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Make CryptoSlate preferred on USDT stablecoin issuer Tether has stepped in to anchor a massive recovery plan for Drift Protocol, the Solana-based decentralized exchange (DEX) that was crippled by a $286 million exploit earlier this month.However, the rescue package includes a potent commercial string that could challenge Circle’s dominance of USDC on the Solana blockchain.According to the recovery plan, Drift must abandon its long-standing reliance on Circle Internet Financial’s USDC and pivot its entire ecosystem to Tether’s USDT.Solana has quietly become the main highway for cheap, fast stablecoin payments, with USDC long seen as the safer default. Forcing one of its flagship DEXs…
An Ethereum Foundation program which funded the work of independent security investigators has resulted in over 100 North Korean operatives being identified and removed from Web3 organisations. The program, known as the ETH Rangers Program, ran for 6 months and was a partnership between the Ethereum Foundation and other security organisations including The Red Guild and Security Alliance. Other notable outcomes of the program include over US$5.8 million in assets being returned or frozen and the publication of a framework to assist organisations deal with the threat of North Korean operatives. Security sleuthing funded through the Ethereum Foundation has led…
Robert Dunlap, 55, of Houston, Texas, was sentenced to 23 years in federal prison for orchestrating a US$20 million cryptocurrency fraud through the Meta-1 Coin Trust from 2018 to 2023. Dunlap falsely claimed the token was backed by US$1 billion in art and US$44 billion in gold, using forged documents to conceal that no backing existed. Nearly 1,000 investors were defrauded, with many losing their entire life savings to the scheme, which prosecutors described as relying on fabricated audits and certificates. Robert Dunlap, a 55-year-old Houston man, was sentenced to 23 years in federal prison after defrauding nearly 1,000 investors…
Make CryptoSlate preferred on Japan has long been one of Ripple’s most fertile markets. SBI’s investment in Ripple dates to 2016, SBI Remit launched Japan’s first XRP-enabled international remittance flow in 2021, and SBI VC Trade counts XRP among its most popular assets.When Ripple and SBI announced in August 2025 that SBI VC Trade intended to distribute RLUSD in Japan, the move read as a natural extension of an already deep local partnership.A recent survey of 518 investment professionals in Japan, conducted by Nomura and Laser Digital between December 2025 and January 2026 and released Apr. 16, found that 63%…
Industry executives at Paris Blockchain Week 2026 said European firms face significantly different regulatory and capital market constraints that prevent them from replicating Strategy’s Bitcoin treasury model. Germany’s Bitcoin Group SE leads European public holders with 3,605 BTC, while France’s Capital B holds 2,925 BTC at a roughly 25.6% unrealised loss. European companies are turning to French public markets and Luxembourg-based structures to raise capital tied to Bitcoin. European companies adopting Bitcoin (BTC) treasury strategies are building around local capital markets and regulatory limits instead of replicating the debt-driven model used by Michael Saylor’s Strategy. Thomas Vogel, a partner at…
Circle is accused of failing to freeze exploit-linked transfers. Approximately $230 million in stolen funds was routed through Circle’s USDC. Drift plans $147.5 million recovery backed by future revenue. Circle Internet Group, the issuer of the USDC stablecoin, is facing a class action lawsuit over its alleged failure to stop the movement of stolen funds linked to the Drift Protocol exploit. The lawsuit, filed by Drift investor Joshua McCollum at the US district court in Massachusetts on behalf of over 100 impacted users, centres on whether the company had both the ability and the obligation to intervene as the exploit…
Blockchain analytics firm Elliptic estimates approximately US$15 million in USDT was drained from wallets linked to Grinex. Stolen funds were routed through Tron and Ethereum and converted into TRX and ETH, likely to avoid potential freezing by Tether, which can blacklist USDT tied to illicit activity. Grinex is widely identified as a successor to sanctioned exchange Garantex, which was shut down by US authorities last year for facilitating hundreds of millions in ransomware and darknet-linked flows. Grinex, a Kyrgyzstan-registered crypto exchange tied to Russia’s digital asset market, halted withdrawals and trading on Thursday after what it described as a large-scale…
Charles Schwab is rolling out spot Bitcoin and Ether trading for retail clients through a dedicated crypto account linked to its brokerage platform, with custody held by its banking subsidiary and execution handled by Paxos. The brokerage giant, which manages US$12.22 trillion in client assets, will charge 75 basis points per transaction. Schwab’s move follows Morgan Stanley’s April 8 Bitcoin ETF launch and Goldman Sachs’ SEC filing for a Bitcoin-linked income fund. Charles Schwab will begin rolling out spot cryptocurrency trading for retail clients in the coming weeks, starting with Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH), bringing one of the largest…
Key takeaways Pi Network’s PI token holds steady at $0.1730, up 4.5% from the previous day. The Pi Core Team’s upgrade to enable smart contracts, with a deadline set for April 27, is a potential catalyst. Pi Network’s PI token has managed to hold steady around $0.1770 as of Friday, adding a 4.5% gain from the previous day. The Pi Core Team (PCT) is driving momentum with the impending upgrade to the mainnet, which will enable smart contract functionality—expected to be a key catalyst for price movement. PI rallies ahead of the Protocol 22 upgrade PI is up 4.5% in…
BIP-361 proposes freezing non-migrated Bitcoin to protect up to 34% of supply from future quantum threats. Hoskinson argues around 1.7 million BTC cannot be recovered due to pre-seed phrase wallet structures. Debate continues over whether the upgrade is truly a soft fork and how Bitcoin should handle major protocol changes. Bitcoin developers are exploring a contingency plan to counter quantum computing threats through BIP-361, though the proposal has drawn criticism over its scope and execution. The upgrade is designed to gradually phase out vulnerable address types and require users to shift funds into more secure, quantum-resistant formats. The initiative could…