DeFi hacks cost 8,500% more per dollar than TradFi in 2025
Raw dollar losses look similar — roughly $2.6B in TradFi and $2.8B in DeFi in 2025 — but volume-adjusted, DeFi loses at an 86x higher rate, and the marketing damage may outlast the math.
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Raw dollar losses look similar — roughly $2.6B in TradFi and $2.8B in DeFi in 2025 — but volume-adjusted, DeFi loses at an 86x higher rate, and the marketing damage may outlast the math.
Spot Bitcoin ETF holders absorbed a $1.32B March inflow reversal and $2.42B in April additions while Bitcoin fell to $78K, and the 99.5% retention rate on a 20% drop points to a structurally…
Litecoin executed a chain reorganization covering more than three hours of transaction history to neutralize its first…
The $404K Maduro contract trade is the proof-of-concept the CFTC needed to assert that event contracts sit inside its antifraud perimeter — the first Eddie Murphy Rule case of its kind.
The CFTC has filed suit against New York, marking the fourth state the agency has sued in just three weeks in an…
The US government has sanctioned a network of Iran-linked crypto wallets, including addresses holding $344 million in…
Tennessee has become the latest US state to ban crypto ATMs statewide, joining Indiana in a growing wave of state-level…
Fluent has launched its Ethereum Layer 2 mainnet, debuting alongside its native BLEND token and a native stablecoin…
Wisconsin's Department of Justice has filed suit against five major trading and prediction-market platforms — Kalshi…
Spot bitcoin ETFs pulled in $223.2 million in net inflows on Thursday alone, with BlackRock's IBIT accounting for…
Two months of steady long accumulation on the leading on-chain perps venue reads less like a tactical scalp and more like whales positioning for a structural breakout.
The breakout above the True Market Mean is real, but the Short-Term Holder Cost Basis at $80.1K is now the ceiling that decides whether the squeeze fires or the rally stalls.
Eight consecutive net-positive sessions — not the $2.1B headline — are the structural signal: BTC climbed 12% from $68K to $77K on a bid that did not blink once.
More than half of this year's IDO tokens are down 99% or worse, and the lone survivor is barely positive — a survival rate that turns initial DEX offerings into a near-pure-lottery allocation.
The first neutral Fear & Greed reading in months lines up with a fresh Nasdaq ATH and a Bitcoin that refuses to break below $78K — risk appetite is thawing across both books.
The flows are the structural story — five straight sessions of net inflows came in even as the Fear & Greed index still reads 33, a divergence that historically resolves with the flows, not the index.
The token topped CryptoRank's most-searched list after the 24-hour crash, with the two exchanges citing abnormal activity around last week's pump.
Whales pulled billions within hours of the exploit, instantly draining liquidity across ETH, USDT and USDC markets — a bank-run-style unwind of the largest DeFi lending venue.
The Strategy founder argues bi-weekly dividend cycles on Bitcoin-backed credit can compress volatility and open high-yield accounts to a billion people — with $10M BTC as the destination.
US spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded $1.9 billion in net inflows over the past seven days, with BlackRock's IBIT leading the…