Crypto Lost $972M to 207 Hacks in H1 2026, Signaling Industry
Immunefi logged 207 incidents, the highest count on record, yet total losses fell to $972M as DeFi exploit damage continued its multi-year reset from the $2.62B 2022 high.
Market-moving crypto headlines from the last 24 hours.
Immunefi logged 207 incidents, the highest count on record, yet total losses fell to $972M as DeFi exploit damage continued its multi-year reset from the $2.62B 2022 high.
The product puts Aave head-to-head with Morpho for the wallets, exchanges and payment apps turning stablecoin balances into savings products, a market that already runs $200M+ through Coinbase.
The product abstracts Aave markets, multi-chain routing, and custom ERC-4626 strategies behind a single interface, letting wallets and payment apps offer yield without touching DeFi rails.
The in-house silicon lands just as Meta races to control the per-token cost of its own generative-AI workloads and dent a multi-billion-dollar NVIDIA dependency.
The wrapper promises accumulation, but its own SEC filing warns it may have to sell HYPE into the stress moments, with monthly core-contributor unlocks roughly 44% of the facility's full buying power.
The shutdown cites MiCA, regulatory, financial and operational pressure, and a Coin Bureau report points to empty hot wallets, framing a full-balance recovery as uncertain for AscendEX users.
The migration is the latest signal that bridge security, not throughput, is the binding constraint for institutional tokenised assets, with Mantle alone moving $2.5B into the CCIP stack.
The resilience masks the real risk: a second consecutive day of US strikes pushed oil up 5.2% and revived the higher-for-longer inflation trade that dragged $BTC in June.
A typical American home that cost more than 50 BTC in 2020 now costs just 5, a collapse that reframes the last five years of supposed housing wealth as dollar debasement, not asset gain.
The pilot unites UBS, HSBC, Citi, Wells Fargo, BNP Paribas and BNY on a shared ledger for tokenized deposits, extending bank-controlled money into always-on settlement without ripping out existing…
Latin America's largest exchange now lets local traders hedge and trade volatility in BRL- and USD-denominated contracts that reference Nasdaq crypto indexes, with no on-platform token custody.
Glassnode says capitulation is the gate, not price: BTC's $58K→$64K bounce still sits below the True Market Mean and STH cost basis, while LTH loss-realization at $280M/day keeps a structural floor…
Bitcoin is up 9% since end-June and Nasdaq futures gained 2.6% in 24 hours even as CENTCOM hit 90 Iranian targets, the clearest read yet that markets are pricing geopolitics as a sideshow, not a…
The $400B state wealth fund is pulling capital toward AI at the same moment Singapore's regulator is tightening crypto oversight, a signal to other Asia-based institutional allocators watching the…
Connectia Trust joins a growing roster of federally chartered stablecoin issuers racing into a $312B market where USDT and USDC already hold ~80% of the float and new entrants must find a wedge.
The pilot doesn't replace correspondent banking; it wraps a 24/7 blockchain rail around existing settlement so 17 major banks can move tokenized deposits without rewriting compliance stacks.
A nearly 10% oil rally in three sessions, paired with hawkish Fed repricing, is forcing investors to decide whether the AI-chip bid can hold through a fresh geopolitical shock.
Two semiconductor listings worth a combined $28.8B are pulling global capital into AI infrastructure just as stablecoin market cap posted its largest monthly drop since TerraUSD.
A 21.6% slide in Binance's USDC balance over 30 days and $1B+ in net outflows strip the largest venue of the dry powder that absorbs selling pressure, leaving spot books more exposed to sudden moves.
The largest private bank in Russia joining Sberbank and Tinkoff in the custody queue signals that Moscow is positioning state-linked and major private lenders as the regulated gateway for client…