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🔥 Treasury Sanctions Crypto Exchanges It Says Laundered Millions for Iran.
Treasury sanctioned two crypto exchanges it says laundered millions of dollars for Iran's Revolutionary Guard, naming a Georgia- and UAE-based operator and an Iran-based platform.By Jose Antonio LanzEdited by Guillermo JimenezAug 7, 2026Aug 7, 20263 min readIran and crypto. Image: Shutterstock/DecryptCreate an account to save your articles.Add on GoogleAdd Decrypt as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google.In brief OFAC designated Shelbit Exchange and Aban Tether, accusing both of moving funds for the Iranian armed forces and previously sanctioned Iranian exchanges. Treasury says Iran-linked wallets sent over $1 million to Shelbit, which sent more than $2 million back. The State Department is offering up to $15 million for tips disrupting the Iranian military's financial machinery. Treasury just sanctioned two crypto exchanges it says laundered millions for Iran's Revolutionary Guardnaming one operator who ran the scheme from Georgia and the UAE, and a second platform based in Iran.
OFAC announced the action on August 7 under its Economic Fury campaign. The Iranian regime's reliance on digital assets and shadow banking networks is further evidence that Economic Fury is working, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said in a statement. A separate, simultaneous action went after Iran's traditional shadow-banking network. The centerpiece is Siavash Kayvanpour. He's Iran-born, holds Dominica and Afghanistan citizenship, and ran a multi-country network from the UAE and Georgia.
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Treasury sanctioned two crypto exchanges it says laundered millions of dollars for Iran's Revolutionary Guard, naming a Georgia- and UAE-based operator and an Iran-based platform.By Jose Antonio LanzEdited by Guillermo JimenezAug 7, 2026Aug 7, 20263 min readIran and crypto. Image: Shutterstock/DecryptCreate an account to save your articles.Add on GoogleAdd Decrypt as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google.In brief OFAC designated Shelbit Exchange and Aban Tether, accusing both of moving funds for the Iranian armed forces and previously sanctioned Iranian exchanges. Treasury says Iran-linked wallets sent over $1 million to Shelbit, which sent more than $2 million back. The State Department is offering up to $15 million for tips disrupting the Iranian military's financial machinery. Treasury just sanctioned two crypto exchanges it says laundered millions for Iran's Revolutionary Guardnaming one operator who ran the scheme from Georgia and the UAE, and a second platform based in Iran.
OFAC announced the action on August 7 under its Economic Fury campaign. The Iranian regime's reliance on digital assets and shadow banking networks is further evidence that Economic Fury is working, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said in a statement. A separate, simultaneous action went after Iran's traditional shadow-banking network. The centerpiece is Siavash Kayvanpour. He's Iran-born, holds Dominica and Afghanistan citizenship, and ran a multi-country network from the UAE and Georgia.
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🔥 Bitcoin Payment Service BTCPay Warns Critical Flaw Is Under Active Attack.
Image: Shutterstock/DecryptCreate an account to save your articles.Add on GoogleAdd Decrypt as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google.In brief BTCPay Server said attackers are exploiting a critical vulnerability. Users should update immediately or shut down their servers. The project has not said whether AI was involved. BTCPay Server warned users Friday that attackers are exploiting a critical vulnerability that could lead to stolen funds. In a post on X on Friday, the Bitcoin payment processor urged administrators to install version 2.4.2 and confirm the update in the server footer.
If you are unable to update right away, turn off your BTCPay Server to prevent unauthorized access until you can update, the company wrote. BTCPay Server also told users to replace credentials known as macaroons and recreate the macaroons.db file and refresh authentication strings for other Lightning Network backends. If you generated a hot on-chain wallet in BTCPay, you want to move those funds and recreate the wallet, they added. The project credited Bitcoin Red Team members with reporting the vulnerability. BTCPay Server has not disclosed how the flaw works, when the attacks began, how many servers were compromised, or whether any funds were actually stolen.
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Image: Shutterstock/DecryptCreate an account to save your articles.Add on GoogleAdd Decrypt as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google.In brief BTCPay Server said attackers are exploiting a critical vulnerability. Users should update immediately or shut down their servers. The project has not said whether AI was involved. BTCPay Server warned users Friday that attackers are exploiting a critical vulnerability that could lead to stolen funds. In a post on X on Friday, the Bitcoin payment processor urged administrators to install version 2.4.2 and confirm the update in the server footer.
If you are unable to update right away, turn off your BTCPay Server to prevent unauthorized access until you can update, the company wrote. BTCPay Server also told users to replace credentials known as macaroons and recreate the macaroons.db file and refresh authentication strings for other Lightning Network backends. If you generated a hot on-chain wallet in BTCPay, you want to move those funds and recreate the wallet, they added. The project credited Bitcoin Red Team members with reporting the vulnerability. BTCPay Server has not disclosed how the flaw works, when the attacks began, how many servers were compromised, or whether any funds were actually stolen.
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🔥 XRP at a Crossroads as Senate Punts on Clarity Act.
Here's why.By Jose Antonio LanzEdited by Guillermo JimenezAug 7, 2026Aug 7, 20264 min readXRP is a top crypto asset by market cap. Source: Shutterstock/DecryptCreate an account to save your articles.Add on GoogleAdd Decrypt as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google.In brief XRP fell 2.05% in 24 hours to $1.02, the lone red coin among the top 10; every other major is green. The Senate left Washington without voting on the Clarity Act, delaying the market-structure bill until at least September. XRP trades within a confirmed death cross, but prediction market traders remain optimistic for now. The Senate left town without taking up the Clarity Act, pushing the market-structure vote to at least September. Every major coin shrugged it offexcept XRP.
While Bitcoin stayed flat, dealing with its own headwinds, and Dogecoin gained 1.38% over the day to be the best performer in the top 10 crypto assets by market cap, XRP dropped 2.05%, the only major token to close red. On a week that saw it fall 3%, it's the weakest of the majors by a wide margin. The delay isn't just procedural for XRP. The token's entire 20252026 rally thesis rested on the U.S. The Clarity Act would sort crypto into securities and commodities and, in drafts Decrypt previously reported, would reclassify XRP, Solana, and Dogecoin as non-securities. That means these coins would fall under the regulatory purview of the CFTC, widely viewed as the more preferable option by crypto industry observers, rather than the historically tougher SEC.
