The darkish net’s mythic aura as crypto’s untouchable underworld is fading quick. A run of high-profile darkish net hack claims towards Polymarket, Kraken and main non-crypto corporations has led to fast rebuttals relatively than confirmed breaches. What as soon as produced stomach-dropping headlines now reads extra like a loud bazaar of recycled information, scams and…
Five anomalies within the OFAC-sanctioned wallets recommend the $344 million USDT freeze might not be Iran-linked. The findings come from blockchain intelligence agency Nominis. Nominis CEO Snir Levi revealed the evaluation Sunday, breaking down behavioral patterns of the seized addresses. The knowledge factors towards overlap with Chinese state-linked infrastructure reasonably than the Islamic Revolutionary Guard…
Andreessen Horowitz’s crypto arm says the phrase “stablecoin” has develop into a relic of crypto’s risky early years. The label, the agency argued, will fall out of use as digital {dollars} settle into mainstream finance. The agency argued that stability has stopped being the class’s defining characteristic. The expertise has outgrown its authentic title. It…
Pi Network (PI) has set a May 15 deadline for mainnet nodes to finish the Protocol 23 improve. The launch will introduce full good contract help to the Stellar-based blockchain for the primary time. The mandate arrived simply hours after the Pi Core Team confirmed Protocol 22 had efficiently gone reside. The back-to-back rollout goals…
GameStop (GME) shares jumped greater than 9% in after-hours buying and selling on May 2. A Wall Street Journal report stated the videogame retailer is getting ready a takeover bid for eBay (EBAY). The report despatched Reddit’s retail buying and selling group again into overdrive, reviving a meme inventory playbook that had cooled since 2021’s…
More Than a Milestone In an business that strikes quick and talks loud, it takes real conviction to pause and ask a more durable query: not what we’re constructing, however why. ChangeNOW’s first-ever function documentary, “Beyond the Hype,” is that pause and the reply that follows it. It arrives at a pivotal second in our…
President Donald Trump introduced new 25% tariffs on European Union vehicles and vans on May 1, 2026, framing the hike as enforcement of the July 2025 commerce deal. Some observers speculate Europe’s posture on Iran additionally performed a component. The duties take impact subsequent week and exempt any autos constructed at U.S. crops. Germany and…
The Trump sons, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, quietly took roughly 20% of a Kazakh tungsten miner now backed by as much as $1.6 billion in US federal financing, the Financial Times reported Friday. Three forces converge of their favor, every set in movement by their father’s administration. Federal financing builds the mine, a…
Arthur Hayes is popping extra constructive on danger belongings (crypto) as a result of he believes the worldwide liquidity cycle is beginning to shift. In easy phrases, it means there may be extra liquid money out there within the US financial system to encourage investments. His argument is easy: the market is watching the Fed…
Tether reported $1.04 billion in web revenue for the primary quarter of 2026 and lifted its reserve buffer to a report $8.23 billion, at the same time as world markets churned by means of recent volatility. The figures come from a quarterly attestation by accounting agency BDO. They affirm USD₮ liabilities sit close to $183…