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World Liberty Financial, a digital asset project linked to the family of Donald Trump, has initiated a defamation lawsuit against Tron founder Justin Sun in a Florida state court. This legal action follows a prior suit filed by Sun in California, which alleged that World Liberty unfairly restricted
The United States Treasury Department recently sanctioned a series of digital wallets, claiming they were conduits for Iranian state finance. Operation Economic Fury resulted in the freezing of approximately $344 million in USDT, a move facilitated by the stablecoin issuer at the request of the Offi
The decentralised finance sector recorded its highest monthly incident count in April, with 28 separate exploits resulting in the loss of 635.2 million dollars. This figure represents a fourfold increase over the total losses recorded in the first quarter of the year. While the volume of attacks has
Arbitrum token holders have commenced a vote to release approximately 71 million dollars in Ether currently held in a frozen state following the Kelp DAO exploit. The funds, totalling 30,765 ETH, were intercepted and locked by the Arbitrum Security Council on 21 April to prevent further capital flig
There is a moment most people miss when they first look at how blockchains actually work. They see validators, they see rewards, they see the surface level idea of decentralisation, and they assume consensus is something that naturally emerges from honest participation. It doesn’t. It is engineered,
Operation Economic Fury highlights the fragility of centralised stablecoins as the US Treasury freezes half a billion dollars in assets via third-party issuers.
ZetaChain recently suffered a $334,000 exploit targeting its cross-chain gateway contract, an incident that was entirely preventable. The vulnerability used to drain funds across Ethereum, Arbitrum, Base, and BSC had been previously flagged by a researcher through the project’s bug bounty program. H
The Israeli Capital Market Authority has granted its first authorisation for a shekel-pegged stablecoin, known as BILS. Developed by the cryptocurrency exchange Bits of Gold, the token is the result of a two-year pilot programme conducted under state supervision. The asset is issued on the Solana ne
The European Union has enacted its twentieth sanctions package against Russia, implementing a total sectoral ban on cryptocurrency providers and platforms established within the federation. The measures extend to Belarus and specifically target the infrastructure used to move value outside of tradit
The recent surge in digital asset thefts, including the 1.5 billion dollar breach of Bybit and the 300 million dollar drain of Drift Protocol, highlights a persistent vulnerability that code alone cannot patch. These incidents were not the result of sophisticated cryptographic breakthroughs or quant
The Litecoin network recently experienced a 13-block reorganisation, rewinding approximately 32 minutes of transaction history. The event was triggered by an exploit targeting the Mimblewimble Extension Block protocol, a privacy-focused layer integrated into the chain. While the Litecoin Foundation
The recent activity across the scaling landscape reveals a widening gap between the marketing of decentralised finance and the reality of administrative control. In the most significant event, the Arbitrum Security Council intervened to freeze over 30,000 ETH following an exploit on KelpDAO. While t