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DeFi users pull $10 billion out of the market as $292 million exploit sparks bank-run optics

A $292 million exploit at KelpDAO set off a broad retreat across decentralized finance over the weekend, draining roughly $10…
Markets

Saylor teases 'bigger' BTC buy days after floating semi-monthly dividends

Strategy’s Michael Saylor posted “Think Even Bigger” on Sunday, coming just a week after it disclosed $1 billion of Bitcoin…
Markets

Cloud hosting firm Vercel confirms ‘limited’ hack of user info

Vercel has confirmed it was compromised after a member of a hacking forum put the company’s information up for sale…
Infrastructure

Bitcoin, ether, solana slide, oil jumps on renewed U.S.-Iran war risks

Bitcoin traded at $74,335 after Iran reimposed controls on the Strait of Hormuz over the weekend, with the modest 1.6%…
Markets

Polymarket in talks to raise $400M at a $15B valuation: Report

Polymarket’s potential $15 billion valuation would still put it below the $22 billion valuation of competitor platform Kalshi in its…
Markets

LayerZero blames Kelp's setup for $290 million exploit, attributes it to North Korea's Lazarus

LayerZero said the attackers compromised two RPC nodes the company’s verifier relied on and DDoS’d the rest, with the attack…
AI

Hack at Vercel sends crypto developers scrambling to lock down API keys

Breach tied to compromised AI tool may have exposed credentials used by app frontends, the user-facing layer that connects web3…
Markets

Crypto traders spend $9.7B on fees as the next Bitcoin drawdown will expose which on-chain costs are real

Users paid $9.7 billion in on-chain fees in the first half of 2025, up 41% year over year and the…
Markets

2024 BTC cycle 'dramatically' underperforming previous halvings: Analyst

Volatility and upside have been declining with each Bitcoin halving cycle, but the new dynamics may not be permanent, according…
Institutional

Morgan Stanley’s $116M Bitcoin ETF debut is tiny next to $1.9T, and that’s why Wall Street will notice

Morgan Stanley launched its spot Bitcoin ETF on Apr. 8 on NYSE Arca, calling MSBT the first cryptocurrency ETP from…