Stablecoins alone will generate a demand for up to $1 trillion worth of onchain U.S. Treasury bills and $2.6 trillion for tokenized stocks, said Citi.
0xflorent, a security researcher, found an integer-overflow flaw in the HongCoin token sale contract that lets the team unlock funds for 48 original investors. It is the second such recovery he has publicized in eight days.
XRP hit a 15-week low before stabilizing, with traders watching whether the latest washout turns into a base or another leg lower.
The Sui Foundation’s post-mortem published Sunday traces all three outages to interactions between a new address-balance feature shipped in the v1.72 release and the network’s existing gas and consensus logic.
U.S. spot bitcoin ETFs lost $2.97 billion across 10 trading days through Friday, the longest outflow streak on record. Oil’s bounce on the stalled Iran deal added pressure even as global equities hit new highs on the Nvidia and SoftBank AI trade.
An official postmortem traced the exploit to a LayerZero bridge verification failure and outlined a sweeping overhaul of Aave’s asset-listing standards as DeFi risks shift beyond smart contract bugs.
Coinbase announces INR rails to make the platform fully accessible to Indian retail traders.
A draft XRPL amendment notes that flash loan attacks are “structurally impossible” on the network because of how its transactions are built, an architectural quirk that has spared the chain from the exploit class that has cost Ethereum DeFi billions.
Fuller allegedly diverted $6.2 million for personal use and $5.5M for Ponzi-like payments; only 3% of funds went to crypto trading.
The seizure, falling under “Operation Economic Fury,” aims to restrict Iran’s access to overseas revenue, banking networks, and crypto infrastructure.
CertiK CEO and co-founder Ronghui Gu says April was the worst month for DeFi in four years with exploits on 27 out of 30 days.
Established crypto firms will merge with traditional finance, but neither Wall Street bankers nor corporate giants will take over the crypto industry, said Binance’s Head of VIP and Institutional, Catherine Chen.