AscendEX Halts Withdrawals After ZachXBT Flags Drained Hot Wallets
A former top-10 CEX backed by Polychain and Hack VC went dark on July 1, the same day on-chain sleuth ZachXBT warned that public wallets had run dry on ETH, USDT and SOL.
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A former top-10 CEX backed by Polychain and Hack VC went dark on July 1, the same day on-chain sleuth ZachXBT warned that public wallets had run dry on ETH, USDT and SOL.
The flow tells two stories at once: stronger miners are borrowing against their coins to fund AI buildouts, while stressed peers are forced sellers.
Tokenization specialists Dinari and tZERO are bundling issuance, custody, clearing and settlement into one regulated stack, betting broker-dealers will move first on blockchain-based stocks.
A purpose-built chain for AI agents settling trades in under 50ms positions BNB to compete in the onchain-AI race where latency, not throughput, is the product.
A single job posting at Vanguard is a strategic signal: the $8T-plus retail platform hasn't offered crypto on its platform, and a dedicated headcount is the first operational step toward adviser-led…
The new chain will run alongside the existing BNB ecosystem rather than replace it, betting that execution-layer rewrites and a mempool-less design can close the gap to centralized exchange speeds…
A second L1 targeting sub-50ms preconfs, no public mempool, and 100K+ TPS reframes BNB Chain as a venue built for AI agents, not just human traders.
Only the third BTC sale in Strategy's history, and the first that meaningfully tests whether management will offload bitcoin to defend dollar liquidity rather than simply topline MSTR's stack.
A $1.5B debt repayment has hollowed out Strategy's reserve just as preferred dividends climb, forcing common shareholders to absorb the burden the paper was supposed to carry.
The signal is policy priority at the highest level, not new funding. Xi tying his agenda directly to AI and semiconductors reframes the next five years of US-China tech competition.
The disconnect is the story: a Hormuz-driven crude spike of more than 5% left BTC pinned inside its weeks-old range, but the calendar between the July 17 OFAC wind-down and the July 28-29 FOMC is…
Three whale cohorts have all resumed offloading, the funding rate flipped negative, and $0.150 is now the line deciding whether ADA revisits the $0.138 cycle low.
Bond markets had been pricing disinflation, but a New York Fed survey shows consumers expect 3.7% inflation over the next year, and renewed Middle East strikes just sent oil higher and risk assets…
India's central bank wants to bar regulated lenders from holding or trading any crypto, with privately issued stablecoins singled out as the spillover risk worth choking first.
The first EU-wide custody review since MiCA went live gives supervisors a live look at how asset-references and segregation rules are holding up in practice, before any templates harden into binding…
EIA forecasts electricity consumption climbing to 4,399 billion kWh by 2027, with commercial demand overtaking residential for the first time.
The $350M altcoin liquidation tally and the wipeout of Solana's July rally tell the more painful side of the story, while DXY's inflation-hedge bid is the macro tell every crypto desk is reading.
The supply contraction on the most-used stablecoin network is a real liquidity signal, but the offsetting Binance balance build suggests the USDT float is rotating venues, not leaving the market.
Geopolitical risk is back in the driving seat: Trump's decision to scrap the Iran memorandum pulled BTC below a key support level and revived the safe-haven bid in oil and gold.
A full-bilateral severance with a NATO ally would be the most aggressive trade move of the second Trump term and risks widening the tariff war into a transatlantic rupture.