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Here's why.By Jose Antonio LanzEdited by Guillermo JimenezAug 7, 2026Aug 7, 20264 min readXRP is a top crypto asset by market cap. Source: Shutterstock/DecryptCreate an account to save your articles.Add on GoogleAdd Decrypt as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google.In brief XRP fell 2.05% in 24 hours to $1.02, the lone red coin among the top 10; every other major is green. The Senate left Washington without voting on the Clarity Act, delaying the market-structure bill until at least September. XRP trades within a confirmed death cross, but prediction market traders remain optimistic for now. The Senate left town without taking up the Clarity Act, pushing the market-structure vote to at least September. Every major coin shrugged it offexcept XRP.
While Bitcoin stayed flat, dealing with its own headwinds, and Dogecoin gained 1.38% over the day to be the best performer in the top 10 crypto assets by market cap, XRP dropped 2.05%, the only major token to close red. On a week that saw it fall 3%, it's the weakest of the majors by a wide margin. The delay isn't just procedural for XRP. The token's entire 20252026 rally thesis rested on the U.S. The Clarity Act would sort crypto into securities and commodities and, in drafts Decrypt previously reported, would reclassify XRP, Solana, and Dogecoin as non-securities. That means these coins would fall under the regulatory purview of the CFTC, widely viewed as the more preferable option by crypto industry observers, rather than the historically tougher SEC.
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🔥 Hackers Use BNB Chain to Spread Malware Through Fake CAPTCHAs.
Image: Shutterstock / Decrypt.Create an account to save your articles.Add on GoogleAdd Decrypt as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google.In brief Hackers are using BNB Smart Chain contracts to store malware instructions. Fake CAPTCHA prompts tell victims to paste malicious commands into Windows tools. Successful attacks can steal credentials and give hackers lasting access to corporate networks. Hackers are using BNB Chain contracts to spread malware through compromised websites and fake CAPTCHA prompts, according to a report by Microsoft Threat Intelligence.
In a post on X on Thursday, Microsoft Threat Intelligence said the campaign uses EtherHiding, a technique that stores malicious instructions in a blockchain smart contract. JavaScript injected into compromised websites contacts a BNB Chain gateway and retrieves commands from a contract previously linked to ClearFake, a malware campaign that infects legitimate websites. Storing the instructions on a blockchain network makes them harder to remove. Only the wallet controlling the contract can change its contents, limiting the effectiveness of conventional takedowns.
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Image: Shutterstock / Decrypt.Create an account to save your articles.Add on GoogleAdd Decrypt as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google.In brief Hackers are using BNB Smart Chain contracts to store malware instructions. Fake CAPTCHA prompts tell victims to paste malicious commands into Windows tools. Successful attacks can steal credentials and give hackers lasting access to corporate networks. Hackers are using BNB Chain contracts to spread malware through compromised websites and fake CAPTCHA prompts, according to a report by Microsoft Threat Intelligence.
In a post on X on Thursday, Microsoft Threat Intelligence said the campaign uses EtherHiding, a technique that stores malicious instructions in a blockchain smart contract. JavaScript injected into compromised websites contacts a BNB Chain gateway and retrieves commands from a contract previously linked to ClearFake, a malware campaign that infects legitimate websites. Storing the instructions on a blockchain network makes them harder to remove. Only the wallet controlling the contract can change its contents, limiting the effectiveness of conventional takedowns.
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🔥 Bitcoin Wallet Dormant Since 2011 Moves Millions in BTC.
Image: Shutterstock/DecryptCreate an account to save your articles.Add on GoogleAdd Decrypt as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google.In brief A wallet holding 49.97 BTCreceived on July 16, 2011moved the funds on Wednesday at block 961331. The stash is worth about $3.2 million now, a 634,347% gain on its roughly $10 average cost basis. The receiving wallet has previously routed funds to deposits tied to FalconX, a crypto prime broker, leaving open whether the old coins are being repositioned toward a trading venue. Another dormant Bitcoin whale has awoken. An old Bitcoin address holding millions in Bitcoin that had not made any transactions in over 14 years suddenly reactivated yesterday.
Per Galaxy Research's monitoring, the Bitcoin address beginning in 1EBz first took in the Bitcoin on July 16, 2011, when BTC traded under $15. It sat untouched until 20:14 UTC on August 6, 2026, when a single transaction swept the balance to a fresh address. At roughly $10 per coin, the 49.97 BTC cost about $500 to acquire in mid-2011. Priced near $65,000 today, the position is worth $3.23 milliona 634,347% gain. That return profile is specific to Bitcoin's earliest years, when the asset was a thinly traded experiment rather than a $1.3 trillion market.
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Image: Shutterstock/DecryptCreate an account to save your articles.Add on GoogleAdd Decrypt as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google.In brief A wallet holding 49.97 BTCreceived on July 16, 2011moved the funds on Wednesday at block 961331. The stash is worth about $3.2 million now, a 634,347% gain on its roughly $10 average cost basis. The receiving wallet has previously routed funds to deposits tied to FalconX, a crypto prime broker, leaving open whether the old coins are being repositioned toward a trading venue. Another dormant Bitcoin whale has awoken. An old Bitcoin address holding millions in Bitcoin that had not made any transactions in over 14 years suddenly reactivated yesterday.
Per Galaxy Research's monitoring, the Bitcoin address beginning in 1EBz first took in the Bitcoin on July 16, 2011, when BTC traded under $15. It sat untouched until 20:14 UTC on August 6, 2026, when a single transaction swept the balance to a fresh address. At roughly $10 per coin, the 49.97 BTC cost about $500 to acquire in mid-2011. Priced near $65,000 today, the position is worth $3.23 milliona 634,347% gain. That return profile is specific to Bitcoin's earliest years, when the asset was a thinly traded experiment rather than a $1.3 trillion market.
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🔥 MyTrade Founder Fined $10K Over Bots That Wash Traded 60 Cryptocurrencies.
