Polymarket whale nets $1.35M on 10-hour Spain World Cup bet
A fresh wallet staked $1.95M on Spain at 59.1% implied odds and closed in hours. The trade reads less like sports betting than a clean liquidity probe.
A fresh wallet staked $1.95M on Spain at 59.1% implied odds and closed in hours. The trade reads less like sports betting than a clean liquidity probe.
The rapper-turned-streak-bettor picks the wrong side of a Spain-vs-Argentina final; the loss lands as another chapter in his long-running public wagering saga.
The campaign weaponises USB shortcuts, clipboard monitoring, and Tor to drain wallets, with an Uber Eats delivery breadcrumb hinting at how far the operators are willing to mass-pollute endpoints.
The campaign abuses developer trust, posing as legitimate projects to slip infostealers past crypto investors who download what looks like routine open-source tooling.
The 21-year-old allegedly hid credential and wallet-draining malware inside five Steam titles, infecting about 8,000 machines and draining roughly $220,000 before agents traced crypto payouts to Uber…
A single wallet opened a $CASHCAT short two days ago and is now up $529K on paper, a reminder that memecoin perps still reward whoever gets direction right first.
The 22-year sentence and 1,500-victim count underscore how aggressively Taiwanese courts are pursuing domestic crypto fraud cases tied to local exchange brands.
The takedown highlights how fake-authority impersonation remains a profitable retail fraud vector, and gives UK law enforcement a fresh courtroom template for crypto-native cases.
The wallet converted 405 ETH into 5.04M CASHCAT at roughly $0.149 per token; that stack is now worth around $290K, a clean case study in memecoin entry timing.
The eight-shell structure and bank-to-exchange routing alleged in Wiener’s indictment match the textbook signaling pattern federal prosecutors have been flagging in crypto fraud cases since 2023.
Chainalysis puts AI-assisted scam revenue at 4.5x non-AI operations; the FBI logged $20.9B in 2025 cybercrime losses with crypto the top payment rail.
The argument reframes the threat: Bybit lost $1.5B and Radiant $50M not because keys leaked, but because valid signatures authorized the wrong thing, a gap ERC-7730 and policy wallets are now trying…
A wallet untouched since 2017 just shifted $382M of BTC to a fresh address, up 284% on entry; the move signals rotation, not sale, with coins still parked on-chain.
The paper identified 821 likely manipulators netting $8.2M from five-minute BTC contracts, with the cost falling on retail traders who traded against the spoofed prints.
The onchain investigator argues current hardware wallets aren't fit for signing critical transactions or storing large balances, and floated a dedicated iPhone as a stronger alternative.
The DOJ's newest darknet-fentanyl case hits a small ring, but it keeps crypto rails squarely inside the trafficking conversation Washington is already using to pressure exchanges and mixers.
The attack fits a wider pattern: South Korea's retail-trading forums have turned violent before, and the gap between social-media financial advice and personal accountability keeps narrowing.
Tether had put $800M into Heka's arbitrage strategy and waived minting fees, a relationship that only became public when Circle's arbitration filing unsealed it in Boston federal court.
A single wallet turned 1.6 ETH into 1,527 ETH on a memecoin exit, the kind of outlier return that defines memecoin rotation rather than rewards it.
A nine-figure unlock hitting 121 wallets is the kind of supply event memecoins rarely absorb cleanly, and the on-chain footprint of the recipients is now the only filter that matters.