South Korean police have booked Bithumb CEO Lee Jae-won as a bribery suspect after investigators alleged a lawmaker demanded his son be hired at the exchange — then used his seat on the Financial Regulation Committee to target a rival. Two HQ raids, 13 suspicions, and a $24.5 million fine later, South Korea’s crypto corruption problem is impossible to ignore.
A Reuters investigation reveals the Trump family extracted $2.3 billion from four crypto ventures while over a million investors lost the exact same amount. Zero capital risked, maximum profit extracted.
The Trumps Made $2.3 Billion From Crypto. Their Investors Lost Exactly the Same. Read More »
Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.8 uncovered a critical counterfeiting vulnerability in Zcash’s Orchard privacy pool within 24 hours of its release — a bug that had been exploitable for four years. Nobody knows if someone already used it.
Claude Found a Four-Year-Old Zcash Bug That Could Have Printed Infinite Money Read More »
Trump-linked World Liberty Financial froze on-chain addresses tied to Justin Sun’s HTX exchange without warning. Sun is suing. HTX has delisted USD1. And user funds are caught in the crossfire.
Trump’s Crypto Firm Froze Justin Sun’s Exchange. Now It’s War. Read More »
Citron Research founder Andrew Left convicted on 13 counts of securities fraud for a $21M tweet-and-trade scheme. If TradFi punishes this with 25 years, what about crypto’s paid shillers?
Citron’s Andrew Left Convicted of Fraud — And Crypto Should Be Terrified Read More »
Florida becomes the first US state to sue OpenAI, alleging ChatGPT aided mass shooters, coached suicides, and addicted children — with Sam Altman named personally liable in an 83-page complaint.
Florida Draws First Blood: The State Lawsuit That Could Unravel OpenAI Read More »
Sui’s mainnet went offline three times in 48 hours after the team knowingly shipped a risky fix. With $1.88M liquidated, SUI down 84% from ATH, and TVL collapsed 80%, the $336M Diem successor faces an existential reliability crisis.
Sui Shipped a Fix It Knew Would Break — Then It Broke Twice More Read More »
A Google staff engineer exploited confidential Year in Search data to win 25 out of 25 bets on Polymarket, netting $1.2 million. Now he faces 50 years in prison — and the prediction market industry faces an existential question.
The UK has sanctioned Justin Sun’s HTX exchange under its Russia sanctions regime — the first time banking-style sanctions have been applied to a major crypto platform. The allegations: $1.5 billion in flows linked to the Kremlin’s A7 network.
