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FBI used Google cookies, 500 food orders and a Monero seed phrase to identify Steam malware funder

A 15-page federal criminal complaint details how investigators combined a Bitcoin trail with Google cookies, phone records, and more than 500 Uber Eats deliveries to identify Zyaire Dontaevious Zamarion Wilkins as the alleged financier and marketer of a Steam malware campaign. A later search uncovered a Monero seed phrase tied to roughly $382,000 in cumulative […]

CryptoSlate•Liam 'Akiba' Wright24 Jul

BlackRock’s IBIT accounted for 90% of a $225 million Bitcoin ETF reversal after a seven-day buying streak

US spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded $225 million in net outflows on July 23, ending a seven-session inflow streak as net redemptions from BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust dominated the reversal. IBIT posted a $202 million net outflow, accounting for 89.96% of the US spot Bitcoin ETF sector’s aggregate net outflow. Five other funds recorded combined outflows […]

CryptoSlate•Liam 'Akiba' Wright24 Jul

A 7 year Ledger bug lets attackers rebuild a private key from five signatures in seconds

Zilliqa has suspended native transactions after discovering that roughly five affected signatures from the same private key may provide enough information to reconstruct that key, creating a recovery problem that an ordinary transfer cannot safely solve. The vulnerability is confined to Schnorr signatures generated for native, non-EVM transactions through the Zilliqa Ledger app, according to […]

CryptoSlate•Liam 'Akiba' Wright24 Jul

CLARITY Act splits Wall Street and crypto as Goldman Sachs breaks with banks and Charles Hoskinson backs Warren

The revised CLARITY Act is exposing unusual divisions across Wall Street, Washington and the crypto industry as lawmakers struggle to build support for a Senate vote. Senate Republicans this week released a new draft that would bar the president and other federal officials from issuing or sponsoring digital assets. The changes have drawn sharply different […]

CryptoSlate•Oluwapelumi Adejumo24 Jul

Bitcoin declines below $65,000 as Trump threatens Iran after tanker attacks send Oil above $100

Bitcoin fell below $65,000 as surging oil prices and higher Treasury yields triggered a broader retreat from risk assets. Data from CryptoSlate shows the largest cryptocurrency traded near $64,980 as Brent crude remained on track for a weekly gain of almost 10%. Oil settled 7% higher at $100.69 a barrel on July 23, its first […]

CryptoSlate•Oluwapelumi Adejumo24 Jul

Crypto home invasions jump 20x as wrench-attack exposure hits $124 million

CertiK recorded roughly $124.1 million in losses and ransom demands in H1 2026, a measure of exposure rather than criminal profit.

CryptoSlate•Liam 'Akiba' Wright24 Jul

Bitcoin mining giant Poolin files for bankruptcy owing 11,700 users $164 million

The signed offers equal 31.8% of wallet IOUs only in gross arithmetic, before estate boundaries, liens and bankruptcy costs.

CryptoSlate•Liam 'Akiba' Wright24 Jul

DeFi’s next institutional hurdle is deciding who can be trusted to price real-world assets

DTCC now runs a tokenization trial with roughly 40 firms, including JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, BlackRock, Vanguard and the NYSE, to represent shares and Treasuries on-chain, tokens that become usable collateral only when a lending market can answer who prices them and what happens once the venues behind that price go quiet. DefiLlama puts on-chain RWA […]

CryptoSlate•Gino Matos24 Jul

The debt clock ticking inside corporate Bitcoin treasuries could force billions back onto the market

The convertible notes, preferred shares, and credit facilities that financed a large share of corporate Bitcoin holdings carry maturities, redemption windows, and dividend dates that determine when a company might need to sell. Matthew Sigel, VanEck's head of digital assets research, shared a list of corporate Bitcoin treasuries that maps who ranks above the coins […]

CryptoSlate•Gino Matos24 Jul

BitMEX shuts down without an FTX style crisis, revealing where crypto’s real danger has moved

BitMEX completed a review of its business and will close on Sept. 23, telling customers to close their positions and withdraw funds before then. The announcement came with no balance-sheet hole, withdrawal freeze, or bankruptcy filing, with Kaiko data putting BitMEX's market share below 0.01% and its daily volume near $400,000. That combination makes BitMEX's […]

CryptoSlate•Gino Matos24 Jul

Bitcoin treasury company erases 7.7M shares after selling 177 BTC – yet Bitcoin per share fell

The $11.7 million convert vanished, leaving a simpler capital stack and a tougher test for replacement funding.

