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Trump-Linked WLFI Token Plunges After DeFi Lending Controversy and Unlock Debate

WLFI Lending Move Freezes User Withdrawals The World Liberty Financial (WLFI) token, closely associated with Donald Trump and his family, has seen its value tumble after a controversial lending maneuver locked up user funds on a major.....

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KryllOS: The Open-Source Crypto Trading System That Wants to Replace Your Cloud Subscriptions

By Loic Dos Santos | 3 months ago

French company Cryptense SAS is building KryllOS, a free, self-hosted automated crypto trading platform with AI-powered strategy creation and a visual drag-and-drop editor. API keys never leave your machine...

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Stablecoin Volumes Could Hit $1.5 Quadrillion by 2035—But Only Under Bold Assumptions

By Loic Dos Santos | 3 months ago

Eye-popping Numbers, Lofty Assumptions A new report from Chainalysis has set the crypto world abuzz with its projection that stablecoin transaction volumes could soar as high as $1.5 quadrillion annually by 2035...

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Polymarket Exchange Revamp: Fee Dominance and Native Stablecoin Rollout

By Loic Dos Santos | 3 months ago

Polymarket Fee Surge After Pricing Shift Polymarket’s recent pricing overhaul has pushed the platform to the forefront of onchain prediction market fee generation, accounting for nearly 97% of all fees in this sector...

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Aave Risk Manager Chaos Labs Exits Amid Budget Disputes and Governance Rift

By David E | 3 months ago

Budget Battles Behind Chaos Labs’ Departure Chaos Labs, a central figure in Aave’s risk management since 2022, has ended its engagement with the decentralized lending protocol after a protracted budget dispute...

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Drift Protocol Exploit Traced to North Korean-Linked Social Engineering Operation

By Loic Dos Santos | 3 months ago

Attackers Posed as Trading Firm In a striking example of targeted deception, the group behind the Drift Protocol exploit first approached contributors at a major crypto conference in the fall of 2025...

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Drift Protocol’s $285 Million Exploit Exposes DeFi Security Fault Lines

By David E | 3 months ago

Hackers Outpace Protocol Defenses Again On Wednesday, April 1, Solana’s largest decentralized perpetual futures exchange, Drift Protocol, suffered a catastrophic exploit that drained approximately $285 million from its vaults in just 12 min.....

Drift Protocol Exploit: $270 Million Vanishes as Solana’s Security Model Faces New Threat

By David E | 3 months ago

Solana’s ‘Durable Nonces’ Under Scrutiny The recent attack on Drift Protocol exposed a critical vulnerability in Solana’s transaction model, leveraging a feature known as “durable nonces...

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Franklin Templeton Acquires CoinFund Spinoff, Launches Institutional Crypto Division

By Loic Dos Santos | 3 months ago

Franklin Crypto’s Leadership Takes Shape Franklin Templeton is making a calculated move into the digital asset space by launching Franklin Crypto, a new division focused exclusively on cryptocurrency investment management...

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Tether Hires KPMG for First Full USDT Audit as U.S. Expansion Looms

By Loic Dos Santos | 4 months ago

KPMG Steps In for Unprecedented Scrutiny Tether, the issuer of the world’s largest stablecoin, has selected KPMG to conduct its first comprehensive audit of USDT’s financial statements—a move that brings new scrutiny to the $184 billion.....