TL;DR BitMart’s official Chinese account demanded that founder Sheldon Xia present a reimbursement plan before August 19 or face regulatory complaints. Xia dismissed the accusations about unpaid salaries and blocked withdrawals as “fabricated rumors” and announced legal action against those behind the posts. Wallets tracked by Arkham and attributed to the exchange dropped from $102 […]

Bitcoin investor and Ego Death Capital co-founder Jeff Booth has said that Strategy’s long-term survival comes down to one condition: BTC has to work as an actual currency, not just sit on a balance sheet as an asset. Booth made the case in a wide-ranging interview with Scott Melker, and it ties the fate of […]

When SafePal recently admitted to a major data breach, it closed a frustrating loop for users inside a string of hardware wallet failures that ZachXBT has been tracking in real time. Three separate incidents have landed back to back: Coldcard was hacked for $40 million, Trezor suffered a major data leak, and now SafePal has […]

Binance provided Russian law enforcement with customer identification documents and transaction records connected to donations supporting Ukrainian military causes. The disclosures helped authorities build a terrorism case against a Russian information technology specialist. Binance Data Supports Terrorism Case Russia’s Investigative Committee used account data provided by Binance to build a terrorism case against 49-year-old information […]

The stablecoin bill signed into law last year is scheduled to go into effect in January 2027, potentially without finalized regulations from US government agencies.

Ledger CEO Pascal Gauthier has warned that crypto security cannot depend on users maintaining perfect discipline.

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A crypto hardware wallet provider is disclosing an authorization flaw in its order-tracking plug-in that exposed sensitive customer order details. SafePal says the flaw allowed unauthorized external access to names, email addresses, shipping addresses, phone numbers, and purchase details for approximately 39,798 customers who placed orders from March 2nd, 2025, to April 11th, 2026. Information […]

Bitcoin Magazine Losses Top $115M In Coldcard Bitcoin Hack: Galaxy Research New data from Galaxy Research shows that $115 million in bitcoin has been lost in the Coldcard theft.  Writing on X Sunday, Galaxy Research said that it had spoken with over 200 victims to support them and gather intelligence on the attackers.  The figures […]

DefiLlama spent months reporting a fake app to Apple for trademark violations and impersonation before it was removed. Apple took the app down within days of the team loading a wallet, installing the fake and sending Apple evidence of the drain. Apple says it rejected more than 22,000 submissions in 2025 that copied other apps, […]

A BTCC referral code is a short code you enter during sign-up to connect a new BTCC account to bonus rewards, and the best referral code in 2026 is BTCC2049. For new and prospective BTCC users who want the strongest sign-up offer before they start trading, BTCC2049 unlocks a 10% deposit bonus from 200 USDT, […]

The regulatory review could shape an emerging market that lets companies and investors trade and hedge the cost of increasingly scarce AI computing power.

The U.S. national debt is set to cross $40 trillion, a mark it was expected to surpass only after Labor Day. The milestone has come faster than any previous trillion-dollar jump in the United States’ history. The Fastest Trillion in US History The pace of America’s debt accumulation has become a story unto itself. The […]

Curve Finance founder Michael Egorov has taken a swipe at Solana-based Pump.fun and criticized the platform’s role in the meme coin market. His comments add to the scrutiny Pump.fun has faced as it has grown into one of the biggest venues for launching new meme coins. Token Failures and Controversies Egorov criticized Pump.fun and called […]

Researchers say ordinary mistakes involving testnet addresses, reused contracts and exposed private keys have triggered hundreds of millions in losses on Ethereum and BNB Chain. The USENIX Association says on-chain analysis of millions of addresses identified 65,340 high-risk instances tied to contract and externally owned account misuse. The term “address misuse” essentially refers to people […]

TL;DR: Bitmine raised its Ethereum treasury to 5.815 million ETH after acquiring approximately 9,926 additional tokens over the past week. The company now controls 4.8% of ETH’s circulating supply, with holdings valued at approximately $11 billion. More than 5 million tokens are staked through the MAVAN platform, with projected annualized revenues reaching $250 million. Bitmine Immersion […]

