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'DeFi is dead': crypto community scrambles after this year's biggest hack exposes contagion risk
Developers and traders warn of structural risks as a cross-chain exploit spreads fear and prompts billions to flee DeFi platforms.
Why Michael Saylor's Strategy decided to make STRC's dividend bi-monthly
Strategy aim to reduce volatility, enable consistent bitcoin buying, and create the only bi-monthly paying preferred shares in the market.
AI is increasingly eating into VC fundings and here is how crypto firms are adapting
AI companies raised $242 billion (80% of global venture funding) in early 2026, with Gartner projecting total AI spending will reach $2.52 trillion this year.
Binance and Bitget to probe RAVE’s 4,500% token surge as claims of insider-orchestrated rally grow
Nearly 90% of RAVE's supply was concentrated in just three wallets, and millions of tokens were transferred to exchanges before the price surge.
How a quantum computer can be used to actually steal your bitcoin in '9 minutes'
Part one explained the physics of quantum computing. This piece explains the target — how bitcoin's encryption works, why a quantum algorithm breaks it, and what Google's paper changed about the timeline.
Kraken's parent company Payward to acquire derivatives exchange Bitnomial for $550 million in cash and stock
The deal gives Payward control of a fully licensed U.S. crypto derivatives stack, accelerating its expansion in regulated markets.
Drift gets $148 million funding from Tether and partners as it replaces Circle stablecoin with USDT after massive exploit
The money will be used by Drift to recover user funds after more than $270 million in clients assets were exploited this month, and will relaunch the protocol as a USDT-based perpetuals DEX on Solana.
Why Morgan Stanley's CFO sees tokenization as the next big step for its multi-trillion wealth business
Morgan Stanley CFO Sharon Yeshaya says the bank is eyeing a "tokenized world" where blockchain technology allows client assets and liabilities to move more efficiently across its wealth management platform.
Prediction market volumes to hit $1 trillion by 2030 with Robinhood, Coinbase as key players, Bernstein says
The broker said prediction markets are scaling into a trillion-dollar asset class, driven by regulatory clarity, crypto rails and distribution via major trading platforms.
Popular DeFi platform warns users to stay away from its site after security breach
The team that helps operate the platform, CoW Swap, said that it was working to resolve the issue for the DEX aggregator.
