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Nakamoto Inc. restructured its $165M USDT debt to Kraken for the second time in under a year. With a market cap of ~$104M and 70% of its Bitcoin pledged to a single counterparty, t…
The DOJ disrupted North Korea's FaceStealer operation, which used AI deepfakes and pre-recorded video to trick crypto workers into installing malware, netting more than $400 millio…
ARK's Lorenzo Valente calculates that the crypto industry has lost 57 cents to theft for every dollar it has earned onchain since 2017, and 2026 is on track to be the first year ha…
Across Protocol issued an emergency warning on Nov. 10 to avoid its app amid a suspected domain compromise. EVM token approvals persist on-chain even after you disconnect, leaving…
Patrick Yaroch, a former FBI counterintelligence agent, pleaded guilty November 5 to wire fraud and money laundering for stealing $2,474,381 from 35 active investigations. The sche…
Paraguay's Central Bank seized Ueno Bank on November 3, locking more than 60% of the country's adults out of their accounts overnight. President Santiago Peña resigned two days lat…
Tether, Tron, and TRM Labs dissolved the T3 Financial Crime Unit in late August 2026, citing slow response times and poor coordination. Roughly two months later, North Korean hacke…
Arbitrum's 12-person Security Council used a 9-of-12 emergency multisig on October 30 to temporarily rewrite the network's Inbox contract, impersonate the Binance hacker's address,…
Mercado Bitcoin suspended all deposits and withdrawals on November 2 after a cyberattack drained wallets across at least 10 blockchains. Blockchain security firm Hypernative estima…
BTCPay Server issued an emergency shutdown order November 1, 2026 after reports of hot wallets being drained by unauthorized attackers. Founder Nicolas Dorier's preliminary finding…
Billions drained from Binance hot wallets in roughly 40 minutes on October 29, 2026. Tether and Circle froze a combined $2.37B in stablecoins, but ETH and BTC transferred to attack…
Datavault AI's stock collapsed nearly 50% after the company disclosed it has been unable to withdraw bitcoin from Singapore custodian Biconomy Pte. Ltd. since June 2026, triggering…
CoinDCX confirmed a 15.99 million USDT loss on October 25, three days after co-founder and CEO Sumit Gupta publicly called reports of suspicious outflows a false alarm. Combined wi…
Bank of Russia Governor Elvira Nabiullina confirmed 270,000 digital ruble accounts at an October 23 press conference, calling interest 'higher than expected.' She disclosed zero tr…
A hacker who exploited Cysic's BNB Smart Chain bridge to mint 10 million unauthorized CYS tokens rejected the foundation's 10% recovery bounty and routed approximately $744,000 in…
The wallet tied to North Korea's $295M Drift Protocol hack deposited 25,700 ETH into Tornado Cash on October 20, leaving roughly $194M still in exploiter-controlled addresses and a…
The OCC's final debanking report found every one of America's nine largest national banks maintained policies that restricted financial services based on political beliefs, religio…
Ledger has halted sales by authorized Southeast Asian reseller CryptoBilis after on-chain investigators traced more than $86M in losses. The attack mechanism is unconfirmed. Here's…
Cardano's CIP-0113 programmable token standard went live on mainnet October 7, 2026, letting any token issuer freeze accounts, confiscate holdings, and enforce KYC checks on every…
Conduit Technology filed suit in SDNY on October 5, 2026, alleging Tether froze its $2.76M operating wallet for over a year with no court order and no compliance connection to Cond…
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