable consistent bitcoin buying, and create the only bi-monthly paying preferred shares in the market.
Alcoa is in advanced negotiations to sell its dormant Massena East smelter in upstate New York to Bitcoin mining firm NYDIG.
AI companies raised $242 billion (80% of global venture funding) in early 2026, with Gartner projecting total AI spending will reach $2.52 trillion this year.
Nearly 90% of RAVE's supply was concentrated in just three wallets, and millions of tokens were transferred to exchanges before the price surge.
The company also disclosed a 4,500 BTC wallet that it can't access due to missing private keys linked to a former CEO, who's now missing.
Parasite Pool, which pays 1 BTC to the block finder and splits the rest among all participants, mined block 945,601 on Friday, about 48 days after its first.
In an interview with CoinDesk, the Ethereum co-founder spoke also about Ethereum’s evolution through MetaMask, stablecoins and tokenization, while downplaying quantum computing as a long-term, manageable issue.