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Vismaya V

Vismaya V

Vismaya has been a freelance crypto writer since 2021. Despite holding an engineering degree in Information Technology, she began her career as a crypto journalist. Disclosure: No significant crypto holdings.

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  • Crime. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    South Korea Charges 23 Over Crypto Laundering Tied to $11M Cambodian Scam Ring

    South Korean police have rounded up dozens of people accused of laundering money for a Cambodia-based phishing operation through crypto, as a Chainalysis expert warns that the scam-compound ecosystem in Southeast Asia remains a "persistent concern" despite years of enforcement against criminal networks. The Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency's crime investigation division said that it had referred 23 suspects on charges including breaches of the Foreign Exchange Transactions Act and the Specific F...

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  • Manila, The Philippines. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    Philippines Issues Stricter Crypto Listing Rules, Bans Privacy Coins

    The Philippines is tightening its grip on crypto markets once again. The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) has issued new coin and token listing guidelines requiring all licensed Virtual Asset Service Providers (VASPs) to implement rigorous due diligence and accreditation processes before offering digital assets to customers. In a memorandum signed by Deputy Governor Lyn Javier, the BSP said the rules are aimed at "promoting financial stability and protecting the financial welfare of customers b...

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  • Gary Gensler. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    Gary Gensler Backs States in Fight Over Prediction Market Regulation

    Former Commodity Futures Trading Commission and Securities and Exchange Commission chair Gary Gensler filed an amicus brief late Thursday with the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, saying that Congress did not hand the CFTC the keys to nationwide sports wagering when it passed the Dodd-Frank Act in 2010, and that state gaming laws still stand. "Thirty Native American tribes and 11 tribal associations have filed an amicus curiae brief in support of Ohio in the Sixth Circuit prediction markets appea...

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  • Kathmandu, Nepal. Image: Pritush Munankarmi/Unsplash/Decrypt

    IMF Urges Nepal Monitor Crypto as Usage Rises Despite Ban

    Nepal banned crypto, but crypto did not leave Nepal. In a report released Tuesday, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) flagged growing crypto adoption in Nepal despite a legal ban and urged authorities to monitor the sector closely to protect financial stability and curb illicit flows. "Flows of stablecoins and unbacked crypto assets grew markedly between 2019 and 2024, although adoption remains modest relative to peers, despite legal prohibition on crypto transactions," the IMF wrote, adding...

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  • Kalshi prediction data displayed in Times Square. Image: Decrypt/Shutterstock

    Kalshi Rolls Out New Safeguards After Insider Trading Concerns Hit Prediction Markets

    Prediction market operator Kalshi is rolling out new compliance measures aimed at addressing mounting concerns over insider trading, the exchange said Tuesday, the latest defense in a sector battling mounting insider trading concerns. The new requirement applies to markets deemed at higher risk for insider trading or market manipulation, Kalshi said in a blog post. Today, we announced that Kalshi will now require employment information in order to trade in certain markets. Market integrity is...

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  • Elizabeth Warren. Image: Decrypt/Shutterstock

    Elizabeth Warren Demands Answers on CFTC's Crypto and Prediction Market Oversight

    Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) wants to know why the agency policing prediction markets seems to keep siding with companies linked to President Donald Trump and his family. In a letter sent Monday to Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chairman Michael Selig, Warren questioned whether the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission can effectively regulate prediction markets and cryptocurrencies "amidst unprecedented presidential corruption." She pointed to a recent New York Times report descri...

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    Humanity Protocol Loses $36M After Private Keys 'Compromised,' Token Crashes 73%

    Humanity Protocol’s native token H collapsed more than 80% Tuesday after attackers compromised private keys tied to the project, seized bridge admin controls, and stole more than $36 million across Ethereum and BNB Chain. In a detailed thread, Humanity Protocol said the Monday attack was coordinated across Ethereum and BSC and traced to a breach that occurred "after an employee's laptop was compromised." INCIDENT UPDATE: Last night, June 8, the H token was hit by a coordinated attack across Eth...

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  • Nigel Farage. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    Reform UK's Farage 'Evading' Scrutiny Over Tether Billionaire's $6.7M Gift: Labour

    The UK's Labour Party has sent a formal letter to Reform UK leader Nigel Farage, accusing him of "evading reasonable scrutiny" over the $6.7 million (£5 million) undisclosed payment he received from billionaire Tether investor Christopher Harborne weeks before reversing his decision not to stand in the 2024 general election. "It's time he ended his deafening silence and came clean with the public as to what's gone on here," Labour Party chair Turley said, as cited by The Guardian. "He can't keep...

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    Pump.fun's Latest Experiment Is Already Getting Weird

    Pump.fun will now pay you to do almost anything, and people are already lining up to do the strangest things possible. On Thursday, the Solana meme coin launchpad launched GO, a bounty platform built around the slogan "Pay ANYONE to do ANYTHING," and within hours, users had posted hundreds of tasks, including one offering roughly $2,650 for someone to get a token's ticker tattooed "on the forehead." "Humans & money are undeniably the most powerful tools on Earth," Pump.fun tweeted. "We're combin...

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  • George Santos. Image: U.S. House Office of Photography/Decrypt

    George Santos Referred to DOJ, CFTC Over State of the Union Kalshi Trades: Report

    Two federal agencies are examining trades the pardoned former congressman George Santos allegedly placed on prediction market Kalshi, made against his own attendance at President Donald Trump's State of the Union address while he told the public he planned to show, NPR reported. Kalshi caught the activity, suspended his account, and referred the case to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the Department of Justice, two people familiar with the exchange's review told the outlet. Santos p...

