Circle frees $230M in stolen USDC while freezing Drift users
The contradiction cuts to the heart of stablecoin governance: when an issuer can freeze funds, who decides whose funds get frozen, and on what timeline?
The contradiction cuts to the heart of stablecoin governance: when an issuer can freeze funds, who decides whose funds get frozen, and on what timeline?
The $1.8B scheme ran 2020-2022 on fake 0.5%-1% daily mining returns — and lands one week after the FBI reported record $11.4B in crypto fraud losses for 2025.
The on-chain trail is live: a known exploit wallet converted stablecoin proceeds into ETH at $1,764 average and is actively mixing through Tornado Cash, making recovery increasingly unlikely.
Crypto's biggest hacks are no longer coming from smart-contract bugs — they're coming from operational and human…
India moved to ban Pavel Durov's Telegram platform this week, sending GRAM and the broader Indian crypto market into a…
India's Directorate of Enforcement (ED) filed a prosecution complaint against Chirag Tomar and seven other individuals…
Beyond the arrests, the case exposes how USDT has become the rail of choice for Asian organized-crime proceeds — and why Seoul is now actively pursuing offshore laundering infrastructure.
Binance Research said April DeFi exploits triggered roughly $13 billion in outflows, sharply compressing total value…
Bitcoin's correction into the $60,000 zone has drawn buyers back across multiple wallet cohorts, according to…
Bitcoin held the top spot on CryptoRank's most-visited tokens list this week, anchoring a traffic ranking that doubled…
The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) has explicitly prohibited virtual asset service providers (VASPs) from listing or…
A single on-chain wallet has converted 28 million $SIREN into $USDT over the past 24 hours, then routed 25.7 million of…
The headline 7M figure is split between 1.7M legacy Satoshi-era P2PK coins and 5M reused-key BTC, and it's the second bucket — held by active users and major exchange cold wallets — that the report…
A wallet flagged as the original $SIREN whale has now flipped to heavy distribution, harvesting more than 7.5M $USDT…
Quantstamp's investigation into the June 8 Humanity Protocol H token incident is public, and the firm's findings point…
The drainer did not exploit a contract bug — it exploited user signing habits. The reminder list is unsexy, which is exactly why it keeps working.
A wallet linked to Chun Wang, known on X as @satofishi, withdrew an additional 15,740 ETH worth approximately $26.4…
The U.S. Department of Justice has charged two individuals in connection with a $389 million cryptocurrency laundering…
The funds came from a legacy AMM V3 program Raydium phased out in 2021 — no current UI users were exposed, but the exploit shows aged on-chain program surfaces remain a live attack surface.
The vulnerability sat in a deprecated pool program, not the live mainnet — but the attack shows how legacy Solana AMM code keeps paying out years after the protocol moved on.