Compromised keys, not broken code, now drive the majority of crypto theft, and North Korea is cashing the checks. Summary DeFi protocols have lost at least $1.3 billion to exploits in the first eight months of 2026, according to Forbes and CertiK, with compromised private keys overtaking smart contract bugs as the leading attack vector
Tokenisation is widening access to real-world assets, from Treasury-linked products and gold to more specialised credit, commodity and cash-flow structures. As the RWA category expands, however, the token itself is only the starting point. Investors still need to understand the underlying asset, legal claim, return mechanism and liquidity terms before treating any tokenised product as
Notional Finance may have suffered a $1.7 million exploit involving an escrow contract, blockchain investigators reported on Sept. 4. The reported losses include approximately $69,242 in DAI and $1.66 million in USDC. Summary Researchers reported $1.7 million in DAI and USDC leaving an escrow contract linked to Notional. The reported losses comprise $69,242 in DAI
XRP slipped to $1.32 on Wednesday, even as U.S. spot XRP ETFs logged their 11th straight day of net inflows. Today, though, the trend has reversed: XRP is up more than 4% and now trading at $1.38. Could the XRP price prediction point to a $2 target this September? At a recent event attended by
Senator Cynthia Lummis has backed the CLARITY Act as a way to extend Wyoming’s digital-asset model across the United States before a Sept. 15 Senate vote requiring 60 votes to advance. Summary Lummis said Wyoming’s crypto laws offer a working model for federal regulation. The CLARITY Act would divide digital-asset oversight between the SEC and
The bank is now offering institutional crypto spot trading in the region, bringing BTC and ETH onto the same eFX rails that institutions use to trade dollars and euros. Source link
Coinbase has filed two SEC notice registrations dated Sept. 1 as it works to bring single-stock perpetual contracts to the United States through its regulated derivatives exchange and brokerage. Summary Coinbase Derivatives filed Form 1-N to register as a security futures exchange. Coinbase Financial Markets submitted Form BD-N as a limited-purpose security futures broker-dealer. The
Paxos-issued USDG has launched natively on Mantle, adding the Ethereum layer-2 network to a stablecoin coalition with more than 150 partners. Summary USDG can now be minted directly on Mantle and used for DeFi liquidity and institutional settlement. Mantle has joined the Global Dollar Network and can share in rewards generated by USDG activity. USDG
Bitcoin may be rallying but that doesn’t mean the bear market is over. Not yet, anyway. A new report from asset manager Fidelity said that while bitcoin was behaving like it did in previous cycles, it could still hit a bottom in November. Bitcoin started rallying in mid-August after the U.S. Treasury Department said it
BitMEX co-founder Ben Delo has supplied £4 million ($5.4 million), or about 75%, of the £5.3 million raised by Reform UK during the second quarter of 2026. Summary Ben Delo gave Reform UK £4 million through two donations made in April. Delo’s contributions accounted for about 75% of the party’s second-quarter funding. Reform UK raised
