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An attacker spent just $1,800 on governance tokens and nearly walked away with $1.08 million in user funds. No flash loan, no smart contract bug, no zero-day — just buying tokens on the open market and submitting a proposal. The Moonwell attack on Moonriver in March 2026 is the latest example of what security researchers now call the highest-ROI exploit class in DeFi.
StraitsX, a Singapore-based digital payments company, has reported explosive growth in its stablecoin card programme, with a 40-fold surge in transaction volume and an 83-fold increase in card issuance between 2024 and 2025. The numbers suggest stablecoins are rapidly becoming invisible payment infrastructure across Southeast Asia.
The Ethereum Foundation is co-funding a new initiative called the Ethereum Economic Zone, a rollup framework developed by Gnosis and Zisk that aims to make Ethereum's sprawling layer 2 ecosystem work together more seamlessly.
The CLARITY Act, a bipartisan bill intended to establish clear regulatory boundaries for cryptocurrency in the United States, has stalled in the Senate after banks, crypto firms, and lawmakers failed to reach agreement on key provisions including whether stablecoins should be allowed to offer yields.
Canadian lawmakers have introduced legislation to ban cryptocurrency donations to political campaigns, citing concerns about foreign interference in elections.
Crypto's latest bear cycle is a mere blip when compared with the existential threat AI now poses to traditional software services, according to Ravi Tanuku, CEO of KRAKacquisition Corp, the Kraken-backed investment firm. The argument reframes crypto not as a speculative asset class but as infrastructure that AI cannot easily replace.
Senator Elizabeth Warren has launched a probe into China-based cryptocurrency mining giant Bitmain over potential espionage and risks to the US power grid. The investigation, dubbed Operation Red Sunset, was initiated by US authorities last year and is now receiving renewed congressional scrutiny.
The economics of bitcoin mining have turned upside down. The average public miner spent $79,995 to produce one bitcoin last quarter while bitcoin trades at $70,000, making the core business unsustainable. The industry is responding with a dramatic pivot to AI, taking on $70 billion in data centre contracts and liquidating bitcoin treasuries to finance the shift.
GameStop's latest annual filing has put to rest speculation that the company dumped its bitcoin holdings earlier this year. The 10-K reveals GameStop retained all 4,709 BTC it acquired in 2025, worth roughly $324 million at January prices, and instead pledged the holdings as collateral with Coinbase Credit.
Tether, the world's largest stablecoin issuer, has hired KPMG as its auditor and brought on PwC to ready its internal systems, signalling a major push toward legitimacy ahead of a planned expansion into the United States.
On March 22, an attacker exploited Resolv Labs' USR stablecoin minting system by compromising a privileged signing key stored in AWS KMS. Using the two-step minting flow, they deposited roughly 100 to 200 thousand dollars in USDC and minted 80 million unbacked USR tokens, a 400 to 500 times over-mint. The attacker extracted approximately 25 million dollars in ETH within 17 minutes, crashing USR from one dollar to 2.5 cents.
The New York Stock Exchange is moving to integrate blockchain technology into Wall Street infrastructure, with its chief of product development saying the technology will be layered into current systems rather than replace them. The announcement coincides with Goldman Sachs-backed Canton Network integrating with cross-chain protocol LayerZero.
British officials have imposed sweeping sanctions on Xinbi Guarantee, a Telegram-based black market with an estimated 20 billion dollars in transaction volume that sells services propping up cryptocurrency scam operations worldwide.
Brazil has passed a new law allowing authorities to directly use cryptocurrency seized during criminal investigations to fund public security operations, while significantly expanding their power to freeze, block, and seize digital assets.
Fannie Mae is preparing to accept crypto-backed mortgages in a landmark move that would allow American homebuyers to pledge digital assets as collateral for government-backed home loans. Coinbase is partnering with fintech mortgage firm Better, a Fannie Mae-approved seller, to bring the product to market.
The largest DeFi lending protocol by total value locked has liquidated 27 million dollars in wstETH collateral from 34 users after a misconfiguration in its own oracle system undervalued the asset by 2.85 per cent — just enough to make perfectly healthy positions appear underwater.
