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Axie Infinity surges 54% as $1.8 billion hits gaming tokens two days after ‘93% dead’ report
Volume across five gaming tokens hit 1.94 times their combined market capitalization in a single trading day. Gaming tokens posted $1.84 billion in combined 24-hour volume on April 25, according to CoinGecko data. Axie Infinity led the rally with a 54% gain. Volume ran at 1.94 times the sector’s combined market capitalization. The rally arrived…
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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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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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Goldman Sachs files first Bitcoin ETF while someone quietly drains 11,000 BTC from Binance
Three weeks after Morgan Stanley launched its own fund, Goldman’s covered-call Bitcoin product signals Wall Street’s final surrender to crypto — but the on-chain data hints at something bigger. Three weeks. That’s how long it took for Goldman Sachs to follow Morgan Stanley into the Bitcoin ETF business. On April 14, Goldman filed its first-ever…
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Japan treats Bitcoin like stocks now – first G7 nation to reclassify $33B in crypto as financial instruments
Japan’s cabinet just moved 13 million crypto accounts and $33 billion in deposits under the same legal framework as equities and bonds. $33 billion in crypto deposits. Thirteen million accounts. All of it just shifted from one regulatory box to another – and the new box is the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act, Japan’s equivalent…
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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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Phenom Poker Hacked for $94K After Team Member’s Laptop Was Compromised
A private key breach took down crypto poker’s most celebrity-backed platform – but player wallets walked away untouched. $94,267. That’s all it took to shut down the self-proclaimed “world’s first player-owned online poker platform.” Phenom Poker, the crypto-native poker DAO running on Base with Viktor “Isildur1” Blom and Daniel “Jungleman” Cates on its roster, went…
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$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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Google Says $458B in Bitcoin Is Exposed to Quantum Attack – And Taproot Made It Worse
Google Quantum AI reveals that cracking Bitcoin’s cryptography requires 20x fewer resources than previously estimated – and a privacy upgrade made things worse. Google’s Quantum AI team just dropped a bombshell on the crypto world: quantum computing could crack Bitcoin’s cryptography with fewer than 500,000 physical qubits. That’s a 20-fold reduction from previous estimates that…
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