Robinhood CEO X account hacked to push fake $VLAD memecoin
The deleted post hit while Robinhood's new chain was already running hot: $700M+ in assets and 300K daily addresses, turning a single compromised tweet into an obvious target for scammers.
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The deleted post hit while Robinhood's new chain was already running hot: $700M+ in assets and 300K daily addresses, turning a single compromised tweet into an obvious target for scammers.
The Signet developer is building a marketplace for stablecoin reserve deposits at smaller US lenders, betting concentration among a handful of Wall Street banks is a structural risk as the market…
The mark-to-market hit lands in the same week SpaceX's IPO filing disclosed its own Bitcoin exposure, reframing Tesla's $674M digital-asset pile against a competing public-market benchmark.
The fake "Vladhood" post exploited Tenev's reach to flog a token on the very chain his firm launched, underscoring how memecoin rails and high-profile social accounts remain a soft target.
The third major US card network on board lifts MoonPay's addressable US card base by tens of millions, but the real test is whether legacy-network rails can sustain crypto purchase volume at scale.
The x402 protocol rollout stitches agent, business, and developer rails into one stack: Coinbase is positioning itself as the payments spine of the agentic economy before a standard settles.
The streak is the longest in months and BlackRock's IBIT keeps leading the bid, but the cumulative pace is roughly one-fifth of the October run-up, framing this as gradual institutional positioning…
Cory Klippsten's attack lands during Twenty One's public build-out, and frames the Tether-backed BTC treasury firm as influence infrastructure rather than a pure treasury play.
A Goldman analyst note flags a tail-risk path for Brent above $120 if Strait of Hormuz traffic stays disrupted, with the bank modelling an upside scenario through year-end rather than a base case.
Galaxy is leading the funding, but the lineup of backers matters more than the dollar figure: BlackRock, Coinbase and Strategy on the same cap table is the first credible institutional mandate to…
Coinbase Business is opening agentic payment acceptance to all clients one year in, framing the rail as a core growth bet rather than an experiment.
Seventeen major shutdowns and bankruptcies in the first stretch of 2026 carry a combined $8.9B in disclosed prior funding, a consolidation that is clearing out failed NFT venues alongside insolvent…
64% of asset managers now want to tokenize, up from 40% a year ago, and Broadridge is moving $370B of tokenized repo daily on Canton. The bull case is operational, not narrative.
The donation is one of the largest in UK political history and lands on a party whose leader has publicly pushed crypto adoption while its biggest backer is a major Tether shareholder.
A 187K print is not just a 56-year low, it lands before the BLS shutdown has resolved, leaving markets to digest a labor signal that looks anomalously strong on an old data series.
Seven Democrats with crypto-legislation experience publicly reject the GOP's revised ethics package, leaving Republicans well short of the 60 votes they need and exposing a fight over Trump's…
Built on Uniswap v4 with Securitize, Superstate and Dowgo, the framework pushes compliance into the AMM itself so regulated funds and equities can trade onchain without issuers losing eligibility…
Solomon's endorsement breaks with Dimon and other Wall Street CEOs fighting the bill's yield-bearing stablecoin provisions, and lands just as a possible Senate floor vote looms next week.
Cryptographic attestations are now table stakes, but full institutional trust still demands asset segregation, regulatory oversight, and insolvency protections layered on top.
The headline is the quantum flag, but the structural read is eight TradFi and crypto-native heavyweights publicly committing to fund Bitcoin's core security stack for the first time.