One Hacking Unit Just Stole $578M From DeFi in 18 Days
North Korea's TraderTraitor subgroup hit Drift on April 1 and KelpDAO on April 18. One attack used a fake quant firm. The other poisoned bridge infrastructure. Different tactics, same wallet.
North Korea's TraderTraitor subgroup hit Drift on April 1 and KelpDAO on April 18. One attack used a fake quant firm. The other poisoned bridge infrastructure. Different tactics, same wallet.
A Bitcoin developer wants to fork the chain in August, copy Satoshi Nakamoto's wallet history onto a new network, and hand 500,000 of those coins to people who pay for them now. Jameson Lopp called it outrage marketing. Sztorc says it's a matter of life or death for Bitcoin.
On April 29, Vitalik Buterin offloaded 40 million ASTEROID OG tokens that had been sent to his wallet without permission. The token went up 120% after the sale. The pattern that used to crash memecoins is now powering them.
A new Bitget Wallet and Polymarket report shows monthly prediction market volume hit $25.7 billion in March, up from $1.9 billion a year earlier. Retail users drove over 80% of the activity, and the average user is now active four times more often than they were three months ago.
ZachXBT flagged six attacker wallets funded through Tornado Cash. A minting flaw in KelpDAO's rsETH token left Aave V3 holding bad debt, sending the AAVE token down 10-13%.
Dropped lawsuits, new ETFs, a token taxonomy, and a joint framework with the CFTC. Paul Atkins delivered almost everything the crypto industry asked for. But prediction markets just landed on his desk as an unresolved jurisdictional fight.
A gunman posed as a delivery driver and invaded a family home near Montpellier. It is the latest in 41 crypto-linked kidnappings reported in France this year alone. Data leaks, tax office insiders, and a lack of convictions are fueling the surge.
Attorney General Letitia James wants triple damages, customer restitution, and a ban on under-21 wagering. Coinbase stock fell 6% as the lawsuit landed.
Justin Sun put $75M into WLFI and became its biggest early backer. He claims the team secretly added a blacklist function, froze his tokens, and threatened to burn them. The complaint uses the word extortion.
The attacker moved nearly all stolen ETH into Bitcoin in roughly a day and a half, while Arbitrum scrambled to freeze a smaller portion of the funds on its own network.
The FTX estate liquidated a 5% stake in an AI coding startup for the exact price it was bought. This week that same stake would be worth roughly fifteen thousand times more.
A White House adviser said at Bitcoin 2026 Las Vegas that a major Strategic Bitcoin Reserve update is coming in weeks. The Lummis-Begich bill that would lock the reserve into law just got renamed and reintroduced. Polymarket still gives it a 23% chance before 2027.
Polymarket hired Chainalysis on April 30 to build an onchain anomaly detection system, days after a U.S. Green Beret pleaded not guilty to a $400,000 insider bet. A new ACDC report shows military markets win at four times the normal longshot rate.
The CFTC handed Gemini a clearinghouse license on April 30. The stock popped 6%. The more interesting question is why crypto firms have started paying $550 million each just to own one of these things.
After four months of stalemate, the Tillis-Alsobrooks compromise text dropped Thursday night. The Senate has until May 21 to do something with it, or the bill goes back on the shelf until 2030.
HIP-4 went live on mainnet with zero fees to open and a 1 million HYPE staking requirement for builders. Polymarket charges up to 2% on winners. That gap is the entire pitch.