Key Takeaways:A crypto rug pull is an exit scam where developers hype a token, collect investor funds, then disappear — leaving holders with worthless assets. They are typically illegal under existing fraud statutes.Rug pull frequency dropped 66% in early 2025 compared to early 2024, but the financial damage per
Key Takeaways:The tokenized stock market grew from $30M to $1.2B — a 40x expansion — in 2025, representing over 2,500% year-over-year growth, according to Forbes.Ondo Finance offers 200+ tokenized US stocks and ETFs — including the popular iShares Core S&P 500 ETF (IVV) — that anyone
Key Takeaways:On June 22, 2026, Taiko's cross-chain bridge was exploited for $1.7 million — caused by a leaked SGX signing key left exposed on a public GitHub repository, which allowed an attacker to forge cryptographically valid withdrawal proofs for events that never occurred on-chain.The
You've been holding Bitcoin and you want stability — maybe to lock in gains, pay for something, or just stop watching your portfolio swing 10% in a day. A bitcoin to stablecoin swap is the fastest way to do that without selling to a bank account. But the platform
Imagine trying to pay for a coffee using a check that has to be cleared by a central bank before the barista hands you your cup. That's roughly what transacting on Ethereum mainnet feels like during peak congestion — slow, expensive, and frustrating. In early 2024, Ethereum hit 2
Imagine depositing cash at a bank — then the bank goes bankrupt and your money is frozen. That's exactly what happened to hundreds of thousands of FTX users in November 2022, and it's the core risk every Bitcoin holder accepts the moment they leave their coins on
When FTX collapsed in November 2022, it didn't just wipe out retail investors. Institutional players — hedge funds, family offices, trading desks — lost billions in assets they'd deposited directly onto the exchange. The assets weren't stolen. They were simply there, sitting on an exchange that
What would it take to get Google, BlackRock, Visa, Mastercard, and Coinbase to agree on anything? Apparently, a stablecoin. In late June 2026, a consortium of over 140 companies — spanning payments giants, global banks, and crypto infrastructure firms — announced their backing of Open USD, a new stablecoin built specifically for
Imagine you're holding Bitcoin and need to pay a freelancer who only accepts USDC. Or you want to lock in your gains without selling to a bank account. Both scenarios require one thing: converting BTC into a stablecoin — fast, cheaply, and without handing your funds to a stranger.
In mid-2025, Loopring — once celebrated as a pioneering Ethereum Layer 2 exchange — began winding down its user-facing products. By early 2026, its DEX was dark, its token was delisted from Binance, and its wallet app had ceased operations entirely. A project that raised millions and made headlines for
Key Takeaways:Two separate Aztec bridge exploits in June 2026 drained a combined ~$4.26M — $2.1M from Aztec Connect on June 14, and $2.16M from a legacy rollup bridge within days, according to Halborn's post-mortem.The Aztec Connect hack exploited two discrete ZK circuit bugs:
Key Takeaways:A BTC token swap moves your Bitcoin into another cryptocurrency (or vice versa) — but the platform you choose determines whether you keep custody of your coins or hand them to a middleman.Most wrapped-BTC solutions (WBTC, cbBTC) rely on custodians or committees; Teleswap's TeleBTC is