EscalationBlockstream Refuses Ransom Over $47M Liquid Bitcoin Hack
Blockstream has drawn a hard line in the Liquid hack, refusing to pay a ransom for the return of roughly $47 million in Bitcoin still held by the exploiters and...
Bitcoin $72-73K: ETF Realized Price and Coinbase Premium
One number is being floated as Bitcoin's line in the sand: $72,000-$73,000. The pitch is simple.
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Early SignalCFTC Approves 30% Whistleblower Awards for Cases Under $5M
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has approved automatic 30% whistleblower awards for cases under $5 million, according to the headline now circulating a...
Market ReactionKalshi Seeks US Approval for Single-Stock Perpetual Futures
Kalshi is reportedly preparing to seek US approval for single-stock perpetual futures tied to Tesla, Apple, and Nvidia, a move that would push the prediction-ma...
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RISK: MEDIUMCFTC Approves 30% Whistleblower Awards for Cases Under $5M
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has approved automatic 30% whistleblower awards for cases under $5 million, according to the headline now circulating a...
RISK: HIGHKalshi Seeks US Approval for Single-Stock Perpetual Futures
Kalshi is reportedly preparing to seek US approval for single-stock perpetual futures tied to Tesla, Apple, and Nvidia, a move that would push the prediction-ma...
RISK: HIGHGYEN Stablecoin Wind-Down: Coinbase to Convert Holdings to USDC
The GYEN stablecoin wind-down was reported by Crypto Briefing , which detailed the issuer's decision to retire the token and Coinbase's plan to move affected ba...
RISK: HIGHMorpho Hands Over 2.2 Million-User Mini App to Featherlend
Morpho is handing its Mini App, described as reaching 2. 2 million users, over to Featherlend.
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EscalationBlockstream Refuses Ransom Over $47M Liquid Bitcoin Hack
Blockstream has drawn a hard line in the Liquid hack, refusing to pay a ransom for the return of roughly $47 million in Bitcoin still held by the exploiters and...
Early SignalSlowMist: Liquid Network Exploit Minted 3,998 L-BTC
The report puts a hard number on an event that Blockstream, the company behind Liquid, has so far described in approximate terms. And it raises the stakes for a...
Market ReactionBlockstream Rejects Ransom After 85% BTC Recovery: Liquid Exploit
The confirmed core comes straight from Blockstream. Its initial incident report, displayed as September 7 at 12:14 AM, says purported white-hat hackers withdrew...
EscalationChangeNOW API 2026: What It Offers, Who Uses It, and Whether It Delivers
An investigative look at the ChangeNOW API in 2026 - endpoint coverage, known wallet integrations, partner revenue share, and the unresolved question of who bea...
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Vitalik Buterin
Co-founder of Ethereum
Co-founder of Ethereum, the first global smart-contract platform. He remains one of the most influential technical and p...
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Bitcoin Fund Flows Reflect Fed Rate Bets: CoinShares
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Changpeng Zhao (CZ)
Founder and former CEO of Binance
Founder of Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange. He now focuses on the nonprofit education project Giggl...
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Poly Network Hack: $610M in Crypto Stolen, Most Returned
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Michael Saylor
Executive Chairman of MicroStrategy
The most visible corporate Bitcoin advocate, known for turning MicroStrategy into the largest public-company holder of B...
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Strategy's Bitcoin Buying Return Lasted Exactly One Week
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Brian Armstrong
Co-founder and CEO of Coinbase
Co-founder and CEO of Coinbase, the leading US crypto exchange and the first major crypto company to go public on Nasdaq...
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Republican Senators Warn CLARITY Act Could Fail Next Week
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Charles Hoskinson
Founder of Cardano and IOG, and Ethereum co-founder
Former Ethereum co-founder who left to build Cardano, a blockchain ecosystem centered on academic research and peer-revi...
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COLLAPSEStandard Chartered: SKY Token Could Rise Fivefold by 2028
Standard Chartered thinks SKY, the governance token of the protocol formerly known as MakerDAO, could be worth five times its recent price by the end of 2028, c...
FRAUDSchwartz Defends XRP Ledger Over 93% Bot Transaction Claim
Ripple's chief technology officer has stepped into a fresh online brawl over the XRP Ledger, pushing back on a viral claim that bots and spam accounts drive 93%...
FRAUDPolkadot Holders Vote on dotUSD Proposal With $5M Backing
The proposal lives on-chain as Referendum #1944 , titled "dotUSD: A Native Stablecoin for Polkadot. " It was in the Deciding state on the Root track when the re...
FRAUDXRP Pulls Back Despite BIS Testing XRPL as Rate-Hike Fears Return
XRP just got a landmark institutional nod from one of finance's most powerful bodies, and the price barely blinked. The token slipped to around $1.