Bridge exploits and admin compromises drove most April losses, exposing critical weaknesses in DeFi infrastructure layers. April 2026 marked a sharp escalation in crypto security breaches, with losses reaching $620 million across just 20 days. Activity spanned 12 separate incidents, making it the worst month since the Bybit breach in February 2025. Attack patterns ranged

Bitcoin is attempting to stabilise after the 5 February capitulation event, which drove the price to a local low of $60,100. The macro backdrop has turned constructive. Headline CPI cooled to below expectations, reinforcing the narrative that disinflation is gaining traction. Treasury yields declined, the dollar softened, and rate markets repriced toward three potential cuts

Justin Sun posted his words on X Monday night – “the most decentralized blockchain in the world is Tron” – and the timing was not accidental. Hours earlier, Arbitrum’s Security Council had used emergency powers to freeze 30,766 ETH, roughly $71 million, stolen from Kelp DAO by what LayerZero has since attributed to North Korea’s

A 13-block chain reorganization on LTC$56.28 late Friday and Saturday rewound roughly 32 minutes of network activity after attackers used a vulnerability in its Mimblewimble Extension Block (MWEB) protocol. The bug had enabled a denial-of-service attack against major mining pools, allowing the invalid MWEB transactions to slip through nodes that had not updated, before the

Metaplanet said it will issue ¥8 billion ($50 million) in zero-interest bonds to expand its Bitcoin holdings, according to a Friday statement, extending a financing strategy that has defined its balance sheet shift toward digital assets. The issuance marks the firm’s 20th series of ordinary bonds and will mature in April 2027. The bonds are

JPYC stablecoin crosses $100M on Polygon, showing rapid growth in Japan’s digital payments and rising adoption of blockchain-based stablecoins. Japan’s stablecoin market is growing fast as JPYC crosses a major milestone. The yen-backed stablecoin has surpassed onchain payment volume of over $100 million in eight months. Besides, this expansion underscores the increasing adoption of digital

For most of their existence, prediction markets sat squarely outside mainstream finance: an interesting technological and cultural phenomenon, but too small, too thinly traded and too often associated with online gambling to attract meaningful institutional interest.  That began to change in 2025, as trading volumes rose sharply, media attention intensified and regulatory clarity improved, making

Coinbase UK has launched a crypto-backed lending product that lets British users borrow USDC stablecoins against their Bitcoin, Ethereum, and cbETH holdings – with funds arriving in under a minute. The detail most headlines are missing is what this actually unlocks for UK holders sitting on unrealized gains: a way to access real spending power

The modern financial system was never designed for machines. It was built around the constraints of human life: geography, sleep cycles, paperwork, and physical presence. But as AI agents begin to act as economic participants, that human-centric design is starting to look less like a feature, and more like a bottleneck, said the co-founder of

A closer look at why the consultation’s proposed deferral sits awkwardly inside a rules-based benchmark and what a better path forward might look like. JPX Market Innovation & Research (JPXI) is considering a new rule that would defer companies whose principal asset is cryptoassets from new inclusion in TOPIX and other periodically reviewed indices. The