Protocol

A breach of France's tax authority reportedly exposed 678,000 records — including home addresses sorted by income tier — and the data is now said to be for sale on the dark web. Ryan Moon breaks down why this isn't a...

A developer using the alias Tyler Knapp spent roughly a month contributing to MetaMask's crypto-to-fiat conversion module — the off-ramp where on-chain assets become spendable cash. Consensys says they caught it...

Trump's mandatory financial disclosure revealed $635 million from the TRUMP memecoin — even as the token lost roughly 98% of its value. Ryan Moon breaks down the fee structure that made a collapsing price irrelevant to...

A four-year-old bug in Zcash's Orchard ZK-proof circuit let a prover substitute a free constant for the real elliptic curve base point, meaning a crafted proof could verify as valid while encoding a fraudulent scalar...

Bitcoin fell below $60,000 this week for the first time since October, and the $62 billion erasure in Digital Asset Treasury market caps isn't just a number — it's the flywheel breaking in reverse. DATs were built on a...

Strategy issued perpetual preferred stock with an 11.5% dividend obligation, and when ATM equity issuance got expensive, the capital stack did exactly what Saylor said it would on the Q1 earnings call: it sold bitcoin...

Grayscale and FalconX both published institutional research on Hyperliquid in the same week HYPE set a record above $60, and the convergence is worth understanding as more than a price story. The platform did roughly...

Tether froze 344 million dollars in USDT tied to Iran on April 23rd — nearly three weeks before U.S. banks were even officially told to watch for Iranian crypto activity. An offshore stablecoin company incorporated in...

An AI agent with access to a live crypto wallet had its memory wiped in a crash, misread a random post on X as a transfer request, and autonomously sent a stranger up to four hundred fifty thousand dollars on-chain with...

Eight people just left the Ethereum Foundation in four months — two executive directors, three protocol cluster leads, and two core researchers — and nobody's clearly taking over the All Core Devs calls that Tim Beiko...

The Winklevoss twins just invested $100 million in their own public company at $14 a share when the stock was trading at $4.92, paid entirely in bitcoin instead of cash, then quietly rewrote the rules to make it easier...

Justin Sun invested forty-five million dollars in Trump's crypto company World Liberty Financial, and they just froze all four billion of his tokens—worth potentially up to a billion dollars—after he wouldn't dump...

North Korea's Lazarus Group just walked away with 292 million dollars in crypto by poisoning the infrastructure behind a bridge so badly configured it had one single security verifier—despite repeated warnings to add...

A New York Times reporter just spent eighteen months using AI to analyze thousands of emails and claims Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto is Adam Back—a British cryptographer sitting on potentially seventy-eight billion...

The SEC and CFTC just admitted they screwed up so badly on crypto regulation that innovation literally fled the country, and now they're trying to fix it with joint roundtables and a principle called technology...