Acting Texas Comptroller Kelly Hancock on Thursday announced the members of the Texas Strategic Bitcoin Reserve Advisory Committee, a newly created body tasked with guiding the state’s management, custody, and valuation of bitcoin holdings. The committee was established under Senate Bill 21, passed by the 89th Texas Legislature and signed into law on June 22,
DOJ charges Google engineer Michele Spagnuolo over alleged $1.2M Polymarket gains tied to confidential Google data. The U.S. Department of Justice has charged Google software engineer Michele Spagnuolo in an alleged Polymarket insider trading case. Prosecutors said he used confidential Google information to place market bets and gain more than $1.2 million. DOJ Files Charges
Attackers drained roughly $292 million from KelpDAO’s bridge this month, then used the released tokens as collateral on lending protocols that were never originally hacked. The result is a textbook example of how one failure can spread through DeFi — and why that matters as more tokenised assets move into wider markets. On April 18,
Crypto-backed political committees just spent more than $9M to reshape Texas politics in a single primary cycle, and they won nearly every race they touched. The most striking result: Houston Democrat Rep. Al Green, a 19-term incumbent and vocal crypto critic, was defeated in the Texas Primary Runoffs by fellow Democrat Christian Menefee after Fairshake
A $1.26 billion block sale of BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) this week might have been driven by a large investor seeking a rapid exit from bitcoin exposure rather than the unwinding of a common hedge-fund trading strategy. That’s according to an analysis published by crypto investment firm NYDIG. The transaction took place on May
An unknown actor broadcast a Bitcoin transaction Thursday evening embedding the full text of the U.S. Constitution onto the blockchain — permanently and without the possibility of removal. The transaction, confirmed at 8:25 p.m. UTC on May 28, cost 113,454 satoshis, or about $83.41 in fees, and was processed by mining pool SpiderPool just 14
Arthur Hayes predicts Hyperliquid could surpass Solana. He sets a $150 target for HYPE, citing strong revenue, buybacks, and growth plans. Arthur Hayes, co-founder of BitMEX, has made a bold prediction about Hyperliquid and its native token HYPE. He thinks that the decentralized derivatives platform may grow to be bigger than Solana in market value
BTC pushed above $79K, breaking out of a two-month range and printing its highest levels since early February. The move didn’t come out of nowhere. Positioning had been building for weeks with institutional demand building through ETF inflows and large players consistently absorbing supply. As price broke higher fuelled by easing geopolitical tension, short positioning
Bitcoin ETF News: On May 26, 2026, BlackRock IBIT, the world’s largest spot Bitcoin ETF, recorded $1.3 Billion in single-day outflows, extending its selling streak to seven consecutive days and marking the fund’s worst outflow event since its January 2024 launch. Bitcoin dipped under pressure during the same window, with BTC price impact visible across
The two biggest DeFi exploits of the past two months have one thing in common. They used a tool that does not exist on the XRP Ledger. Thorchain lost roughly $10.8 million on May 15 to a cross-chain attack that drained funds across Bitcoin, Ethereum, BSC, and Base. Drift Protocol, a Solana-based decentralized perpetual exchange,
