North Korean group UNC4736 stole $270 million from Drift Protocol on April 1, converting part of it into USDC via Circle's own bridge. Circle's formal response clarifies when and why it can freeze assets — and calls for legislative action.
Project Eleven gave 1 BTC for a 15-bit quantum key recovery. Bitcoin developers redid the same job in 20 lines of pure random Python. Now even Project Eleven says it was not Q-Day.
Friday gave the prediction market fight its sharpest day yet. Letitia James signed a bipartisan amicus brief in the morning. Hours later, the CFTC named her in a federal lawsuit. New York is now the fourth state the agency has sued in three weeks.
WLFI token hits an all-time low of $0.07 after collateral lending controversy. Justin Sun accuses Trump-affiliated DeFi platform of rigged governance and opaque token lockups.
A forged message bypassed the Polkadot token contract's admin controls on Ethereum, allowing unlimited minting. Hyperbridge paused operations after the attack — notable because the protocol markets itself as a "full node security" bridge.
Bithumb mistakenly sent 620,000 BTC instead of 620,000 Korean won to customers in February, triggering a localized price crash. South Korea's central bank now wants exchanges to have automated trading halts and real-time asset verification systems.
South Korea's FIU found 70,000 unverified customer accounts and 10,113 trades routed through 16 unregistered overseas platforms. The three-month partial suspension runs from April 29 to July 28. Existing users retain full access; only new account onboarding is blocked.
The filing asks SEC staff to confirm that recording securities entitlements on Ethereum Mainnet will not trigger enforcement action. If SEC staff approve, it would be the first formal confirmation that public blockchain infrastructure can operate within the U.S. securities recordkeeping system.
The proposal covers 62.28 billion WLFI tokens with stricter lockups, extended vesting, and a 10% insider burn. The governance reset lands as Justin Sun escalates a public dispute over frozen accounts and alleged smart contract backdoors.
The UK's largest asset manager tokenizes its USD, EUR, and GBP money market funds through the Calastone network. Permissioned tokens launch on Ethereum and EVM-compatible chains with full integration into existing fund infrastructure.
BTC is up 12% since US-Israeli airstrikes began while the S&P 500 dropped 1% and gold fell 10%. Analyst Michaël van de Poppe targets $87,500 to $90,000 within three months based on historical mean reversion.
The stablecoin issuer transferred 951 BTC from a Bitfinex hot wallet into its cold reserve on April 15. Tether's BTC position now exceeds $7.1 billion with $2.175 billion in unrealized gains. The company has never sold from the reserve.
High Roller Technologies will distribute CFTC-regulated event contracts through Crypto.com's derivatives arm. Monthly prediction market volumes have surged to $21 billion from $1.2 billion in early 2025. The mature US market could exceed $1 trillion annually.
The $150 million recovery plan will fund user reimbursements as Drift relaunches with USDt as its settlement asset. Circle faced heavy criticism for not freezing $232 million in USDC that the North Korea-linked attacker moved through its own bridge.
The Polish exchange disclosed a $334 million Bitcoin address but says the private keys were never handed over by its missing former CEO. Over 25,000 withdrawal requests flooded the platform in days as insolvency allegations intensified.
On-chain analysis links two accounts with a perfect pardon-betting record to the same deposit wallet. A Columbia Law professor who advises the DOJ on insider trading says the probability of these trades occurring by chance is "virtually zero."
