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CZ Urges Greater Crypto Security Cooperation Following Binance Hack
Binance founder CZ warns AI is making cyberattacks easier and urges stronger defences, as Binance details a months-long North Korea-linked U...
Citadel Securities-Backed Group Sues CFTC Over Expansion of Crypto-Style Perpetual Futures
A trade group whose members include Citadel Securities and Cboe has sued the CFTC hours after it cleared perpetual futures on single US stoc...
Brazil’s Largest Crypto Exchange Hit by Security Breach Days After Binance Hack
Mercado Bitcoin has suspended access to its services after an attacker drained an estimated $46 million from its wallets, while Tether froze...
Binance Investigates Suspected Record Hack as Attackers Move Funds Through DeFi
Binance has pledged to cover all losses after more than $5.5B left its hot wallets on Thursday, while Tether and Circle froze stablecoins an...
DTCC Launches Blockchain Service Covering Securities Worth US$30 Trillion
DTCC has switched on a service that turns stocks, ETFs and Treasuries held at its depository into blockchain tokens, with 20 firms including...
Crypto Security Firm Says US$1.18 Billion Was Stolen in Third Quarter
Crypto hacks caused US$1.18bn in losses in Q3 2026, up 55%, with most funds exposed through unaudited systems, outdated fixes and third-part...
SEC Says Token Buybacks and Network Upgrades Don’t Automatically Make Crypto Securities
SEC staff said token buybacks and post-launch network upgrades do not on their own make a crypto asset a security once its network is functi...
Irish Gangs Turn to Bank Vaults to Hide Crypto Keys
Irish crime gangs are renting safe deposit boxes to hide the private keys that control their cryptocurrency, keeping the assets beyond the r...
Polygon Quietly Patches Critical Security Flaws in PoS Network
Polygon Labs disclosed that two hard forks, Austin and Kyoto, fixed denial-of-service and consensus flaws in its PoS network, with both live...
Reporter Poses as VC to Expose Suspected North Korean Crypto Operatives
A fake crypto startup lured suspected North Korean IT workers into a monitored workplace, while a reporter posed as an investor to help expo...
Vitalik Buterin Reveals Ethereum’s New Priorities: Quantum Resistance, Privacy and AI Security
Buterin compared his 2023 Ethereum roadmap with the Foundation's current strawmap and found items in it he never drew, among them quantum re...
Bonzo Lend Loses $9M in Oracle Exploit as Fake SAUCE Price Drains Protocol
Bonzo Lend lost about $9.05 million on July 11 after a fake price update passed Supra's oracle verifier, inflating the SAUCE token and letti...