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An attacker allegedly pushed Tectonic’s thinly traded TONIC token up 100-fold, used it as collateral to borrow real assets and left most funds stranded when Cronos validators paused the network.
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BTC remains August's best-performing asset after the latest escalation in geopolitical tensions.
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Crypto.com CEO Kris Marszalek said the company’s app and exchange were unaffected by the Tectonic breach and continued operating normally.
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Bitcoin moves toward a post quantum future, Solana validators agree to curb rampant inflation and the bull case from Bernstein is for Bitcoin to peak at $500K this cycle.
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Michael Saylor’s “We’re Back” post hints Strategy may resume Bitcoin buying after a two-month pause to strengthen its balance sheet.
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Bitcoin rebounds from Friday’s low as Strategy’s valuation expands and bitcoin dominance climbs above 60%.
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Finance has spent centuries decoupling wealth from physical transport, but constantly erasing friction creates vectors for increasingly high-tech exploits.
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As bitcoin surges back above $80,000, sophisticated trading firms are quietly collecting yield rather than making directional bet.
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Russia’s largest bank, Sber, plans to accept USDT and Ether alongside Bitcoin as loan collateral as the country introduces regulated crypto trading under a new law.
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Trump-linked Real Trump Coins said it never authorized GOLD or any digital token as questions persisted over its X account, associated domains and the concentrated token supply.
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The exploit caused the neobank's AVICI token to drop 49% from a 24-hour high, hitting a record low before paring some of the losses.
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The vulnerabilities posed denial-of-service and validator resource risks but were patched before Polygon publicly disclosed them.
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Stellar’s real-world asset market has expanded rapidly this year as institutional adoption and tokenization activity grow across the network.
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Tokenized equities saw a sharp rise in onchain activity as active addresses and holders more than doubled over the past month.
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AI agents are coming. They will need to pay each other. Crypto executives agree on the problem but disagree sharply on the solution, and one thinks the answer has not been invented yet.
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Crypto executives say new blockchain payment infrastructure could make Swift obsolete. Bankers say its 11,500-institution network gives it the power to absorb the technology instead.
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A new survey suggests some of bitcoin's most familiar sales pitches of changing the world may be poorly suited to a majority of prospective buyers.
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When you strip out what was never mobile, correct for who's holding what and why, add back what works off-contract, the utilization of tokenized assets looks close to 20%, argues Katana’s Matthew Fisher.
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