Monad
Another Week, Another “Trustless” Failure: $76M Echo Protocol Exploit Hits Monad
The industry keeps calling this progress.
The Tether Is the Sentence
Joby Weeks helped build the mining world before Wall Street learned how to sell Bitcoin in a wrapper. The state put him on a leash and called it justice.
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bitcoin
Bitcoin Depot Collapses Under Regulatory, Financial Pressure
Bitcoin Depot, the largest operator of Bitcoin ATMs in North America, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The company announced the voluntary filing to facilitate an orderly wind-down and asset sale. All 9,700 of its kiosks, located in retail locations like petrol stations and convenienc
bitcoin
Iran’s “Hormuz Safe” Bitcoin Insurance Platform Signals a New Phase in State-Level Crypto Adoption
Iran has launched a maritime insurance platform called Hormuz Safe, designed to provide shipping coverage for vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz using Bitcoin for settlement. The initiative marks one of the clearest examples yet of a nation state integrating public blockchain infrastructure int
ethereum
Verus Network Halts Layer 1 Chain After $11.6M Bridge Exploit
On 17 May 2026, an attacker exploited a vulnerability in the Verus-Ethereum bridge, extracting digital assets valued at approximately $11.6 million. The stolen assets, which included various tokens native to the Verus ecosystem, were immediately swapped for Ether (ETH) on decentralized exchanges. Th
PulseChain News
PulseChain Weekly Roundup: Week of May 11–17, 2026
A weekly overview of the biggest developments across PulseChain and the wider crypto landscape. Covering ecosystem updates, market movements, infrastructure, regulation, and the ongoing shift toward real decentralized systems.
Joby Weeks
The Tether Is the Sentence
Joby Weeks helped build the mining world before Wall Street learned how to sell Bitcoin in a wrapper. The state put him on a leash and called it justice.
Hyperliquid
Incumbent Exchanges Lobby US Regulators Against Onchain Energy Derivatives
The fight for who gets to trade oil and gas futures has spilled out of the regulated world and onto a blockchain. The incumbents, Intercontinental Exchange and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, are now lobbying American regulators to shut the door. Their target is a decentralized derivatives exchange
admin key
The Bet Under The Bet
Read pMINT as a leveraged social wrapper on pDAI conviction, not as free yield. Then decide whether that is a feature or a warning.
stablecoin
Law Firm Leverages OFAC Sanctions to Claim $344M in Frozen USDt
A law firm in New York believes it has found a way to pay for old acts of terrorism with new digital money.
bitcoin
THORchain Paused After $10.8M Cross-Chain Exploit
THORchain is offline. The entire network was halted by its operators after an attacker drained roughly $10.8 million from its liquidity pools on May 15th. All swaps, deposits, and withdrawals are frozen. The theft hit native assets from Bitcoin, Ethereum, BNB Chain, and Base, and the protocol's RUNE
cross-chain
Transit Finance Exploited for $1.88M via Deprecated TRON Contract
A contract declared dead two years ago just drained $1.88 million from user wallets. On May 13, the cross-chain aggregator Transit Finance announced the loss, which occurred on the TRON network. The attacker used what the team called “historical vulnerabilities” in a legacy smart contract, one the p
defi
US Senate Amendments Target DeFi Developer Liability and Protocol Autonomy
A slate of proposed amendments to the CLARITY Act would make writing open-source financial software a regulated, and potentially criminal, activity in the United States. Filed by a group of Democratic senators including Elizabeth Warren, the changes aim to dismantle the legal distinction between bui