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Is an AI hacker targeting old DeFi projects in $5M spree?
A trio of hacks targeting old DeFi projects have stolen approximately $5 million in the past week. The three projects targeted were all well-known names during DeFi's 2020-2022 cycle, and the affected contracts are all from abandoned projects, immutable, or no longer maintained. ...
December 18, 2025
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Dec 18
Cathie Wood falls for AI slop despite heavy OpenAI, Tempus bets
Cathie Wood, the Ark Invest CEO who heralded AI as "the most transformative technology in history" while investing milli...
Dec 17
Aave Labs v DAO: Who controls the money — and the brand?
The debate between Aave DAO and Aave Labs continues to escalate. In what began as a spat over the “private monetisation”...
Dec 17
Ex-Alameda CEO Caroline Ellison leaves federal prison after 11 months
Caroline Ellison, the former co-CEO of Alameda Research, is no longer behind bars after being moved to a halfway house l...
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December 17, 2025•Cryptocurrency
Michael Saylor: We can solve quantum by freezing Satoshi’s BTC
According to Strategy founder Michael Saylor, quantum computing won’t break the Bitcoin network. Instead, the blockchain will simply "upgrade" in a hard fork. This backwards-incomp...
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December 16, 2025•Cryptocurrency
Tons of tax docs awaiting Visa card issuers settling in USDC
This morning, credit card giant Visa issued a press release about allowing US card issuers to settle directly with Visa using Circle USD (USDC). Nowhere in this glowing release, am...
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December 16, 2025•Cryptocurrency
Believe founder Ben Pasternak accused of secretly dumping KLED tokens
Ben Pasternak, the Australian wunderkind who attempted to revive the concept of "internet capital markets" with his memecoin launchpad Believe has been accused of secretly dumping ...
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December 16, 2025•Cryptocurrency
Pudgy Penguins bets $500K on Vegas Sphere — PENGU still down 85%
The price of Pudgy Penguins’ PENGU token is down 85% despite a $500,000 ad deal with the Las Vegas Sphere. Pudgy Penguins announced on Saturday that it had secured an advertising s...
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December 16, 2025•Cryptocurrency
The three people who could really get Samourai devs pardoned
Samourai Wallet co-founder Keonne Rodriguez is hoping to secure a presidential pardon that will spare him from an impending five-year prison sentence -- but there are three people ...
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December 16, 2025•Cryptocurrency
Active Solana DEX traders down 79% year-to-date
The number of traders swapping assets on Solana’s blockchain has been dwindling all year. Since its celebratory peak the day before Donald Trump’s presidential inauguration, the nu...
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