How 4,200 malicious smart contracts tricked 5,700 victims into signing away their crypto
Malicious smart contracts can make safety tools inside crypto wallets show a small gain even when the final transaction sends...
Month: August 2026
Trump Media’s 5,278 BTC vanishes from trackers after $165 million wallet move
Trump Media’s Bitcoin holdings came under renewed scrutiny after the company moved 2,628 BTC on Aug. 2, bringing the sum...
Tokenized Stock Holders Near 1 Million After 92% Growth in 30 Days
Tokenized equities are attracting a fast-growing onchain audience as investors seek access beyond conventional market hours. Yet rising wallet counts...
An AI Just Flagged 250,000 Cancer Studies as Possibly Fake. The Fight Is Now One AI Against Another
A study published in The BMJ used a BERT-based “scientific spam filter,” trained on 2,202 retracted paper-mill papers, to screen...
US Interest in Bitcoin Sinks to Near 5-Year Low
According to Google Trends, searches for bitcoin have fallen to a near-historic low, even as one of the industry’s key...
Casino Lobby Fueled NY Lawsuit Against Kalshi, CEO Mansour Claims
Tarek Mansour, CEO of Kalshi, stressed that the legal actions the state of New York has taken against his platform...
Senate Has 4 Days to Advance CLARITY Act as White House Weighs Deal
The Senate has four days to advance the CLARITY Act before its August recess, while the White House reviews an...
FBI Spy Hunter Stole $1M Crypto From His Own Target, Feds Say
A former FBI supervisory special agent has been accused of doing something investigators spend years warning others about: exploiting access...
Willy Woo Sees 20%-40% Chance of Partial Coldcard Bitcoin Recovery
Bitcoin analyst Willy Woo estimates authorities have a 20% to 40% chance of recovering part of the bitcoin stolen through...
Mastercard completes $1.8B BVNK acquisition in stablecoin push
Mastercard said the tie-up would help banks, fintechs and enterprises expand stablecoin payments, payouts, settlement and treasury services.Mastercard has completed...
Malaysia Blockchain Week’s OnlyFans scandal, lonely heart scammed for $3.3M: Asia Express
Fake romance crypto investment scams net $9 million in a single week in Hong Kong, as Malaysian authorities lose it...
Caleb & Brown expands to UK, betting on untapped crypto demand
The boutique brokerage will focus on high-net-worth clients rather than competing with retail crypto exchanges.
FBI Agent Arrested After Allegedly Looting Up to $1,000,000 in Crypto From ‘Adversarial’ Wallets
An FBI counterintelligence agent was arrested on Friday after allegedly looting “adversarial cryptocurrency accounts” and accumulating around $1 million worth...
Michael Saylor’s Strategy Resumes Bitcoin Sales, Hawking $105,000,000 Worth of BTC
The Bitcoin treasury firm Strategy (MSTR) sold 1,638 BTC worth $105 million in the past week, continuing a trend started...
Boltz pauses service after wave of AI-assisted hacking attempts
The non-custodial protocol said attackers are discovering and adapting exploits faster than its small development team can identify and patch...
