The $116 million Balancer exploit appears to have been months in the making, with the attacker utilizing Tornado Cash and advanced methods to evade detection.

The Chinese budget AI model QWEN3 was the only one to generate positive returns, while its more heavily funded competitors returned significant losses.

Over $1.3 billion was wiped out across the crypto market as traders shifted their focus to $100,000 as the last line of defense for Bitcoin.

The FTX Recovery Trust dropped a motion to limit payouts to creditors in countries including China, which holds about $380 million in claims.

Stablecoin settlement times vary wildly depending on their blockchain. Purpose-built payment chains must remain open, or they will repeat TradFi fragmentation.

AI systems drive crypto fraud while the industry relies on outdated postmortems. Real-time transaction defense must become infrastructure.

Bitcoin gave up $104,000 for the first time in weeks, while traders warned of a return to sub-$100,000 levels and new buyers amassed unrealized losses.

Stream Finance is investigating a $93 million loss and has paused deposits and withdrawals, which has caused its stablecoin to depeg to $0.50. 

Bullish’s newly launched crypto options platform has attracted $82 million in trading volume within five days, with participation from institutional traders.

Michael Saylor’s Strategy has filed to offer euro-denominated shares, STRE, in its latest push to raise capital for more Bitcoin.