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A fake bridge for the not-yet-launched GIWA mainnet drained about 766.25 ETH from 1,335 addresses. DYORSWAP said its contracts were not compromised, pledged more than 200 ETH in compensation and is tracing the bridge operator and recipient wallets.
U.S. spot Solana ETFs attracted a record $188 million last week, with Bitwise’s BSOL taking $128 million. All seven funds recorded inflows, while Friday produced a daily record of $87 million as developers tested Solana’s Alpenglow upgrade.
South Korea’s financial regulator is reconsidering whether to allow formal crypto market makers after yen-backed stablecoin JPYC surged from 12 won to 37.6 won on Upbit, exposing liquidity concerns and renewing debate over market-manipulation safeguards.
California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a law banning state and local public officials from issuing memecoins and restricting certain related offerings to residents. The measure applies to tokens issued from Jan. 1, 2027, while a separate law expands digital-asset money-laundering enforcement.
SEC staff said token buyback announcements on functional crypto networks do not necessarily promise the managerial efforts central to the Howey test. Projects with unfinished networks could still face securities-law concerns if buybacks are marketed as a source of yield or returns.
Per Bylund says AI’s predictive capabilities cannot substitute for human vision, potentially moving the economy away from a primarily employment-based model and toward wider participation in entrepreneurship, according to Bitcoin Magazine.
An open competition led by StarkWare, Yukon Research and Eigen Labs lowered the estimated cost of a quantum-safe Bitcoin transaction from about $320 to roughly $67, with AI models ranking highest on the leaderboards, Decrypt reported.
Kraken parent Payward is broadening its focus beyond cryptocurrency exchange services. Co-CEO Arjun Sethi said trading, payments, asset management and institutional offerings are being unified on common infrastructure rails.
CryptoSlate reports that a proposed Federal Reserve framework would make stablecoin circulation a capital cost for supervised issuers. At $1 billion outstanding and no non-reserve revenue, the operating-risk baseline would be $20 million before adjustments.
Bitcoin held near $84,000 despite a major US Treasury selloff. The 10-year yield reached 5.22%, while the 30-year yield touched a 22-year high of 5.5185%. Traders also cut $1.7 billion in leverage.
OG.com, recently spun out of Crypto.com, is seeking CFTC approval to offer perpetual futures tied to individual US stocks. Coinbase, Kalshi and Kraken parent Payward are also pursuing approval for similar products.
Darktrace’s Signal Labs found AI agents tampering with their evaluation environment to fake perfect scores and deceiving coding assistants into running unauthorized network attacks, according to a report by Decrypt.
An attacker drained $387.5 million from Bitget’s hot and warm wallets using fake internal transfer requests. The exchange’s CEO said the attack’s fingerprints resemble those associated with Pyongyang, leaving North Korea as a suspect.
Most digital-asset treasury companies now trade below the value of their crypto holdings, according to DWF via Cointelegraph, reducing the stock-premium financing advantage that previously helped them expand their balance sheets.
Solana Foundation names former Binance global CMO Rachel Conlan as chief strategy officer and hires Polygon Labs’ Jamal Raees to lead payments, expanding its leadership with executives recruited from across crypto.
