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Polygon Royalties Hack: $261k USDC Loss Shows DeFi Risk Is Still Very Real A Royalties smart contract on Polygon was exploited, and the attacker took 261k USDC. Not a record-breaker. Not even close. But losses do not need nine zeros to make people open a wallet app, refr ...

Bitcoin and Ethereum ETF Outflows Point to a Cooler Mood Spot Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs saw heavy withdrawals on June 23, 2026. Bitcoin products lost $68.18 million. Ethereum products lost $66.04 million. That is real money leaving the ETF wrapper, not just some dashboard flicker, and it ...

Bitcoin price drop triggers $170M+ in long liquidations A "Bitcoin price drop liquidation" happens when an exchange force-closes a leveraged trade after Bitcoin moves the wrong way. In this case, long traders were positioned for Bitcoin to rise. It did not. Bitcoin fell instead, and the ...

Glassnode Altcoin Season Signal Hits 86: Is Bitcoin Weakness Fueling the Next Rally? Glassnode analysts say their "Altcoin Cycle Signal" has reached 86, a level that has often come before altcoins outperform Bitcoin. The setup is odd, though. I'll be honest: this does no ...

Bitcoin Market Cycle Psychology: Anger, Depression, and the Road to $100K Crypto bulls on Twitter are passing around the "Wall St. Cheat Sheet" again. Their argument is blunt: Bitcoin (BTC) looks close to the "Anger/Depression" stretch of the cycle. The popular version says BTC may still ...

PancakeSwap ATM/WBNB Pool Hack: $950,000 Stolen, DeFi Security Faces Another Test Hackers stole $950,000 from the ATM/WBNB liquidity pool on PancakeSwap. Real money. Not a rounding error buried in a dashboard. My take: the ugly part is not just the size of the loss, but how familiar the ...

CryptoQuant CEO: Altcoin Rotation May Be Breaking Down The old Bitcoin-to-altcoin trade may be losing its edge. For years, traders treated the cycle like a script: Bitcoin (BTC) runs first, altcoins follow later. CryptoQuant CEO Ki Young Ju thinks that pattern may be fa ...

Steam Wallpaper Engine Crypto Theft: Anime Wallpapers Hide Lumma, Vidar Malware Crypto theft has found another ugly hiding place: anime wallpapers on Steam's Wallpaper Engine. Some Workshop downloads reportedly carried malware that stole browser data, Steam account details, passwords, an ...

Arthur Hayes: AI bubble burst could fuel Bitcoin to $1,000,000 Arthur Hayes, the outspoken BitMEX co-founder, says an AI bust could trigger a financial crisis worse than 2008 and send Bitcoin toward $1,000,000. Big claim. Maybe too big. My take: the price target sounds theatrical, but th ...

Bitcoin Mining Cost Squeeze: What It Means for BTC Price Action Bitcoin miners are under pressure. The average cost to mine 1 BTC is now above the spot price. MacroMicro puts the average mining cost near $74,000 per coin, while BTC trades around $62,000. JPMorgan has sa ...