Firedancer Goes Live on Solana Mainnet; Debate Erupts Over Consensus Safety
Jump Crypto’s Firedancer client hits Solana mainnet with 50,000 successful blocks, triggering a 5% SOL rally while reigniting the 'view-merge'...
Arkham Claims 53% Zcash De-Anonymization; Zooko Fires Back as ZEC Slips to $342
Arkham Intelligence tags $420B in ZEC volume, sparking a 10% sell-off despite Zooko Wilcox dismissing the findings as "opt-in" transparency...
Spain Breaks Up Alleged Crypto Kidnapping Cell After Dutch Investor Murder
Spanish National Police say they have broken up a crew that allegedly kidnapped and killed a Dutch crypto investor near...
Brazil’s ‘Operation Kryptolaundry’ Hits R$2.7B Crypto Laundering Ring Linked to High‑Yield Schemes
Brazil’s Federal Police moved on 9 December against an alleged crypto‑laundering syndicate in the Distrito Federal, launching “Operação Kryptolaundry” and...
‘Cryptoqueen’ Lawyer Prosecuted for Silencing OneCoin Victim
Carter-Ruck Partner Faces Tribunal Over “Improper” Threats A senior partner at elite law firm Carter-Ruck is facing prosecution by the...
Lazarus Dev Box Popped: LummaC2 Leak Ties Rig to $1.4B Bybit Heist
Hudson Rock’s InfoStealers unit published a forensic report on December 3 that details a LummaC2 infostealer infection on a North...
Anthropic AI Agents Hack Smart Contracts for $1.22; $4.6M Exploited in Simulation
For the price of a coffee, AI agents can now autonomously shatter DeFi security. Anthropic’s Frontier Red Team released findings...
Thailand Orders Worldcoin to Delete 1.2M Iris Scans
Thailand’s Personal Data Protection Committee (PDPC) ordered Worldcoin (now World) to immediately suspend operations and delete biometric data collected from...
Binance Sued for $1B by Oct 7 Victims Over Terror Financing
Barely a month after President Trump pardoned founder Changpeng Zhao, Binance faces a massive new legal threat. Families of 306...