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Liam 'Akiba' Wright

Editor-in-Chief • CryptoSlate
Also known as "Akiba," Liam Wright is the Editor-in-Chief at CryptoSlate and host of the SlateCast. He believes that together decentralized blockchain and AI technology have the potential to make widespread positive change.
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Author Stats

  • Total Articles 2,831
  • Since Mar 2022
  • Last Active Sep 10, 2026
  • Primary Beat Bitcoin
Featured Article Punk collage of a hand holding an XRP Ledger card before BIS architecture, showing one transaction serving many datasets.
Research

BIS shows why real institutional adoption on XRP Ledger won’t trigger the XRP supply squeeze holders expect

5 min read Sep 3, 2026
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Electric-colored editorial collage showing a suited executive running inside a giant CoreWeave-branded industrial wheel, surrounded by data-center servers, construction cranes, cash stacks, and a falling market line.
AI

The brutal $346M math behind Galaxy’s high-stakes race to build CoreWeave’s Texas AI mega-center

Phase II handovers are expected to begin in 2027 as the project company takes on fixed cash costs.

2 min read Jul 26, 2026
Cracked Bitcoin coin breaking apart above a classical stone column, linked to a heavy chain and surrounded by orange, magenta, black, and torn financial chart textures.
Digital Asset Treasuries

Why two public companies quietly liquidated 511 Bitcoin in 24 hours to escape $31.7 million in debt

Voluntary sales removed KULR’s collateral risk and Smarter Web’s near-term maturity and 7.7 million potential shares.

3 min read Jul 26, 2026
A hand holds a Samsung Wallet phone containing a glowing pathway, with torn-paper evidence labels for issuer, network, custody, and regulation beside market and city imagery.
Stablecoins

Samsung Wallet is getting native stablecoins – and it could make one token the default for 800M users

Issuer, chain, custody, redemption, market and launch choices will determine whether Wallet becomes a native transaction route or a narrower integration.

6 min read Jul 25, 2026
AFX and Verus lose $31.69M in back-to-back bridge failures
Outage

Two Ethereum bridges lose $31.7M within hours as third protocol halts staking

About $31.69M in combined bridge losses and B²'s July 22 staking suspension reveal three distinct control failures.

3 min read Jul 25, 2026
Cracked Bitcoin piggy bank floats in rough water while opposing ropes and rising and falling market charts pull it between survival and decline.
Digital Asset Treasuries

Strategy now publishes the Bitcoin return threshold below which it may have to restructure

Strategy’s -11.34% BTC Floor ARR models whether its $18.993 billion obligation base remains covered through a multiyear Bitcoin decline.

4 min read Jul 24, 2026
High-contrast acid-green editorial montage showing a hooded figure at a Steam-branded laptop, with malware-infected game tiles, an Uber Eats courier, a Bitrefill crypto gift card, FBI insignia, and handcuffs.
Crime

FBI used Google cookies, 500 food orders and a Monero seed phrase to identify Steam malware funder

Investigators linked a campaign wallet to Bitrefill, Google, Uber and telecom records before a search uncovered separate Monero activity.

4 min read Jul 24, 2026
Mixed-media collage showing a massive BlackRock IBIT boulder crushing a fractured Bitcoin token, surrounded by declining charts and financial architecture.
ETF

BlackRock’s IBIT accounted for 90% of a $225 million Bitcoin ETF reversal after a seven-day buying streak

The reversal erased 22.5% of the preceding $999.3 million inflow streak, while Bitcoin ended the session below $65,000.

3 min read Jul 24, 2026
Acid-green editorial collage showing five signature fragments beside a shattered padlock revealing a glowing Zilliqa-shaped private key, with a chained transaction gate in the background.
Wallets

A 7 year Ledger bug lets attackers rebuild a private key from five signatures in seconds

The network has suspended native transactions while it develops a migration process designed to stop attackers with reconstructed private keys from front-running affected users.

3 min read Jul 24, 2026
Mixed-media editorial image of a crypto holder standing outside a suburban home with a Bitcoin symbol on his back as masked intruders close in from both sides.
Crime

Crypto home invasions jump 20x as wrench-attack exposure hits $124 million

CertiK recorded roughly $124.1 million in losses and ransom demands in H1 2026, a measure of exposure rather than criminal profit.

3 min read Jul 24, 2026
Editorial collage showing a cracked Bitcoin wallet transformed into a reservoir above three filtering baskets, with red liquid draining toward a crowd between courthouse and Texas mining-site fragments.
Mining

Bitcoin mining giant Poolin files for bankruptcy owing 11,700 users $164 million

The signed offers equal 31.8% of wallet IOUs only in gross arithmetic, before estate boundaries, liens and bankruptcy costs.

6 min read Jul 24, 2026
Editorial collage showing orange Bitcoin-like liquidity pouring from a distressed industrial storage tank while investors watch, symbolizing Smarter Web’s Bitcoin sale and shrinking treasury exposure.
Digital Asset Treasuries

Bitcoin treasury company erases 7.7M shares after selling 177 BTC – yet Bitcoin per share fell

The $11.7 million convert vanished, leaving a simpler capital stack and a tougher test for replacement funding.

7 min read Jul 23, 2026
Gritty editorial collage showing a silhouetted man facing an illuminated filing cabinet filled with records, beside a large U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission seal on a distressed blue background.
Regulation

SEC pays $150,000 as Coinbase-backed Freedom Of Information Act settlement releases two withheld documents

Reported terms include releasing two withheld documents and reviewing records and text-message controls after the Gensler-era losses.

2 min read Jul 23, 2026
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