ERC-8213 could make wallet signing clearer for Web3 users
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USDP Exploit: proxy takeover drains stETH from ‘fully audited’ stablecoin
USDP, a decentralised stablecoin protocol launched in September 2025, has been halted after a critical exploit on 4 December allowed an attacker to mint 98 million USDP and drain around $1 million in liquidity, including roughly 230+ stETH from pools.
Babylon Aave Bitcoin vaults bring native BTC to DeFi
Aave’s next upgrade is about to give Bitcoin a proper job. The Babylon Aave integration will let lenders post native BTC as collateral in Aave V4 without wrapping it, parking it on an exchange, or trusting a custodian.
Ethereum’s Fusaka upgrade goes live, bringing PeerDAS to mainnet
Ethereum’s Fusaka hard fork is now live on mainnet, with finality confirmed shortly after the 22:00 GMT slot on 3 December. Client teams report a smooth transition, strong validator participation, and no immediate hiccups, exactly what you want from a major scaling upgrade.
UK Property (Digital Assets etc) Act 2025
The Property (Digital Assets etc) Act 2025 has now received Royal Assent, giving cryptocurrencies, stablecoins and NFTs explicit recognition as property in UK law. Until now, courts treated digital assets as property on a case-by-case basis.
AI exploits blockchain: Anthropic’s red team puts DeFi on notice
Anthropic’s latest frontier red-team study is a neat, slightly chilling proof-of-concept: AI exploits blockchain at scale, in simulation, and it is already economically worthwhile.
EIL SDK: how Ethereum’s new interop toolkit works
The EIL SDK is the developer-facing wrapper around Ethereum’s new Interoperability Layer, giving you a way to script multi-chain operations (transfers, swaps, gas payments) as a single logical flow rather than a pile of per-chain transactions.
Cryptomixer takedown: Europol drains a €1.3 billion laundering hub
A Cryptomixer takedown announced today has removed one of Europe’s longest-running Bitcoin mixers from the ransomware and darknet tool kit.
Tether downgrade: Ardoino hits back at S&P’s ‘weak’ label
On 30 November 2025, Tether chief Paolo Ardoino issued a fresh X thread attacking S&P’s “weak” USDT rating.
Yearn Finance exploit: Legacy yETH pool drained after infinite-mint bug
On Sunday, the Yearn Finance protocol’s legacy yETH product was exploited, allowing an attacker to mint effectively unlimited yETH and drain almost 9 million dollars’ worth of ETH and liquid staking tokens from Balancer and Curve pools in a single sequence of transactions.
Cocoon: Telegram’s private AI marketplace on TON
The Cocoon Confidential Compute Open Network is Pavel Durov’s attempt to pull AI inference away from hyperscale clouds and into a decentralised, privacy-preserving marketplace.
How CARF turns UK crypto exchanges into tax reporting hubs
From 1 January 2026, the UK will plug its crypto industry into CARF, the OECD’s Crypto-Asset Reporting Framework.
Tether USDT downgrade: what S&P’s ‘weak’ rating actually says
On 26 November 2025, S&P cut USDT from “4 (constrained)” to “5 (weak)” on its stablecoin stability scale, citing a growing tilt towards risk assets in the backing and persistent disclosure gaps around who actually holds and manages that collateral.
Upbit hack explained: exchange blames signature bug
The upbit hack is only a few days old, but Upbit already has a preferred explanation: a cryptographic bug in its own Solana wallet stack that may have allowed attackers to infer private keys from biased signing data.
Tornado cash sanctions ruling: how a US court pulled OFAC back
The tornado cash sanctions story has flipped from headline enforcement win to legal setback for the US Treasury.
Grayscale ETFs: $DOGE, $LINK & $XRP
If you wanted a neat snapshot of where crypto sits in late 2025, the latest wave of Grayscale ETFs will do the job. You now have a Dogecoin ETF on NYSE Arca, a Chainlink trust angling for its own conversion, and an XRP product riding the post-SEC settlement boom.
Monad airdrop impact: Initial reactions
Monad’s long-trailed mainnet went live on Monday, but the monad airdrop that came with it landed hard.
MSCI Index Exclusion: What you need to know
The proposed MSCI index exclusion puts bitcoin-heavy treasuries at the centre of what was meant to be a routine index review.
Bitmain investigation: National security concerns
The Bitmain investigation, codenamed Operation Red Sunset, pulls Bitcoin mining hardware into the national security frame. Federal agencies are now treating Chinese-made ASIC rigs as potential vectors for espionage and grid disruption in the United States.
Kalshi raise signals growth in information markets
The Kalshi raise (one billion dollars at an eleven-billion valuation) turns a once-niche prediction venue into a flagship “information markets” play.
Cardano disruption explained: the library bug impact
On 21 November, a malformed delegation transaction turned an obscure library bug into the most visible cardano disruption the network has seen.
