💰 The incident at Bithumb, where users were credited with 620 000 phantom BTC for 20 minutes, was caused by an operational error, not fraud, and has nothing to do with the FTX collapse, analysts believe.

However, the glitch revealed a systemic vulnerability of centralized exchanges: internal balances exist only as database entries and can participate in trading even without on-chain backing.

Such an architectural problem is typical for all CEX and persists until funds are withdrawn to the blockchain.

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🪙 Strategy repurchased 1142 BTC last week at an average price of $78 815 per 1 BTC.

Now the company holds 714 644 BTC.

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🖥 Mining company Cango sold 4 451 BTC, reducing its Bitcoin reserve by approximately 60% and generating approximately $305 million at a price of ~$68 000 per coin.

The funds were directed towards partial repayment of a BTC-backed debt, the decision was approved by the board of directors after reviewing market conditions.

After the transaction, the company's balance sheet retained 3 645 BTC.

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🪙 Tether burned 3 500 000 000 USDT on the Ethereum network.

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🤖 Vitalik Buterin stated that he wants a future with AI in which technology enhances human freedom and capabilities while not leading the world to ruin.

In the long term, he allows for radical scenarios such as mind uploading or the merging of humans with AI, and in the short term — more grounded ideas, but ones requiring deep rethinking.

In this vision, Ethereum plays an important but not central role, remaining part of a broader picture.

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📊 Decentralized exchange Hyperliquid “quietly” outperforms public company Coinbase in key metrics.

DEX trading volume reached $2.6 trillion against Coinbase's $1.4 trillion, while the HYPE token grew by 31% since the beginning of the year amidst a 27% drop in the company's stock.

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🪙 Binance controls approximately 87% of the Trump family's stablecoin USD1, which is the highest concentration among all major stablecoins on a single exchange — Forbes.

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🐹 Hamster A large trader again recorded a large loss on SOL — he sold 100 000 SOL, purchased about two weeks ago for $12.4 million, losing over $3.6 million.

Previously, this same trader has already lost over $6.6 million in SOL operations.

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☠️ In Tatarstan, a 37-year-old resident lost 3 600 000 rubles by investing money in a fictitious crypto project after meeting a fake crypto investor in a messenger.

The fraudsters demonstrated "profit growth", and then blocked access to the funds and demanded an additional contribution, after which a criminal case was initiated under the article "Fraud".

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