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North Korea’s Lazarus Group Is Targeting Crypto Executives With Fake Meeting Invites is back with a macOS malware campaign that looks like boring business paperwork and behaves like a digital mugging. The target set is exactly what you’d expect from a state-backed crypto theft crew: executives, fintech leaders, and anyone else sitting close to the […]
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Kraken is pressuring U.S. lawmakers to stop treating tiny crypto payments and staking rewards like a paperwork crime scene. The exchange wants Congress to modernize crypto tax rules with a de minimis exemption for small transactions and a better approach to staking income, arguing the current setup is a blunt, outdated mess. 56 million digital […]
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A $290 million exploit against KelpDAO’s LayerZero-based bridge has been linked to North Korea’s Lazarus Group, and the knock-on effect reportedly ripped more than $13 billion out of DeFi in just two days. $290 million drained from KelpDAO’s bridge in one hit LayerZero blames Lazarus Group, likely the TraderTraitor unit More than $13 billion erased […]
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Coinbase is pushing deeper into the UK crypto market with tGBP, the first FCA-registered pound-backed stablecoin, while also rolling out crypto-backed lending for British users. At the same time, the FCA is still cracking down on unlicensed peer-to-peer crypto trading, proving once again that Britain’s crypto policy is a mix of welcome mat and battering […]
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Two updates in one post today. We just launched the Adbytes Directory, a new way to discover and get discovered across the crypto and web3 space. And on April 15th we burned another 291,270 ADBYTES tokens, permanently removing them from...
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U.S. banking groups are pushing federal regulators for more time to comment on stablecoin regulation under the GENIUS Act, arguing the rules are too interconnected to rush without creating a mess. Banking groups want a 60-day extension for comment periods The OCC stablecoin framework is seen as the key starting point Regulators at Treasury, FDIC, […]
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BlackRock’s Bitcoin stash is swelling past 806,700 BTC, and that’s just one sign of a market that’s becoming more institutional, more competitive, and still brutally fragile when liquidity gets squeezed. BlackRock holds about 806,700 BTC, worth roughly $63.73 billion GSR is launching a BTC, ETH, SOL ETF with possible staking rewards Aave hit a 100% […]
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Arthur Hayes wants the CLARITY Act dead on arrival, calling the U.S. crypto market structure bill unnecessary regulation even as it moves closer to becoming law. Hayes says the CLARITY Act should be vetoed May 21 is the practical deadline CFTC gains power, SEC loses ground Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana would be classed as digital […]
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Société Générale’s crypto arm is turning regulatory clarity into actual business, signing 15 crypto-native clients as Europe’s new rules make it easier for regulated firms to get banking access. The bigger picture: banks are no longer ignoring crypto, but stablecoin adoption and onchain finance are still far from the victory lap some suits would like […]
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Bitcoin is holding up even as inflation risks, tariff noise, and geopolitical shocks keep central banks stuck in a period of high interest rates that just won’t quit. The short-term tape still looks risk-on, but the deeper trend is harder to ignore: institutional money keeps entering, regulators keep laying track, and crypto is getting more […]
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