A compromise on the long-stalled crypto market structure bill has drawn wide-ranging and often contradictory reactions from an industry that cannot agree on what it wants from regulation, even as the deal represents the closest Congress has come to passing comprehensive digital asset legislation.
Prime Minister Keir Starmer has announced an immediate freeze on cryptocurrency donations to political parties in the United Kingdom, acting on recommendations from the independent Rycroft review into foreign financial interference in British politics.
Binance has introduced stricter market-making guidelines that ban profit-sharing and guaranteed return arrangements between token issuers and their market makers, aiming to prevent conflicts of interest and manipulative trading on the world's largest crypto exchange.
Circle shares plunged roughly 20 percent after draft provisions in the CLARITY Act appeared to limit stablecoin rewards, but analysts are pushing back on the selloff, with Bitwise projecting the USDC issuer could be worth 75 billion dollars by 2030.
Ethereum is confronting a confluence of existential challenges as the Ethereum Foundation releases a new quantum-resistant cryptography roadmap while the network simultaneously faces mounting pressure from scaling demands, AI integration, and competition from faster chains like Solana.
Kraken will be the first exchange to integrate STS Digital's new structured crypto products platform, which covers 400 tokens and is aimed at banks, family offices, and high-net-worth individuals seeking sophisticated exposure to digital assets.
Leading crypto market maker Wintermute has debuted WTI crude oil contracts for difference, an over-the-counter derivative that lets traders speculate on oil prices 24 hours a day, seven days a week, as the Iran war drives unprecedented commodity market volatility.
Two significant bitcoin movements caught market attention on Tuesday as Bhutan transferred 519 BTC worth 36.75 million dollars to external wallets while a dormant wallet linked to convicted Irish drug dealer Clifton Collins moved 500 BTC worth 35 million dollars after ten years of inactivity.
BNY Mellon CEO Robin Vince says large banks are positioned to bridge digital assets and traditional finance, arguing that trust and regulation will shape the next phase of crypto's growth.
Bitcoin has fallen below 70,000 dollars as market participants increasingly price in interest rate hikes rather than cuts, dragging risk assets lower. Circle, the issuer of the USDC stablecoin, saw its shares plunge 16 per cent, leading a broad sell-off across crypto-related stocks.
Australian superannuation fund Hostplus is exploring cryptocurrency offerings for its self-directed investment accounts, with digital asset options potentially arriving as early as next financial year. The move comes as digital asset manager ParaFi closes a $125 million venture fund, signalling growing institutional appetite for crypto.
BlackRock CEO Larry Fink has laid out a vision for tokenization making investing as easy as mobile payments, while a new 35 million dollar venture fund backed by the CEOs of Polymarket and Kalshi signals growing institutional confidence in prediction markets. Meanwhile, biotech firm NovaBay jumped 19 per cent after rebranding as the Stablecoin Development Corporation.
Strategy, formerly MicroStrategy, has unveiled plans to issue 44 billion dollars in equity across its common and preferred stock lines, bringing its potential Bitcoin buying power back to historic levels as it expands ATM programs with new Wall Street partners.
Brazil's finance minister has postponed a controversial plan to tax cryptocurrency transactions, stepping back from a proposal that would have classified some crypto operations as foreign exchange transactions subject to rates ranging up to 3.5 per cent. The delay comes amid industry pushback and broader economic uncertainty.
Bitcoin rallied sharply above 71,000 dollars on Monday after President Trump announced a five-day postponement of military strikes on Iranian energy infrastructure, citing productive negotiations. The move reversed a selloff that had pushed BTC back to 68,000 dollars earlier in the session when Trump had threatened to attack Iran's power plants.
Fidelity Investments has urged the US Securities and Exchange Commission to refine its regulatory framework for broker-dealers handling cryptocurrency assets, arguing that clearer rules are needed before firms can confidently offer, custody and trade digital assets alongside traditional securities.
The USR stablecoin issued by Resolv Labs suffered a catastrophic depeg on Sunday after an attacker exploited a privileged minting role to create 80 million unbacked tokens, extracting roughly 25 million dollars before the exploit was contained. The token dropped as low as 14 cents on the dollar.
