Truebit token suffered a sudden collapse on Thursday after an exploit drained about 8,535 ETH from protocol reserves, worth roughly $26.6 million. Onchain trackers and independent researchers tied the loss to repeated buy-and-sell loops that pulled ether out of the…
Are Spot Bitcoin ETFs down $1.1B in three days in 2026?
Spot Bitcoin ETFs opened 2026 with fast-moving flows that shifted from a strong inflow day to a three-day stretch of heavy redemptions through January 8. Over those three trading days, U.S. products shed roughly $1.1 billion, a move that nearly…
Ripple FCA UK approval for local unit payments with limits
Ripple FCA UK approval puts Ripple Markets UK on the FCA register with an Electronic Money Institution registration and a listing under the UK Money Laundering Regulations. The move gives Ripple a regulated base in London while the UK builds…
Stablecoin firm Rain raises $250 million at $1.95B value today
Stablecoin firm Rain said on Friday that it raised $250 million in a Series C round led by ICONIQ, which valued the company at $1.95 billion. The announcement lands as more investors, consumers, and financial firms push deeper into digital-asset…
Barclays buys stake in Ubyx stablecoin settlement firm today
Barclays bought a stake in U.S. stablecoin-settlement company Ubyx on Wednesday, January 7, 2026, and marked its first investment in a business focused on stablecoins. Barclays linked the move to its plan to explore “new forms of digital money” and…
Was Crypto Theft of 35 Million Linked to LastPass Breach?
Crypto Theft tied to the LastPass breach has moved from a one-time shock to a long-tail drain. TRM Labs reports that investigators traced about $35 million in stolen cryptocurrency to Russian cybercriminal infrastructure. The trail shows how attackers moved assets…
BTCturk hack drains $48 million from Turkey crypto market
Turkey’s largest cryptocurrency trading platform, BTCturk, entered 2026 under heavy scrutiny. A new hack drained about $48 million from its hot wallets. The incident marked the third major security failure at the exchange in less than two years. Many Turkish…
Spot crypto ETF trading volume reaches $2 trillion level
U.S. regulators and asset managers have turned spot crypto ETF trading into a core channel for institutional access to digital assets. In less than two years since the first spot Bitcoin ETFs launched in January 2024, U.S. products have already…
Bitfinex hacker Ilya Lichtenstein credits Trump for release
Bitfinex hacker Ilya Lichtenstein has re-entered public life after announcing that he left prison early, a little over a year into a five-year sentence for his role in the 2016 Bitfinex breach. In a post shared on X, he said…
Did ZachXBT uncover an EVM hack hitting many wallets?
Less than a day into the new year, blockchain investigator ZachXBT warned that a fresh exploit was quietly draining small balances from hundreds of cryptocurrency wallets across Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) networks. His early alert turned scattered user complaints into…