James Chatfield

James Chatfield

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I lead the editorial team covering digital assets and blockchain regulation at CryptoWatchDaily. After earning a Journalism degree from The University of Sheffield, I spent a decade reporting on traditional finance before shifting focus to crypto. I value accuracy and clarity over hype. When I’m not tracking market movements, I enjoy distance running and collecting vintage sci-fi novels.

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September 14, 2026 Cryptocurrency

Reform UK’s record £72M: was any of it actually crypto?

Ben Delo and Christopher Harborne each gave Reform UK £36 million, but neither announcement says how the money was paid. The crypto label may be doing more work than the evidence.

September 13, 2026 Security

Osmosis Freezes 22.65 BTC After Nomic Bug Leaves allBTC Partly Unbacked

Osmosis froze 22.65 BTC after a Nomic forwarding bug allowed an nBTC double-spend, leaving allBTC roughly 36% unbacked pending governance action.

September 13, 2026 Cryptocurrency

Metaplanet cuts executive stock pool by 41%, wiping $220 million in warrant value

Metaplanet cut its Series 10 executive warrant pool by 41%, extinguishing over $220 million in value after shareholder dilution backlash over its Bitcoin plan.

September 12, 2026 Security

Blockstream refuses ransom as Liquid Network hackers still hold nearly 600 BTC

Blockstream will not pay the bounty demanded by hackers holding about 598 BTC from the Liquid Network, calling the act theft and vowing lawful pursuit.

September 12, 2026 Security

XRP Healthcare shuts down after wallet flaw exposed 4,000 accounts and $450,000 drain

XRP Healthcare announced on Sept. 10 that it is winding down operations after a wallet flaw let attackers drain roughly $450,000 from about 4,010 wallets.

September 10, 2026 Cryptocurrency

Kraken faces mounting service faults with no explanation as funding outages stretch on

Kraken’s funding rails have been failing for days, with deposits paused and withdrawals delayed, and the exchange still has not explained what broke.

September 9, 2026 Security

Cronos Erased Two Hours of Blockchain History to Claw Back $111 Million

Cronos validators rewound 10,961 blocks to recover $111.2 million of the $120.4 million Tectonic exploit; $9.19 million remains unrecovered.

September 9, 2026 Security

Less than four weeks after a mint exploit and rollback, Harmony proposes to kill its own chain

Harmony proposed shutting down its Layer 1 and airdropping ONE as ERC-20 tokens on Ethereum, less than four weeks after a mint exploit forced a chain rollback.

September 7, 2026 Security

Coldcard Wave 3 attacker begins cashing out $7.7M via THORChain and CoinJoin

The Coldcard Wave 3 attacker has moved 97.09 BTC, about 45% of that wave’s haul, through THORChain and CoinJoin, per Galaxy Research.

September 7, 2026 Security

Anatomy of the Liquid Network exploit: unbacked L-BTC, a valid peg-out, and $320M gone

Unbacked L-BTC minted through an Elements bug cashed out via a valid SideSwap peg-out, draining about 95% of the Liquid federation wallet.

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