Crypto

Crypto longs worth $570 million were wiped out as the Clarity Act failed, with Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether (ETH) hit hardest, according to market data.

US federal prosecutors on Tuesday charged two former Robinhood engineers with commodities fraud and wire fraud, alleging they used confidential knowledge of upcoming cryptocurrency listings to profit from perpetual futures trades on the decentralized exchange Hyperliquid.

Solana has more than tripled its maximum transaction size through a mainnet upgrade, a change designed to support more complex onchain operations.

Blockstream rejects ransom as Liquid hackers hold nearly 600 BTC Blockstream has rejected a ransom demand from the hackers who still control nearly 600 Bitcoin taken from the Liquid Network, declaring that withholding user assets is theft rather than responsible disclosure.

The funds were sent back to a Liquid Federation address on September 7, but approximately 598.5 BTC—worth about $47 million at current prices—remain unreturned.