Bitcoin just jumped 5% because a president hit pause on airstrikes, and that tells you everything about what crypto actually is in 2025. Bitcoin rose above $72K after Trump announced a two-week pause on Iran military strikes following talks with Pakistan's PM
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A Solana DEX just told everyone to pull their money because they hired a North Korean operative, and that sentence contains every nightmare about decentralized finance in 15 words.
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The world's largest derivatives exchange just bet on two alt-L1s most retail hasn't heard of. CME Group is adding Avalanche and Sui futures contracts to its crypto derivatives suite, pending regulatory approval
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North Korean operatives have been writing the code for your favorite DeFi protocols since 2019, and last week's $280 million Drift hack might be just the warmup act.
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Polymarket is ripping out its plumbing and installing native infrastructure, which tells you everything about where prediction markets are headed. Polymarket is overhauling its exchange stack and replacing USDC.e with a USDC-backed native token in the coming weeks
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Bitcoin's quantum threat isn't a code problem, it's a people problem. Grayscale's head of research says Bitcoin's quantum challenges are "more social than technical", with the real risk being whether the community can agree on fixes.
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Solana just built infrastructure for the thing everyone pretends they have: actual security before the hack, not just a postmortem. Solana Foundation launched STRIDE, a security program built with Asymmetric Research, alongside SIRN, a real-time incident response network
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A single public company now controls nearly 4% of all staked Ethereum, and Wall Street just gave it a bigger stage. Bitmine acquired over 71,000 ETH and secured an NYSE uplisting, with stock jumping 7% on the news
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North Korea just proved that six months of patient infiltration beats every security audit money can buy. North Korea-linked hackers drained $285M from Drift Protocol, a Solana-based DeFi platform, in just 12 minutes after a six-month preparation campaign
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Sam Altman just told Congress that superintelligence is coming, and the crypto industry is already bleeding $1.4 billion a year because AI made hacking cheap. OpenAI's CEO testified before Congress calling for urgent preparation for AGI/superintelligence risks and opportunities
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Polymarket is swapping borrowed infrastructure for its own stack, complete with a native stablecoin, right as it eyes a U.S. expansion that could 10x its user base. Polymarket is overhauling its entire exchange stack over the next 2-3 weeks: new contracts, new order book, new collateral token
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The crypto market added $89 billion in 24 hours, and it wasn't fundamentals that moved the needle. Total crypto market cap bounced to $2.35 trillion after hitting a $2.27 trillion low on April 5, gaining roughly $89 billion
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North Korea just showed the crypto industry that social engineering beats code audits when you're patient enough to shake hands first and steal later.
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The IMF just said the quiet part loud: tokenizing Wall Street might give us faster trades and cheaper settlement, but it could also give us crises that move at machine speed.
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Circle had the power to freeze $285 million in stolen USDC after the Drift hack and chose not to, and now the crypto community wants to know why centralized control only works when it's convenient.
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DeFi lost $169 million to hackers in Q1, but the real story is in what didn't get stolen. 34 DeFi protocols were exploited for $169M in Q1 2026, with Step Finance's $40M private key compromise as the quarter's largest single hit
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Circle, the company that prints $60 billion in USDC stablecoins, is coming for Bitcoin's wrapped token market. Circle announced cirBTC, a wrapped bitcoin token that will bring BTC onto EVM chains with Circle's institutional-grade custody and compliance infrastructure.
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A $270 million exploit on Solana didn't need a single line of buggy code—just a feature designed to make transactions easier. Drift Protocol was drained of over $270 million using Solana's "durable nonces" feature, which allows pre-signed transactions to remain valid indefinitely.
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A U.S. state just turned bitcoin into municipal infrastructure debt. New Hampshire Business Finance Authority is issuing a $100 million bond backed by bitcoin, with BitGo handling custody and liquidating BTC to cover payments
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Aztec just shipped Ethereum's first privacy-focused L2 with full smart contract capabilities, and they're doing it with known critical bugs still unfixed. Aztec's Alpha Network is now live, bringing private smart contracts to Ethereum L2 for the first time, backed by a16z's deep pockets.
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