The U.S. Department of the Treasury is asking for public comment on the upcoming implementation of new stablecoin rules. The GENIUS Act, signed by US President Donald Trump last year, establishes a regulatory framework for stablecoins, crypto assets pegged to the US dollar. The legislation requires each token to be fully backed by liquid assets […]

Six months ago, watching SpaceX and other private companies’ valuations spike overnight was something retail traders could only read about from the outside, a headline about an IPO or funding round they’d never get a piece of. Then SpaceX went public in June and blew past every IPO in history in a single trading session. […]

TL;DR: The U.S. Treasury Department submitted a proposal to implement the GENIUS Act, establishing key definitions. The industry and the public have 60 days to submit comments, and the law’s effective deadline is set for January 18, though it is unlikely all rules will be ready by then. The proposal also focuses on foreign stablecoin […]

US Treasury’s Scott Bessent fast-tracks stablecoin rules under the GENIUS Act to keep America the crypto capital of the world.

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Binance’s UK arm has been barred from offering regulated activities in the country since June 2021, but the company will reportedly move to secure licensing under new crypto rules.

The incident exposed customer contact and purchase information but left wallet credentials, financial information and funds unaffected. SafePal has patched the vulnerability, strengthened its systems and commissioned an independent review of the fix. The main continuing concern is that leaked personal details could enable convincing phishing or impersonation attempts targeting customers. Crypto wallet provider SafePal […]

Markus Thielen estimated that roughly US$15 trillion (AU$21.15 trillion) in fresh capital would be required to lift Bitcoin to US$1 million (AU$1.41 million) a coin by 2030.  He described that sum as about a quarter of the value of the US stock market, and the target as “mathematically impossible”. Bitcoin reaching US$1 million (AU$1.41 million) […]

Strategy kept its bitcoin holdings unchanged at 840,447 BTC through Aug. 16 while lifting its U.S. dollar reserve to $4.8 billion. Common-stock sales funded the reserve increase, STRC repurchases and preferred-stock dividends. Strategy Leaves Bitcoin Holdings Unchanged Strategy Inc. (Nasdaq: MSTR) filed a Form 8-K with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Aug. […]

New Santiment data shows 28,000 BTC flooded back to exchanges in under 3 weeks, erasing 84% of the summer drain and canceling the supply squeeze.

Although the broader landscape around XRP and the ETFs behind it is nowhere near the peaks from last year, some of the most prominent names on Wall Street have not abandoned it. Just the opposite; the recent SEC filings show that behemoths like Jane Street, Bank of America, Morgan Stanley, UBS, and a few others […]

Austria’s Financial Market Authority (FMA) fined Bitpanda GmbH EUR 70,000 (about $81,000) for several breaches of the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCAR). The regulator disclosed the final decision Friday. The FMA called it the first legally binding MiCAR penalty decision it has published. That wording does not establish that Bitpanda received the first MiCAR fine […]

Scammers stole nearly $4.1 million from Murfreesboro victims in a 6-month period before a new state law banned cryptocurrency ATMs …

TL;DR Compound approved a record $52 million budget and renewed its leadership team to attract institutional capital to the DeFi ecosystem. The protocol lost nearly all of its $12 billion TVL from 2021, now down to just $1.2 billion, while Aave multiplied its own more than 11 times. The new leadership team includes former executives […]

TL;DR The Ethereum Foundation launched Platåberget, a public testnet that allows developers to test the upcoming Glamsterdam upgrade before its mainnet deployment The testnet went live on August 17 and will execute the Glamsterdam fork on August 20, simulating a transition on an active chain. Glamsterdam will introduce proposer-builder separation (EIP-7732), block-level access lists (EIP-7928), […]

There’s a specific kind of crisis that unfolds when BitMart’s own official channels start turning against its leadership in public. That’s exactly what happened when the exchange’s Chinese-language account posted a formal, numbered ultimatum directly at its own CEOs, demanding answers by a hard deadline while accusing them of leaving users locked out of their […]