#CryptoCurrency

When India’s once‑buoyant trading hub WazirX froze withdrawals in July 2024, 200,000 users watched ₹19 billion ($230 million) vanish through mixers allegedly controlled by North Korean hackers. Nine months later the exchange sits on the brink of resurrection. In an April 21 update, WazirX confirmed that its parent firm Zettai Pte. Ltd. has completed every preparatory chore but one: securing […]

When Vitalik Buterin drops a weekend forum post, the Ethereum brain trust listens—and this one lands like a thunderclap. Writing on the Ethereum Magicians board, the network’s co‑founder pitched a wholesale replacement of the Ethereum Virtual Machine—the 2015‑vintage engine that executes every smart contract—with RISC‑V, an open‑source chip architecture famous in hardware circles but almost unheard‑of

When Lourenco Garcia wired $751,000 from his Santander accounts in late 2021, he believed the money would buy cryptocurrency on CoinEgg—a platform he thought legitimate. Instead, it vanished into one of the year’s slicker digital‑asset frauds. Garcia sued, arguing Santander should have flagged the wire requests, stopped them, and saved him from himself. Two years and two

The Aptos community is wrestling with the price of security. This week pseudonymous contributor MoonSheisty filed an on‑chain governance motion that would almost halve the network’s staking yield, ratcheting annual rewards from roughly 7 % to 3.79 % in just three months. The plan aims to put Aptos on an economic diet—realigning emissions with rival layer‑1s while