Trading
Hacks
3-year-old bug triggers $1.3 million drain and forces 10-day blockchain halt
The Radix flaw survived an external audit, potentially exposed every vault on the network and was traced to a routine 2023 code refactor.
Legal
US sanctions Iranian crypto exchange and its software developer over alleged IRGC Bitcoin transfers
Treasury says BitBank moved hundreds of millions of dollars in Bitcoin while its developer sat inside Babak Zanjani’s wider network.
Technology
XRPL tries to mathematically prove its new lending market cannot be drained
Common Prefix is using Lean 4 to verify XRPL’s native lending system after earlier proofs uncovered bugs conventional testing missed.
Lending
Hyperliquid opens native lending as HYPE hits new ATH above $90
The rollout gives traders access to more than $400 million of supplied liquidity while expanding HyperCore beyond trading.
Wallets
Your crypto hardware wallet can stay secure while everything around it fails
D’CENT and Trezor incidents show how software, recovery phrases and customer data can expose crypto funds without breaching the device itself.
Hacks
Blockchain malware activity jumps 440% as AI lowers the barrier for North Korea and Iran-linked hackers
Chainalysis linked the surge in malicious on-chain writes partly to powerful open-weight AI models that made dead-drop infrastructure easier to build.
Technology
From Kaiko to OpenZeppelin, S&P Global is quietly preparing for markets that never close
OpenZeppelin adds smart-contract security to a strategy already covering Kaiko market data and blockchain-ready benchmarks.
Tokenization
After Congress killed its landmark crypto bill, the SEC unlocked the $77 trillion US stock market through tokenization
Tokenized equities have reached $3.2 billion in value and $15.75 billion in monthly DEX volume as regulators open an onshore pathway.
Layer-2
Optimism just approved the upgrade its Superchain needs before interoperability can go live
Four OP Stack testnets are moving first, while mainnet remains conditional on a healthy seven-day soak.
Technology
Stellar activates Protocol 28 as network hits record throughput and RWA value climbs
The upgrade targets contract maintenance and scaling as Stellar’s stablecoin, DeFi and tokenized-asset activity continues to grow.
Taxes
Crypto’s first big tax win comes with a catch for stakers and everyday payments
The House package offers new safe harbors and compliance relief, but industry groups say lawmakers still need to address reward timing and small transactions.
Hacks
Hacker turned 55 days of failed transactions into a $3 million master key that drained GalaChain wallets
The attacker arrived with 74 replayable signatures, mapped balances and an automated submission engine before Gala paused its bridge.
