Thalha Jubair and Owen Flowers pleaded guilty in a UK court to the 2024 Transport for London hack and a $115M ransomware campaign tied to Scattered Spider.
Bitmine has accumulated 5.7M ETH (~4.8% of supply) and is slowing purchases near its 5% cap. With ETH at $1,816 and Fear & Greed at 27, the $10B bet now needs the market to step in.
HSBC Orion becomes the first firm to clear Gate 2 of the Bank of England's Digital Securities Sandbox, targeting the UK's first Digital Gilt transaction in Q1 2027.
Thalha Jubair and Owen Flowers sentenced to 5.5 years at Woolwich Crown Court for hacking TfL and roles in Scattered Spider's $115M crypto ransom scheme.
Visa's Cuy Sheffield pegs adjusted x402 volume at $19M across 134M transactions, but a Visa-Artemis analysis shows just 4,000 wallets account for 90% of spending.
SlowMist's MistEye system detected MacSync Stealer, a macOS infostealer that hijacks Telegram sessions, decrypts crypto wallets, and harvests seed phrases via fake app prompts.
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong publicly admitted Base's content coin strategy failed, saying the network 'messed up,' while defending its new focus on AI agents, trading, and payments.
Trump Media is selling Wall Street low-latency access to Truth Social posts via a paid 'Truth API,' raising conflict-of-interest questions about the president's financial stake.
Leaked Suno source code reveals 2 million YouTube clips and 62,000 hours of Pond5 audio scraped for AI training — the most concrete evidence yet of the company's data practices.
A Dune study for 1inch finds 85% of concentrated liquidity sat idle in H1 2026, with $542M out of range weekly and retail LPs missing $150M in annual fees.
