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Anchorage is partnering with and making a strategic investment in Immunefi, which will provide security services for the Porto wallet.

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Ledger's Donjon team exposed a MediaTek Android flaw enabling attackers to extract PINs and wallet seed phrases in seconds.

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The attack follows a series of bitcoin-linked kidnappings and extortion attempts in France.

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The Winklevoss twins moved $130 million in bitcoin to Gemini hot wallets while still holding $764 million worth of BTC, per Arkham.

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Cyvers estimates there are more than one million address-poisoning preparations per day on Ethereum, a tactic Trust Wallet said its new feature aims to prevent.

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Etherscan shows that 78 NFTs were drained across about 40 transactions to an address now labeled as GONDI Exploiter.

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Vitalik Buterin has urged Ethereum developers to experiment more boldly at the app layer while preserving the network’s core principles.

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The Solv Protocol team said it would cover the losses from the "limited exploit," totaling about $2.7 million for about 10 users.

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Aave Labs has outlined new security for V4 commitments including formal verification, layered security reviews and a bug bounty program.

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The X account of trader 'Sillytuna' claimed that roughly $24 million in cryptocurrency was stolen in a violent attack.

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A16z added the NovaBlindFold folding scheme to the open-source Jolt zkVM, “rendering it suitable for privacy applications.”

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Former LAPD officer Eric Halem was convicted of kidnapping and robbery for stealing $350,000 in bitcoin in 2024.

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PeckShield reported that February hacking losses fell 98.2% year-over-year to $26.5 million across 15 incidents.

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The proposal acknowledges it would require a coordinated network upgrade and could risk a chain split if parts refuse to adopt the change.

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U.S. officials said they froze and seized roughly $580 million in cryptocurrency linked to Chinese scam networks targeting Americans.

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The following article is adapted from The Block’s newsletter, The Daily, which comes out on weekday afternoons.

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The most profitable wallet turned a five-figure wager into nearly half a million dollars within hours of the Axiom investigation disclosure.

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About 94,636 BTC tied to the 2016 Bitfinex hack, roughly 30% of the U.S. Strategic Bitcoin Reserve, remain frozen pending legal proceedings.

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South Korean police have arrested two individuals over the alleged theft of 22 BTC seized during a 2021 hacking investigation.

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Australian police have charged a 42-year-old man over his role in an alleged $3.5 million crypto scam targeting 190 elderly victims.

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IoTeX co-founder Raullen Chai said losses are "significantly lower" than circulating estimates, but has not provided a specific figure.

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FOCIL was officially “scheduled for inclusion” as the consensus-layer (CL) headliner for the upcoming Hegota upgrade, targeted for late 2026.

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The following article is adapted from The Block’s newsletter, The Daily, which comes out on weekday afternoons.

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DeFi lending protocol Moonwell and CrossCurve have both recently suffered exploits connected to smart contracts.

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Moonwell confirmed roughly $1.8 million in bad debt after a misconfigured oracle priced cbETH incorrectly and triggered liquidations.

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Over two years after stealing $200 million from Mixin Network, an onchain hacker has deposited illict funds on Tornado Cash and sold ETH.

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French police tracked two stolen phones to a train station and arrested the trio in Lyon, per local outlet RTL.

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The longtime bitcoin backer and founder of DCG said privacy coins represent an asymmetric bet today, similar to the early days of Bitcoin. 

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French police arrested six suspects after a magistrate and her mother were kidnapped in a crypto ransom plot.

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CoinShares said quantum computers would have to become 100,000 times more powerful, which could take a decade of scientific progress, to break Bitcoin.