Key Highlights: Axis Robotics announced a $150,000 AXIS token buyback following steep market volatility post-launch. The company’s $12 million seed round in July was led by Hack VC, with participation from Pi Network Ventures’ $100 million initiative. Axis Robotics has disputed claims raised by on-chain investigator ZachXBT alleging that insiders dumped 42 million tokens. Axis ...
Key Highlights Blockchain analytics firm Bitquery identified $108.8 million in USDC withdrawals originating from accounts across Kraken, Crypto.com, and OKX on November 1–2. Perpetrators dispersed the assets across hundreds of wallets and swapped substantial sums into Ether to prevent centralized freezing. Crypto.com and OKX contained the fallout on their platforms, while on-chain investigator ZachXBT assessed ...
Key Highlights: Blockchain analytics firm Bitquery detected $108.8 million in USDC drained from Kraken, Crypto.com, and OKX accounts across a 21-hour window on November 1 and 2. Perpetrators routed the stolen assets through hundreds of intermediary wallets, converting significant portions into ether (ETH) to prevent centralized blacklisting. Crypto.com confirmed it blocked connected transactions, assuring users ...
Key Highlights: Blockchain security firm Hypernative revealed that over $40 million drained from Mercado Bitcoin across at least 10 blockchains in seemingly authorized transfers. On-chain investigator ZachXBT uncovered an ongoing, separate theft targeting an unnamed European Union entity, pushing total estimated losses past $133 million. The European exploitation involved complex cross-chain laundering and Monero conversions, ...
Key Highlights On-chain investigator ZachXBT has flagged 11 wallet addresses tied to a suspected exploit resulting in an estimated $106 million in stolen crypto assets. Differences in laundering patterns—specifically involving assets such as Ethereum and privacy coin Monero alongside centralized stablecoins—suggest the incident was not executed by North Korea’s Lazarus Group. Neither the affected organization ...
Key Highlights: North Korea has officially denied responsibility for major cryptocurrency breaches, including allegations involving Binance and the $1.5 billion Bybit hack. Kim characterized Washington’s accusations as political provocation and suggested without evidence that the United States could be behind the incident. Independent blockchain intelligence firms, including TRM Labs, Chainalysis, and ZachXBT, have linked the ...
Key Highlights: Stolen funds tied to major security breaches at Binance and Bitget were routed through THORChain, pointing toward a single potential threat actor. THORChain experienced a massive surge in usage, pushing network fees to a weekly peak of $11K and driving RUNE trading volume up by more than 393%. Despite aggressive buying momentum that ...
Key Highlights Arthur Hayes confirmed that his investment fund, Maelstrom, liquidated its entire directional trading portfolio, unloading approximately $22.28 million in holdings centered on Ethereum ($ETH), $ENA, and Uniswap ($UNI). On-chain researcher ZachXBT accused Hayes of using followers as exit liquidity after a series of quick reversals on tokens like Hyperliquid ($HYPE), Zcash ($ZEC), and ...
Key Highlights: Suspicious on-chain outflows from CoinDCX sparked theft allegations after millions in USDT, including a single transfer of 15,819,002 $USDT, were consolidated into a Tron address. CoinDCX CEO Sumit Gupta dismissed the incident as a “false alarm,” stating that attackers from a prior $44 million July 2025 exploit are reusing abandoned exchange addresses. Independent ...
Key Highlights: NEAR Intents has fully recovered the $3.8 million drained during a recent security exploit. General Manager Alex Shevchenko confirmed that the attacker returned all stolen assets following a 48-hour grace period and identification. The vulnerability originated from an interaction flaw between the Omni deposit and withdrawal system and the NEAR Intents smart contract. ...
Key Highlights $NEAR Intents reported an exploit involving irregular withdrawals from a BNB Chain hot wallet. The stolen funds were sent to KuCoin and bridged into bitcoin, according to blockchain investigator ZachXBT. Deposits and withdrawals across several networks remained unavailable while security fixes were completed. $NEAR Intents Investigates Exploit and Traces Stolen Funds $NEAR Intents ...
A number of Revolut customers have reported receiving notifications that their personal and financial data — including Bitcoin transaction histories — was disclosed in response to a government request now believed to be fraudulent. Fraudulent Request Used Legitimate-Looking Credentials According to an email shared by onchain investigator ZachXBT, the request originated from an unauthorized email ...