Image: Shutterstock/DecryptCreate an account to save your articles.Add on GoogleAdd Decrypt as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google.In brief MyTrade founder Liu Zhou has been fined $10,000 over running a crypto wash trading service. Zhou pleaded guilty in October 2024 alongside 17 co-conspirators charged in the same operation. MyTrade's dashboard let clients order a daily volume of fake trades, executed by bots. The founder of crypto market maker MyTrade has avoided prison and been fined $10,000 for running a wash trading service that generated millions of dollars in fake daily volume across roughly 60 cryptocurrencies. Liu Zhou, 41, a Canadian citizen and Chinese national, was sentenced in Boston federal court on Thursday by U.S.
District Judge Angel Kelley, who imposed no custodial term, Law360 reported. He pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit market manipulation and wire fraud after being charged in October 2024 alongside 17 other individuals and entities. MyTrade sold the service openly. Clients logged into a dashboard on the MyTrade MM website and specified how many wash trades they wanted executed each day on named exchanges, a product the firm called Volume Support. Bots did the rest, buying and selling the same asset repeatedly to inflate apparent volume.
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Image: Shutterstock/DecryptCreate an account to save your articles.Add on GoogleAdd Decrypt as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google.In brief MyTrade founder Liu Zhou has been fined $10,000 over running a crypto wash trading service. Zhou pleaded guilty in October 2024 alongside 17 co-conspirators charged in the same operation. MyTrade's dashboard let clients order a daily volume of fake trades, executed by bots. The founder of crypto market maker MyTrade has avoided prison and been fined $10,000 for running a wash trading service that generated millions of dollars in fake daily volume across roughly 60 cryptocurrencies. Liu Zhou, 41, a Canadian citizen and Chinese national, was sentenced in Boston federal court on Thursday by U.S.
District Judge Angel Kelley, who imposed no custodial term, Law360 reported. He pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit market manipulation and wire fraud after being charged in October 2024 alongside 17 other individuals and entities. MyTrade sold the service openly. Clients logged into a dashboard on the MyTrade MM website and specified how many wash trades they wanted executed each day on named exchanges, a product the firm called Volume Support. Bots did the rest, buying and selling the same asset repeatedly to inflate apparent volume.
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🔥 Putin Signs Russia's First Crypto Law: Trading Is Legal, Payments Stay Banned.
Image: Shutterstock/DecryptCreate an account to save your articles.Add on GoogleAdd Decrypt as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google.In brief President Vladimir Putin signed Russia's first law giving comprehensive rules to crypto exchanges, custodians, brokers, and mining. Only firms on a state registry may run exchanges after July 1, 2027, with a 15 million ruble ($187,000) capital floor and a self-regulatory body requirement. Using crypto as money is still banned, and banks can block transfers they suspect flow to unregistered providers. Russian President Vladimir Putin signed the country's first comprehensive law governing digital currencies on Tuesday, state news agency Tass reported.
The legislation sets rules for how crypto is issued, stored, accounted for, and traded, wrapping exchanges, digital depositories, brokers, and clearing houses into one framework. The law keeps the ban on using crypto and digital rights as payment for goods and services, and it blocks advertising that pitches crypto payments. Russia already legalized cryptocurrency mining in 2024, when Putin signed a separate bill green-lighting the industry, so this law fills the gap on trading and custody that the mining rules left open. Only organizations on a special government registry may run crypto exchanges, and existing operators get a grace period to register by July 1, 2027.
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Image: Shutterstock/DecryptCreate an account to save your articles.Add on GoogleAdd Decrypt as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google.In brief President Vladimir Putin signed Russia's first law giving comprehensive rules to crypto exchanges, custodians, brokers, and mining. Only firms on a state registry may run exchanges after July 1, 2027, with a 15 million ruble ($187,000) capital floor and a self-regulatory body requirement. Using crypto as money is still banned, and banks can block transfers they suspect flow to unregistered providers. Russian President Vladimir Putin signed the country's first comprehensive law governing digital currencies on Tuesday, state news agency Tass reported.
The legislation sets rules for how crypto is issued, stored, accounted for, and traded, wrapping exchanges, digital depositories, brokers, and clearing houses into one framework. The law keeps the ban on using crypto and digital rights as payment for goods and services, and it blocks advertising that pitches crypto payments. Russia already legalized cryptocurrency mining in 2024, when Putin signed a separate bill green-lighting the industry, so this law fills the gap on trading and custody that the mining rules left open. Only organizations on a special government registry may run crypto exchanges, and existing operators get a grace period to register by July 1, 2027.
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🔥 XRP, Bitcoin Whales Are AccumulatingIs the Bear Market Nearly Over?
Price data by DecryptNewsMarketsXRP, Bitcoin Whales Are AccumulatingIs the Bear Market Nearly Over?On-chain data shows big holders quietly buying XRP near $1, yet the daily chart is still trapped below a death cross.By Jose Antonio LanzEdited by Guillermo JimenezAug 6, 2026Aug 6, 20263 min readXRP. Image: Decrypt/ShutterstockCreate an account to save your articles.Add on GoogleAdd Decrypt as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google.In brief CryptoQuant says the largest XRP cohorts are adding supply as price holds the $1.00$1.20 range, with neutral order flow pointing to quiet absorption. XRP's realized price sits near $0.75 versus a market price around $1.10, a gap the firm calls a late-bear-market zone. The daily chart tells the same story: a death cross, price below both moving averages, and weak trend strength. Across some of the crypto markets biggest assets, including Bitcoin, Ethereum, and XRP, whales are adding to their bags, according to research from CryptoQuant.
Julio Moreno, the companys head of research, said in a report that these coins largest cohorts are adding supply as prices sit near or below their average purchase cost. This positioning lowers downside pressure and is consistent with the final phase of the cycle's decline, he wrote in the firm's weekly report. In other words, we might be nearing the tailend of the crypto bear market. For XRP specifically, CryptoQuant said spot order sizes stay in big whale territory even as the token holds the $1.00$1.20 band, hovering around a $66 billion market capitalization. But the 90-day taker cumulative volume deltaa read on aggressive buying and sellinghas drifted to neutral.
