Key Highlights $NEAR intercepted and is holding $503,000 linked to the Bitget breach. The incident highlights a growing divide over whether cross-chain infrastructure should screen suspected stolen funds. No public release authority or remedy for wrongly flagged users has been identified. $NEAR’s Bitget screening decision challenges crypto’s permissionless model Shevchenko positioned the blocked $503,000 against ...
Key Highlights A packed schedule of token unlocks spans September 28 through October 4, 2026, with DoubleZero (2Z) releasing 46.78% of its market value—the largest proportional unlock of the week. Major unlocks from Bitway (BTW) and Ethena (ENA) each exceed $25 million in absolute value, while Bitcoin gained approximately 3.90% last week despite macro headwinds ...
Key Highlights Circle and Tether froze approximately $320,000 in USDC and USDT stablecoins linked to the Bitget exchange hack, leveraging built-in blacklist controls. The attacker moved roughly 54 million XRP from the original five holding wallets overnight, reducing the balance from 70 million to 49 million tokens in eight hours. XRP traded near $1.54 on ...
Key Highlights Circle and Tether froze approximately $318,000 in stablecoins (218,023 USDT and 99,990 USDC) held in a wallet labeled “Bitget Exploiter 8” on Etherscan, linked to Thursday’s $351.6 million Bitget exchange hack. The frozen assets represent a small fraction of the total haul; blockchain analytics firm MistTrack confirms other exploiter addresses still hold over ...
Key Highlights Bitget exchange detected unauthorized transfers from hot wallets at 18:31 UTC on September 24, with the breach extending to the warm-wallet layer. Loss containment is confirmed and no further unauthorized transfers are possible, though the specific intrusion method remains under active investigation. A full technical report will be released once the investigation is ...
Key Highlights On-chain data indicates a potential exploit at cryptocurrency exchange Bitget, with over $170 million in assets moved from three hot wallets and one cold wallet across multiple networks, primarily converted to Ethereum ($ETH). An attacker address on Arbitrum acquired 7,111 $ETH in six minutes using approximately 19.67 million USDT0 via UniswapX and 1inch ...