Author: James Carter
$285M Vanished From Solana’s Top DEX in Minutes – Elliptic Points to North Korea
$285 million. Gone in eleven minutes. Drift Protocol, the largest perpetual futures exchange on Solana, lost nearly everything on April 1 when an attacker drained its vaults in a coordinated exploit that ranks as the biggest DeFi hack of 2026. The DRIFT token crashed 42% within hours. Solana’s total value locked took a hit that…
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Square Flips Bitcoin Payments On for 4 Million Merchants While the Rest of Crypto Panics
Bitcoin adoption just hit its biggest milestone since El Salvador – and almost nobody noticed. Four million businesses woke up on Sunday morning with Bitcoin payments enabled by default on their Square terminals. No opt-in required. No new hardware. No permission asked. Square just auto-enabled Bitcoin payments across its entire U.S. merchant base, and it…
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Bitcoin Hasn’t Been This Close to Full Capitulation Since FTX – Last Time, It Rallied 300%
The last time Bitcoin’s on-chain metrics looked this grim, Sam Bankman-Fried was being perp-walked out of a Bahamas courtroom. That was November 2022. BTC traded at $15,500. Seventeen months later, it hit $73,000. A 370% rally. Now, in late March 2026, with Bitcoin grinding at $67,823 – down 46% from its October 2025 all-time high…
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Bitcoin Holders Who Survived FTX, Luna, and COVID Just Sold at a 24% Loss
LTH-SOPR hit 0.76 on March 27. That number might not mean much unless you’ve been watching it daily. Long-term holders – wallets that haven’t moved their Bitcoin in over 155 days – just sold coins at an average loss of 24%. These aren’t panic-selling retail traders who aped in last month. These are the diamond…
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Bitcoin Miners Lose $19K on Every Coin Produced – The Last Time This Happened, BTC Rallied 300%
Nineteen thousand dollars. That’s how much Bitcoin miners lose on every single coin they produce right now – with average production costs near $88,000 and BTC trading around $71,300 as of Wednesday morning. And instead of holding through the pain, the industry’s biggest players are dumping their treasuries and pivoting to AI. This should terrify…
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Trump’s Iran Flip Triggers $415M Crypto Liquidation Whipsaw in Just 4 Hours
A single social media post just cost crypto traders $415 million in four hours. On March 22-23, President Trump’s rapid pivot from threatening to “obliterate” Iran’s power plants to announcing a five-day strike pause created the most violent crypto liquidation whipsaw of 2026. Bitcoin swung from $67,500 to $71,800, destroying long and short positions alike,…
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