OFAC sanctioned 134 crypto addresses. Tether froze 131. Three Monero addresses stayed live. Same enforcement action, different architecture. This is the quiet split inside crypto: compliant digital dollars on one side, bearer money on the other.
An attacker has drained $4.67 million from an Axelar-linked bridge on the Secret Network. The incident, which occurred on 10 June but was not detected until 17 June, exploited a critical vulnerability in a third-party smart contract responsible for managing wrapped assets.
On 12 June, the United States government directed the artificial intelligence firm Anthropic to disable access to its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models for all foreign nationals.
Aztec Connect was already deprecated. The contracts were immutable. The funds were still there. That combination turned an old privacy bridge into a sitting target, and when the proof logic failed to bind what was verified to what was executed, $2.1M walked straight through the gap.
The actor responsible for the 18 April exploit of Kelp DAO has successfully laundered approximately $220 million of the $293 million in stolen assets. The funds, originally drained as 116,500 restaked ETH (rsETH), were laundered over six weeks using a multi-stage, cross-chain process.
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
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
Telegram has announced it will replace the TON Foundation as the primary entity governing The Open Network, positioning the messaging platform as the network’s largest validator. This transition follows a series of technical updates, including the implementation of the Catchain 2.0 consensus mechani
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
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The theoretical emergence of cryptographically relevant quantum computing poses a direct threat to roughly 1.7 million BTC held in early addresses. These legacy wallets, primarily from the Satoshi era, utilise Pay-to-Public-Key (P2PK) scripts that expose public keys directly on the ledger. A suffici
The United Kingdom Financial Conduct Authority has released a consultation paper outlining a new regulatory framework for digital assets, focusing on stablecoins, staking, and trading platforms. This proposal, which precedes a comprehensive crypto bill expected by October 2027, introduces broad defi