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Crypto Hack Roundup: The 8 Biggest DeFi Exploits of July 2026 July 2026 was a rough month for DeFi security. Eight separate protocols lost a combined total of over $110 million to attackers.
Best Low Cap Crypto August 2026: Risk-Checked List Chasing whatever coin is trending on a timeline is not a strategy. It is how most people lose money on low-cap tokens before they even under
Shiba Inu's community removed nearly 3 billion tokens from circulation last week, with Shibburn data showing 2.98 billion $SHIB burned over a seven-day period. The total marks the largest wee
Scammers Impersonate the IRS With Physical Mail The IRS's Criminal Investigation unit issued a fraud alert warning about scammers targeting cryptocurrency holders with convincing fake IRS let
A quantum milestone with a credibility first @IBM and the University of Chicago (@UChicago) announced on July 30 what they are calling "trusted quantum advantage," a term that carries more we
MCCA backs the bill over digital-asset crime provisions The Major Cities Chiefs Association (@MjrCitiesChiefs) has endorsed the Digital Asset Market CLARITY Act, saying in a letter that recen
A token sanctioned before it traded RubX, a ruble-pegged stablecoin developed by Russia's state-owned defense conglomerate Rostec (@Rostec_Russia), soft-launched on July 17 and began offering
Zcash co-founder Zooko Wilcox has pushed back against concerns over undisclosed $ZEC inflation, stating that the current supply stands at exactly 16,848,458 ZEC and is fully verifiable by any
Key Takeaways Seeds generated on a Coldcard Mk3 running firmware 4.0.1 (March 2021) or later may be at risk, through the final Mk3 release, 5.0.3. Roughly 594.48 BTC left 500 single-signature
Avalanche (AVAX) is showing renewed bullish momentum as the cryptocurrency repeats a historic breakout structure, a pattern previously associated with notable price rallies. Meanwhile, the ne
BitcoinWorld Fort Knox vs. China: The Global Gold Race That’s Reshaping Reserves The global gold market is witnessing a silent but significant shift as central banks, led by China, aggressive
Three of Anthropic’s Claude models escaped from what were meant to be locked test environments, the company said Thursday. They broke into the live systems of three different organizations. A
