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Tether says it had ‘limited’ exposure to bank linked to $84M US seizure
US prosecutors alleged that a payments business illegally transferred hundreds of millions of dollars at the direction o…
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Ethereum
Circle and Tether Freeze Stablecoins Tied to Bitget Hack—But Most Funds Slip Away
The two stablecoin issuers blacklisted a wallet labeled "Bitget Exploiter 8," locking about $318,000 in USDC and USDT—…
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OpenAI Is Building a $500 per Month ChatGPT Pro Max Plan, Leaks Suggest
Leaked code strings and screenshots point to a new tier that would cost 25 times more than ChatGPT Plus, aimed at people…
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Bitget clarifies $388M in assets affected by security breach
The Bitget breach announced on Thursday affected about $35 million more than previously reported, based on an analysis o…
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Bitget Hack Losses Climb to $387M: Here’s What Happened, and Why North Korea Is a Suspect
An attacker faked internal transfer requests to drain $387.5 million from Bitget's hot and warm wallets, and the exchang…
Bitcoin
Strategy seeks shareholder approval for daily preferred stock dividends
Strategy’s proposal would move STRC and its three other preferred stocks to daily dividend payments, following a simil…
Ethereum
Magic Eden Warns Old Ethereum NFT Listings Are Exposed to Payment Processor Exploit
A flaw in Limit Break's Payment Processor V2 put old Magic Eden Ethereum listings at risk, prompting a whitehat rescue o…
Bitcoin
Bitcoin Rally Slows as $15.6 Billion Options Expiry Hits—XRP and Solana Keep Climbing
Pullback or reversal? Here's what the charts suggest for BTC.…
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Crypto Biz: Wall Street and crypto fight for the same turf
Stablecoins and tokenized assets are pushing banks, exchanges and crypto companies into the same markets, from payments …
Ethereum
Circle and Tether step in to freeze hacker wallet after massive Bitget crypto heist
The stablecoin issuer blacklisted a wallet holding about $318,000 in USDT and USDC. Most of the stolen funds sit in ethe…
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Exchanges reporting crypto gains to IRS becomes tax nightmare
The IRS can now see your crypto gains, but has no idea about the cost-basis. That’s proving to be a big headache for s…
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Strategy Wants Its Preferred Stock Dividends to Accrue 365 Days a Year
STRF, STRC, STRK and STRD would accrue dividends on weekends and holidays, in a move Strategy says will dampen volatilit…
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Morgan Stanley Joins NEXTPredict as Prediction Markets Bet on 'More Institutional' Play
The bulk of prediction market trades are still sports bets, while valuations are predicated on rising institutional inte…
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Morning Minute: BlackRock Leans Deeper Into Tokenization with Ondo
The biggest financial institutions in the world are bringing more products onchain, and the pace is accelerating.…
Bitcoin
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth Holds Bitcoin in a Coinbase Wallet, Filing Shows
Two entries in his annual disclosure put the holding somewhere between $16,000 and $65,000, alongside more than $1 milli…
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KelpDAO Developer Sues LayerZero Over $292M Bridge Exploit
Evercrest says LayerZero approved the single-verifier configuration in writing multiple times, then warned a different d…
Bitcoin
Researchers Publish 'Zcash-Style' Design for Private Bitcoin Transfers
The Shielded Bitcoin spec hides senders, receivers and amounts, but leaves how BTC enters and exits the system to a late…
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Federal Reserve Unveils Stablecoin Rules on Reserves and Capital
The central bank opened two proposals for comment under the GENIUS Act, requiring issuers it supervises to back tokens f…
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Bitget Hacked as $350 Million Vanishes From Crypto Exchange Wallets
A newly created wallet drained hot and cold reserves labeled as belonging to Bitget across multiple blockchains in under…
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Humans Are Reading Your ChatGPT Chats, New Lawsuit Claims
A proposed class action accuses OpenAI of quietly routing real conversations to outside contractors through a program ca…
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Meta's New AI Toy Is a Keychain That Watches, Listens, and Never Blinks
Muse Charm is Meta's palm-sized gadget for talking to its Muse AI agent on the go. It has cameras, a fingerprint sensor,…
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AI Can Now Doxx Your Anonymous Accounts? Here's What’s Going On
A February research paper showing AI can unmask pseudonymous internet users is freaking everyone out again this week. He…
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New York Wants to Ban Polymarket, Lawsuit Calls It 'Illegal Gambling Operation'
Attorney General Letitia James and Governor Kathy Hochul allege the prediction market operates without a license and exp…
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In Her Final Weeks, SEC's Peirce Calls for Ending the KYC 'Panopticon'
In one of her final speeches as commissioner, Peirce argued that regulators' "data haystacks" endanger the people they a…