Why Was Jaredfromsubway.eth Targeted? One of crypto’s most successful MEV bots, Jaredfromsubway.eth, was drained for more than $7.5 million after an attacker turned the bot’s own automated execution logic against it. The incident marks a rare public setback for a bot that has become closely associated with sandwich attacks and other maximal extractable value strategies
How Did The Axelar-Secret Bridge Exploit Happen? An attacker drained roughly $4.67 million from Secret Network’s Axelar bridge after exploiting a flaw in a modified bridge contract that handled assets moving from Axelar to Secret Network. The attack targeted a modified CW20-ICS20 contract on Secret Network. The contract was designed to mint Secret-wrapped versions of
Why Is A Japanese Pension Fund Adding Crypto? A Japanese corporate pension fund serving about 1,200 small and medium-sized businesses plans to allocate roughly 1% of its assets to cryptocurrency during fiscal year 2026, marking a cautious but notable step for institutional crypto adoption in Japan. The Nationwide Business Corporate Pension Fund, based in Okayama,
How Did The Minnesota Crypto Robbery Unfold? Two brothers accused of kidnapping a Minnesota family at gunpoint to steal $8 million in cryptocurrency have pleaded guilty in federal court, adding one of the most severe U.S. cases to a growing list of physical attacks targeting crypto holders. Isiah Angelo Garcia and Raymond Christian Garcia entered
Why Does The June Bitcoin Options Expiry Matter? Bitcoin’s June options expiry is shaping up as a difficult test for bulls after a 14% price drop left much of the bullish positioning far out of reach. About $13 billion in bitcoin options open interest is set to expire on June 26, creating a large settlement
What Did Morgan Stanley Change in Its ETF Filings? Morgan Stanley has filed new amendments for its proposed spot Ethereum and Solana exchange-traded funds, moving both applications further through the launch process after the bank’s recent bitcoin ETF debut. The Wall Street bank submitted amended S-1 registration statements to the Securities and Exchange Commission on
What Happened in the Minnesota Crypto Robbery? Two brothers from Texas pleaded guilty to robbing a Minnesota family of more than $8 million in cryptocurrency after holding them at gunpoint for more than eight hours during a September 2025 home invasion, federal prosecutors said. Isiah Angelo Garcia, 25, and Raymond Christian Garcia, 24, each pleaded
Why Did SATA and STRC Fall So Sharply? Strive Chairman and CEO Matt Cole said Thursday’s sharp intraday drop in Strive’s SATA and Strategy’s STRC reflected forced selling from leveraged investors rather than a deterioration in issuer fundamentals. “Today was the most difficult day in the history of Digital Credit,” Cole wrote on X Thursday
Why Is IBIT Becoming More Than A Bitcoin Product? BlackRock’s spot bitcoin exchange-traded fund is acting as an entry point for new investors into the broader ETF market, according to Jay Jacobs, the firm’s U.S. head of equity ETFs. Jacobs said around three-quarters of investors in the iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF had never owned an
Why Does WhiteBIT’s MiCA Approval Matter? Crypto exchange WhiteBIT has obtained authorization under the European Union’s Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation from Austria’s Financial Market Authority, giving the company a single regulatory license to offer crypto services across the European Economic Area. The approval comes less than 2 weeks before the EU’s MiCA transition period expires