The WEMIX Attacker Minted $5.2M. Only $724K Could Leave the Chain.
Headlines put the WEMIX breach at 6.25 million dollars. On-chain, 724,198 USDC.e left, capped by a stablecoin its own issuer had already retired.
Headlines put the WEMIX breach at 6.25 million dollars. On-chain, 724,198 USDC.e left, capped by a stablecoin its own issuer had already retired.
Crypto built a $557M shadow market for SpaceX before its Nasdaq debut, pricing it above the IPO. Then the tokenized shares fell apart on Binance, Bybit and Bitget.
The delivery giant operates in 40+ countries and processed $75 billion in merchant sales last year. It is now working with Stripe-backed blockchain Tempo to replace fragmented regional payment rails with stablecoin payouts. Visa, Mastercard, and UBS are also on board.
A single exploit on April 19 triggered one of the fastest liquidity withdrawals the sector has ever seen, and the damage is still moving through the system.
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.
The sector added $1.08 billion in a single week. Tether lost $271 million of it. USDS gained $503 million. The pecking order is shifting.
Payward just paid $600 million for a Hong Kong payments company that makes money moving stablecoins across borders. The firm was already profitable on $60 million in total funding.
Push notifications said BTC hit a 52-week low. Charts showed candles at two cents. XRP and Solana displayed the same crash. No major exchange recorded a single matching trade.
The decentralized AI compute protocol raised $78 million from a16z, Galaxy, and CoinFund. Only 13% of tokens are circulating. Binance gave it a Seed Tag.
A pre-signed transaction feature designed for convenience became the entry point for the largest DeFi hack of 2026. Elliptic has flagged North Korean state actors. Circle faces fresh scrutiny.
He turned $7,600 into $25 million on PEPE. He built an $87 million account on Hyperliquid. He opened a perpetual futures position with $1.25 billion in notional exposure — on roughly $31 million of actual margin. On April 6, 2026, his account had $914 in it. This is the full story of how that happened — and what it reveals about leverage trading in crypto.
AWS built payment rails for bots with Coinbase and Stripe. The system settles in 200 milliseconds on Base using USDC. Warner Bros. Discovery is already testing it.
Binance cut 12 spot pairs. Bybit removed 7 tokens entirely. Coinbase pulled DAI, TIME, and a dozen futures pairs. The cleanup happened while Consensus Miami was running.
The company behind USDC sold 740 million tokens at $0.30 each. BlackRock, a16z, Apollo, and ICE all bought in. The question is what Circle needs a blockchain for when it already runs a $77 billion stablecoin.
While regulators blocked Polymarket in India, Indonesia, and Spain this week, Hyperliquid quietly shipped HIP-4 outcome contracts for real-world events. Users can now bet on CPI prints and Fed decisions from the same account they use for crypto perps. No external oracle. No UMA. Validators settle everything.
MiCA has turned boardroom approvals into live infrastructure searches across Europe's largest financial institutions. USDC volume in the EU jumped 109% in six months as corporate treasury demand replaces speculative interest.
USDC is the second-largest stablecoin and the most regulation-focused, issued by Circle with reserves held in cash and short-dated US Treasuries. This tag tracks USDC supply changes as a signal of institutional risk appetite, reserve attestations and transparency reporting, the GENIUS Act and MiCA frameworks that shape how compliant stablecoins operate, the freeze actions that test whether USDC behaves like cash or a permissioned asset, and its deep integration across DeFi, exchanges, and payment rails from Solana to Base. Coinliva covers the supply moves, the banking partnerships, the regulatory milestones, and Circle’s earnings as the stablecoin becomes core financial infrastructure.