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Price data by DecryptNewsMarketsXRP, Bitcoin Whales Are AccumulatingIs the Bear Market Nearly Over?On-chain data shows big holders quietly buying XRP near $1, yet the daily chart is still trapped below a death cross.By Jose Antonio LanzEdited by Guillermo JimenezAug 6, 2026Aug 6, 20263 min readXRP. Image: Decrypt/ShutterstockCreate an account to save your articles.Add on GoogleAdd Decrypt as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google.In brief CryptoQuant says the largest XRP cohorts are adding supply as price holds the $1.00$1.20 range, with neutral order flow pointing to quiet absorption. XRP's realized price sits near $0.75 versus a market price around $1.10, a gap the firm calls a late-bear-market zone. The daily chart tells the same story: a death cross, price below both moving averages, and weak trend strength. Across some of the crypto markets biggest assets, including Bitcoin, Ethereum, and XRP, whales are adding to their bags, according to research from CryptoQuant.
Julio Moreno, the companys head of research, said in a report that these coins largest cohorts are adding supply as prices sit near or below their average purchase cost. This positioning lowers downside pressure and is consistent with the final phase of the cycle's decline, he wrote in the firm's weekly report. In other words, we might be nearing the tailend of the crypto bear market. For XRP specifically, CryptoQuant said spot order sizes stay in big whale territory even as the token holds the $1.00$1.20 band, hovering around a $66 billion market capitalization. But the 90-day taker cumulative volume deltaa read on aggressive buying and sellinghas drifted to neutral.
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🔥 MetaMask Launches Self-Custodial AI Wallet for Autonomous Crypto Trading.
Image: Decrypt/MetaMaskCreate an account to save your articles.Add on GoogleAdd Decrypt as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google.In brief MetaMask has launched Agent Wallet, a self-custodial wallet designed for AI-powered crypto trading. Users can set spending limits, allowlist protocols, and choose security settings before agents execute transactions. The wallet includes transaction simulation, threat scanning, MEV protection, and gas abstraction for supported transactions. MetaMask on Thursday launched Agent Wallet, a self-custodial wallet that lets AI agents execute on-chain transactions within user-defined restrictions, expanding the company's push into AI-powered crypto trading.
According to MetaMask, the wallet is aimed at traders and developers using AI agents to monitor markets, identify opportunities, and execute transactions autonomously. However, rather than giving an AI agent unrestricted access to a wallet, users can set spending caps, approve specific protocols, choose risk settings, and select between Guard Mode and Beast Mode, which offer different levels of automation. (Disclosure: MetaMask is a product of Consensys, one of numerous investors in an editorially independent Decrypt.) Agent Wallet supports Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, OpenClaw, Hermes, and OpenCode, along with Hyperliquid and Ethereum Virtual Machine-compatible networks. It also supports gas abstraction, allowing users to pay network fees with the asset being transferred instead of holding a network's native token.
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Image: Decrypt/MetaMaskCreate an account to save your articles.Add on GoogleAdd Decrypt as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google.In brief MetaMask has launched Agent Wallet, a self-custodial wallet designed for AI-powered crypto trading. Users can set spending limits, allowlist protocols, and choose security settings before agents execute transactions. The wallet includes transaction simulation, threat scanning, MEV protection, and gas abstraction for supported transactions. MetaMask on Thursday launched Agent Wallet, a self-custodial wallet that lets AI agents execute on-chain transactions within user-defined restrictions, expanding the company's push into AI-powered crypto trading.
According to MetaMask, the wallet is aimed at traders and developers using AI agents to monitor markets, identify opportunities, and execute transactions autonomously. However, rather than giving an AI agent unrestricted access to a wallet, users can set spending caps, approve specific protocols, choose risk settings, and select between Guard Mode and Beast Mode, which offer different levels of automation. (Disclosure: MetaMask is a product of Consensys, one of numerous investors in an editorially independent Decrypt.) Agent Wallet supports Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, OpenClaw, Hermes, and OpenCode, along with Hyperliquid and Ethereum Virtual Machine-compatible networks. It also supports gas abstraction, allowing users to pay network fees with the asset being transferred instead of holding a network's native token.
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🔥 What Is Arc? The Stablecoin Blockchain From USDC Issuer Circle.
The Stablecoin Blockchain From USDC Issuer Circle Price data by DecryptUniversityExplainersTechnology GuidesWhat Is Arc? The Stablecoin Blockchain From USDC Issuer CircleArc is a new layer-1 blockchain developed by USDC issuer Circle, designed specifically for stablecoin-native finance.By Jason NelsonEdited by Stephen GravesAug 6, 2026Aug 6, 20267 min readCreate an account to save your articles.Add on GoogleAdd Decrypt as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google.In brief Arc is a blockchain built by USDC issuer Circle for stablecoin-focused applications. It uses USDC for gas, features a built-in FX engine, and enables opt-in privacy. A public mainnet launch is expected on September 16, 2026, plus an ARC token has been announced. Circle, the company behind the USDC stablecoin, has launched a new blockchain platform called Arc.
Unlike blockchains like Ethereum or Solana, Arc is a layer-1 network designed specifically to support stablecoin-based applications. Stablecoins are tokens whose value is tied to fiat currencies such as the dollar. Arc is Circles effort to address the infrastructure challenges that limit the adoption of stablecoins at an institutional scale. We've helped enterprises and builders use USDC across dozens of networks, Rachel Mayer, VP of Product Management at Circle, told Decrypt. The consistent feedback has been: make costs predictable, settlement finality deterministic, and privacy compatible with real-world obligations. This article will explain what Arc is, how it works, and what Circle says sets it apart from other blockchain platforms.
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The Stablecoin Blockchain From USDC Issuer Circle Price data by DecryptUniversityExplainersTechnology GuidesWhat Is Arc? The Stablecoin Blockchain From USDC Issuer CircleArc is a new layer-1 blockchain developed by USDC issuer Circle, designed specifically for stablecoin-native finance.By Jason NelsonEdited by Stephen GravesAug 6, 2026Aug 6, 20267 min readCreate an account to save your articles.Add on GoogleAdd Decrypt as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google.In brief Arc is a blockchain built by USDC issuer Circle for stablecoin-focused applications. It uses USDC for gas, features a built-in FX engine, and enables opt-in privacy. A public mainnet launch is expected on September 16, 2026, plus an ARC token has been announced. Circle, the company behind the USDC stablecoin, has launched a new blockchain platform called Arc.
