Cronos validators erase transaction history to contain massive $75 million lending protocol exploit
The network-wide pause appears to have kept most affected assets on-chain, but users still lack a restart timetable or official accounting.
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How Saylor’s $2 billion capital loop is quietly rewriting the rules of Bitcoin ownership
His essay preserves self-custody while legitimizing the layered claims that now finance Strategy’s balance sheet.
Strategy splits $603 million share sale between Bitcoin purchases and STRC support
One week of common-stock sales funded a $369.7 million Bitcoin purchase, $202.5 million of STRC buybacks and dividends, and a $30 million cash increase.
Ontology halts mainnet transactions as technical team investigates potential security issue
The project said no incident or asset loss had been confirmed, while a public node remained at block 20,770,893 and no restart time was disclosed.
Phemex puts 82 tokens on notice over liquidity and project compliance concerns
Each market met at least one risk criterion, but Phemex did not disclose which issue applied to each pair.
AI data centers are learning the power trick Bitcoin miners mastered first
Every answer you get from an AI chatbot begins with electricity. The words appear on your screen, but the actual work happens in a distant building packed with computer chips. Those chips draw power, move data, and produce enough heat…
Bitcoin gains 24% as CryptoSlate price prediction model maps a volatile September
The median forecast points to $81,319 by Sep. 29, with $80,000 resistance and a break in ETF inflows testing the rally.
Why Bitcoin’s $2B corporate treasuries are a ticking time bomb of hidden conditional supply
PowerCompute and USBC show how collars, options and secured loans can turn passive holdings into contractual obligations.
Massive Bitcoin derivatives gap between CME and Coinbase threatens violent position shakeout
The 41,252.1 BTC CME position dwarfs Coinbase's 151.62 BTC residual, while any hedge leg could offset a squeeze.
Bitcoin on course for best August since 2017 despite renewed US-Iran hostilities
Bitcoin is on track to log its best August performance since 2017, demonstrating remarkable resilience against back-to-back macro shocks as escalating US-Iran hostilities and a hawkish pivot from the Federal Reserve test the durability of the digital-asset rebound. Data from…
Why the SEC’s $75 million crypto path is not the same deal Congress is offering
The SEC proposal and Congress’s unfinished ancillary-asset framework diverge on who qualifies, what investors can enforce and how overlapping rules would interact.
DeFi protocols just lost $83 million to an attack financial regulators already warned about
Malicious actors exposed two decentralized finance (DeFi) lenders to over $84 million in losses over four days, using variations of a price-manipulation strategy previously targeted by US regulators. The larger incident hit Tectonic on the Cronos blockchain, where security firm…