DeFi
DeFi

DeFi’s old hack vectors are fading – But the new risk can hit six chains at once

Decentralized finance has gotten a lot safer over the past six years, and a new review of protocol losses from 2020 through 2025 puts a…
DeFi

U.S. House tax committee weighs crypto bills, including relief for small transactions

Seven draft bills are being circulated by the House Ways and Means Committee ahead of a hearing next week, including proposals to ease small-gain, mining…
AI

AI-assisted Zcash flaw exposes the supply integrity gap an emergency fork could not fully close

The exploit that nearly broke Zcash originated inside the zero-knowledge proof circuit that powers Orchard, Zcash’s newest shielded pool, and the cryptographic core of its…
DeFi

A stablecoin tied to Strategy stock depegs putting a new DeFi dollar risk in focus as Bitcoin sells off

Apyx’s apxUSD fell below its dollar reference on June 4 as Bitcoin traded near $63,000, putting DeFi dollar peg risk back in focus. A Bitget…
AI

AI-Assisted Audit Uncovers Critical Zcash Orchard Vulnerability That Could Have Minted Unlimited Counterfeit ZEC

Security researcher Taylor Hornby used Anthropic’s Opus 4.8 to find a critical bug in Zcash’s Orchard pool that could have minted undetectable counterfeit ZEC, sending…
AI

Shielded Labs Proposes New Zcash Upgrade to Prove ZEC Supply After Orchard Bug

The Zcash developer said researcher Taylor Hornby used Anthropic’s latest AI model to find a flaw that could have minted undetectable counterfeit ZEC inside the…
DeFi

Bitcoin fell 21% after Strategy’s debt buyback news— Is a Terra Luna-style doom loop next?

Bitcoin price collapsed as Strategy faced tighter liquidity conditions and paused its BTC buying. Is it time to jump ship, or buy the dip? Read…
DeFi

Bitcoin’s selloff is creating the short-heavy setup that could reverse it fast

Bitcoin is enduring a multi-front assault on its spot market liquidity as exchange-traded funds, short-term speculators, and cryptocurrency miners simultaneously distribute assets. This coordinated selling…
AI

Bitcoin’s $63k slide shows ETF demand fighting AI equities for dollar liquidity

Bitcoin’s relationship with the S&P 500 has stopped behaving like a simple correlation trade at exactly the wrong time for bulls. For much of 2026,…
DeFi

JPMorgan warns time is running short for crypto market structure bill

The Clarity Act still faces several legislative hurdles, and disputes over stablecoin yield have emerged as a key sticking point, the bank said. Read Full…