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Editor's note: A longer, more in-depth version of this piece first ran on Notes on the Crises, a paid newsletter. Last month, a big controve...
Yesterday, a site that scans the internet for data breaches reported that 3.1 million email addresses had been stolen from CoinMar...
Polygon, a scalability solution for Ethereum, has awarded a $2 million bounty to a white hat hacker after they identified a vulner...
The U.S. Department of the Treasury says that the growing use of crypto assets challenges the efficacy of American sanctions. “We...
Binance USD (BUSD) has become one of the fastest-growing cryptocurrencies in the world, with a variety of use cases and growing de...
A report released by the Biden administration earlier this week warned that digital assets pose a risk to the United States’ sanct...
The securities market is worth tens of trillions of dollars, and it has the potential to be worth even more with tokenization, whi...
The Nasdaq-listed cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has disclosed that at least 6,000 users were victims of a hacking campaign to g...
Cryptocurrency giant Coinbase revealed that "at least 6,000 Coinbase customers had funds removed from their accounts" as a result...
Ethereum developer Virgil Griffith has today pleaded guilty to one charge of conspiracy in an agreement with federal prosecutors....
The scandal around sanctioned crypto broker Suex is growing in Russia where one of the co-founders of the OTC platform has been di...
PRESS RELEASE. When people talk about technology, the first thoughts are cell phones, applications, or equipment; but you rarely r...
The often-quoted phrase could actually mean something if the incentives behind politics change.“Same Same, But Different Same”Whil...
On Thursday, the pseudonymous operator of Bitcoin.org told the public on Twitter that the web portal has been “compromised.” The o...
The U.S. Treasury Department has blacklisted Suex, a cryptocurrency broker based in Russia, for its money laundering activities. T...
The US Treasury noted that crypto exchanges like Suex are critical in facilitating the profitability of ransomware gangs.
Russian cryptocurrency exchange Suex has been sanctioned by the United States Treasury for allegedly facilitating transactions for...
Decentralized finance (DeFi) platform Vee Finance has reported it was exploited for a total of 8804.7 Ethereum (around $26.2 milli...
Pnetwork, a multi-chain bridging protocol, announced it was hacked yesterday, losing 277 pbtc (its bridged version of bitcoin) on...