An oracle-manipulation exploit let an attacker liquidate collateralized vaults that should have been safe, netting about $912,000 and collapsing the stablecoin’s peg.
The exchange that invented the 100x leverage perpetual swap has halted new signups and told users to withdraw their funds before the deadline or face monthly fees.
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Bitcoin retreats from $67,000 amid broader market correction.
Lyn Alden raised $40M to launch Orange Juice, a holding company that buys cash-flowing businesses and layers Bitcoin on top, not another pure-play treasury bet.
The Strategy chairman warned that writing a spam ban into Bitcoin’s consensus rules is more dangerous than the spam itself, joining a wall of opposition weeks before an August deadline.
Michael Saylor and Adam Back came out against the anti-spam soft fork days before an early-August activation deadline it appears certain to miss.
Patrick Witt, the White House’s executive director for digital assets policy, calls in mid-episode to give the Chopping Block crew a live read on the CLARITY market structure bill!
The exchange that invented the 100x leverage perpetual swap has halted new signups and told users to withdraw their funds before the deadline or face monthly fees.
The former Coinbase CTO signed a deal to open a new campus in Kazakhstan just hours after Malaysian authorities revoked his Forest City community’s business license.
The company behind the Move-based layer-2 network collapsed into bankruptcy after a token-dump scandal.
An attacker drained nearly all of AFX Trade’s funds by compromising the signing keys to a bridge the Arbitrum protocol operates, in another off-chain crypto exploit.
An oracle-manipulation exploit let an attacker liquidate collateralized vaults that should have been safe, netting about $912,000 and collapsing the stablecoin’s peg.
The plan would end validator-gated listings, requiring deployers to lock about $30 million in tokens while letting them keep up to half the trading fees.
Enso says it found two real pools, on Ethereum and Polygon, engineered to pass a wallet’s pre-trade simulation with an attractive quote and then execute at a worse rate.
Nick Almond and Proph3t on ENS’s treasury fight, the BonkDAO heist, and why Proph3t would not touch Venice’s VVV token.
Joseph Chalom lays out why Ethereum Institutional exists, how it differs from Etherealize, and why he thinks Michael Saylor is in a pickle.
OpenSea postponed its SEA token generation event indefinitely as NFT market capitalization fell 50% since January, even as the platform’s OS2 rebuild shifts most volume to crypto trading.
Nike quietly exited its NFT business by selling RTFKT months after shutting it down, as former holders pursue legal action over lost value.
Nick O’Neill, more popularly known by his persona “Choose Rich Nick,” delves into how he became internet famous, the man behind the persona, his endgame and the secret to his success.
Polymarket plans a legal challenge to France’s nationwide block of its website, arguing the regulator wrongly treated an information source as illegal gambling.
SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce, the agency’s most crypto-friendly voice, said DeFi vaults and onchain lending can qualify as securities depending on how they are managed.
A new Senate draft of the crypto market structure bill finally includes an ethics provision limiting how the president and other officials profit from digital assets, but Democrats say it isn’t enough.
The State Duma bill caps how much ordinary Russians can buy each year while clearing a path for companies to settle international trade in crypto.
A vulnerability in Zilliqa’s Ledger app, present since 2019, lets attackers rebuild a signer’s private key from data already public on the blockchain.
B20, now live on Base mainnet, runs tokens as native code in the chain and bakes in roles, blocklists, and freeze-and-seize powers aimed at stablecoin and real-world-asset issuers.
Two White House executive orders accelerate U.S. quantum computing development while setting a 2030 deadline for federal agencies to migrate to post-quantum cryptography, sharpening the urgency for crypto networks still weighing their own defenses.
Patrick Witt, the White House’s executive director for digital assets policy, calls in mid-episode to give the Chopping Block crew a live read on the CLARITY market structure bill!
Vladimir Novakovski of Lighter joins the Chopping Block crew to untangle one of crypto’s oldest debates: what happens when tokens and equity coexist. The gang digs into the Venice/VVV controversy, breaks down Lighter’s new Perps integration with Robinhood Chain and the fragmentation questions it raises, dissects the wild BonkDAO governance exploit, and reacts to the eye-popping $2.4 billion in crypto income disclosed in Trump’s financial filings.
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