Unchained

This week in crypto: Iran’s largest exchange suffers a political hack, Gemini lashes out at the CFTC, and Polyhedra’s token plunges in a cascade.

Trump-linked DT Marks DeFi quietly offloaded a 20% stake in WLFI, potentially netting $190 million amid rising scrutiny over crypto ties.

ZachXBT estimates the shadowy “Black U” market on Tron could be worth up to $10 billion, with illicit funds flowing largely unchecked.

Trump Media secured SEC approval to raise $2.3 billion and hold bitcoin on its balance sheet, joining the ranks of crypto-heavy public firms.

JPMorgan is launching a token on Base. Is this the future of onchain banking?

Crypto’s Onchain Takeover: Hyperliquid’s $1B Airdrop, SPAC-Style Mania, and CZ’s Losing Battle

It made users rich. It skipped VCs. It’s challenging Binance. Hyperliquid has been a huge success this year, but can it be sustained?

Curve’s founder is testing a leveraged DeFi protocol designed to turn liquidity into yield and reduce impermanent loss.

Polygon’s zkEVM team split off to form ZisK, a new project focused on open-source zkVM tech for scalable and private blockchain apps.

Meta Pool was exploited for $27 million in minted tokens, but poor liquidity limited the attacker’s haul to just $132,000.

Geth Lead developer alleges that Ethereum Foundation offered him $5 million to quit and turn the interface into a private firm.

Many users are simply unable to manage cryptographic keys, report says, highlighting concerns over economic centralization fostering collusion.

Bybit happened to publish a proof of reserves the day before the $1.5 billion hack by North Korea. But the incomplete snapshot of the exchange’s finances lays bare why they don’t serve customers when disaster strikes.

Buterin’s acquisition and use of a Miladys NFT on his social media accounts X and Farcaster comes at a time when the Ethereum community has expressed a number of concerns about the network’s trajectory and leadership.

From the groundbreaking success of the ETFs to Solana’s dominance and the Trump effect on Bitcoin, we look back at the stories and voices that defined 2024.

PENGU, the new token for Pudgy Penguins that rolled out on Solana, has a fully diluted valuation of $2.6 billion, making it the sixth largest memecoin.

South Korean regulators laid out a 2025 plan to legalize spot crypto ETFs, aiming to unlock new investment avenues for retail traders.

Trump urged the House to swiftly pass the GENIUS Act after its Senate approval, calling it key to U.S. dominance in digital assets.

With stablecoins riding high, a reverse merger with a Nasdaq-listed firm seems like perfect timing. But Tron is quietly starting to face some headwinds.

The White House wants Congress to pass crypto bills addressing stablecoins and crypto market structure by August. One is on track, but the other just got pushed into the fall.

A North Korean-linked hacker reportedly took control of Waves’ Keeper-Wallet codebase via a hijacked GitHub account, raising major security concerns.

Crypto’s Wall Street Invasion: Circle’s IPO, Meme Stock Multiples, and the End of Fintech – The Chopping Block

New feature allows accrual of yield on tokenized asset holdings timed to the second, asset manager says.

Alex Lab pledged full reimbursement after an $8.3 million exploit on its Bitcoin DeFi protocol, marking its second major breach in just over a year.