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  • Binance. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    Binance Opens Access to 7,000 US Stocks, Prepares Tokenized 'bStocks' Rollout

    Crypto exchange Binance opened access to more than 7,000 U.S. stocks and ETFs on Monday and laid out plans to let users convert those shares into blockchain tokens. The company is offering zero-commission trades to non-U.S. customers and fractional purchases starting at $5 as part of an ambition to build a "multi-asset financial super app," co-CEO Richard Teng told Fortune. Welcome to a new era. Trade the brands you love. Direct Stocks. ETFs. Available 24/5. 👉 https://t.co/IQVBAuxxey pic.twitt...

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    Ukrainian Police Officers Allegedly Kidnapped Crypto Entrepreneurs to Extort Millions

    Former Ukrainian police colonels allegedly turned their law-enforcement expertise into a criminal enterprise, kidnapping crypto entrepreneurs and extorting over $2.2 million in a series of crypto "wrench attacks,” according to prosecutors. The Kyiv Regional Prosecutor's Office said Thursday it had completed its pre-trial investigation into a group that included four former police officers and a previously convicted civilian, all of whom have yet to be formally charged over the attacks. Accordin...

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  • The U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    Crypto, Banks, Policy Experts Press Congress to Modernize Bank Secrecy Act

    Crypto executives, policy researchers, and national security experts testified before a House subcommittee on Thursday on how to modernize anti-money laundering laws for an era of AI and digital assets. The House Financial Services Committee's National Security, Illicit Finance, and International Financial Institutions Subcommittee held a hearing on Modernizing the BSA for Financial Crime in the 21st Century, revisiting the Bank Secrecy Act, the 1970 law that requires banks and financial institu...

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    Why DeFi Keeps Losing Millions to Exploits

    It’s been one of the worst years on record for DeFi hacks, and we’re barely halfway through. In the first five months of 2026, more than $840 million was lost to DeFi hacks—with April alone accounting for more than $600 million stolen, led by two of the year’s biggest attacks: the $292 million KelpDAO exploit and the $285 million Drift Protocol breach. The losses have continued into May, with THORChain halting trading after security researchers flagged a suspected cross-chain exploit affecting m...

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    Terraform Accuses Jane Street of Using Insider Telegram Group Ahead of $40B UST-LUNA Collapse

    Terraform Labs administrator Todd Snyder has alleged in an amended complaint filed Monday that Jane Street traders used a private chat to obtain insider information from Terraform employees, before dumping the firm’s entire $192 million TerraUSD position hours before the stablecoin’s collapse. Snyder, the court-appointed Terraform Labs plan administrator, accused quantitative trading firm Jane Street, co-founder Robert Granieri, and traders Bryce Pratt and Michael Huang of insider trading and sh...

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  • Hacker. Image: Shuttertock/Decrypt

    Bitcoin DeFi Platform Echo Protocol Hit By $76M Monad Exploit

    Bitcoin liquidity aggregation and yield infrastructure layer, Echo Protocol, was hit by an exploit on its deployment on the Monad blockchain after an attacker minted 1,000 unauthorized eBTC worth approximately $77 million, with around $816,000 ultimately laundered through coin mixer Tornado Cash. Blockchain security firm PeckShield flagged the incident, citing onchain sleuth dcfgod, noting the attacker "minted 1k $eBTC ($76.7M) &, utilizing the tested flow, deposited 45 $eBTC ($3.45M) into Curva...

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  • Layoffs. Image: Decrypt/Shutterstock

    Dune Analytics Slashes 25% of Workforce in AI, Institutional Pivot

    Crypto data platform Dune’s CEO and co-founder Fredrik Haga announced Thursday that the company has cut 25% of its workforce, saying the move was needed to "sharpen our focus" on core data products. Haga tweeted the company is now “all-in on two shifts: AI and institutions coming onchain,” pointing to its new Dune MCP product, which allows users to build dashboards “without needing to know anything about SQL nor data infrastructure.” We’re restructuring Dune to sharpen our focus around the core...

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  • Bitcoin ETF. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    Bitcoin ETFs Shed $630M in Largest Daily Exit Since January

    U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs bled $630.4 million on Wednesday, the worst single-day outflow in over three months, as back-to-back inflation shocks drove a sharp institutional retreat from risk assets. Farside Investors data show BlackRock's IBIT bore the brunt with $284.7 million in redemptions, while ARK Invest's ARKB shed $177.1 million, Fidelity's FBTC lost $133.2 million, and Bitwise's BITB exited $35.4 million, together accounting for the entirety of the day's losses. The move reverses a five-wee...

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  • Bhutan and Bitcoin. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    Bhutan Moves $8.1M in Bitcoin as Sell-Off Continues

    Bhutan has quietly offloaded another slice of its Bitcoin holdings, moving 100 BTC worth $8.1 million, extending a steady sovereign sell-off that analysts say is driven by a treasury management strategy rather than market pessimism. The transfers are part of a selling trend that has accelerated last year and into 2026. “At their current rate of selling, they will run out of BTC before the end of September,” blockchain analytics firm Arkham Intelligence tweeted. Bhutan has sold roughly $230.39 mi...

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    Crypto Funds Add $858M as Clarity Act Drives Market Optimism

    Digital asset investment products just pulled in nearly $860 million in a single week, extending a six-week streak of inflows as momentum builds around the U.S. Digital Asset Market Clarity Act. Inflows hit $857.9 million last week, the largest since late April, pushing total assets under management to $160 billion, according to CoinShares’ Monday report. Crypto ETPs and ETFs saw inflows of US$857.9MM last week.@Bitcoin and @ethereum both saw inflows of US$706.1M and US$77.1M respectively. @so...

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