Unchained

The brokerage giant begins rolling out Schwab Crypto to its 39 million clients, pricing trades at 75 basis points with Paxos handling custody.

The Trump-linked DeFi project is asking founders and team members to permanently destroy 10% of their allocation, or remain locked indefinitely, as it tries to restore credibility after a bruising week.

Kraken says a criminal group is threatening to release videos of internal systems unless the exchange pays up. The company says it won’t negotiate and is working with federal law enforcement to identify those responsible.

James Seyffart didn’t expect Morgan Stanley to do this. Now he’s watching to see if BlackRock blinks.

Tether commits $127.5 million to fund Drift’s recovery and relaunch on Solana, while a class action targets Circle for failing to freeze stolen USDC during the April 1 exploit.

Blockaid flagged CoW Swap’s frontend as malicious after attackers hijacked the protocol’s DNS, prompting CoW DAO to pause the backend and warn users to revoke approvals.

The basis trade paid 15–30% near risk-free for years. Options couldn’t compete. Then 10/10 happened.

After months of governance conflict over fee control, Aave’s DAO voted with nearly 75% support to route all product revenue to AAVE token holders under the new “Aave Will Win” framework.

Changpeng Zhao’s “Freedom of Money” describes the FTX collapse from inside Binance and reveals he once offered Gary Gensler a job.

Google just set a deadline. Quantum computers could break Bitcoin’s encryption by 2029. Are blockchains ready?

A Google Quantum AI paper co-authored with the Ethereum Foundation mapped five attack vectors putting more than $100 billion at risk, including one exploit that requires no quantum computer to deploy.

The 38-page document outlines principles the Foundation says must outlast the organization itself.

OpenSea postponed its SEA token generation event indefinitely as NFT market capitalization fell 50% since January, even as the platform’s OS2 rebuild shifts most volume to crypto trading.

Nike quietly exited its NFT business by selling RTFKT months after shutting it down, as former holders pursue legal action over lost value.

Nick O’Neill, more popularly known by his persona “Choose Rich Nick,” delves into how he became internet famous, the man behind the persona, his endgame and the secret to his success.

Coinbase spent $375 million acquiring Cobie’s Up Only NFT and his fundraising platform Echo, signaling a push into crypto media and onchain capital markets.

Sen. Thom Tillis said he won’t release the stablecoin yield compromise text this week, pushing back a key step in the months-long fight between banks and crypto firms over the CLARITY Act.

The Senate’s top banking Democrat warned that Musk’s “track record operating X” puts consumers, national security, and financial stability at risk, and pressed him to answer for gutting the agency that would have regulated X Money.

The SEC’s Division of Trading and Markets said Monday that certain non-custodial crypto wallet interfaces don’t need to register as broker-dealers, in interim guidance that will remain effective for five years.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent slammed crypto executives resisting the Clarity Act as “nihilists” and called on the Senate to move the stalled market structure bill to markup before midterms squeeze the legislative calendar.

With Bitcoin still debating whether to freeze vulnerable coins, Sun is positioning Tron as the network willing to move first on quantum-resistant signatures, though no technical roadmap has been released yet.

The Drift hack wasn’t a one-off exploit. It was a patient operation spanning months, with nation-state actors working the conference circuit. Then Circle let the hackers take the money.

Circle’s Arc will launch with opt-in quantum-resistant wallets, making it one of the first blockchains designed from scratch for a post-quantum future.

Google just set a deadline. Quantum computers could break Bitcoin’s encryption by 2029. Are blockchains ready?