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The 2003-vintage botnet spent its final eight years swapping copied bitcoin and ether addresses for the operator's own, and took about $150,000 doing it. There was never a command server to seize.
ARKB accounted for $114.9 million of Friday's $201.9 million outflow, ending nine straight days of inflows totalling just over $3 billion. On Monday, IBIT alone supplied $205.9 million of the $216.7 million that came back.
Validators halted Crypto.com's chain and rolled its state back to before the attack. About $6 million had already crossed to Ethereum; the rest sits on a ledger whose history has now been rewritten.
The investment size is undisclosed, but the patent licence hands ICE the transfer-restriction and corporate-action machinery it would otherwise have to build before an NYSE-affiliated platform can settle anything on-chain.
BitGo picked up roughly 250 institutional client relationships and 30 staff. The seller kept a data centre pipeline it says runs past three gigawatts.
The attacker never touched Moonwell's code. Pushing MAMO from a cent to 47 cents in a pool with barely $1 million of daily volume was enough, and it is the protocol's second collateral-pricing failure this year.
EURR arrived with 374 tokens outstanding against a customer base of 80 million, and MiCA bars its issuer from paying holders a cent of interest on the reserves.
Volumes on Kraken's platform dropped 18% to $310 billion in the quarter, and the exchange cut roughly 150 jobs as it prepared for a listing that may still slip into 2027.
The Continuous Clearing Auction contracts landed on Avalanche on Tuesday, extending a system that has already cleared Aztec at $59 million and priced Cap Labs at a $106 million FDV.
The Central Bank's Resolution 584, published on 7 August, takes effect in January and applies to any transfer heading to a self-custody wallet or foreign exchange. Cumulative daily volume counts, not just single tickets.
The only comparable stretch on record ran from August 2022 into January 2023 and ended at the cycle low. Futures volume in July was just over $880 million against a February peak of $1.47 trillion.
The exchange told 13 million users it would stop trading on 26 August, four days after firing global CEO Nenter Chow. The BMX token has fallen 81.5 per cent in a week.
Roughly $14.56 billion has left USDT and USDC since mid-May, most of it in June. The GENIUS Act's yield ban is finally showing up in the supply data.
The three-exchange rule change removes the requirement that commodity-based trusts track an index and lets them run active strategies, opening the door to covered-call and premium-income products.
Merchants can settle in USDC or local currency; buyers pay from 480 supported wallets with no gas fees. The chain roster is still EVM-only, with Base at the centre.
The National Bank of Hungary handed Budapest-based CoinCash the country's first MiCA authorisation the same week, letting a market the previous government had almost emptied begin to reopen.
The first institutional round Crypto.com has taken in ten years, and the cash is earmarked for tokenised securities and derivatives, the parts of the exchange most exposed to Wall Street's arrival.
US-listed spot bitcoin ETFs recorded $265.7 million of net inflows on 6 July, the second consecutive session above $200 million and the strongest institutional signal since May. IBIT alone pulled in $209.4 million.
Binance suspended new services for EU residents on 1 July after the Greek regulator was reportedly preparing to reject its licence. Coinbase and OKX moved within hours to court its 450 million European users.
Aave saw its strongest single day of Ethereum wallet creation in nearly five years on Tuesday, adding 1,806 addresses even as bitcoin closed under $60,000 and the fear-and-greed index sat at 13. The trigger is a mix of the V4 rollout, Smart Value Recapture revenue, and a Standard Chartered price note that circulated for a week.
SpaceX's IPO filing this week confirmed 18,712 BTC sitting on the balance sheet at a cost basis of $661 million — more than double what on-chain analysts had estimated, and untouched since 2024.
The Trump-family crypto firm filed a defamation suit against Justin Sun in Florida state court two weeks after Sun sued it for fraud — turning a token-freeze dispute worth roughly $240 million into a contested public trial.
The European Union's 20th sanctions package against Russia takes effect on May 24, banning EU persons from any transaction with Russian or Belarusian crypto-asset service providers — and, for the first time, with decentralised platforms operating from those jurisdictions.
Aave's 29-page filing argues that briefly-stolen ETH cannot be treated as North Korean property, even when Lazarus Group was the thief — and warns the SDNY restraining order could chill every future DeFi hack recovery.
Crypto exchange Bullish announced a $4.2 billion deal on May 5 to acquire shareholder-services giant Equiniti from Siris Capital, structured as $1.85 billion in assumed debt and $2.35 billion in stock. The strategic logic only works if tokenised securities actually arrive on schedule.
Wasabi Protocol's deployer EOA held the only ADMIN_ROLE for the entire permission system, and an attacker drained roughly $4.55 million from perp vaults across four chains. The vulnerability was governance, not code.
Meta has begun routing creator earnings through Circle's USDC on Solana and Polygon via Stripe, starting in Colombia and the Philippines. It is the company's first stablecoin product since regulators forced it to abandon Libra in 2019.
Paul Atkins, the first sitting SEC chair to address a Bitcoin conference, used Las Vegas to confirm a 12-to-36-month sandbox for on-chain securities issuance and to declare the agency's enforcement-driven era over.
A coordinated industry rescue has raised $160 million to cover Aave's bad debt from the KelpDAO exploit, with total pledges exceeding $300 million after Consensys committed 30,000 ETH on Sunday.
The stablecoin issuer blocked two TRON wallets holding a combined $344 million after OFAC designated them as part of Iran's sanctions-evasion network. Treasury Secretary Bessent called it part of a broader campaign to cut off Tehran's financial lifelines.
AWS now lists Chainlink Data Feeds, Data Streams and Proof of Reserve on its marketplace, complete with reference architectures for reserve monitoring and automated trading systems built on Lambda, Fargate and DynamoDB.
Wisconsin's attorney general filed three lawsuits arguing prediction market contracts are illegal sports bets, escalating a jurisdictional battle between states and the CFTC that is almost certainly headed to the Supreme Court.
Brussels published a policy paper framing distributed ledger technology as the foundation of an 'internet of value' and confirmed that Pontes, the Eurosystem's DLT settlement platform, will go live in the third quarter of 2026 — making Europe the first major jurisdiction to offer central bank-settled tokenised asset trading.
The release replaces Bitcoin's decade-old transaction queuing system with a cluster-based architecture and introduces private broadcasting through Tor and I2P, marking the protocol's most significant infrastructure upgrade in years.
On-chain evidence suggests RaveDAO insiders moved millions of RAVE tokens to exchanges before and during a vertical price surge that added $5.7 billion in market capitalisation in nine days, then erased it all in 48 hours.
SWIFT has completed the design phase of its blockchain-based shared ledger and is building an MVP for live tokenised deposit payments across more than 200 countries. The system, built on Hyperledger Besu, aims to make cross-border settlement a 24/7 operation.
Ethereum's base layer handled 200.4 million transactions between January and March 2026, surpassing 200 million for the first time. Yet ether remains more than 50 per cent below its August 2025 peak, exposing a structural disconnect between network usage and token value.
House Bill 798, signed on 14 April, requires crypto custodians to transfer abandoned digital assets to the state in-kind rather than liquidating them — and bars the treasury from selling for at least a year.
