If confirmed, the rare domestic enforcement action against Pyongyang's financial-crime apparatus signals a tactical recalibration, not a policy turn, on overseas crypto theft.
The transaction ban hits Aug 23, but the bigger structural signal is new Brussels authority to sweep in entire third-country crypto sectors if platforms there keep aiding sanctions evasion.
Project-linked wallets have now moved $172M of TRUMP over five months while the token is down 66% from its January peak, and Polymarket traders give a fourth-term repeal just a 4% chance.
Pyongyang's own intelligence agency detained former military hackers accused of raiding state banks and cashing out through cross-border OTC desks, an unusual insider crackdown inside a regime that…
The $31.7M drained from two bridges is the headline; the third protocol pulling staking is the broader signal that DeFi is treating post-exploit contagion as the real threat.
The case reads as a tradecraft exhibit: Google cookies, 500 food deliveries and a leaked Monero seed collapsed the anonymity the malware was sold to protect.
A seven-year-old flaw in XRP Ledger's signature library would have let an attacker derive a private key from as few as five signed transactions, putting wallets at risk before maintainers patched it.
The locked-token raise comes as the Altman-backed project pivots from network growth to enterprise integration, betting biometric verification becomes essential infrastructure as bots and deepfakes…
Criminals are targeting the people behind private keys, making personal safety and access controls central to crypto risk management.
The complaint alleges BitMEX operated a hidden desk that traded against users and froze servers during volatility to trigger liquidations, with plaintiffs seeking return of roughly 623 BTC.
Once the largest mining pool on the Bitcoin network with 18-20% of global hashrate, Poolin now owes creditors roughly $173M while a single $52M offer for its West Texas sites is the main recovery on…
The 622.66 BTC ($40.7M) plaintiffs cite is the headline number, but the allegations of an internal desk trading on frozen-server data and collateral siphoned to an insurance fund cut at trust in…
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 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.
Active RWA use in DeFi has bounced back to roughly $3.77B, close to pre-April levels, but the recovery masks thin depth: private credit and a handful of CLO products still dominate.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation argues the bill would build a surveillance and censorship regime that threatens privacy and free expression well beyond its stated child-safety remit.
A near-3% real yield on US 30-year TIPS sets up the stiffest opportunity-cost rival bitcoin has faced, even as spot BTC ETFs keep pulling in roughly $1B a week.
The same failure mode that hit Verus before just cost users another seven-figure sum across ETH, USDC, USDT, tBTC and three more reserve assets, raising fresh questions about bridge security.
A second attacker drained the bridge using the identical contract and entry path as the May exploit, meaning the patch either shipped late or did not actually close the vulnerability class.
The macro overhang is piling up on BTC while a fresh $24M bridge exploit and a stablecoin collapse remind the market that idiosyncratic risk hasn't gone anywhere.
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