Unlike blockchains like Ethereum or Solana, Arc is a layer-1 network designed specifically to support stablecoin-based applications. Stablecoins are tokens whose value is tied to fiat currencies such as the dollar. Arc is Circles effort to address the infrastructure challenges that limit the adoption of stablecoins at an institutional scale. We've helped enterprises and builders use USDC across dozens of networks, Rachel Mayer, VP of Product Management at Circle, told Decrypt. The consistent feedback has been: make costs predictable, settlement finality deterministic, and privacy compatible with real-world obligations. This article will explain what Arc is, how it works, and what Circle says sets it apart from other blockchain platforms.
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🔥 Crypto Wrench Attacks on Pace for Record Year as $30M Stolen in 2026: Chainalysis.
Image: Shutterstock/DecryptCreate an account to save your articles.Add on GoogleAdd Decrypt as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google.In brief Chainalysis estimates more than $30 million has been stolen in violent crypto attacks during the first half of 2026. Home invasions now account for 37% of documented incidents, while France has recorded the most publicly known attacks. The firm says attackers increasingly target family members and use a range of laundering techniques to move stolen funds. Physical attacks targeting cryptocurrency holders are on pace for their worst year on record, with more than $30 million stolen during the first half of 2026, according to a report by blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis.
In a new report published on Thursday, Chainalysis documented 46 violent crypto attacks through late June, estimating that victims lost more than $30 million in attacks. Violent attacks targeting crypto holders, including home invasions, kidnappings, and hostage situations, sometimes called 'wrench attacks in security circles, have surged in recent years, Chainalysis wrote. Criminals have recognized that crypto holders are high-value targets because they possess wealth in an instantly and irreversibly transferrable form. A wrench attack refers to the use of threats or physical violence to force victims to hand over cryptocurrency. While kidnappings remain the most common type of attack, home invasions have become more frequent, rising to 37% of documented incidents from 26% in 2023.
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Image: Shutterstock/DecryptCreate an account to save your articles.Add on GoogleAdd Decrypt as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google.In brief Chainalysis estimates more than $30 million has been stolen in violent crypto attacks during the first half of 2026. Home invasions now account for 37% of documented incidents, while France has recorded the most publicly known attacks. The firm says attackers increasingly target family members and use a range of laundering techniques to move stolen funds. Physical attacks targeting cryptocurrency holders are on pace for their worst year on record, with more than $30 million stolen during the first half of 2026, according to a report by blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis.
In a new report published on Thursday, Chainalysis documented 46 violent crypto attacks through late June, estimating that victims lost more than $30 million in attacks. Violent attacks targeting crypto holders, including home invasions, kidnappings, and hostage situations, sometimes called 'wrench attacks in security circles, have surged in recent years, Chainalysis wrote. Criminals have recognized that crypto holders are high-value targets because they possess wealth in an instantly and irreversibly transferrable form. A wrench attack refers to the use of threats or physical violence to force victims to hand over cryptocurrency. While kidnappings remain the most common type of attack, home invasions have become more frequent, rising to 37% of documented incidents from 26% in 2023.
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🔥 Bitcoin AI Security Audit Files 4,962 Findings Across 390 Projects.
Source: Decrypt/ShutterstockCreate an account to save your articles.Add on GoogleAdd Decrypt as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google.In brief Cashu creator calle said the campaign logged 85 critical and 635 high-severity issues in its first 30 hours. Contributors each prompt their own agents, which the group says produces a wider spread of hits than a single method would. Privacy and coinjoin projects carried the highest share of serious findings, at 24%. A volunteer group calling itself the Bitcoin Red Team has filed 4,962 security findings across 390 Bitcoin projects in roughly 30 hours, running what it describes as a large-scale ecosystem audit with AI agents doing much of the scanning. Pseudonymous developer calle, who created the Bitcoin ecash protocol Cashu, published the campaign's first situation report on Wednesday.
It puts 85 findings at critical severity and 635 at high, together 14.5% of the corpus and an average of 1.85 serious issues per project, filed at 166 findings an hour. He said the team has grown to 16 people working around the clock; the report logs 17 contributors, 14 of them human and three automated. Bitcoin Red Team update: we've grown to 16 globally distributed people working 24/7 We're running a large-scale ecosystem security audit across bitcoin code bases. 27.5 hours in, we've filed 4,962 findings across 390 projects. 85 critical and 635 high severity issues.
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Source: Decrypt/ShutterstockCreate an account to save your articles.Add on GoogleAdd Decrypt as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google.In brief Cashu creator calle said the campaign logged 85 critical and 635 high-severity issues in its first 30 hours. Contributors each prompt their own agents, which the group says produces a wider spread of hits than a single method would. Privacy and coinjoin projects carried the highest share of serious findings, at 24%. A volunteer group calling itself the Bitcoin Red Team has filed 4,962 security findings across 390 Bitcoin projects in roughly 30 hours, running what it describes as a large-scale ecosystem audit with AI agents doing much of the scanning. Pseudonymous developer calle, who created the Bitcoin ecash protocol Cashu, published the campaign's first situation report on Wednesday.
It puts 85 findings at critical severity and 635 at high, together 14.5% of the corpus and an average of 1.85 serious issues per project, filed at 166 findings an hour. He said the team has grown to 16 people working around the clock; the report logs 17 contributors, 14 of them human and three automated. Bitcoin Red Team update: we've grown to 16 globally distributed people working 24/7 We're running a large-scale ecosystem security audit across bitcoin code bases. 27.5 hours in, we've filed 4,962 findings across 390 projects. 85 critical and 635 high severity issues.
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🔥 Cloudflare OS: Heres Whats Inside the Open-Source AI Agent Platform.
Image: Shutterstock/DecryptCreate an account to save your articles.Add on GoogleAdd Decrypt as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google.In brief Cloudflare open sourced a new version of Cloudflare OS, a platform that gives every employee an agent, a workspace, and tools to build small apps. It bundles an agent workspace, a security and governance layer built around Gatekeepers, and a way to ship personal apps that run as Cloudflare Workers. The pitch: run the whole thing on your own systems, connected to your own data, instead of handing agents broad API keys. Cloudflare built the first version of Cloudflare OS for itself.