CryptoSlate•Liam 'Akiba' Wright23 Jul

SEC pays $150,000 as Coinbase-backed Freedom Of Information Act settlement releases two withheld documents

Reported terms include releasing two withheld documents and reviewing records and text-message controls after the Gensler-era losses.

CryptoSlate•Liam 'Akiba' Wright23 Jul

Tesla books $112 million crypto paper loss as digital assets fall to $674 million

The Q2 mark cut GAAP earnings by $87 million after tax, while Tesla added the full pretax loss back to adjusted EBITDA.

CryptoSlate•Liam 'Akiba' Wright23 Jul

BitMEX shutdown gives traders 2 months to withdraw, but active positions face an earlier deadline

Reduce-only trading begins Aug. 26, with forced closes possible before exchange services end Sept. 23.

CryptoSlate•Liam 'Akiba' Wright23 Jul

$460 billion Bitcoin risk draws BlackRock, Coinbase and Strategy into $15M quantum defense mission

BlackRock, Coinbase and Strategy are backing a $15 million effort to prepare Bitcoin against future quantum-computing attacks. The companies are among nine founding members of the Bitcoin Security Consortium, announced July 23 to support developers and researchers working on the network’s long-term security. The consortium also includes Anchorage Digital, ARK Invest, Block, Blockstream, Fidelity Digital […]

CryptoSlate•Oluwapelumi Adejumo23 Jul

$131 billion crypto vault boom will test the limits of SEC’s friendlier crypto stance

On July 22, SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce warned that some crypto vaults and onchain lending strategies may fall under federal securities laws. According to her, the regulatory risk depends on how the products are structured and who controls the investment decisions. Crypto vaults pool customer assets into onchain strategies that generate yield through lending, staking […]

CryptoSlate•Oluwapelumi Adejumo23 Jul

White House pushes back as key Democrats rejects CLARITY Act’s crypto ethics

The White House pushed back against the Senate Democrats' rejection of the latest version of the CLARITY Act, with ethics remaining a major sticking point. The clash comes despite President Donald Trump’s decision this week to accept new ethics limits, reflecting how far apart negotiators remain as lawmakers try to advance sweeping crypto market legislation. […]

CryptoSlate•Oluwapelumi Adejumo23 Jul

Latest $3.8 billion RWA recovery shows how quickly DeFi absorbed the KelpDAO shock

Active use of tokenized real-world assets in DeFi has returned to about $3.77 billion, close to the level visible before an April 18 exploit triggered a $13 billion decline across DeFi as a whole in 48 hours. DefiLlama's tracking puts that recovery at roughly 95 days from the shock to July 22. The failure consisted […]

CryptoSlate•Gino Matos23 Jul

XRP’s $1.16 recovery gets support from whales and a $285 million ETF streak

XRP’s recovery above $1.16 this week has coincided with a shift in the token’s supply picture, as large holders move fewer coins onto exchanges while US-listed exchange-traded funds continue to attract fresh capital. The retreat in exchange-bound supply follows weeks of consolidation around $1, when weaker prices and limited spot demand kept XRP from sustaining […]

CryptoSlate•Oluwapelumi Adejumo23 Jul

Bitcoin rose 2% on CLARITY progress while Coinbase, Circle jumped over 8% – but why?

Bloomberg ETF analyst James Seyffart argued that the CLARITY Act should carry virtually no direct effect on Bitcoin's price. In his view, Bitcoin already holds the infrastructure the bill is trying to build for the rest of the industry: commodity treatment, regulated futures, spot ETF access, and institutional custody. That claim sits inside a wider […]

CryptoSlate•Gino Matos23 Jul