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A bridge exploit allowed unbacked SAND tokens to be minted on Base and BSC. The Sandbox claims containment, but South Korean exchanges froze transfers anyway.…
Coinkite's Coldcard firmware update arrives three weeks after attackers exploited weak seed generation to drain over 1,778 BTC — roughly $130 million — from thousands of addresses.…
BounceBit is shutting down its Layer 1 blockchain after an attacker drained 286.5 million BB tokens via a protocol-level authorization exploit, with no private keys breached.…
BounceBit is permanently shutting down its Layer 1 blockchain after an authorization flaw enabled a $3M BB token exploit, migrating to BNB Chain.…
The DTCC is tokenizing DTC-custodied U.S. Treasuries on Canton Network at $6T scale, while Lighter's LIT token launches at Hyperliquid-level fee multiples.…
An exploit targeting The Sandbox's cross-chain bridge minted billions of unbacked SAND tokens, forcing an emergency halt of bridging on Base and BNB Chain.…
An unauthorized address seized minting rights on The Sandbox's SAND contract on Base, producing 14.9 billion tokens and threatening the token's entire supply integrity.…
J.P. Morgan's tokenized Treasury bill products are nearing $885M in market cap, marking a decisive institutional embrace of blockchain-based financial infrastructure.…
The EU is weighing whether MiCA should cover crypto lending, but DeFi vaults present a structural puzzle regulators haven't solved anywhere in the world.…
BitMart has appointed White & Case as restructuring counsel and is exploring alternatives to a full shutdown, less than a month after announcing trading would end.…
Bitcoin surged as Treasury bond buybacks reignited the "not-QE" trade, while Metaplanet went stateside and Cypherpunk dropped $33M on Zcash mining.…
A brutal 37% XRP flash crash on August 22 wiped out $500 million in leveraged longs within minutes, part of a $1.35 billion market-wide liquidation event.…