The Bitget hack drained USD 351.6 million from hot and warm wallets; the exchange suspects North Korea and has halted withdrawals.
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What has been happening this week in the world of blockchain and cryptocurrencies? Current events and background reports in our weekly review.
Bitcoin slipped to USD 74,985 after the first Fed rate hike in more than three years, one day after the Senate blocked the Clarity Act.
FINMA is reviewing Revolut’s application for a Swiss banking license that would bring salary accounts, a local IBAN and deposit insurance.
CoinEx shuts down its crypto exchange, ends spot trading on September 29 and lets users withdraw funds until December 22, 2026.
S&P Global is leading the extension of Kaiko’s Series B to USD 110 million, with BNP Paribas, Nasdaq and Coinbase Ventures also participating.
The Revolut data breach exposed ID copies, verification selfies and complete Bitcoin transaction histories to an unknown third party.
What has been happening this week in the world of blockchain and cryptocurrencies? Current events and background reports in our weekly review.
Bitcoin Suisse job cuts put up to 60 positions in Zug at risk, as the group moves back-office tasks to Bratislava and Vietnam.
Of 15,206 wallets that bought the Hunter Biden memecoin LAPTOP, 12,151 lost money, while 88 addresses took home USD 5.57 million.
Hunter Biden brings the memecoin LAPTOP to Base and hands out 20% of the supply by airdrop, partly to wallets holding TRUMP losses.
Roughly USD 320 million in Bitcoin left the federation wallet in the Liquid Network hack. Blockstream then paused the sidechain.
What has been happening this week in the world of blockchain and cryptocurrencies? Current events and background reports in our weekly review.
The IMF is releasing around USD 140 million after El Salvador stopped buying Bitcoin with public funds, ending state purchases since June 2025.
21 institutions, among them Goldman Sachs, UBS and Deutsche Bank, want to issue a bank-owned dollar stablecoin in the first half of 2027.
The Q2 2026 13F filings show USD 87.4 million in XRP ETFs at Goldman Sachs, after the bank had exited almost entirely in the prior quarter.
Unit bias leads crypto investors to favor low-priced coins. Why unit price is misleading and why market capitalization matters.
The Chainalysis Crypto Crime Report puts illicit activity below 1% of on-chain volume, countering the myth of Bitcoin as a criminal currency.
