Informed Crypto News

After a hacker minted 80M USR, the resulting depeg has sown chaos across DeFi yield vaults, and “risk curators” face scrutiny once again.

Just one day after Donald Trump said the war would be over “very soon,” he wiped $60B off crypto markets with a threat against Iran.

Coinbase users are complaining about receiving multiple push notifications per day urging them to “predict” college basketball.

An ongoing bear market combined with wider global economic struggles has hit crypto firms hard, causing delays, staff layoffs, and AI pivots.

Google has warned that over 200M iPhones face multiple zero-day exploits that specifically target mobile crypto wallets.

Afroman, known for his 2000s hit “Because I Got High,” was sued by police after he mocked a botched raid on his home via the medium of rap.

The hacker has clawed back $4.8M of losses, six months after draining UXLINK’s multi-sig and minting a billion tokens.

Pardoned BitMEX founder Ben Delo is funding a political network in Westminster that’s attracted a host of right-wing figures.

Evernorth, a for-profit XRP treasury stock working on its Nasdaq listing, is giving a sweet deal to a nonprofit that Larsen created.

We calculated the present value of STRC and compared it to various metrics that reveal the difficult math behind BTC yield.

The hacker who attacked DeFi lending platform Venus Protocol lost almost $5M on-chain, following nine months of preparation.

Netflix added six more names to its FTX drama The Altruists. They’ll appear alongside Anthony Boyle and Julia Garner.

Crypto’s most embarrassing photo of 2026 so far features a man tattooed with a $40B collapse and “the worst fund manager in America.”

Justin Sun claimed that Poloniex’s fee-free trading is funded by his 2012 BTC, but Poloniex is missing $1.3B in BTC.

Reform UK processes its crypto donations through Radom’s Poland-listed firm, which avoids scrutiny from the UK’s financial watchdog.

Solana has survived until its sixth birthday. Given how many outages and hacks its blockchain experienced, that feat is remarkable.

Sam Bankman-Fried has focused his energy on asking for a presidential pardon, but his efforts aren’t going particularly well.

Polymarket users reportedly threatened to kill an Israel-based journalist after his Iranian missile report threatened several large wagers.

After Chainlink community liaison Zach Rynes called the XRP Ledger an “obsolete ghost chain,” the XRP Army retaliated.

Operation Atlantic will see the US, UK, and Canada contact potential victims of crypto fraud and advise them on how to keep assets safe.

A chronic health condition is preventing Andreas Antonopoulos from continuing his career in bitcoin education.

A pseudonymous security researcher has accused blockchain firm Injective of lowballing a bounty on a bug which put $500M at risk.

Real-time estimates of Strategy STRC-funded BTC buys indicate that this week might be its biggest capital raise ever.

For 20 minutes, the glitch allowed customers from Lloyds, Halifax, and the Bank of Scotland to view the banking activity of other users.

Researcher Andrey Sergeenkov told Protos about his researc on Ethereum’s scaling improvements and a $63.3M spike in address poisoning losses.

There’s been a disagreement between Ten31’s Marty Bent and Coinbase about lobbying efforts around a proposed BTC tax exemption.

Nasdaq-listed BTC treasury company Strive has announced a $50M cash purchase of fellow BTC treasury company Strategy’s STRC.

Chaos Labs’ Correlated Asset Price Oracle pushed a faulty update yesterday, causing a 2.85% drop in the price of wstETH collateral.

The price of oil relative to BTC during key news events might be one of the most interesting chart studies of the Iran war.

Nigel Farage aide George Cottrell bet $41K that a US-Iran ceasefire won’t happen until late June, contradicting Reform UK’s current stance.

Polymarket currently has open assassination markets on its website and they’re some of the most heavily traded markets on the platform.

US Attorney Jay Clayton has requested a re-trial of Tornado Cash developer Roman Storm on two of his criminal charges.

The Compound incident is the latest in a string of website hijackings that have also affected Maple Finance, OpenEden and Curvance.

Amid the Iran war sell-off, influencers’ Dubai property values are crashing harder this month than BTC or most crypto portfolios.

X users are drawing parallels between US Homeland agents purchasing secret microwave weapons and Bob Lax’s one-star microwave review.

AI peddlers and crypto entrepreneurs want us to rejoice about Web 4.0 and the internet being consumed by botnets and AI agents.

Tron founder Justin Sun’s deal with the SEC would see all wash trading and price manipulation claims dropped.

Strategy founder Michael Saylor has increased the dividend rate on STRC so high that it’s now roughly 60% of a typical credit card rate.

Polymarket and Kalshi are popular in the cryptocurrency industry, but neither is truly “decentralized” like other projects.

The proxy currently running Sam Bankman-Fried’s X account is following degenerate memecoin promoters on behalf of the former FTX supremo.

The MONTRA token’s market cap dropped from $100K to $20K, and the Montra Finance website now displays a 404 error page.

The person behind the $5M crypto theft confessed to South Korean police and returned the funds — before they were stolen again.

Pig butchering is expanding so quickly that it’s given rise to two entirely new industries: escrowing and selling hostages.

Despite being widely reported as an “address poisoning” attack, the victim described a violent robbery and appealed for help recovering funds.

A new AI tool claims it can “bypass Cloudflare natively” and scrape DeFi websites with “zero bot detection.”

Curiously, BTC has demonstrated relative strength among trillion-dollar assets since the onset of the Iran war.

Almost four months have passed since the disassembly of a DeFi daisy chain, which saw the value of the “yield vault” sector drop by over $4B.

TRON founder Justin Sun has already seen his TRON Inc. stock continue to crater this week, and now his Rednote account has been banned.

Fans of XRP thought its blockchain could benefit from “quadrillions” of trade settlements at the DTCC via Ripple Prime.

Thailand’s police want an Interpol red notice issued for Benjamin Mauerberger, an alleged money launderer for the South Asian scam industry.