Bitcoin is currently trading at $79,282, reflecting a modest 24-hour decline of 1.02%. This marginal downward movement suggests that the market is experiencing short-term consolidation just below the psychologically significant $80,000 threshold. The minor contraction indicates that while immediate
Blockstream's Liquid Network, one of the oldest and most prominent Bitcoin sidechains, lost approximately 4,000 BTC, worth roughly $320 million, after hackers exploited a bug in its underlying software on September 6. The federation's reserves cratered from over 4,200 BTC to about 197 BTC in a singl
Benjamin Cowen, founder of Into The Cryptoverse, says there is a 65% chance Bitcoin’s cycle low still lies ahead. That keeps his bear market thesis alive despite a sharp summer rally.Cowen made the comment in a video interview. He pointed to Bitcoin’s realized price near $53,000 as the level bears
COINBASE:XRPUSDT trading chart showing the cryptocurrency near $1.39 after a sharp decline." style="margin-bottom: 15px;" decoding="async" data-attachmentid="895370" />XRP has fallen 1.7% over the past 24 hours to around $1.39 as long liquidations have increased and the token has struggled to hold a
Layer-1 blockchain Cronos said $9.19 million left its blockchain before validators halted the network during the Tectonic exploit, providing an official accounting of funds that were not reversed by its rollback.In Tuesday’s post-mortem report, Cronos said manipulated collateral values generated abo
Over the weekend, Bitcoin’s layer-2 privacy side chain, the Liquid Network, suffered a 4,000 BTC (roughly $320 million) exploit, which was 95% of its total reserves.In the last few hours, the hackers, who explicitly stated “we are whitehats,” partially lived up to their self-given name. They safely
Australia’s financial intelligence regulator said it canceled, suspended or refused to renew 45 crypto and remittance registrations over the past year as it intensified scrutiny of high-risk payment businesses.On Monday, the Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre (AUSTRAC) said the actio
Cronos, a Layer 1 blockchain associated with Crypto.com, confirmed that roughly $9.19 million had left the chain during the Aug. 30 exploit and remains unrecovered.In a post-mortem published Monday, Cronos said an attacker manipulated collateral on lending protocol Tectonic to borrow $120.4 million
Polymarket odds for the Arizona Diamondbacks option in the "Spread -1.5" submarket tied to the Arizona Diamondbacks vs. Kansas City Royals event fell sharply to 16.5% from 33% one hour earlier. According to ChainCatcher, the move reflected a 16.5 percentage point swing and may have been affected by
Coinglass data shows that if BTC breaks above $82,874, cumulative short liquidations across major centralized exchanges would reach $1.356 billion. According to ChainCatcher, if BTC falls below $75,576, cumulative long liquidations across major centralized exchanges would reach $1.132 billion.
The Liquid hackers returned 3,400 Bitcoin on Monday, most of the roughly 3,998 BTC they moved out of the network over the weekend. Close to 598 BTC stayed behind.Liquid is a Bitcoin sidechain built by Blockstream. Users lock Bitcoin on the main network and receive a matching token, L-BTC, that moves