In May, the company gave every one of its thousands of employees access, CEO Matthew Prince wrote, and people outside engineering started using it to draft documents, build slides, and automate repeatable work. Now Cloudflare is open sourcing a rebuilt version that any organization can deploy and connect to its own internal systems. The security had to be part of the platform, not something every person building an app or using an agent has to implement correctly, the company said in its announcement. Cloudflare OS combines three parts.
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Image: Shutterstock/DecryptCreate an account to save your articles.Add on GoogleAdd Decrypt as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google.In brief Cloudflare open sourced a new version of Cloudflare OS, a platform that gives every employee an agent, a workspace, and tools to build small apps. It bundles an agent workspace, a security and governance layer built around Gatekeepers, and a way to ship personal apps that run as Cloudflare Workers. The pitch: run the whole thing on your own systems, connected to your own data, instead of handing agents broad API keys. Cloudflare built the first version of Cloudflare OS for itself.
In May, the company gave every one of its thousands of employees access, CEO Matthew Prince wrote, and people outside engineering started using it to draft documents, build slides, and automate repeatable work. Now Cloudflare is open sourcing a rebuilt version that any organization can deploy and connect to its own internal systems. The security had to be part of the platform, not something every person building an app or using an agent has to implement correctly, the company said in its announcement. Cloudflare OS combines three parts.
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🔥 Visa Widens Stablecoin Payouts via Zerohash Rails.
Image: Shutterstock/DecryptCreate an account to save your articles.Add on GoogleAdd Decrypt as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google.In brief Visa Direct is adding stablecoin prefunding and payout capabilities through Zerohash. Eligible clients can send cross-border payouts and prefund accounts using stablecoins. The move expands Visa's efforts to integrate stablecoins into its global payments network. Visa is expanding its stablecoin payment offerings through an arrangement with crypto infrastructure provider Zerohash, allowing eligible Visa Direct clients to prefund accounts and send payouts using stablecoins. In an announcement on Wednesday, Zerohash said the new capabilities will be available through Visa Direct, the company's money movement network.
Unlocking stablecoin use cases at the core network level further accelerates adoption globally, Zerohash founder and CEO Edward Woodford said in a statement. The integration lets businesses fund Visa Direct accounts with stablecoins before making payments, allowing them to manage liquidity outside traditional banking hours. Recipients can also receive payouts directly in stablecoins rather than local currency. Launched in 2017, Zerohash provides crypto infrastructure for financial institutions. In March, it applied for a national trust bank charter to expand its custody and settlement business, and in July it helped power Morgan Stanley's rollout of Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana trading on E*Trade.
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Image: Shutterstock/DecryptCreate an account to save your articles.Add on GoogleAdd Decrypt as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google.In brief Visa Direct is adding stablecoin prefunding and payout capabilities through Zerohash. Eligible clients can send cross-border payouts and prefund accounts using stablecoins. The move expands Visa's efforts to integrate stablecoins into its global payments network. Visa is expanding its stablecoin payment offerings through an arrangement with crypto infrastructure provider Zerohash, allowing eligible Visa Direct clients to prefund accounts and send payouts using stablecoins. In an announcement on Wednesday, Zerohash said the new capabilities will be available through Visa Direct, the company's money movement network.
Unlocking stablecoin use cases at the core network level further accelerates adoption globally, Zerohash founder and CEO Edward Woodford said in a statement. The integration lets businesses fund Visa Direct accounts with stablecoins before making payments, allowing them to manage liquidity outside traditional banking hours. Recipients can also receive payouts directly in stablecoins rather than local currency. Launched in 2017, Zerohash provides crypto infrastructure for financial institutions. In March, it applied for a national trust bank charter to expand its custody and settlement business, and in July it helped power Morgan Stanley's rollout of Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana trading on E*Trade.
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🔥 Feds Say an NFT Founder Raised $10 Million Only to Blow It All on Gambling, Trading, and a DJ Hobby.
Image: ShutterstockCreate an account to save your articles.Add on GoogleAdd Decrypt as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google.In brief DOJ charged Few and Far founder Taj Tarsha with securities fraud and wire fraud. Prosecutors allege he raised more than $10 million through token sales before misusing investor funds. If convicted, he faces up to 20 years in prison on each count.
Federal prosecutors have charged the founder of NFT marketplace Few and Far with securities fraud and wire fraud, alleging he raised more than $10 million from investors to build a Web3 platform before spending much of the money on online gambling, speculative cryptocurrency trades, and personal expenseslike funding a DJ hobby. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York said that Taj Tarsha, 34, was indicted for allegedly defrauding investors in Few and Far, a startup that sought to build a decentralized marketplace for non-fungible tokens better known as NFTs. Taj Tarsha is alleged to have concealed fraudulent conduct behind his crypto startup, using investor funds for personal benefit, FBI Assistant Director in Charge James C.
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Image: ShutterstockCreate an account to save your articles.Add on GoogleAdd Decrypt as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google.In brief DOJ charged Few and Far founder Taj Tarsha with securities fraud and wire fraud. Prosecutors allege he raised more than $10 million through token sales before misusing investor funds. If convicted, he faces up to 20 years in prison on each count.
Federal prosecutors have charged the founder of NFT marketplace Few and Far with securities fraud and wire fraud, alleging he raised more than $10 million from investors to build a Web3 platform before spending much of the money on online gambling, speculative cryptocurrency trades, and personal expenseslike funding a DJ hobby. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York said that Taj Tarsha, 34, was indicted for allegedly defrauding investors in Few and Far, a startup that sought to build a decentralized marketplace for non-fungible tokens better known as NFTs. Taj Tarsha is alleged to have concealed fraudulent conduct behind his crypto startup, using investor funds for personal benefit, FBI Assistant Director in Charge James C.
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🔥 Bitcoin Tests Markets Patience as Zcash Gives Holders Hope: Analysis.
Can Zcash continue to make holders forget about that mid-June crash? Heres what the charts say.By Jose Antonio LanzEdited by Guillermo JimenezAug 5, 2026Aug 5, 20265 min readTrading. Image: DecryptCreate an account to save your articles.Add on GoogleAdd Decrypt as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google.In brief Bitcoin remains range-bound, trapped in a death cross, with all the signs of a bear trap in the making. Zcash, meanwhile, is painting the opposite picture, with indicators lending credence to a recovery underway. But neither shows a confirmed trend with conviction yet. It was a quiet crypto trading session in a quiet summer, but the charts are painting different pictures for Bitcoin, the market leader, and Zcash, one of the hottest altcoins of the last year.
