A growing share of software today is written not through careful design but through a kind of improvisation: a developer opens an editor, lets an AI assistant such as Copilot gener…
Two former JPMorgan engineers, Stuart Popejoy and Will Martino, left the bank in 2016 with the goal of building the proof-of-work blockchain they believed legacy finance was incapa…
On October 20, 2025, AWS's US-EAST-1 region went down — and a large swath of crypto infrastructure went down with it. Coinbase froze up, Robinhood stalled, and Infura's outage brok…
On Wednesday, October 15, at 3:12 PM EST, Paxos executed an internal transfer that briefly minted $300 trillion in PayPal's PYUSD stablecoin on Ethereum — an amount more than 2.5 t…
In February 2025, officials from China, Thailand and Myanmar stood before cameras and declared victory over the scam compounds lining Myanmar's border with Thailand — the sites whe…
Cryptocurrency was conceived as a way to move value without gatekeepers - a parallel financial rail for people unwilling to depend on institutions they never voted for. Thirty-two …
Abracadabra has been hit for a third time in under two years, this time losing $1.8 million in MIM tokens to an attacker who needed only two sequential actions to bypass the protoc…
Roughly six months after stepping in to absorb the customers of hacked exchange DMM Bitcoin — itself the victim of a $308 million North Korean theft — SBI Crypto found itself on th…
HyperVault pitched itself as a non-custodial, auto-compounding yield aggregator built on Hyperliquid's HyperEVM, promising returns as high as 95% APY through what it called "modula…
Less than a day after debuting on Binance Alpha , the Web3 AI project Griffin AI saw its token economics collapse under a wave of unauthorized inflation. An attacker manipulated La…
A single delegateCall on a compromised multisig gave an attacker control of Web3 social platform UXLINK's treasury, setting off a multi-chain incident that investigators now estima…
A joint investigation by Rena Labs and Insider.Cash reviewed 9,200 minute-by-minute trading data points across four market dimensions and concluded there was less than a 0.001% pro…
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