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BTC’s $118K Rally Wipes out $1B in Shorts, Canadian Woman Sues Over Sim-Swap Scam, and More — Week in Review
13.7.2025
Bitcoin rally to $118K wipes out over $1 Billion in short bets, Canadian woman sues after $1.3M in bitcoin vanishes in SIM-swap scam, Indian crypto users slammed with 18% GST as Bybit complies with tax regulation, and more in this Week in Review. Week in Review Bitcoin surged to $118,000...
Japan's SBI to Let Users Swap Credit Card Points for Bitcoin, Ether, and XRP
9.7.2025
Although a relatively small amount, it marks the first time cryptocurrency has been added to APLUS’s prize catalog, which previously focused on cashbacks and partner rewards
Canadian Woman Sues After $1.3M in Bitcoin Vanishes in SIM-Swap Scam
6.7.2025
A Canadian pharmacy manager is suing a telecom company and a trading platform after losing 12.58 bitcoins—now worth over $1.36 million—in a sophisticated SIM-swapping scam. Canadian Woman Blames Security Lapse by Telecom Employee for Crypto Loss Canadian woman Raelene Vandenbosch is embroiled in...
Meta Pool, a Liquid Staking Protocol, Suffers $27M Exploit
17.6.2025
The hacker could only swap $25,000 worth of the token due to low liquidity
Resident Evil 9 Lets You Swap Between First-Person And Third-Person Whenever You Want
11.6.2025
Resident Evil Requiem, aka the game we are all going to refer to as Resident Evil 9, was revealed during last week’s Summer Game Fest. The trailer didn’t confirm what perspective Requiem will use, but now we know via a hands-off demo that when Capcom’s latest horror game arrives in February 2026...
Visa, Fidelity, China AMC Pilot Chainlink-Powered CBDC-Stablecoin Swap
9.6.2025
Chainlink’s blockchain protocol facilitated a simulated exchange between Hong Kong’s prototype central bank digital currency (CBDC) and an Australian dollar stablecoin in Phase 2 of the e-HKD+ Pilot Programme. Chainlink Enables Direct e-HKD to Australian Stablecoin Exchange in Test The Hong Kong...
ZachXBT Trolled by Coinbase Hacker After $42.5M Swap
22.5.2025
The hacker responsible for the Coinbase data breach has directly mocked prominent blockchain investigator ZachXBT through an on-chain…
Coinbase hacker trolls ZachXBT onchain after $42.5M THORChain swap
22.5.2025
The hacker behind the data breach targeting Coinbase users has mocked blockchain investigator ZachXBT with an onchain message following a major crypto swap.On May 21, the hacker who previously stole data from at least 69,400 Coinbase users used Ethereum transaction input data to write “L...
DEX Aggregator CoW Swap Targets 33% Trading Boost With Collaboration Feature, More Rewards
15.5.2025
The new system will let solvers work together to offer traders the best swaps
Synthetix Considers Purchase of Options Platform Derive in $27M Token-Swap Deal
14.5.2025
If approved, the uncommon token swap deal would reunite two previously split protocols as Synthetix expands its derivatives suite
Lido DAO initiates emergency vote to swap compromised oracle
11.5.2025
The Lido Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO), the entity that governs the Lido liquid staking protocol, has initiated an emergency vote to rotate a compromised oracle — a bridge that connects real-world data to blockchain systems.According to members of the Lido DAO, an address...
Interchain Foundation Invests in Stride’s Next Chapter: Stride Swap, The Cosmos Hub’s IBC DEX
29.4.2025
This content is provided by a sponsor. Zug, Switzerland, 29 April 2025 – The Interchain Foundation (ICF), a Swiss non-profit that advances interoperable, sustainable, and community-owned decentralized software in the Cosmos ecosystem, has invested in Stride, the liquid-staking protocol....
The Protocol: Will ETH Developers Swap Out the EVM for RISC-V?
23.4.2025
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Pump.Fun’s PumpSwap DEX processed $2.5B of trades last week, up 40%
15.4.2025
Market data shows PumpSwap, the decentralized exchange of memecoin launch platform Pump.Fun, processed $2.5 billion of trades last week.DefiLlama data shows that in the week of April 6, PumpSwap saw a trading volume increase of nearly 40% over the previous week starting on March 30, with...
Pump.Fun’s PumpSwap DEX processed $2.5B of trades last week, up 40%
15.4.2025
Market data shows PumpSwap, the decentralized exchange of memecoin launch platform Pump.Fun, processed $2.5 billion of trades last week.DefiLlama data shows that in the week of April 6, PumpSwap saw a trading volume increase of nearly 40% over the previous week starting on March 30, with...
BitMEX CEO explains how perpetual swaps test altcoin value
9.4.2025
As the cryptocurrency market matures, advanced trading instruments like perpetual swap contracts are increasingly influencing the value of altcoins, according to BitMEX CEO Stephan Lutz.Perpetual swap contracts are a type of crypto trading contract that lets traders bet on the price of a coin...
ParaSwap rebrands to Velora, introduces intent-based DEX trading feature
3.4.2025
Decentralized exchange (DEX) aggregator ParaSwap announced its rebrand to Velora and is moving on to a new intents-based trading feature.According to an announcement shared with Cointelegraph, Velora’s just introduced its Delta v.2.5 upgrade. This supposedly results in improved flexibility...
T-Mobile Hit With $33M SIM Swap Award Over Crypto Theft
30.3.2025
T-Mobile was ordered to pay $33 million after an arbitration panel found it liable for “numerous security failures” enabling a SIM swap that led to crypto theft. Crypto Theft via SIM Swap Leads to $33 Million Loss for T-Mobile Law firm Greenberg Glusker shared on March 20 that it had obtained a...
EOS Rebrands to Vaulta as it Shifts Focus to Web3 Banking
18.3.2025
The transition includes a token swap and the launch of a banking advisory group
Freaky Friday 2's First Trailer Doubles The Body Swapping
14.3.2025
Things are about get freaky. Again. Disney has just released the first trailer for Freakier Friday, a sequel to the 2003 film starring Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis. And this time, four people are swapping bodies. Presumably, this is all happening on a Friday. Read more