A hacker made off with over $135,000 after hijacking the X accounts of SpaceX and Starlink to promote a meme coin. The profiles were used to shill a Robinhood-based token that briefly hit a $2 million market cap before crashing to almost zero. SpaceX and Starlink Fall Victim to Compromise Screenshots circulating on social media […]
Long-time crypto trader Ogle warned on July 13 that small meme coins with limited liquidity can collapse within minutes when a few large holders decide to sell. Pointing to recent losses around the latest sensation in the space, CASHCAT, the market watcher reiterated the risks in chasing fast-moving tokens, where paper gains can disappear really […]
Robinhood Chain has generated $816,000 in gross revenue since launching on July 1, with 89% captured by Robinhood, 10% by Arbitrum as middleware, and only 0.15%, or $1,538, paid to Ethereum for settlement, which doesn’t sound great. Robinhood Chain is an EVM-compatible Arbitrum-based layer-2 network that uses ETH as its native gas token, but Ethereum […]
A Duke University finance professor, Campbell Harvey, has said that a 51% attack on Bitcoin, long dismissed as a theoretical exercise that would only destroy value for whoever tried it, has quietly become something an attacker could profit from because of today’s derivatives markets. However, many BTC supporters dismissed the claim made during the July […]
Even in times when XRP and the company behind it were not in good shape in their home country, Japan has long stood out as a major ally. However, the most recent regulatory and institutional developments suggest that the country could play an even bigger role in their future. Over the past several months, Japan […]
The organization behind the second-largest blockchain network revealed it had employed a coordinated army of AI agents to identify vulnerabilities in Ethereum’s critical infrastructure. The team said one major bug was successfully discovered and patched before it could become a larger problem. But that could be just the start of this major story. AI and […]
Bitcoin corporate treasury firms became a major thing in the past couple of years, led, of course, by Michael Saylor’s Strategy. Several such entities emerged during more favorable times for the entire crypto industry. Now, though, the landscape has changed, and there’s a new seller on the horizon. Empery Digital has disposed of 1,400 BTC […]
Euro Coin (EURC) saw a sharp increase in on-chain activity as both daily active addresses and new wallet creation reached all-time highs in its four-year history, according to Santiment. The surge likely reflects growing demand for regulated euro-denominated stablecoins as the EU’s Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) framework encourages exchanges, payment providers, and crypto applications to […]
Bitwise’s Q2 2026 crypto market review shows its 10 Large Cap Crypto Index dropped 15.4% last quarter, the third straight quarter in the red and the longest such stretch since 2022. However, the same report argued that even as prices fell, the crypto sector, including stablecoins, tokenized assets, and prediction markets, has been strengthening. Crypto […]
Bitcoin-backed preferred shares STRC and SATA posted their highest combined monthly trading volume on record in June, surpassing $10 billion amid a BTC sell-off that pushed both below their $100 par value. According to data from BitcoinTreasuries.net (BTN), Strategy’s STRC generated $8.7 billion in trading volume last month, while Strive’s SATA recorded $1.5 billion, and […]