Khabib’s papakha auction: Telegram jetton NFTs
Telegram and Khabib Nurmagomedov are testing what happens when fight culture, fandom and on-chain collectibles meet.
Ethereum Interop Layer: Making rollups feel like one chain
Ethereum has spent five years telling users to “go to Layer 2”. The Ethereum Interop Layer (EIL) is the moment it admits that sending people to a maze of rollups without a map was never going to scale.
CFTC’s Caroline Pham brings tokenisation inside the rulebook
At FIA EXPO, Acting CFTC Chairman Caroline Pham used her keynote to talk about digital assets in the dry language of market structure, not moral hazard.
Kraken’s $800 Million Bet on Being Crypto’s Next Market Utility
Kraken has finally done what it has hinted at for years: raised real Wall Street money to match its market ambitions. On Tuesday, the exchange closed an $800 million dual-tranche round at a $20 billion valuation, one of the largest private raises in crypto this year.
OCC gas fee letter quietly normalises banks on public chains
In Interpretive Letter 1186, the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) confirms that national banks can hold crypto on their own balance sheets purely to pay blockchain transaction costs. If a bank wants to move customer assets on Ethereum, it can hold a working float of ETH for gas.
Aggregator wars: Jupiter splits from Metis router
Jupiter Exchange announced that Metis Router v7 is now a standalone project, formally decoupled from the Jupiter brand.
ICIJ’s Coin Laundry investigation part 2: Inside crypto’s cash desks
If Part 1 of Coin Laundry was about the exchanges, Part 2 is about the bit they’d rather not talk about: the places where crypto turns back into envelopes of cash, diamonds, gold bars and yacht rentals, often without anyone asking who you are.
Aave app to offer normal looking savings account
The Aave app is their pitch to people who don’t really care about liquidity mining or governance, they just want better savings.
Coin Laundry: ICIJ’s $28 billion probe
The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, The New York Times and 36 partner outlets allege in Coin Laundry that at least $28 billion in suspect crypto passed through major exchanges between mid-2023 and mid-2025, despite enforcement actions and compliance rebrands.
CoinMarketCap turns leaderboard into CMC20 DeFi index token
CoinMarketCap has just announced the $CMC20. In partnership with Reserve Protocol and Lista DAO, the CMC20 is a fully tradable index token on BNB Chain that tracks the top 20 cryptocurrencies by market cap (minus stablecoins, wrappers and other outliers).
Kohaku at ECC2: Vitalik’s wallet privacy wake-up call
At Ethereum Cypherpunk Congress 2 in Buenos Aires, Vitalik Buterin used his keynote to deliver this point: Ethereum has done the hard work on privacy and security – and then handed it to users through terrible wallets.
Canary Capital’s XRP ETF: Loud money, carefully dressed
When Canary Capital’s XRP ETF (XRPC) rang the opening bell on Nasdaq on Thursday, it didn’t so much launch as arrive with a calling card. Day-one trading hit $58 million, the highest debut of any ETF in 2025 across more than 900 launches, neatly edging out Bitwise’s Solana ETF.
DOJ’s $15M USDT DPRK-related crypto seizure
On Friday, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced its latest North Korea crypto seizure: more than $15 million in Tether (USDT) linked to state-backed hackers and a sprawling fake-IT-worker network that burrowed into 100+ American companies.
Aave wins MiCA authorisation, launches zero-fee stablecoin ramps
Aave Labs has secured MiCA authorisation from the Central Bank of Ireland for its subsidiary Push Virtual Assets Ireland Limited, clearing it to offer regulated euro to stablecoin on/off-ramps across the EEA.
Altcoin ETF wave hits: Solana, XRP, SEI and even MOG
A month after the SEC streamlined spot-crypto ETF listings, the U.S. market is seeing a genuine altcoin rush.
Bybit report claims 16 blockchains can freeze user funds
Bybit’s in-house research team, Lazarus Security Lab, has published a report “Blockchain Freezing Exposed” claiming that 16 major blockchains already include code or controls that can freeze or restrict user funds, with a further 19 networks able to add similar tools with relatively minor upgrades.
Cash App and Solana to bring USDC payments to 57m users
Cash App and Solana are teaming up on stablecoin payments: Block’s Cash App will add USDC transfers on Solana rails for eligible users in early 2026, giving its 57 million monthly users instant, low-fee, on-chain dollars without wallet setup or gas management.
DOJ forms “Scam Center Strike Force” aimed at crypto-fraud rings
The U.S. Department of Justice has stood up a new Scam Center Strike Force to dismantle transnational “pig-butchering” operations that use crypto investment schemes to fleece Americans. Led by the U.S.
Grayscale IPO: S-1 filing puts crypto asset manager on NYSE path
On 13 November, Grayscale Investments publicly filed an S-1 with the U.S. SEC to list on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker GRAY, a decisive step toward a grayscale IPO after a confidential submission in July.
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