The flaw related to Liquid a Network allowed the unauthorized withdrawal of 3996 bitcoins, valued at nearly 320 million dollars. Since then, the perpetrators have already returned 3400 BTC, however the exact technical origin and the fate of the remaining 598.5 BTC remain unknown.
Robinhood Chain generated about 33 million dollars in fees in fifteen days, compared to 11 million for Solana and 9 million for BNB Chain over the same period. According to a Bernstein note reported by The Block on September 8, the network launched on July 1 now produces between 2 and 4 million dollars in daily fees. Robinhood would keep about 90% of it. For this new branch of its crypto activity, the numbers are starting to become significant.
Hunter Biden, son of former American president Joe Biden, is set to launch a memecoin called LAPTOP on Base this Wednesday, featuring an airdrop especially aimed at investors who lost money on Donald Trump’s TRUMP memecoin. But even before its first trade, the project is already facing strong criticism. Several figures mentioned around the launch have distanced themselves.
In France, crypto taxation could involve $9.4 billion of taxable activity during the year 2025, according to data provided by Chainalysis. However, this amount does not constitute either hidden gains or an estimate of taxes lost by the State.
Under the “AI crypto” label, search engines lump together networks that do not do the same job. Some sell an intelligence market, others graphics rendering, software agents, or model training.
Strategy has just bought back 176 million dollars of STRC and doubled its buyback program to 2 billion to reassure the market about its bitcoin-backed securities. Meanwhile, Peter Schiff questions the real demand, and the company's online shop sells a "BTC-themed" sneaker without a bitcoin payment option. Irony or admission?
After acquiring 28,086 ETH in one week, BitMine's Ethereum treasury reaches 5.93 million Ether. The company confirms having achieved 97% of its goal to own 5% of the total supply, but this ratio relies on its own count of 122 million ETH.
Strive's bitcoin craze continues: $109M swallowed in seven days. Profitable crypto strategy or financial time bomb? Analysis.
Meta has launched Muse, an AI agent capable of booking a trip, sending an email, filling out forms, and especially making online purchases after user validation. Presented on September 8, Muse operates in a secure virtual machine and notably uses Stripe Link to pay. Meta is first deploying it in the United States on iOS, Android, and muse.ai.
According to Changpeng Zhao, a bitcoin duel against gold would turn in favor of crypto as early as the next bull market. The founder of Binance considers this surpassing possible, however recent valuations temper his forecast.