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Payments firm Triple-A has confirmed a breach of one of its treasury wallets, and an outside report estimates the resulting losses at roughly $11. 8 million.
Binance co-founder Changpeng Zhao, known as CZ, has warned that acquiring smaller crypto exchanges can carry hidden security risks, cautioning that buyers may inherit vulnerabilities buried inside the platforms they purchase.
Bitdeer reported that it produced 990 BTC from its self-mining operations in June. The figure covers bitcoin the company mined for its own account rather than hosting or hashrate sold to third parties.
A Kansas-based wealth manager has taken a position in an XRP exchange-traded fund, adding an institutional data point to the still-young market for XRP investment products.
The raise was announced by the project directly on its official X account , which framed the capital as funding for building the launchpad rather than a general corporate round. The funding figure and product focus were also covered in reporting on the Robinhood Chain-based launchpad .
Ripple is bringing RLUSD to Notabene's stablecoin platform after making a strategic investment in the compliance network, with the two companies agreeing to integrate the dollar-backed token into Notabene Flow to expand enterprise stablecoin payments.
BitMEX is reportedly set to close completely, with the crypto derivatives exchange notifying users that it is ending operations, according to the closure announcement and secondary reporting. This is a full shutdown story, not a product change, and the key news value is BitMEX's complete exit from the market.
AFX Trade, an Arbitrum-based platform, was reportedly drained of roughly $24 million in USDC after the keys controlling its cross-chain bridge were compromised, in a security incident that points to an operational failure rather than a confirmed flaw in onchain code.
The available record points to a settlement tied to Coinbase's Freedom of Information Act dispute with the SEC, not to a broader reset of the regulator's overall crypto enforcement posture.
Augustus has raised $180 million at a $1 billion valuation to build a stablecoin-era clearing bank, marking the arrival of a newly minted unicorn focused on institutional-grade settlement infrastructure rather than consumer crypto products.
Movement Labs has filed for bankruptcy, a move confirmed by court records for MVMT Labs Inc. that places the blockchain project into formal insolvency proceedings and opens a creditor claims process.