Bitcoin miners are operating at a significant loss, with the average production cost sitting at approximately $88,000 per bitcoin while the cryptocurrency trades below $70,000 — a gap of roughly $19,000 per coin that is forcing a reckoning across the mining industry.
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has released detailed guidance on how crypto firms can post digital assets as collateral for derivatives trading, marking a significant step toward integrating cryptocurrency into traditional financial infrastructure.
Prediction market platform Kalshi has been temporarily banned in Nevada, marking the latest escalation in the regulatory battle over the future of event-based trading contracts. The ban adds to Kalshi's growing list of legal challenges as regulators grapple with how to classify and oversee prediction markets.
A Bitcoin whale has moved 2,100 BTC — worth approximately 148 million dollars — from a wallet that had been untouched since July 2012, when the entire holding was worth just 13,685 dollars. The movement comes as Bitcoin holds steady near 70,500 dollars and Coinbase expands into stock perpetual futures for the Magnificent Seven tech names.
Morgan Stanley has advanced its Bitcoin ETF application with an amended S-1 filing, confirming the Morgan Stanley Bitcoin Trust will list on NYSE Arca under the ticker symbol MSBT. The filing marks another major Wall Street institution pushing into spot Bitcoin products despite turbulent market conditions.
A prototype for a quantum-resistant version of Bitcoin has been demonstrated, but its creators acknowledge a significant adoption hurdle: implementing the model would require miners and users to migrate to a separate Bitcoin Quantum blockchain rather than upgrade the existing network.
The XVS governance token of DeFi lending protocol Venus has fallen 9 per cent after an exploit on March 16 left the platform carrying bad debt, with the price impact delayed until on-chain analysis revealed major holders moving large amounts to exchanges.
Bitcoin dipped below 70,000 dollars on Wednesday as surging energy prices and the Federal Reserve's decision to hold interest rates steady combined to put pressure on cryptocurrency and equity markets alike.
Cryptocurrency exchange Crypto.com has laid off approximately 12 per cent of its workforce, or about 180 employees, as chief executive Kris Marszalek pushes an enterprise-wide shift toward artificial intelligence to drive operational efficiencies across the business.
Long-term Bitcoin holders — so-called OGs — sold more than 100 million dollars worth of BTC following the Federal Reserve's hawkish stance on interest rates, which dented hopes for near-term rate cuts. The sell-off adds to pressure on crypto markets already contending with the oil shock and broader risk-off sentiment driven by the Iran war.
The US Securities and Exchange Commission has approved Nasdaq to run a pilot programme for tokenized stock trading, allowing blockchain-based shares to trade alongside traditional securities on the exchange.
Polymarket has acquired Brahma, a decentralised finance infrastructure startup, as the prediction market platform moves to strengthen its blockchain trading capabilities and expand beyond its current technical foundations.
Cryptocurrency exchange Kraken has put its planned initial public offering on ice, citing difficult market conditions. The company''s parent had filed a draft S-1 registration statement with the SEC in November, but the combination of crypto market volatility and broader macroeconomic uncertainty has pushed the timeline indefinitely.
The US Senate Banking Committee is targeting an April hearing to amend and vote on a comprehensive cryptocurrency market structure bill, according to Senator Cynthia Lummis. The Wyoming Republican told reporters the negotiations are down to nuance, declaring that lawmakers believe they have reached a workable framework.
A UK parliamentary committee has called for an immediate moratorium on cryptocurrency political donations, warning that the fast payment traits of crypto combined with tools like mixers, tumblers and AI-assisted payment splitting make it easy to circumvent the existing £500 reporting threshold.
Bitcoin exchange-traded funds have recorded seven consecutive days of net inflows, their longest streak in five months. Analysts attribute the renewed institutional interest to the SEC's latest guidance on cryptocurrencies, which they say will clear the path for significantly more institutional capital to flow into crypto ETFs.
Bitcoin is consolidating around the $75,000 level after hitting resistance, with analysts noting the asset remains technically overbought despite a pullback. Meanwhile, Ethereum has rebounded to $2,300 on fresh inflows and Argentina has ordered a nationwide block of prediction market platform Polymarket.