Qubic Froze Its Chain After a $1.4 Million Drain. The Real Story Is the Seed-Hygiene Failure
Qubic froze its chain after an attacker drained about $1.4 million from roughly 1,400 accounts by exploiting weak wallet seed phrases, and...
Nine Crypto Firms Formed a Quantum Alliance. The Real Question Is Whether Bitcoin Gets Frozen.
The alliance's name is new. The clock is not. As Google's quantum progress has moved from paper to practical timelines, a group of...
USDC Just Became the EU's First 'Significant' Stablecoin. Circle Now Answers to the EBA.
The European Banking Authority did not pick USDC because it is the largest stablecoin in Europe. It picked USDC because it crossed the reg...
Nine Crypto Firms Formed a Quantum Alliance. The Real Question Is Whether Bitcoin Gets Frozen.
The alliance's name is new. The clock is not. As Google's quantum progress has moved from paper to practical timelines, a group of...
USDC Just Became the EU's First 'Significant' Stablecoin. Circle Now Answers to the EBA.
The European Banking Authority did not pick USDC because it is the largest stablecoin in Europe. It picked USDC because it crossed the reg...
Uptober Let Down: Bitcoin's $81,000 Slide and the Put Cluster That Tells the Real Story
Uptober is famous for one thing: a relief rally after a weak September. This year, the name did not hold. Over the past two days, Bitcoin ...
South Korea's Dual Crisis: Circuit Breaker and Crypto Block Come the Same Day
South Korea's stock market spent the morning of October 13 in a sell-side halt — the first since mid-August — and its financial watchd...
The XRP Treasury Vehicle on Nasdaq Changes Who Has to Hold the Asset for It to Move
A Ripple-backed vehicle holding roughly 473 million XRP is now trading on Nasdaq under the ticker XRPN, following a SPAC merger. The listi...
South Korea's First Bitcoin-Backed Bank Loan Is a Legal Plumbing Story, Not a Crypto Price Story
South Korea's Jeonbuk Bank has begun issuing won loans to corporate borrowers that are secured by Bitcoin held with a third-party cust...
The IMF Says Tokenized U.S. Stocks Are One and a Half Times More Volatile Than the Shares They Are Based On. The Off-Hours Trading Gap Is the Real Risk.
An IMF working paper has found that tokenized U.S. equity products trade at roughly one and a half times the volatility of the underlying ...
An AI Agent Found a 2015 Bug in XRP. It Could Have Minted Eighteen Trillion Coins, and the Ledger Is Only Safe Now.
The XRP Ledger has patched a bug from 2015 that, if exploited, could have allowed the minting of up to eighteen trillion XRP, a figure tha...
JPMorgan Says $50 Billion Has Flowed Into Crypto This Year. The Q4 Setup Is Different From 2024's.
JPMorgan has estimated that approximately $50 billion of net capital has flowed into crypto assets this year, a figure reported by The Blo...
Treasury Says It Can Seize a Billion Dollars of Iran-Linked Crypto. The Enforcement Model Just Changed.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has said the U.S. is targeting a $1 billion seizure of Iran-linked cryptocurrency and, in a statement rep...
Solana's Tokenized Assets Crossed $5.8 Billion as Wall Street Moved In
Solana's tokenized-asset market cleared $5.8 billion this month as Robinhood and other institutions entered the real-world-asset rail....
BlackRock Is Buying Every Bitcoin Dip While Exchanges Sell Into It
BlackRock began aggressively accumulating Bitcoin on every dip this week, buying roughly 1,426 coins worth about $118.9 million and contin...
Pudgy Penguins' Chain Will Go Dark With $48 Million Still Bridged In
Abstract, the Ethereum layer 2 that Igloo Inc. built to put Pudgy Penguins' mass-market playbook onchain, will shut down December 15. ...
The CFTC Wrote a Crypto Rule That Platforms Can Ignore and Spot Still Escapes
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission on October 5 floated its first crypto-specific market framework. It is an advanced notice, not a ...