Author: Thomas Novak
MemeCore has zero GitHub commits and a $4.6 billion valuation – ZachXBT says insiders own 90%
A token with no public codebase, seven validators, and an active on-chain investigation into its supply just cracked the top 25 by market cap.
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A fresh wallet made $713K on ApeCoin hours before Yuga Labs changed CEOs – nobody was left to ask questions
A zero-history wallet accumulated $713,000 in unrealized gains on a leveraged ApeCoin position opened hours before Yuga Labs announced Michael Figge as CEO on April 24, according to on-chain analytics firm Lookonchain, which flagged the address as a “suspected insider.” The trade arrived ten months after the ApeCoin community voted to dissolve its own governance…
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Grayscale wants an ETF for Hyperliquid – what the filing does not mention
Grayscale filed an S-1 registration statement with the SEC on March 20 for a spot Hyperliquid ETF, proposing to list HYPE shares on Nasdaq under the ticker GHYP. The filing names Coinbase Custody as custodian and CoinDesk Benchmark as pricing provider, with staking explicitly prohibited at launch. At $40.86 per token, Hyperliquid carries a fully…
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The $292M KelpDAO hack erased $13 billion from DeFi – and Strategy bought $2.54B in Bitcoin while it burned
$292 million. That’s what the KelpDAO hack drained from a single cross-chain bridge in one transaction on Friday afternoon – making it 2026’s largest DeFi exploit and one of the biggest in crypto history. But the theft wasn’t the real story. What happened next was. Within 48 hours, DeFi protocols hemorrhaged $13.2 billion in total…
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Circle sued for letting $230M in stolen USDC cross its own bridge – days after freezing other wallets
Circle can freeze any USDC wallet on Earth in seconds. It proved that on March 23 when it blacklisted 16 Ethereum addresses in a single batch – for a civil case. Nine days later, hackers linked to North Korea drained $285M from Drift Protocol and spent 6 hours funneling $230M in stolen USDC through Circle’s…
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Bybit review 2026: fees, leverage, and why 60M traders stayed after a $1.5B hack
The exchange that survived the largest crypto theft in history – and kept growing $1.5 billion. Gone. Stolen by North Korean state hackers on a Friday afternoon in February 2025, siphoned from a single Ethereum cold wallet while Bybit’s own team thought they were signing a routine transfer. That should have been the end. It…
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Trump’s WLFI crashes to all-time low after $150M borrow on adviser’s own DeFi platform
World Liberty Financial’s token hit rock bottom on Friday — and the on-chain trail behind the collapse reads like a conflict-of-interest case study. WLFI, the governance token of Trump-backed World Liberty Financial, crashed to an all-time low of $0.077 on April 11. That’s a 76% decline from its September 2025 peak of $0.33 – and…
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Ethereum price analysis: whale deposits crash 70% as $274M in shorts get liquidated near $2,200
For three straight days, sellers threw $309 million worth of ETH at the market. The price didn’t flinch. Ethereum trades at $2,217 as of Thursday morning – up 1.7% in 24 hours, 7.6% on the week, and sitting comfortably above the $2,200 level that everyone expected to crack. But the real story isn’t price. It’s…
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Binance review 2026: fees, security, and what $4.3B in fines actually fixed
Binance dominates 39% of global crypto trading volume. We ran the numbers on whether that dominance comes at a cost. A $100 spot trade on Coinbase costs you $1.20 in fees. The same trade on Binance? Ten cents. That gap – a 12x difference – explains why 300 million users still park their crypto on…
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Trump Holds 18,500 Bitcoin and Lost $120M on Altcoins – That Tells You Exactly What Happens Next
The Trump family’s crypto portfolio spans three entities, nine tokens, and one very clear pattern. Follow the money. 18,542 Bitcoin. That’s what the Trump family controls across two publicly traded companies as of this weekend. We mapped every holding – the Bitcoin stack, the DeFi bets, the meme coin machine, and the stablecoin play –…
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