🦑 Kraken's parent company Payward to acquire derivatives exchange Bitnomial for $550 000 000 in cash and stock.

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🪙 Over the week, investors poured almost $1 billion into spot Bitcoin ETFs — this is the best result since January and a sign that the market is ready to take risks again.

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☠️ The KelpDAO protocol was hacked — 116 500 ETH worth approximately $293 million was withdrawn from the rsETH restaking token.

The funds have already been moved via bridge to another address, the team is investigating the incident.

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💰 Analysts linked the hack of Kelp DAO ($293 million) to the North Korean group Lazarus Group: attackers spoofed messages via compromised RPC nodes and DDoS.

The key problem is that Kelp DAO had a single point of failure scheme (1/1 DVN), which allowed the fake transaction to go through without verification.

The incident impacted the market: rsETH was frozen on Aave and an outflow of over $10 billion was recorded, and a number of DeFi protocols temporarily halted bridges — heightening concerns about cross-chain infrastructure vulnerabilities.

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💸 Coinbase replaced two former top managers with AI agents, who are already helping employees with tasks and strategy directly within work tools.

Brian Armstrong believes that soon there will be more such agents than people, and AI will perform a significant portion of the work, including writing code.

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🪙 BitMine bought another 101 627 ETH last week.

Now the company has almost 5 million ETH on its balance sheet — about 4.1% of the total Ethereum supply.

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🪙 Vitalik Buterin stated that Ethereum is NOT trying to become the fastest network or compete with exchanges: its primary goal is to remain the most secure, decentralized, and resilient system for storing digital assets.

He added that the network is focusing on AI-powered code review and protection against quantum threats so that Ethereum can operate even without constant developer input.

He also criticized L2 networks that simply copy Ethereum and make it more centralized. According to him, a useful L2 must develop its own mechanics and address specific application needs, rather than being "Ethereum, only faster."

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📊 Hyperliquid's revenue per employee is 18 times higher than Anthropic's—$78 million versus $4.4 million.

Tether is also at the top, with about $17.3 million per employee.

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🪙 Tether minted 1 000 000 000 USDT.

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☠️ Since 2022, the crypto market has lost over $13 billion due to hacks — the largest cases include Ronin ($612 million), Poly Network ($611 million), and Bybit for $1.4 billion.

The trend is obvious: attack amounts are growing, and peaks increasingly fall on infrastructure projects and bridges.

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🐰 Almost the entire crypto market revolves around stables — up to 85% of spot volumes on TOP-CEX pass through stablecoin pairs, and not with BTC or fiat.

In essence, this is no longer just a tool — it's the main "rail" along which crypto liquidity moves.

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