Digital assets, cryptocurrencies, blockchain, and currency news.
Key Highlights: MARA transferred more than 2,600 BTC to institutional platforms within a four-week span, including an October 8–9 transfer of 996.105 BTC worth roughly $81.13 million to a Galaxy Digital-affiliated wallet. The company’s treasury reserves dropped from 53,822 BTC at the end of 2025 to 35,577 BTC by June 30, 2026, driven by first-half ...
Key Highlights: Cybersecurity findings have exposed trastwallet.cam, a fraudulent domain that mimics Trust Wallet and deploys scripts targeting Trust Wallet, Phantom, and OKX users. The site relies on a backend API to scan connected wallet balances and stage outgoing transfers to scammer-controlled addresses, though transaction signing was temporarily disabled at the time of discovery. Security ...
Key Highlights: Arkham has introduced a frozen assets tracking feature supporting three major stablecoins: $USDC, $USDT, and USDT0, with plans to expand token coverage in the future. Using the entity labeled “Binance Hacker” as a live demonstration, the tool reveals that approximately $2.6 billion of the entity’s roughly $5.8 billion in total digital assets is ...
Key Highlights: Jupiter generated $17 million in Q3 revenue—a 12% quarterly increase—bolstered by an 88% surge in swap fees totaling $8.85 million, despite a sequential dip in total volume. Jupiter’s market share of Solana decentralized exchange (DEX) aggregation slipped from 71% to 65% across Q3, hitting an all-time low of 59% in October. Competitor DFlow ...
Key Highlights: Aptos features institutional integrations including BlackRock’s BUIDL, Franklin Templeton’s BENJI, and Aave’s first non-EVM deployment supporting USDC and USDT. Despite stablecoin capitalization falling from an October 2025 peak of $1.49 billion to approximately $773 million by early November 2026, cross-border payment partnerships with Bitso and Yellow Card drove over $15 billion in 30-day ...
Key Highlights A compromised DevOps engineer’s laptop triggered unauthorized hot wallet withdrawals at Binance, leading to approximately $3 billion in frozen funds. Security firm Blockaid detected unusual outflows in under two minutes and traced the attack mechanism to malicious Ethereum EIP-7702 delegations. Blockaid CEO Ido Ben-Natan identified the incident as a hijacking of signing infrastructure ...
Key Highlights SAC has introduced a $1.5 billion investment model pairing income-generating hospitality and branded residential real estate with a managed Bitcoin reserve. Coinbase Asset Management will serve as the exclusive institutional manager for the firm’s Bitcoin reserves, supporting its phased acquisition and managed yield framework. Founded by Sakhib Waseem, Adam Ali, and Mason Borda, ...
Key Highlights: Bitcoin Improvement Proposal 54 (BIP-54), known as the Great Consensus Cleanup, addresses four long-standing network vulnerabilities including time-warp exploits and poison blocks. Co-author Matt Corallo estimates an 80% likelihood that BIP-54 will become Bitcoin’s first consensus soft fork since the Taproot activation in November 2021. Major mining pools MARA Pool and ViaBTC have ...
Key Highlights Prometheum co-CEO Aaron Kaplan emphasizes that the digital asset sector’s future depends on leveraging existing federal securities frameworks rather than waiting for congressional action. The $GENIUS Act, enacted with bipartisan backing in 2025, establishes federal reserve and oversight standards for payment stablecoins, taking effect on January 18. Without comprehensive statutory overhauls from Congress, ...
Key Highlights BlackRock Head of Digital Assets Robert Mitchnick stated that election outcomes would not significantly disrupt the firm’s crypto product launches or asset inflows. Mitchnick highlighted that Bitcoin and Ether already benefit from sufficient regulatory clarity for investment vehicles, even as comprehensive federal legislation stalls on Capitol Hill. While shifting congressional control poses hurdles ...
Key Highlights: Binance Co-CEO Richard Teng revealed that a multi-stage, months-long breach led to the hot-wallet exploit, refuting claims of a single point of failure. Attackers leveraged a compromised Homebrew download in June and a fake job recruitment scheme containing hidden malware in September to infiltrate wallet authorization systems. Binance has covered customer losses, replenished ...
Key Highlights: American Bitcoin swung from a $57.2 million net loss in Q2 to a net income of approximately $126 million in Q3 2026, driven by a $197.34 million gain on digital assets. Satoshis Per Share rose by roughly 5% to 11,572, even as mining margins narrowed to approximately 41% due to elevated seasonal power ...