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Vanguard’s reversal this week closed the last major holdout. The firm opened its brokerage to third-party crypto ETFs and mutual funds tied to BTC, ETH, XRP, and SOL, while still refusing to launch its own crypto funds or touch memecoin products.
That shift matters because Vanguard was the last major, brand-name US asset manager with a blanket ban on Bitcoin exposure through listed products....
On the night of Nov. 26, Danylo K., a 21-year-old Ukrainian student and the son of Kharkiv’s deputy mayor, was lured to the underground garage of Vienna’s Sofitel hotel by a fellow student.
As local outlets reported, what followed was a torture session designed to extract cryptocurrency wallet passwords: attackers beat him until his teeth were knocked out, forced him to reveal credentials to two...
Cayman foundation formations climbed more than 70% year over year to exceed 1,300 by the end of 2024, extending a multi-cycle shift toward offshore structures.
According to a Cayman Finance report, early 2025 data showed that more than 400 additional registrations indicate the trend has continued despite recent moves by the United States to recast itself as a competitive jurisdiction for digital-...
Bitcoin’s market structure has entered a new phase as US spot exchange-traded funds now account for more than 5% of cumulative net inflows into the asset.
According to Glassnode, the 12 funds have allowed institutions to become a marginal source of demand for the world’s largest digital asset. The firm noted that this was discovered after matching Bitcoin’s post-ETF inflows against spot ETF...
American Bitcoin plunged 50% during a crypto rally, exposing a fatal flaw in the “Trump proxy” trade
Bitcoin (BTC) clawed back from $86,286 on Dec. 2 to $93,324 as of press time, up by 8%, while the Trump family’s American Bitcoin (ABTC) shares tumbled.
The BTC price increase can be attributed to improved macro conditions and Vanguard’s opening of crypto ETF access to tens of millions of clients.
At the same time, American Bitcoin, the Trump-linked mining stock pitched as a Bitcoin proxy,...
Bitcoin’s recent rebound came as traders raised the probability of a December Federal Reserve rate cut, the dollar eased, and attention turned to who will lead the central bank after Jerome Powell’s term ends in 2026. Futures markets moved the odds of a 25-basis-point cut this month into the mid-to-high 80% range, a shift that loosened financial conditions and coincided with a ninth straight...
North Korean operatives were caught on camera, live, after security researchers lured them into a booby-trapped “developer laptop,” capturing how the Lazarus-linked crew tried to blend into a US crypto job pipeline using legitimate AI hiring tools and cloud services.
The evolution in state-sponsored cybercrime was reportedly captured in real time by researchers at BCA LTD, NorthScan, and the...
Strategy, formerly known as MicroStrategy, is considering a pivot that would fundamentally alter the risk profile of the world’s largest corporate Bitcoin treasury.
For a decade, the company sold Wall Street on a singular thesis: it was a digital vault, offering unencumbered exposure to Bitcoin without the risks of custody or counterparty risk. That stand is changing as it is now exploring an...
AI agents spend just $1.22 to shatter smart contract security exposing a terrifying economic reality
Anthropic’s Frontier Red Team spent the past year teaching AI agents to behave like professional DeFi attackers.
The agents learned to fork blockchains, write exploit scripts, drain liquidity pools, and pocket the proceeds, all in Docker containers where no real funds were at risk.
On Dec. 1, the team published results that should recalibrate how protocol developers think about security: when...
The conventional wisdom says veteran holders don’t sell into weakness. They accumulate through drawdowns, harvest gains during euphoria, and otherwise sit still while newer cohorts churn.
Late 2025 is testing that model. Across Ethereum, XRP, and pockets of the DeFi stack, dormant whales are moving supply to exchanges as mid-term buyers flee, creating a bifurcated distribution pattern that...