Zero Trust Network has announced Allied Builders, a new initiative focused on uniting aligned communities and infrastructure across crypto around self custody, immutable systems, peer to peer exchange, and open network coordination.
Binance is publicly denying a media report alleging the exchange processed approximately $850 million in transactions for a network connected to sanctioned Iranian financier Babak Zanjani. The funds were reportedly channeled, in part, to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
A malicious node operator on the THORChain network successfully drained approximately $10.7 million from one of the protocol’s liquidity vaults. The attack was executed by exploiting a vulnerability in the network's implementation of the GG20 threshold signature scheme (TSS).
The NEAR Foundation has announced the activation of a confidential payments feature built upon its new Intents protocol. The initial implementation enables users to execute private cross-chain swaps, sending NEAR tokens from the NEAR network and receiving ETH on the Ethereum mainnet. The system is d
An attacker has drained more than $600,000 from a Polymarket-linked smart contract on the Polygon network. The incident stemmed from the compromise of a single private key associated with an operational wallet.
The court-appointed administrator for the bankrupt Terraform Labs has initiated legal action against the quantitative trading firm Jane Street. A lawsuit filed in Manhattan federal court alleges that Jane Street used a private Telegram channel to obtain and act upon non-public information, enabling
Zero Trust Network has announced Allied Builders, a new initiative focused on uniting aligned communities and infrastructure across crypto around self custody, immutable systems, peer to peer exchange, and open network coordination.
On 19 May 2026, South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster signed Senate Bill 163 into law, establishing a comprehensive legal framework for digital assets within the state. The legislation, which passed with near-unanimous bipartisan support, institutes a pre-emptive ban on the use of central bank digi
Bankr, an AI-powered interface for cryptocurrency trading, has disabled all platform transactions. The action followed an attack where an adversary gained control of at least 14 user wallets, with one user reporting losses of $150,000. Three attacker-controlled addresses have been identified holding
The industry keeps calling this progress.
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
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
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