For years DeFi treated smart contract audits as the defense. Anthropic's Mythos is showing that the real attack surface lives one layer deeper. Coinbase, Binance, and JP Morgan are already testing it.
13.26 million investors. 22% on gains above $1,850. January 2027. The ruling party wants to kill it. The Finance Ministry says it's happening anyway.
The DeFi landscape has just witnessed another chilling reminder of its inherent vulnerabilities.
From selecting a regulated trading platform and completing identity verification to executing your first order and securing your BTC in self-custody — every step covered with the precision serious buyers demand. Updated for 2026 fee structures, KYC standards, spot Bitcoin ETF alternatives, and the latest self-custody best practices.
Banks have middlemen. DeFi has code. Over $130 billion is locked in smart contracts that lend, trade, and generate yield — without a single bank account, credit check, or business hour.
Your wallet does not hold your crypto. It holds the keys to it. With over 820 million active crypto wallet addresses globally and software wallet downloads surpassing 520 million in 2025, choosing the right wallet is the most consequential security decision a crypto user makes.
A Google quantum paper, a new perp DEX launch, and a yield product on Solana drove the week's biggest moves — all of it playing out against a broader market sitting deep in Extreme Fear.
Fragmentation across Layer-2 networks has become a structural bottleneck for Ethereum. The newly announced EEZ initiative aims to turn isolated liquidity into a coordinated economic layer.
Claude Pro and Max subscriptions no longer cover third-party agent frameworks. The change hit Openclaw users on April 4 with less than 24 hours notice. For crypto developers running autonomous agents around the clock, the cost jump is significant: single-day sessions estimated between $1,000 and $5,000 in extreme cases.
