Korean funeral services company lost $33 million of its customers’ money over a bad crypto bet — firm was secretly investing client funds into leveraged crypto ETFs

Bumo Sarang, a funeral services company in Korea, lost $33 million after it invested $40 million of its own customers’ money into a leveraged crypto ETF. These funds were meant for prepaid funeral services, but the company…

Physical attacks against crypto holders, including kidnap and assault, up 75% in 2025 — 72 confirmed incidents see $41 million lost, real number likely higher

Large cryptocurrency holders are increasingly being targeted by criminals as large wallets are traced back to their owners. Because of this, many firms and individuals are now investing in physical security and bodyguards,…

How tokenized real-world assets are solving crypto’s counterparty dilemma
How tokenized real-world assets are solving crypto’s counterparty dilemma

Modern derivatives and digital asset markets operate under a persistent drag of operational friction. A recent Nasdaq survey reveals that 70% of global firms experience settlement failures on a daily basis. This structural inefficiency forces instituti…

AI gave North Korean hackers a $600 million month. DeFi is still working out how to respond.
AI gave North Korean hackers a $600 million month. DeFi is still working out how to respond.

  The two hacks came a little over two weeks apart. On 1 April, attackers drained roughly $285 million from Drift Protocol, a Solana-based derivatives exchange, after spending months posing as a quantitative trading firm to trick employees into authori…

Why global businesses are moving to crypto mass payouts
Why global businesses are moving to crypto mass payouts

As gig platforms continue to expand globally, one of the biggest operational challenges they face is managing cross-border disbursements to an ever-growing network of freelancers, creators, and partners across multiple regions. While the gig economy th…

JPMorgan just filed for its second tokenized fund on Ethereum. Wall Street’s blockchain moment is no longer theoretical.
JPMorgan just filed for its second tokenized fund on Ethereum. Wall Street’s blockchain moment is no longer theoretical.

  JPMorgan Chase filed paperwork on Tuesday for its second tokenized money market fund, four months after becoming the largest global systemically important bank to put a fund on the Ethereum blockchain. The JPMorgan OnChain Liquidity-Token Money Marke…

Coinbase cut 700 jobs on Monday, lost $394 million on Thursday, and went dark on Friday because a data centre overheated
Coinbase cut 700 jobs on Monday, lost $394 million on Thursday, and went dark on Friday because a data centre overheated

  Coinbase cut 700 jobs on Monday. It reported a 394 million dollar quarterly loss on Thursday. On Friday, a data centre overheated in Virginia and the exchange went dark for seven hours. The company that told its remaining engineers that AI could do w…

Coinbase is cutting 14 per cent of its workforce. The reason it gave was not the crypto downturn. It was AI.
Coinbase is cutting 14 per cent of its workforce. The reason it gave was not the crypto downturn. It was AI.

Coinbase is cutting 14 per cent of its workforce, roughly 660 employees from a company of 4,700, two days before it reports the worst quarterly earnings in its history as a public company. CEO Brian Armstrong announced the layoffs on Tuesday in a lette…