Bitcoin spent the week dealing with fears of quantum and AI threats: CNBC's Jim Cramer said he's dumping his BTC over quantum-computing fears, and a separate $130 million Coldcard wallet exploit, disclosed late last week, added a custody scare on top. On the macro side, the Federal Reserve, holding rates at 3.5%3.75%, left risk assets in a wait-and-see limbo. Zcash, the privacy coin co-created by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, had a firmer reason to move. Its Ironwood upgrade, network upgrade NU6.3, activated on mainnet July 28 at block 3,428,143, reworking the network's privacy backbone. It was no small thing, given the update put to rest fears created when, again, AI discovered a vulnerability in Zcash's code that's now been patched. Zcash, which trades as ZEC, dipped on the activation of the upgrade, a classic sell-the-news scenario, before buyers came back.
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Can Zcash continue to make holders forget about that mid-June crash? Heres what the charts say.By Jose Antonio LanzEdited by Guillermo JimenezAug 5, 2026Aug 5, 20265 min readTrading. Image: DecryptCreate an account to save your articles.Add on GoogleAdd Decrypt as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google.In brief Bitcoin remains range-bound, trapped in a death cross, with all the signs of a bear trap in the making. Zcash, meanwhile, is painting the opposite picture, with indicators lending credence to a recovery underway. But neither shows a confirmed trend with conviction yet. It was a quiet crypto trading session in a quiet summer, but the charts are painting different pictures for Bitcoin, the market leader, and Zcash, one of the hottest altcoins of the last year.
Bitcoin spent the week dealing with fears of quantum and AI threats: CNBC's Jim Cramer said he's dumping his BTC over quantum-computing fears, and a separate $130 million Coldcard wallet exploit, disclosed late last week, added a custody scare on top. On the macro side, the Federal Reserve, holding rates at 3.5%3.75%, left risk assets in a wait-and-see limbo. Zcash, the privacy coin co-created by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, had a firmer reason to move. Its Ironwood upgrade, network upgrade NU6.3, activated on mainnet July 28 at block 3,428,143, reworking the network's privacy backbone. It was no small thing, given the update put to rest fears created when, again, AI discovered a vulnerability in Zcash's code that's now been patched. Zcash, which trades as ZEC, dipped on the activation of the upgrade, a classic sell-the-news scenario, before buyers came back.
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🔥 Eliza Founder Declares AI Token 'Dead,' Shuts Down Foundation After Lawsuit Settlement.
Image: GitHub.Create an account to save your articles.Add on GoogleAdd Decrypt as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google.In brief Eliza Labs founder Shaw Walters says the Eliza token is dead and the project's foundation is winding down. Walters says the project's remaining treasury was used to settle a class-action lawsuit brought by Burwick Law. He says Eliza will no longer have a native token and will instead focus on developing the open-source ElizaOS AI agent framework. Shaw Walters, founder of Eliza Labs, says the project's native token is finished and the Eliza Foundation is shutting down after a class-action settlement exhausted its remaining funds.
In a post on X Tuesday, Walters said the project settled with a group of token holders represented by Burwick Law after deciding it lacked the money to continue fighting the case. The foundation is winding down, Walters wrote. I am starting over, since I own the IP, and I am never letting a token come close to Eliza again. The announcement caps the rise and fall of one of crypto's best-known AI agent projects.
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Image: GitHub.Create an account to save your articles.Add on GoogleAdd Decrypt as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google.In brief Eliza Labs founder Shaw Walters says the Eliza token is dead and the project's foundation is winding down. Walters says the project's remaining treasury was used to settle a class-action lawsuit brought by Burwick Law. He says Eliza will no longer have a native token and will instead focus on developing the open-source ElizaOS AI agent framework. Shaw Walters, founder of Eliza Labs, says the project's native token is finished and the Eliza Foundation is shutting down after a class-action settlement exhausted its remaining funds.
In a post on X Tuesday, Walters said the project settled with a group of token holders represented by Burwick Law after deciding it lacked the money to continue fighting the case. The foundation is winding down, Walters wrote. I am starting over, since I own the IP, and I am never letting a token come close to Eliza again. The announcement caps the rise and fall of one of crypto's best-known AI agent projects.
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🔥 Jim Cramer Sells His Bitcoin Over Quantum Fears.
Morning Minute: Jim Cramer Sells His Bitcoin Over Quantum Fears Price data by DecryptNewsOpinionMorning Minute: Jim Cramer Sells His Bitcoin Over Quantum FearsThe last time he sold was in December 2022 with Bitcoin at $16,800. Will Jim's sales mark the bottom again?By Tyler WarnerEdited by Stephen GravesAug 5, 2026Aug 5, 20265 min readJim Cramer. Image: Tulane Public Relations/Decrypt (CC BY 2.0)Create an account to save your articles.Add on GoogleAdd Decrypt as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google.Morning Minute is a daily newsletter written by Tyler Warner. The analysis and opinions expressed are his own and do not necessarily reflect those of Decrypt. Jim Cramer Is Selling His Bitcoin Over the Quantum Threat CNBC host Jim Cramer said hes selling his Bitcoin, this time over fears of quantum computing. The decision came on air, after Cramer interviewed IBM CEO Arvind Krishna and asked whether quantum computers could eventually crack the cryptography protecting his coins.
I think that you should give yourself three or four years, Krishna replied, and at that point, I would get rather paranoid about it. Cramer didnt wait. Arvind Krishna knows quantum incredibly. And Im going to sell mine, he said, adding that Ethereum might be even worse. Bitcoin rose about 1.6% the day he announced it. Crypto traders greeted the news with open glee, invoking the inverse Cramer trade, the running joke that the reliable move is the opposite of whatever he recommends. Thank you Jim! read one top reply. Of course, Cramer has a history of selling the bottom.
