Truebit token falls 99.9% after $26.6M ether reserve drain

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…

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…

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…

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…

BNB Chain’s 2025 upgrades cut fees 98% as users hit 4.8m

BNB Chain’s 2025 story shows clear changes that touched users, traders and builders each day. The network ran two major hard forks, Lorentz in April and Maxwell in June. Both upgrades aimed at faster execution and lower costs, based on…

SEC Democratic commissioner Caroline Crenshaw to leave role

When SEC Democratic commissioner leaves, the move is more than a quiet staff change in Washington; it comes at a decisive moment for crypto regulation in the United States. Caroline Crenshaw, the sole Democrat on the Securities and Exchange Commission…

Can US Crypto Regulation Move Stablecoins Into Finance?

US Crypto Regulation entered a new phase in 2025, when lawmakers finally moved from vague guidance to a concrete rulebook that targeted stablecoins, market structure, and exchange-traded products. For years, the United States relied on enforcement and speeches, while capital…

Is China Turning Its Digital Yuan Into An Interest Asset?

China’s central bank digital currency entered a new phase on 1 January 2026. On that date, digital yuan wallets started to earn interest at standard demand deposit rates. The shift turned what had once been treated as pure digital cash…