Quants are paying $4,000 a month to front-run Solana trades
MEV bots by quant traders can read Solana trades before blocks exist, thanks to validators selling insider access to transaction data.
Protos•Aaron Wise51m agoProtos
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Robinhood engineers charged over fraudulent Hyperliquid trades
Two Robinhood engineers allegedly used confidential crypto listings to insider trade on decentralized derivatives exchange Hyperliquid.
Protos•Jacob Lyon1h ago
Russian spies using crypto and Telegram to incite chaos across Europe
Russian spies are using Telegram and crypto to entice teenagers and young adults across Europe to carry out acts of sabotage and violence.
Protos•Jacob Lyon3h ago
Strategy still can’t get STRC back to parity
It’s been four months since Strategy’s STRC broke parity and its execs made getting it back to its $100 peg its number one priority.
Protos•Mark Toon4h ago
Trump and Melania’s coins are down over 95% from ATHs
$TRUMP reached its all-time high of ~$75 per token on January 19, 2025, and has been on a slow, but relentless, decline ever since.
Protos•Mark Toon8h ago
US 20-year bond auction just had its worst showing ever
Hours after Scott Bessent hailed two "successful" debt auctions, America sold 20-year bonds at their worst rate since 1986.
Protos•Aaron Wise8h ago
Viral report alleges Anthropic’s AI safety watchdog conflicted
AI safety evaluator METR denies taking Anthropic money, while shared funders, free tokens, and revolving staff complicate that tidy defense.
Protos•Aaron Wise15 Sept
Manifund hires Caroline Ellison while fighting FTX over $1.5M
Manifund, a charity focused on AI and effective altruism, has created a stir by admitting to hiring disgraced Alameda CEO Caroline Ellison.
Protos•Cas Piancey15 Sept
US seizes $61M of Iranian crypto profits allegedly laundered through Binance
A US civil forfeiture complaint is attempting to seize $61M worth of cryptocurrency tied to Iran's illegal oil sales that relied on Binance.
Protos•Jacob Lyon15 Sept
Strategy copycat Satsuma crashed 99%, liquidated treasury
Mark Moss’ Satsuma Technology sold all 669 of its BTC and will return £30.7M after the company crashed 99% from its 2025 peak.
Protos•Aaron Wise15 Sept
DeFi stalwart Balancer mulls shutdown after $130M hack
Balancer, one of DeFi’s best-known exchanges, is considering a shutdown after failing to boost revenue after the November 2025 hack.
Protos•Jake Harrison15 Sept
Leopold Aschenbrenner is back to losing money in AI stocks
CNBC revealed on Friday that Leopold Aschenbrenner was buying AI equities again. By Monday, every one of his six stocks was falling.
Protos•Aaron Wise14 Sept
What happened to HTX’s 700 million missing TRX?
In June, approximately 700M TRX left the HTX reserves. We were able to track these assets to the addresses they ended up in.
Protos•Bennett Tomlin14 Sept
Public company insider sells outweighed buys 10-to-1 in August
Executives and insiders at US-listed companies sold $10 for every $1 worth of stock they bought in the month of August.
Protos•Aaron Wise14 Sept
What we know about the Revolut customer data leak
Revolut claims its systems and customer funds are unaffected and says that it's contacted impacted individuals to provide support.
Protos•Mark Toon14 Sept
Forget crypto or AI, oil tanker ETF BWET is up 5,100%
The next-best-performing ETFs rank far below BWET on a year-to-date basis and derive their gains from levering-up single stock performance.
Protos•Aaron Wise11 Sept
Osmosis took 74 days to discover 40-BTC Nomic exploit
Two more projects in the Cosmos ecosystem affected by an exploit which saw 40 BTC of unbacked nBTC minted in late June.
Protos•Jake Harrison11 Sept
A ‘fly’ is now trading crypto and is only down 1%
A digital fly brain has been taught how to trade crypto, parallel park, play Beat Saber, and even explore it's sexuality.
Protos•Jacob Lyon11 Sept
One day after launching stock pairs, Apple delists Pump Fun app
After Apple delisted its app, Pump Fun has lost its iOS funnel for new user downloads in two major countries.
Protos•Aaron Wise11 Sept
There’s a 500% penalty on Hyperliquid oil short-selling
Hyperliquid is paying traders 500% a year to hold long oil derivatives. Payouts are hourly as an additional reward.
Protos•Aaron Wise10 Sept