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Morning Minute: Jim Cramer Sells His Bitcoin Over Quantum Fears Price data by DecryptNewsOpinionMorning Minute: Jim Cramer Sells His Bitcoin Over Quantum FearsThe last time he sold was in December 2022 with Bitcoin at $16,800. Will Jim's sales mark the bottom again?By Tyler WarnerEdited by Stephen GravesAug 5, 2026Aug 5, 20265 min readJim Cramer. Image: Tulane Public Relations/Decrypt (CC BY 2.0)Create an account to save your articles.Add on GoogleAdd Decrypt as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google.Morning Minute is a daily newsletter written by Tyler Warner. The analysis and opinions expressed are his own and do not necessarily reflect those of Decrypt. Jim Cramer Is Selling His Bitcoin Over the Quantum Threat CNBC host Jim Cramer said hes selling his Bitcoin, this time over fears of quantum computing. The decision came on air, after Cramer interviewed IBM CEO Arvind Krishna and asked whether quantum computers could eventually crack the cryptography protecting his coins.
I think that you should give yourself three or four years, Krishna replied, and at that point, I would get rather paranoid about it. Cramer didnt wait. Arvind Krishna knows quantum incredibly. And Im going to sell mine, he said, adding that Ethereum might be even worse. Bitcoin rose about 1.6% the day he announced it. Crypto traders greeted the news with open glee, invoking the inverse Cramer trade, the running joke that the reliable move is the opposite of whatever he recommends. Thank you Jim! read one top reply. Of course, Cramer has a history of selling the bottom.
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🔥 Ex-LAPD Officer Gets Life Plus 15 Years Over $350K Bitcoin Robbery.
Image: Shutterstock/DecryptCreate an account to save your articles.Add on GoogleAdd Decrypt as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google.In brief A Los Angeles judge handed ex-LAPD officer Eric Halem concurrent life terms for kidnapping and robbery, rejecting his bid for a new trial. Halems crew entered the victims apartment using an access code obtained from a conspirator who had rented it. Halem still faces charges over insurance fraud and a second crypto robbery days earlier. A former Los Angeles police officer was sentenced Tuesday to life plus 15 years in state prison for a home invasion in which $350,000 in Bitcoin was taken from a teenager, the Los Angeles Times reported. Eric Halem, 38, was found guilty in March of kidnapping and robbery after a two-week trial, with jurors returning a verdict in under a day.
Superior Court Judge Mildred Escobedo rejected a late bid for a new trial before imposing concurrent life terms, saying the evidence showed a man prepared to use violence out of sheer and utter greed. He becomes eligible for parole after seven years, according to the district attorney's office. Prosecutors said Halem and three other men entered a Koreatown apartment at around 2:30 a.m. on December 28, 2024, handcuffed two victims, moved funds out of their cryptocurrency account and took cash and jewellery. The men arrived in a Range Rover and a Lamborghini Urus registered to Halem's car rental business, wore vests identifying them as police, and let themselves in with an access code supplied by a conspirator who had rented the unit.
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Image: Shutterstock/DecryptCreate an account to save your articles.Add on GoogleAdd Decrypt as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google.In brief A Los Angeles judge handed ex-LAPD officer Eric Halem concurrent life terms for kidnapping and robbery, rejecting his bid for a new trial. Halems crew entered the victims apartment using an access code obtained from a conspirator who had rented it. Halem still faces charges over insurance fraud and a second crypto robbery days earlier. A former Los Angeles police officer was sentenced Tuesday to life plus 15 years in state prison for a home invasion in which $350,000 in Bitcoin was taken from a teenager, the Los Angeles Times reported. Eric Halem, 38, was found guilty in March of kidnapping and robbery after a two-week trial, with jurors returning a verdict in under a day.
Superior Court Judge Mildred Escobedo rejected a late bid for a new trial before imposing concurrent life terms, saying the evidence showed a man prepared to use violence out of sheer and utter greed. He becomes eligible for parole after seven years, according to the district attorney's office. Prosecutors said Halem and three other men entered a Koreatown apartment at around 2:30 a.m. on December 28, 2024, handcuffed two victims, moved funds out of their cryptocurrency account and took cash and jewellery. The men arrived in a Range Rover and a Lamborghini Urus registered to Halem's car rental business, wore vests identifying them as police, and let themselves in with an access code supplied by a conspirator who had rented the unit.
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🔥 This Bitcoin Bridge Shut Itself Down Because AI Was Finding Bugs Too Fast.
Image: Shutterstock/DecryptCreate an account to save your articles.Add on GoogleAdd Decrypt as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google.In brief Bitcoin bridge Boltz has suspended its Bitcoin swap service indefinitely. The company says AI-assisted attacks are outpacing its ability to patch vulnerabilities. Boltz says no user funds were at risk because the platform is non-custodial. Boltz has suspended its Bitcoin swap service indefinitely, saying a surge in AI-assisted attacks has left it unable to continue operating safely. In a series of posts on X on Monday, the company said swaps are disabled until further notice and that it cannot provide an estimate for when the service will return.
We can't give an ETA as of this time, but will provide an update once we know more, Boltz wrote. Boltz is a non-custodial Bitcoin swap service that lets users move Bitcoin between the Lightning Network and the blockchain's base layer without giving the company custody of their funds. Boltz has not published transaction volume figures. Boltz currently holds around $262,000 in total value locked, according to DeFiLlama. Because users retain control of their assets throughout the process, Boltz said no user funds were ever at risk.
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Image: Shutterstock/DecryptCreate an account to save your articles.Add on GoogleAdd Decrypt as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google.In brief Bitcoin bridge Boltz has suspended its Bitcoin swap service indefinitely. The company says AI-assisted attacks are outpacing its ability to patch vulnerabilities. Boltz says no user funds were at risk because the platform is non-custodial. Boltz has suspended its Bitcoin swap service indefinitely, saying a surge in AI-assisted attacks has left it unable to continue operating safely. In a series of posts on X on Monday, the company said swaps are disabled until further notice and that it cannot provide an estimate for when the service will return.
We can't give an ETA as of this time, but will provide an update once we know more, Boltz wrote. Boltz is a non-custodial Bitcoin swap service that lets users move Bitcoin between the Lightning Network and the blockchain's base layer without giving the company custody of their funds. Boltz has not published transaction volume figures. Boltz currently holds around $262,000 in total value locked, according to DeFiLlama. Because users retain control of their assets throughout the process, Boltz said no user funds were ever at risk.
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