Nearly a million investors lost $3.8 billion on the Trump memecoin. Trump made $636 million.
Nearly a million investors lost $3.8 billion on the Trump memecoin. Trump made $636 million.

Nearly a million people who bought President Donald Trump’s $TRUMP memecoin have collectively lost $3.81 billion, according to an analysis by blockchain analytics firm Nansen. The data, which covers all transactions through the end of June, found that …

Germany’s most conservative banks are about to let millions of customers buy Bitcoin
Germany’s most conservative banks are about to let millions of customers buy Bitcoin

Germany’s cooperative banks and savings banks, the local institutions that handle mortgages, current accounts, and small business loans for tens of millions of customers, are rolling out their own cryptocurrency trading services. The move will bring di…

Coinspaid Dev emerges as a dedicated blockchain infrastructure engineering brand
Coinspaid Dev emerges as a dedicated blockchain infrastructure engineering brand

Coinspaid Dev (stylized as {coinspaid.dev}), the engineering team behind the infrastructure powering Coinspaid Solutions, has separated from Coinspaid as an independent engineering brand after more than a decade of building blockchain infrastructure. W…

Hackers stole three million dollars from Polymarket users through a compromised third-party vendor
Hackers stole three million dollars from Polymarket users through a compromised third-party vendor

Polymarket confirmed on Thursday that hackers stole funds from users after a third-party vendor was compromised, allowing malicious code to be injected into the prediction market’s website. Blockchain monitoring firm PeckShield estimated the losses at …

CryptoProcessing’s MLRO on why banking access is still crypto’s biggest challenge
CryptoProcessing’s MLRO on why banking access is still crypto’s biggest challenge

Crypto firms have spent years trying to convince banks that they’re safe to do business with. Even now, with far more regulation in place than a few years ago, plenty of those firms still get turned away at the door. Jelizaveta Paskovskaja, Money Laund…

Polymarket’s $345 million Iran peace bet is stuck because nobody can agree on what “permanent” means
Polymarket’s $345 million Iran peace bet is stuck because nobody can agree on what “permanent” means

Polymarket, the largest prediction market exchange, has more than $345 million in trading volume stuck in limbo over a question of semantics. Traders bet on whether the United States and Iran would sign a permanent peace deal. Both countries announced …

De Beers weaponises blockchain to fight lab-grown diamonds, but a 45% price crash looms large
De Beers weaponises blockchain to fight lab-grown diamonds, but a 45% price crash looms large

The natural diamond industry has a problem it cannot see with the naked eye. Lab-grown stones are now virtually identical to mined gems, they cost a fraction of the price, and the broader tech landscape of 2025 has only accelerated their rise. De Beers…

Coinbase launches an AI agent that can trade crypto and pay for research on your behalf
Coinbase launches an AI agent that can trade crypto and pay for research on your behalf

Coinbase has launched an AI agent that can execute crypto trades and pay for premium research data on behalf of users. The agent integrates with a user’s main Coinbase account or can operate in a separate sandbox. It trades spot crypto and derivatives …

How tokenized real-world assets are solving crypto’s counterparty dilemma
How tokenized real-world assets are solving crypto’s counterparty dilemma

Modern derivatives and digital asset markets operate under a persistent drag of operational friction. A recent Nasdaq survey reveals that 70% of global firms experience settlement failures on a daily basis. This structural inefficiency forces instituti…

AI gave North Korean hackers a $600 million month. DeFi is still working out how to respond.
AI gave North Korean hackers a $600 million month. DeFi is still working out how to respond.

  The two hacks came a little over two weeks apart. On 1 April, attackers drained roughly $285 million from Drift Protocol, a Solana-based derivatives exchange, after spending months posing as a quantitative trading firm to trick employees into authori…