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Near Intents Hacked for $3.8M Days After Denying North Korea-Linked Bitget Hacker
Near Intents, a tool for swapping crypto across different blockchains, stopped service on Thursday after an attacker drained about $3.8 million from it. The team says a bug in how its Omni deposit and withdrawal layer talks to the main smart contract—the self-running code that holds user funds—opened the door. “Earlier today NEAR Intents services were stopped after a security incident was detected. The incident was caused by a bug in the Omni deposit and withdrawal infrastructure interaction wit...
Sep 24, 2026
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Bitget Hacked as $350 Million Vanishes From Crypto Exchange Wallets
More than $350 million in crypto assets has been drained from wallets belonging to cryptocurrency exchange Bitget in a confirmed hack, according to CEO Gracy Chen. Chen said company cold wallets, those held offline, remain "fully secure," and that only the exchange's hot wallets, those connected for daily trading, were affected by the exploit. "User funds are safe. The full amount of this loss falls within the coverage of Bitget's User Protection Fund, which currently holds over $464 million," C...
Sep 24, 2026
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£10K Reward Offered After UK Couple Attacked in Crypto Home Invasion
Three men forced their way into a West Midlands home and made a couple transfer a large sum of cryptocurrency while a fourth person relayed instructions over a video call, in an attack police believe was planned and targeted. Crimestoppers, an independent charity that takes anonymous crime tips across the UK, is offering a reward of up to £10,000 for information leading to an arrest and conviction. The appeal went out on Wednesday, more than nine months after the attack. Our charity is offering...
Sep 23, 2026
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China Probes DeepSeek and Moonshot Over Alleged Data Leaks to Anthropic's Claude
China is turning Anthropic's own leak-detection playbook back on two of its most prominent AI labs. The Cyberspace Administration of China has opened an investigation into DeepSeek and Moonshot AI over claims that both companies secretly routed sensitive user data to Anthropic's servers, The Information reported Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter. Myriad: Who will control Congress after the midterms? Click to make your prediction. Officials reportedly visited the offices of both com...
Sep 23, 2026
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Zcash's Wall Street Moment Reaches Europe With Its First ETP Listing
The cypherpunk favorite Zcash continues to find interest among traditional investors. 21Shares listed Europe's first Zcash exchange-traded product on Euronext Paris and Euronext Amsterdam on Sept. 22. The physically backed fund trades under the ticker ZCASH and charges a 2.5% annual management fee, well above what most Bitcoin and Ether ETPs charge on the same exchanges. Myriad: Where does Ethereum go next? Click to make your prediction. The listing arrived alongside a companion product tracking...
Sep 23, 2026
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Canada's Six Biggest Banks Team Up on a Shared Digital-Dollar Network
Canada's six biggest banks just agreed to build shared plumbing for digital money. RBC, TD, BMO, Scotiabank, CIBC and National Bank announced Tuesday they're jointly exploring a Canadian-dollar tokenized deposit system. The first phase focuses on moving deposits between the banks themselves, not into consumer wallets. Myriad: Where does Solana go next? Click to make your prediction. A tokenized deposit is a regular bank deposit represented as a digital token on a shared ledger—same money, same b...