Circle USDC lands in South Korea via Kakao and Toss Bank deals
Two of Korea's biggest consumer-finance names signing on for stablecoin rails is a legitimacy beat for $USDC in Asia's most-watched retail payments market.
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Two of Korea's biggest consumer-finance names signing on for stablecoin rails is a legitimacy beat for $USDC in Asia's most-watched retail payments market.
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The macro overhang is piling up on BTC while a fresh $24M bridge exploit and a stablecoin collapse remind the market that idiosyncratic risk hasn't gone anywhere.
The first time a top Korean financial conglomerate has grabbed a controlling stake in a domestic crypto venue signals that the country's trillion-dollar retail market is now too big for traditional…
The pattern is the story: four protocols fell in 24 hours to the same failure mode, compromised keys and permissions, not broken cryptography, and AI tooling is now lowering the cost of finding those…
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The deal marks one of South Korea's largest traditional financial institutions planting a full-scale flag in domestic crypto infrastructure, with a stake increase to 97.15% expected before the week…
The Arbitrum bridge itself held, but five hot-validator signatures cleared the quorum on a third-party bridge and let the attacker walk away with the protocol's entire TVL.
Five-week accumulation by wallets holding 100K-100M XRP has lifted the token back above $1.16, with the historical pattern that large hands lead and retail lags historically aligning with further…
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Blockaid flags the loss to a third-party bridge, not Arbitrum's native one, and Offchain Labs says the core bridge is unaffected while it investigates.
The attacker bridged the stolen stablecoin to Ethereum and swapped into 12,467 ETH before the team could respond, a textbook cross-chain drain pattern.
The holdouts are still publicly committed to getting a bill passed, but the gaps they flagged map directly onto provisions that have stalled prior crypto legislation.
The compromise bans federal officials, including the president, from issuing or sponsoring digital assets, but enforcement runs through the DOJ, which is exactly the part Democrats say makes the…