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The wind-down is the second protocol hit in the depegging of Main Street's msUSD, and it underlines how thin stablecoin liquidity can collapse into bank-run behavior in a weekend.
The Layer-2's bridge proof mechanism was compromised, putting more than $1M already drained and every remaining bridged position at risk until Taiko confirms a fix.
The numbers are wide, but the framework they share is what matters: each call prices ETH as the backbone of a tokenized-asset market rather than a standalone trade.
A single newly created address sized up $48M of 20x leverage shorts in one shot, the kind of concentrated bet that draws attention when it lands inside a single venue's liquidation stack.
A fresh wallet funded 4.24M USDC on the on-chain perp DEX and went long 500,000 oil contracts at 10x leverage, with a liquidation line at $71.50.
Roughly three in four registered EU crypto companies are expected to fail licensing by the summer deadline, with smaller apps forced onto licensed custody rails and millions of retail users facing…
Event contracts and 24/7 leveraged bets on CPI, Fed moves, and oil are outrunning the legal frameworks meant to define them — and that classification fight now decides whether US venues can host the…
The high-leverage trader reopens a short with a $64,717 liquidation line — the position is small relative to his earlier nine-figure bets but the size of the leverage is the same.
Prediction markets have already crossed $2B in World Cup volume before kickoff, and the early winners are now locking in — a signal of how fast sports is becoming crypto's go-to event-contract…
The unusual suit argues Kalshi's Bitcoin perps are "swaps" under Dodd-Frank, not futures — and that the CFTC rubber-stamped the listing without doing the legal analysis.
With $10B of Bitcoin options set to expire June 26 and 80% out of the money, derivatives are now setting spot prices — and the same shift is reshaping equities, prediction markets, and tokenized…
The same bot that once consumed 7% of Ethereum gas in a single day lost its working capital to an attacker who exploited a careless token approval — a reminder that MEV profit is one phishing-style…
The list captures post-TGE attention, not necessarily sustained demand — RE and O booked triple-digit gains the same week they debuted on the aggregator's rankings.
The bot credited with ~70% of Ethereum's sandwich attacks lost more to its own approval logic than the typical sandwich victim loses in a year — a cautionary flip for machine-speed traders on both…
The attacker converted the full haul to ETH and routed 1,000 of it through Tornado Cash within hours — a textbook MEV-operator exit and a reminder that the bots eating Ethereum's mempool aren't…
The 30% exposure of AlphaUSDC Delta V2 to the frozen market turns a single collateral venue's liquidity crisis into a broader DeFi contagion test, with $8M in USDC already deployed and a…
Encrypted balances hid the shortfall for a week — the real cost is the absent monitoring layer and a $770K recovery window Axelar has declined to act on.
If basic smart contract reviews drop from weeks-long engagements to on-demand calls, the standard of care shifts too — and skipping one could read as negligence.
The yes-or-no contracts won't be event-style like Kalshi or Polymarket, but they slot a top US brokerage directly into the same wagering lane — and signal TradFi is comfortable moving closer to…
Selig's Bankless remarks signal Washington may rewrite decades-old exchange rules to let 24/7 on-chain derivatives venues register in the US — if investor protections and disclosures are met.
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