THORChain Refused to Block the $387M Bitget Hacker. Here’s Why | Chad Barraford
Bitget lost $387.5 million in a hack and asked THORChain to block the attacker’s addresses. THORChain said no. Weeks later, Tether froze fou...
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Mark Karpelès Opened the Ledgers. The Spy Chips Are Mass-Produced.
The chip that stole more than $90 million from Ledger users costs less than $20 to build, snaps into place with three solder points, and has...
He Lost $14M to FTX. Now He’s Putting Real Stocks on Solana | Armani Ferrante (Backpack)
What do you actually own when you buy a tokenized stock? Backpack founder Armani Ferrante breaks down the transfer agent, DTCC, SPV debt-sec...
STRK’s L1 Bet: Eli Ben-Sasson on Starknet’s Exit Plan
Starknet says it is “actively considering becoming an L1” — leaving Ethereum to become what it calls the first fully quantum-resistant netwo...
Ledger Was Hacked — Who Do You Trust With Your Keys Now?
Up to $93M drained from more than 300 wallets, and the software was never touched. Ledger confirmed a physical implant inside signers sold t...
Tokenized Stocks Get an SEC Sandbox. Who's Left Out?
The SEC just gave tokenized U.S. stocks a five-year path to trade on AMMs outside exchange registration rules. The largest tokenized stock p...
Solana's Historic Governance Vote — While Robinhood Invades Its Meme Coin Turf
Solana just took the most historic step in its governance history: its first real on-chain vote, where any SOL holder — not just validators...
Can RobinHood Chain Take This Boom? w/ ARB's Steven Goldfeder
Robinhood is surging on Arbitrum's stack, and today we're joined by ARB co-founder Steven Goldfeder to break down the boom.On this stream we...
The EIP That Wants to Cap ETH Staking at 50%
About a third of all ETH — over 41 million coins across nearly 900,000 validators — is already locked into staking. A new Ethereum proposal,...
The $114 Trillion Question: How DTCC Is Tokenizing the Entire U.S. Market
DTCC holds $114 trillion in assets. On July 15th, it showed the world how those assets can be converted into digital tokens, traded in real...
Memecoins Eat Everything: Robinhood's Accidental Casino & Base's Identity Crisis
Brian Armstrong changed his profile picture to a memecoin. It pumped to thirty million. Ten thousand wallets piled in. Less than twenty-four...
Now or Never: Inside the Fight to Pass the CLARITY Act
Fourteen days. That's the window the crypto industry has to get the CLARITY Act through the Senate — or wait until the 2030s for another sho...
Saylor Selling BTC: Strategy Lifeline or Betrayal?
Michael Saylor built his entire identity around one promise: he would never sell Bitcoin. Last week, that promise ended. Strategy's board vo...
Inside the Ethereum Foundation Overhaul: is a Multi-Node Structure Bullish?
The Ethereum Foundation just cut 20% of its staff and 40% of its budget. Two co-executive directors are gone. And the talent exodus has been...
"Bazooka in Every Hand" Do We Really Want Unstoppable AI? w/ Jake Brukhman, Haseeb Qureshi, Jesus Rodriguez
Last Friday, the U.S. Department of Commerce forced Anthropic to shut down Fable V for the entire world. One government, one decision, zero...
DeFi's Near-Death Moment | Mike Silagadze on Ether.fi, Security, and What Comes Next
How close did DeFi come to a real systemic collapse?In this episode, Camila Russo sits down with Mike Silagadze, co-founder and CEO of Ether...
DeFi Hacks Happening Every Day; Institutions Are Still Coming
April saw some of the worst DeFi losses in recent memory, and even OpenZeppelin co-founder Manuel Aráoz warned people to get out. But while...
Top Talent Is Leaving the EF. What Happens to ETH Now?
Top Ethereum talent is leaving. The Ethereum Foundation is shrinking. And one question now hangs over the entire ecosystem: what happens to...
DeFi Yields Are Too Damn Low! Here's Why
DeFi is approaching a breaking point.After a wave of hacks and growing concerns around smart contract risk, liquidity risk, and hidden depen...
The $300M DeFi Bailout: Heroic or Unsustainable?
Explosive debate: after one of DeFi's biggest attacks left Aave facing bad debt, DeFi United raised more than $300M to stop the contagion. B...