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Blockchain security firm Hacken found that $91.3 billion in USDT on Tron is governed by a 2-of-3 multisig with no timelock or reversal window. Bluechip upgraded Tether's corporate…
Nearly 3,998.5 BTC left Blockstream's Liquid federation wallet on September 6, dropping the reserve from ~4,200 BTC to 207.275 BTC. An unidentified party left an onchain message cl…
Chile's Orionx exchange has halted withdrawals and is winding down after a forensic audit found over $7M in customer assets moved to external wallets, allegedly by its own founding…
The headline metrics are gaslighting you. Johann Kurtz returns to TFTC to explain social capital collapse, the two-income trap, why GDP counts the wrong things, and which communiti…
An attacker manipulated Tectonic's TONIC governance token roughly 100x in ~20 minutes to drain an estimated $66M, $75M from Cronos's largest lending protocol. Validators halted the…
The PBOC added 8 banks to China's e-CNY network on August 17, tripling authorized operators from 10 to 30 year-to-date. The expansion into regional and city commercial banks is how…
BitMart's founder dismissed calls for independent audits and proof-of-reserves as 'fabricated rumors' while users report funds remain inaccessible ahead of the August 26 final trad…
Binance provided Russian authorities with transaction records, passport data, and personal details on Yuri Belenkiy, a 49-year-old IT specialist who donated roughly $700 in crypto…
Bybit filed a civil lawsuit against the DPRK, its Reconnaissance General Bureau, and the Lazarus Group in U.S. District Court over the February 2025 theft of approximately $1.5 bil…
Three Bitcoin holders lost a combined $1.8 million to a fake Sparrow Wallet app on Apple's App Store between May and August 2025. They're suing Apple for negligence. The real Sparr…
A proposed class action filed the same day BitMEX announced its permanent shutdown alleges the exchange ran a secret insider trading desk with 'god access' to customer order data,…
India's I4C issued a three-hour takedown order for Jack Dorsey's BitChat repositories on GitHub, citing the app's anonymous, decentralized architecture. IFF calls it unconstitution…
An attacker exploited 42DAO's minting controls on BNB Chain twice in two hours, minting 4.5 million BLC from a null address and collapsing Balance Coin 99% from its dollar peg.
South Korea's Financial Services Commission designated Project Hangang Phase 2 as an innovative financial service on July 15, expanding the CBDC pilot to 500,000 users with live go…
Joshua and Hannah Centers of Chapter House on why the credential economy fails children, how living books form virtue where lessons can't, and what any parent can do tonight to rou…
Trump announced he won't sign the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, but the bill, including a ban on Federal Reserve CBDC issuance through December 31, 2030, becomes law automatica…
Bank of Russia Governor Elvira Nabiullina declared 'everything is ready' for the September 1 digital ruble rollout, requiring all 12 systemically important banks and retailers abov…
Christopher Delgado, CEO of Goliath Ventures, pleaded guilty July 1 to wire fraud and money laundering, admitting to at least $250M in losses from a fake crypto liquidity pool sche…
The Dutch Public Prosecution Service petitioned a Rotterdam court to declare Knaken Cryptohandel B.V. bankrupt on June 30, 2026, citing public interest, weeks after the unlicensed…
The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in Chatrie v. United States that police conducting a geofence search, ordering Google to sweep location data on all users near a crime scene, constitute…
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