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🚨 North Korea arrests state hackers for laundering stolen bank funds via crypto North Korea has arrested a group of former state-sponsored cyber operators accused of hacking two domestic state banks — including the Central Bank — and laundering the proceeds through cryptocurrency, according to Daily NK. The group converted stolen funds to cash via Chinese brokers and used small transfers to evade…

🚨 Two Ethereum bridges drained for $31.7M in hours Two Ethereum bridge protocols lost a combined $31.69M in rapid succession, while a third — B² Network — separately suspended staking on July 22. Investigators point to three distinct control failures across the incidents. Bridge exploits clustering like this are a pattern the space knows well. Each case appears to stem from different attack vecto…

₿ Nine Bitcoin giants pool $15M to secure the network BlackRock, Fidelity, Coinbase, ARK Invest, Anchorage Digital, Block, Blockstream, Galaxy and Strategy have launched the Bitcoin Security Consortium — committing $15M over three years to fund Bitcoin network security infrastructure. The move signals a rare moment of institutional coordination across competitors who collectively hold some of the…

🔗 World Foundation raises $52.5M to expand its human ID network World Foundation — the org behind Sam Altman's iris-scanning "proof of human" project — closed a $52.5M token sale led by Pantera Capital, with Bain Capital Crypto also participating. Tokens are locked for one year. The raise is aimed at scaling World's ID infrastructure specifically for AI agent verification — the idea being that as…

🌀 Solana DEXs hit $17B daily volume — second only to Binance Solana's on-chain trading is posting numbers that make most centralized exchanges look small. Daily DEX volume on the network has reached $17.04B according to DeFiLlama, putting it ahead of every CEX on the planet except Binance. That's not a memecoin spike or a one-day anomaly framing — it's a reflection of how deeply Solana has embedd…