American company QMMM Holdings found itself at the center of a major scandal after a sudden stock crash. Shares, which soared by 960% after the announcement of a $100 million crypto reserve, collapsed amid an SEC investigation and suspicions of market manipulation. A meteoric rise and crash in a matter of days At the beginning…
The dispute between Fetch.ai CEO Humayun Sheikh and the Ocean Protocol Foundation has turned into an open confrontation. Mutual accusations, legal threats, and Binance imposing deposit restrictions have come into play. At the center of the scandal are 286 million FET tokens worth about $84 million. It all started with the initiative of the Artificial…
Binance is launching an emergency compensation program for $400 million after the ‘Black Friday’ crash. Out of this amount, $300 million will be allocated for vouchers for traders whose positions were liquidated during the drop. The remaining $100 million will go to cheap loans for institutions — to prevent the entire ecosystem from collapsing. After…
The story with Celsius, which began back in 2022, has finally received an update. Tether will pay $299.5 million as part of settling old claims. The amount will cover only a small part of the lawsuit, which was initially estimated at almost $4 billion. But for the market, something else is more important — the…
Experts from the Universities of Berkeley, Washington, San Diego, and Carnegie Mellon have published a report on a critical vulnerability in Android called Pixnapping. The attack allows malicious apps to stealthily obtain data displayed on the device’s screen, including 2FA, email, geolocation, and other confidential information. How the Pixnapping attack works The essence of the…
Scammers launched ads in the official Monad Telegram channel, disguising themselves as a future portal for claiming the airdrop. Project co-founder Keone Hon published a warning on X, urging users not to click on ads even in the official channel. According to him, attackers bought ads that appear inside the Monad announcement channel — even…
Garrett Jin, former head of the now-defunct exchange BitForex, denied allegations that he profited from the market drop by allegedly knowing in advance about new US tariffs against China. On Monday, he published a post on X, stating that he “has no connection to the Trump family” and refuted rumors of insider trading. The accusations…
Hyperliquid co-founder Jeff Yan and analytics platform CoinGlass stated that the largest centralized exchanges, including Binance, may systematically underestimate the volume of liquidations during market crashes. Record liquidations amid market crash The market experienced the largest wave of liquidations in history. After Donald Trump announced new trade tariffs against China, Bitcoin fell to $102,000, Ethereum…
The drop of the synthetic dollar USDe to $0.65 on the Binance exchange was not due to problems with the collateral or the Ethena protocol, but because of a failure of the internal Binance oracle. This was stated by Guy Young, founder of Ethena Labs — the company that issued USDe. According to him, during…
Pavel Durov believes that the world is rapidly approaching digital dictatorship. More and more countries are abandoning privacy, for which the open internet was originally created. “I’m 41, but there’s nothing to celebrate. We are losing the last chances to preserve the freedom that our fathers once fought for,” he wrote on X. Even in…
Norwegian authorities have launched an investigation after users of the Polymarket platform placed large, profitable bets on Maria Corina Machado’s victory even before the official announcement of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize laureate. It is assumed that information about the committee’s decision may have leaked in advance. Suspicious trades before the results announcement A few…
Despite recent law enforcement raids, cryptocurrency exchanges in Moscow’s business center “Moscow City” are operating again. Some platforms have already restored operations, while others have temporarily limited withdrawals. Experts expect that in the future, the state will take strict control over crypto trading. Partial recovery after the raids In recent weeks, police conducted a series…
